The seventh grade boys travel basketball team won the New England Basketball Championship at Rhode Island College last weekend.

Each spring, the sound of squeaky sneakers on the gym floor ends as the Vineyard’s youth basketball travel team ends its season. But not anymore.

Middle school basketball took center stage at the regional high school Tuesday evening for the boys and girls basketball finals.

Last week, Geo Meikle helped carry a U.S. national team to victory in the United World Games, an Austrian tournament featuring elite student basketball teams from more than 30 countries.

On Sunday, the Vineyard boys basketball team took on Nantucket at the TD Garden as part of the Andrew James Lawson Foundation, Inc. Invitational. Nantucket won the game 67-58 but the event was bigger than the final score.

Vineyarder and former high school basketball star Erin Hill will join the Yale women’s basketball team next year, one of only four standout first-years.

India Rose, owner of Hustle Sports Marketing and Hustle & Thrive Company, has partnered with Connective Inc.

High school basketball star Molly deBettencourt recently hit the 1,000 point mark. She has excelled since she stepped on the court as a freshman.

The boys basketball team faces a tough home playoff test Thursday evening when they begin the 2017 playoff run against rival Bishop Stang, the defending Division 3 state champions.

The Martha’s Vineyard regional high school’s boys basketball team lost their last game of the season, but will continue on to the state tournament.