Despite a furious comeback that sent the game into overtime, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys basketball squad fell to rival Bishop Stang in a playoff thriller at home Friday evening.

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 junior standout and cocaptain of the girls’ basketball team scored her thousandth point last weekend.

The Vineyard boys basketball team remains one win away from qualifying for the state championship tournament after a hard-fought loss in double overtime to Somerset Berkley on Wednesday.

It’s basketball season, and Maureen Hill is on the move. This year is her first as head varsity coach for the regional high school girls’ basketball team, but she’s still coaching the middle school girls’ travel team that last year went 23-2 and made the state tournament finals. Afternoons are packed with basketball practices as she zips back and forth between the high school and the middle schools for drills and scrimmages.

It was a busy first week of winter sports as all six teams saw action this week against a variety of opponents.

As the fall sports season wraps up with the football team’s win over Nantucket, it’s time to look ahead to winter sports. Tryouts begin next week.