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As high school athletes begin post season play, the boys baseball team topped the roster this week with a first-round win over Hanover, marking the first post-season win for the boys in 14 years.

As the regular season winds down for high school athletics, four teams will see post-season play.

This year's varsity baseball squad has seven starting seniors — Aidan Aliberti, Taber Caron, Mitchell Chaves, Elias Fhagen-Smith, Jonas Lukowitz, Chris Mayhew and James Sashin. Many of them have been playing together since Little League.

Vineyard baseball standout Tad Gold is returning to the Island to become assistant general manager of the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks.

The Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School boys’ baseball team qualified for the state tournament on Friday by earning a 2-1 victory against Triton in Newbury. “We had an interesting time getting there,” said head coach Gary Simmons. “We showed up for the boat in Vineyard Haven only to find out it hadn’t yet left Woods Hole.”

The regional high school boys’ varsity baseball team is having a great season. In fact, it is its best season ever.

As the Futures Collegiate Baseball League postseason draws closer, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks hold steady in second place of their division.

The youngest boys of summer picked up a championship win over the weekend.

An evening set to honor the base-stealing, RBI-hitting lefty and 2009 graduate of the regional high school had an unexpected interruption Saturday. Tad Gold took a call on his cell phone. He had just been drafted by the Baltimore Orioles.