The seventh grade boys basketball team capped a 20-2 season with a second place finish at the state tournament.
The polished hardwood of the regional high school basketball court gleamed beneath the bright gymnasium lights, reflecting the figures of the 10 players racing up and down the lanes. The championship game of the boys’ middle school basketball season was underway.
The novelty of playing at the Vineyard version of the big time, the Francis “Sancy” Pachico Gymnasium, was there for both teams on the court.
The middle school boys’ basketball team at the Martha’s Vineyard Public Charter School is a team without walls.
They don’t have a gym at their school so all winter long they practice outside on an asphalt court. On Sundays they make the trip to the Tisbury School to play on real hardwood floors. They also practice in their driveways and at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club, where they play their home games.
