By Adam Henschel
Senior Devaun Ford's 32 points are not enough to overcome a balanced Falmouth attack as the Clippers best the Falcons 60-50.

Heading into the season opener, both the Falmouth and Mashpee boys basketball teams had major hype surrounding their star players. Senior guards Duke Melton (Falmouth) and Devaun Ford (Mashpee) were set to lead their teams in the annual rivalry game.

Mashpee's new head coach Justin Clark also sought after his first win in his debut for the Falcons.

Coach Clark will have to wait to net that first win as the Falcons fell short in Friday’s opening night matchup.

By Devon Hughes
With the regular season coming to a close, the Lady Falcons are looking to make a playoff run in the coming weeks. The Falcons are now standing at 12-6 and are in 3rd place in the South Shore League. The Falcons have one more remaining game before the playoff brackets come out Friday.

By Noah Tellez
After an impressive streak of seasons for the Mashpee High School Falcons baseball team, the expectations are high yet again for this season.

The Falcons come into the season after losing numerous key seniors, including Nick Carpenter, Alex Morry, Joe Mackie, and others. Those Falcons took the team to another deep playoff push, falling the Saint John Paul yet again.

However, all hope is not lost.

By Sarah McNamara
The Mashpee Boys basketball team lost 70-62 at the TD Garden Monday March 12 after a hard-fought battle against Pope John.

The game was close, with the Falcons trailing their opponents from Dorchester by single digit points for the majority of the game, even taking a one point lead late in the fourth quarter. The loss ended the team's season after a historic playoff run, reaching the state semi-finals and getting to play in the Garden for the first time in school history.

By Noah Tellez
Coming into this season, the Mashpee Boys Basketball team was not setting its hopes extremely high. With the loss of last year's senior forward Dom Fellini and sophomore forwards Logan Grosek and Jack Gumbert, the team was expecting to be much different than in the past year.

Grosek and Gumbert accounted for the majority of the height for the Falcons in 2016-2017, and the team's remaining forwards seemed to be senior Michael Barrows and Anthony Gonsalves. Barrows has been a member of the team since his freshman season, and has provided dependable minutes in the paint. As for Gonsalves, his minutes had always been numbered, coming off of the bench his entire varsity career which did not start freshman year.

However, someone needed to step up for this Falcons squad this year, and Anthony was the man for the job.

By Adam Henschel
For the Mashpee girls varsity basketball team their 2017-2018 season was anything but a disappointment, despite narrowly missing out on the state tournament.

Coming off of a rebuilding year they established a solid line up of both young players and seasoned veterans. The most prominent of these young stars include 7th grader Amiyah Peters and sophomore Ashley Keleher. They dropped 13 and 14 points respectively  in Mashpee’s decisive 50-31 victory over rival Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins on February 15.

By Noah Tellez
The highly popular championship of the National Football League is this Sunday between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots.  This game is one of the most popular events in the country and is highly scrutinized by both fans and sports analysts.  This game is highly anticipated, especially because the Patriots are returning to the Super Bowl for a second consecutive year after last years’ extravaganza against the Falcons in which the Patriots came back to win the game.  As for their foes, the Philadelphia Eagles have not won a Super Bowl in their franchise history.  This being said, they are the heavy underdogs coming into Sunday’s game, and that has the vast majority of fans rooting for the Eagles.

By Noah Tellez
On Tuesday December 19 an enormous step in improving community connections was made in the town of Mashpee. For the first time in the short history of the new Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council headquarters, the Mashpee High School mens and womens basketball teams played a regular season game at the tribal center.

​The games were played against Carver for the boys and Sturgis West for the girls. Both teams won by large margins and the atmosphere in the newly finished gymnasium was electric.  There were hundreds of fans from all areas of Mashpee that came out to enjoy the game and the refreshments offered by the Wampanoag Youth Council.