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The week in Barnstable County sports.

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Marathon director calls 2026 race "our best one ever"

Falmouth's Select Board heard a celebratory update on the Cape Cod Marathon at its Oct. 19 meeting, with race director Jack Afarian calling the Oct. 10-11 event "our best one ever" and announcing the race's 50th anniversary will come in 2027.

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Select Board Weighs New Route for Annual Turkey Trot

The only sports-related item to surface from Chatham town sources this week came from the Select Board's Oct. 20 meeting, where a change of route for the annual Turkey Trot was listed among the evening's business agenda items.

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BYSA Posts Updated Fall Schedule After Long Weekend

Bourne Youth Soccer Association posted an updated fall recreational schedule on Oct. 24, noting the long holiday weekend before a full slate of Halloween-day games.

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Sandwich Youth Basketball Sets Mandatory Coaches Meeting for Oct. 27

Sandwich Youth Basketball has set a mandatory coaches meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 6:30 p.m. at Oak Ridge, as the program builds toward its season following last month's travel tryouts and the recent launch of its online team store.

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Bourne Youth Soccer Sets Spring Travel Tryout Date for Oct. 30

Bourne Youth Soccer Association has set its Spring Travel Tryouts for Oct. 30, running 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Bourne Middle School fields and open to boys in grades 5, 6 and 7. The organization also posted its latest fall recreational Week 6 schedule update, wishing families a good long weekend.

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Sandwich Recreation Promotes October Open Gym and Trunk or Treat

Sandwich Recreation's website is spotlighting fall programming this week, with an October Open Gym Flyer and a Trunk or Treat event featured on the department's homepage alongside information on adaptive programming and adult programs.

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Brooks Park basketball court resurfacing eyed in new CPC funding push

Harwich Recreation Department programming is fully underway for the fall, Recreation Director Phyllis told the Facilities Committee Oct. 7, but the bigger news was a rundown of Community Preservation Act funding headed toward town meeting.

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Cape Cod Marathon Weekend draws runners through Falmouth Oct. 10-11

Falmouth's sports calendar centered on Cape Cod Marathon Weekend, held Oct. 10-11 with Select Board members flagging related traffic restrictions at their Oct. 5 meeting, where they also thanked more than 100 volunteers behind the Oct. 4 Buzzards Bay Coalition Bike Ride, a fundraising ride from…

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Alumni donation restores Bourne High's Canalmen gym mural

Bourne High School's gymnasium got a boost ahead of winter sports season after alumnus Vinny Boccolini and his family's business, Cotty Johnson HVAC, donated the labor and materials to restore the "Home of the Canalmen" athletic mural, a gift recognized at the Oct. 7 School Committee meeting.

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Sandwich sports roundup, Sept. 28 to Oct. 4

Sandwich Youth Basketball opened its online team store on Oct. 1, giving families a new way to support the program with branded gear. Meanwhile, Sandwich Little League's fall ball schedule has town teams, including the Maple Mashers, Bonfire Bombers, Harvest Reapers and Black Crows, set…

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