LINCOLN – After reaching the state finals for the past six seasons and capturing five championships along the way, an unusual thing happened to the Upper Deck Post 14 American Legion baseball team in its return to the “Final Four” of the state tournament last July.
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – Smithfield High junior Lauren Boyd and senior Jaden Saunders earned All-New England honors by placing among the top six finishers in the long jump at last Saturday’s New England Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Willow Brook Park in New Britain, Conn. More
NARRAGANSETT – Smithfield’s Alyssa Parenteau and Scituate’s Mackenzie Lickert were among the athletes who captured state championships at the RIPCOA Middle School Track & Field Championships that took place on Sunday, June 5, at Narragansett High. More
PAWTUCKET – After posting a 6-0 victory in the opening game of last week’s best-of-three Division II semifinal-round series with Westerly High, the St. Raphael Academy baseball team was unable to pick up another win that would have sent the Saints to their first championship series since 2004. More
PAWTUCKET – St. Raphael Academy junior Devan Kipyego boarded a flight to Seattle on Monday, two days before he was scheduled to compete in the mile run at the prestigious Brooks PR Invitational, but 24 hours earlier, the track and field standout decided to head to Slater Park to run in the i… More
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. – St. Raphael Academy junior Ethan McCann-Carter placed among the top 20 in multiple field events at last Saturday’s New England championship meet at Willow Brook Park in New Britain, Conn., as he finished 15th in the boys’ triple jump with a leap of 42 feet, 1 1/2 inches … More
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Gridiron Club’s annual golf tournament will take place on Monday, Sept. 12, at the Crystal Lake Golf Course in Mapleville, and the club is hoping to attract a strong turnout that includes former players and coaches, football advocates, and members of the Gridiron … More
NORTH PROVIDENCE – After a five-week delay to its season, the North Providence-Smithfield Babe Ruth Baseball League finally kicked off its schedule last Tuesday night, June 7, with a doubleheader on a brand new turf infield. More
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Signups for the North Providence Women’s Slowpitch Softball League’s summer season are still open, and interested players ages 18 and older can email rizz8@verizon.net or send a text to 401-447-9246 for more information or to join the league. More
PROVIDENCE – There have been several instances of athletes capturing three individual events at the RIIL Outdoor Track & Field Championships, but you will be hard-pressed to find any athletes who dominated their three events in the manner that Woonsocket High senior Tarik Robinson-O’Haga… More
PROVIDENCE – The Cumberland High outdoor track and field program has traditionally savored success at the state championship meet, but it’s been quite some time since the Clippers celebrated a meet as amazing as the one they pieced together at last Saturday’s RIIL Championships at Brown Stadium. More
CRANSTON – It’s been nearly a decade since the Smithfield High boys’ lacrosse team won three straight Division III championships, but last Saturday afternoon, in a battle between the Division IV’s top two teams at Cranston Stadium, the Sentinels were able to stay one step ahead of the only t… More
PROVIDENCE – After being stunned in the Division II finals last year by Cumberland High, the Mount Saint Charles Academy boys’ tennis team, with almost its entire lineup back from last spring, finally pulled off an undefeated season with a 4-0 victory over Smithfield High in the D-II champio… More
PROVIDENCE – Ever since she won her first state title in the long jump at last February’s RIIL Indoor Track & Field Championships with a school-record leap of 17 feet, 11 inches, Smithfield High junior Lauren Boyd has worked hard and done everything she could to eclipse the magical 18-fo… More
CRANSTON – The North Smithfield High girls’ lacrosse team experienced something completely different in Sunday afternoon’s Division III championship game at Cranston Stadium. More
CRANSTON – A determined and focused Mount Saint Charles Academy boys’ lacrosse team capped its second straight undefeated season, but first in Division II, by posting an impressive 17-5 win over Cumberland High in their D-II title game last Saturday at Cranston Stadium. More
PROVIDENCE – After being stunned in the Division II finals last year by Cumberland High, the Mount Saint Charles Academy boys’ tennis team, with almost its entire lineup back from last spring, finally pulled off an undefeated season with a 4-0 victory over Smithfield High in the D-II champio… More
SMITHFIELD – Registration is open for the Smithfield Youth Basketball Association's summer season, and boys and girls from first grade through high school can visit www.smithfieldhoops.com to sign up. More
BOSTON – Lincoln’s Michael Balestra recently wrapped up his senior season as a thrower on the Suffolk University men’s track and field team by delivering a throw of 164 feet, 2 1/2 inches in the hammer at MIT’s Final Qualifier at the Morrison Track in Cambridge, Mass. More
CRANSTON – Cumberland resident and La Salle Academy sophomore Max Jackson repeated as the individual state champion at last week’s two-day RIIL Golf Championships at Cranston Country Club, as he completed his 36 holes with an outstanding three-under par 139 that topped the runner-up finisher… More
WARWICK – Woonsocket’s Nicole Dioh and Tyler Monahan were among the student-athletes from the northern part of the state who enjoyed outstanding spring seasons for their respective Community College of Rhode Island teams. More
GLOCESTER – Online registration is open for the 49th annual Glocester Fourth of July Road Races that will take place on Monday, July 4, at 9 a.m. in front of the Chepachet Union Church. More
CUMBERLAND – The Arnold Mills Road Race will return to the roads of Cumberland on Monday, July 4, for its 54th annual event, and signups are currently online for the 4-mile race, which will start at 9 a.m. More
WOONSOCKET – Woonsocket's Jesse Houle, who graduated from Woonsocket High in 2020 after putting together an outstanding throwing career with the Villa Novans' track and field program, recently earned Second-Team All-American honors at Ohio's Walsh University. More
PROVIDENCE – The. St. Raphael Academy boys’ outdoor track and field team has never captured a state team title in its proud history, but at last Saturday’s RIIL Championships at Brown Stadium, the Saints came close to upending the two private schools that have occupied the top of the standin… More
PROVIDENCE – A season after losing to Central four times, including in the Division IV championship game, the Shea/Tolman co-op softball team returned to Rhode Island College last Friday night with its sights set on turning the tables on the Knights for a bigger prize – the Division III titl… More
JOHNSTON – Facing one of the state’s best pitchers in its Division II playoff opener last Tuesday night, May 31, the North Providence High baseball team came out swinging and hit the ball with authority. More
PROVIDENCE – Elaina Furtado-Rahill accomplished something significant last Saturday night that hadn’t been done by an athlete in the North Providence High girls’ track and field program since its 2006 inaugural season. More
GLOCESTER – As Woonsocket High head baseball coach Tommy Brien walked toward the parking lot after his team’s game on April 8 at Ponaganset High got suspended after six innings, with the score tied at 3-3 and darkness settling on the campus, he had a feeling that he hadn’t seen the last of t… More
CUMBERLAND – It’s been said time and time again that “it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” and make no doubt about it, the players and coaches on the Lincoln High baseball team are certainly pleased with how their regular season wrapped up last week. More
WARWICK – After coming in eighth place last spring, Smithfield High junior Samantha Tinsley moved up two places at this year’s RIIL Girls’ Golf Championships last Tuesday, May 24, by shooting an 87 at Warwick Country Club. More
SMITHFIELD – The good news for the Smithfield High softball team last Wednesday night, May 25, was that the Sentinels ruled its showdown for first place in the Division I-North standings with Cranston West and rolled to a 10-0 mercy-rule win that was halted in the bottom of the fifth inning. More
WARWICK – The state championship meet may be scheduled for Saturday afternoon at Brown University, but that didn’t stop a few athletes on the Smithfield High boys’ and girls’ track and field teams from rewriting their school’s record books at a pair of invitational meets last Saturday. More
HIGH POINT, N.C. — Former Smithfield High All-State runner Sydney Bagus, who is a graduate student on the High Point University women’s outdoor track and field team, recently wrapped up her collegiate career by helping the Panthers capture the Big South Championship. More
PORTSMOUTH – Two Cumberland residents, Cumberland High’s Evan Spencer and La Salle Academy’s Maeve Casey, captured their respective events at the two-day RIIL Freshman Outdoor Track & Field Championships that took place last week. More
WOONSOCKET – One of the youngest runners on the Woonsocket High boys’ outdoor track and field team captured the 8th annual George Nasuti Novans Pride 5K Run/Walk on Monday morning, as freshman Mathew Gomez topped a field of 140 participants in a time of 19:12. More
COVENTRY — Woonsocket High thrower Isabella Piette was the only athlete to place in the top five in four different individual events at the RIIL Freshman Girls’ Outdoor Track & Field Championships that took place last Tuesday, May 24, at Coventry High. More
EAST PROVIDENCE – Senior Michael Houle had an outstanding afternoon and shot a season-best, nine-hole round of 38 for the North Providence High golf team in its West Division playoff match last Tuesday, May 24, against the Wheeler School and Johnston High at Agawam Hunt Club. More
PAWTUCKET – Two former Tolman High baseball players who graduated from THS in 2019 recently earned conference honors with their respective collegiate teams, as Izaiah Rivera, a sophomore shortstop at Rhode Island College, received Third-Team All-Little East honors, and James Coleman, a sopho… More
LINCOLN – Two Pawtucket mixed martial arts fighters with 2-0 records, lightweight Dion Rubio and featherweight Tyrime Da Silva, will be on the undercard at Classic Entertainment & Sports’ CES 69 show on Friday, June 17, at 8 p.m. at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort’s Event Center. More
CENTRAL FALLS – Thanks to its come-from-behind 3-2 victory over Exeter/West Greenwich last Thursday night in its regular-season finale in its home gym, the Central Falls High boys’ volleyball team, in only its first season as an RIIL program, will play in the Division III playoffs as the six… More
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Owners of a 5-9 record and a four-game losing streak that included three mercy-rule losses, the North Providence High softball team tried something unusual to reverse their fortunes. More
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Undefeated Senator Ciccone clinched the North Providence Little League’s Major Division regular-season championship for the first time since 2018 last Wednesday night at Romano Field by cruising to a 12-0 victory over second-place Councilman Amoriggi. More
LINCOLN – The Lincoln High boys’ volleyball team celebrated its ‘Senior Night’ in style and added another ‘W’ to its perfect season on Monday by cruising to a 3-0 victory over Mount Pleasant in their Division III match inside the Lions’ gym. More
WEST WARWICK – Smithfield High ruled the jumping events at last Saturday’s Class C outdoor track and field championship meet at West Warwick High. More
COVENTRY – Grace Carr’s outstanding junior year with the Cumberland High girls’ track and field program continued last Saturday with a record-breaking afternoon at the Class A outdoor championship meet at Coventry High. More
LINCOLN – Thanks to its 8-4 win last Thursday over Lincoln and a 16-5 victory two nights later at home over the Providence Country Day/Blackstone Valley Prep co-op team, the North Smithfield High girls’ lacrosse team finished the Division III regular season with a perfect 12-0 record. More
PROVIDENCE – The North Smithfield High baseball team inched closer to clinching sole possession of the Division III regular-season title last Friday night by picking up a huge win over third-place Juanita Sanchez at Richardson Field. More
SCITUATE – Veteran Scituate High head tennis coach Peter Ceprano was eagerly looking forward to the 2020 season with his boys’ team, and that wasn’t because he wanted to see what the Spartans could do for an encore after earning a share of the previous year’s Division III regular-season titl… More
COVENTRY – Breaking records with impressive throws has been nothing new for Woonsocket High All-American thrower Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan, and at last Saturday’s Class A championship meet at Coventry High, the University of Mississippi-bound senior broke two meet records, including his own 11 … More
PRINCETON, N.J. – Lincoln resident Ali Blanchard, who is a junior pitcher/utility player on the Ivy League champion Princeton University softball team, recently helped the Tigers capture the league’s playoff series and advance to the NCAA Championships, which began last weekend with double-e… More
