NORTH PROVIDENCE – While almost all the varsity teams at North Providence High concluded December with three or four divisional games or meets under their belts, the school’s boys’ and girls’ swim teams were still counting down the days until their first dual meets of the Division II season. MoreNorth Providence swim teams split Div. II opener with Portsmouth

LINCOLN – It’s been 14 years since the Central Falls High girls’ basketball team won a championship, but the Warriors are determined to end that drought in the RIIL’s new Division IV. MoreC.F. girls' basketball team deals Davies, Johnston first D-IV losses

PAWTUCKET – Moses Meus’s teachers at St. Raphael Academy will have to forgive him if his mind was elsewhere during class last Friday because that day was a truly eventful one for the senior. MoreSaints' Meus signs NLI to URI, wins Gatorade R.I. Football Player of Year award

CUMBERLAND – The Lincoln High boys’ basketball team put on a shooting clinic in the championship game of the 49th annual Boys & Girls Club of Cumberland-Lincoln’s Roadshow Holiday Classic last Wednesday, Dec. 28, as the Lions sank 10 three-pointers to help them post a 57-50 win over Cumb… MoreLincoln finally wins Roadshow Holiday Classic, tops Cumberland in title game

UNCASVILLE, Conn. – In the weeks leading up to his team’s marquee showdown at Mohegan Sun Arena against Connecticut’s Hamden High, Ponaganset High head girls’ basketball coach Gary Martinelli did his homework on the top-ranked team in southern Connecticut and came away truly impressed. MorePonaganset girls fall to Connecticut powerhouse at Mohegan Sun Arena

WOONSOCKET – The sports story of the year in Woonsocket/North Smithfield? Woonsocket High graduate Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan’s dynamic conclusion to his magnificent high school throwing career might end up being the sports story of the decade. MoreWoonsocket world champion thrower Robinson-O'Hagan rules 2022

When it came to championship teams and athletes, the towns of Smithfield, Scituate, Glocester, and Foster had their fair share of outstanding performances, including quite a few teams that captured titles for the first time in more than a decade. MoreState, national champions from Smithfield, Scituate, Ponaganset highlighted memorable 2022

Several sports teams and athletes from Cumberland and Lincoln once again made headlines in 2022, not just on a divisional and state level, but on a national scale. MoreThese Cumberland, Lincoln teams, athletes highlighted 2022's top sports stories

PAWTUCKET – When it came to high school sports in Pawtucket, 2022 was truly a sweet one for that city’s teams and athletes, especially for the St. Raphael Academy boys’ track and field/cross country program, which made headlines throughout the year not only for its excellence on the state le… MoreSRA track program highlights Pawtucket's top sports stories

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Make no doubt about it: 2022 was an action-packed, eventful year when it came to the overall sports scene in North Providence. MoreTop 10? Not this year! Here are NP's best 12 sports stories from 2022

NORTH SMITHFIELD – Taking the ice for your first three Division II games of the season during a hectic five-day stretch is not an easy chore. MoreNorthmen hockey team skates out to 3-0 start in co-op with NP, Johnston

CUMBERLAND – The state’s oldest running boys’ high school basketball holiday tournament will tip off next week at Cumberland High’s Wellness Center, as the host Clippers will join neighboring Lincoln, Woonsocket, and Tolman for two nights of action-packed games in the 49th annual Boys & … MoreRoadshow Holiday Classic returns to CHS next week for 49th annual tournament

SMITHFIELD – Smithfield resident David Parenteau became the latest member of La Salle Academy’s talented running program to receive a Division I scholarship, when on Monday, Dec. 12, he signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his athletic and academic career at Sacred Heart University. MoreSmithfield's Parenteau signs NLI to continue running at Sacred Heart

SCITUATE – With a young roster and new head coach, the Scituate High girls’ basketball team is continuing to scrap away in the state’s top division. MoreScituate girls enter D-I season with new head coach, young roster

CUMBERLAND – The student-athletes from the Class of 2023 at Cumberland High may be one of that school's best overall groups in recent memory, and an example of that class's greatness was on full display at Wednesday afternoon's National Letter of Intent ceremony inside the school's main lobby. MoreSix Cumberland High athletes sign NLIs to D-I schools: Conserve, Carr lead group

PAWTUCKET – The head coaches for Pawtucket’s two high school boys’ basketball teams are new this season, but the rivalry between Shea and Tolman is still the same, and last Saturday afternoon’s Division II clash between the two crosstown rivals on the Raiders’ court did not disappoint. MoreRivalry renewed: Shea nips Tolman, 66-65, owns 5-0 overall record

NORTH PROVIDENCE – After dropping its first two games of the season, all signs were pointing to the North Providence High boys’ basketball team kicking off its season with an 0-3 record less than six minutes into the Cougars’ Division III-B matchup on their home court against Blackstone Vall… MoreNP boys' basketball team rallies past BVP for first D-III victory

NORTH PROVIDENCE – For the third time since 2019, Glenn Williams is retiring. MoreWilliams retires again, this time as North Providence's longtime athletic director

PAWTUCKET – The city’s two public high schools, Shea and Tolman, continued their season-ending tradition of recognizing some of their top student-athletes by recently presenting them with the Key Player Spirit Awards for this past fall season. MoreShea, Tolman honor fall season's Key Player Spirit Award winners

SMITHFIELD – The Smithfield-based Sentinel Striders’ youth running club’s high school squad captured a national championship, and did so in dramatic fashion, at last Saturday’s USATF National Junior Olympics Cross Country Championships at the Dale Watts Cross Country Course in College Statio… MoreSentinel Striders' high school team strikes gold at USATF Nationals in Texas

SMITHFIELD – With an outbreak on offense, solid defense, and perfection from its sophomore goaltender, the Smithfield High boys’ hockey team opened its Division I season with an impressive 4-0 victory over Prout School last Friday night at the Smithfield Municipal Ice Rink. MoreSmithfield starts D-I hockey season with a bang, blanks Prout, 4-0

WOONSOCKET – For nearly two-thirds of its program’s 50-year existence, the Mount Saint Charles Academy girls’ basketball team has competed in the state’s second division, but for the past two seasons, the Mounties have called Division III their home. MoreMSC girls return to D-II with young, talented lineup

CUMBERLAND – For the second time in the last three years, the B. Glad Memorial 5K Run and Walk turned into a virtual event due to scheduling conflicts, but that didn’t prevent the event from raising $3,520 for Cumberland’s Happy Basket Program, which provides more than 700 food baskets durin… MoreB. Glad Memorial 5K raises $3,520 for Happy Basket Program

PROVIDENCE – Victoria D’Errico finally “came home” last Friday night when the North Providence amateur boxer fought on the undercard of Barstool Sports’ Rough ‘N’ Rowdy 19 at the Amica Mutual Pavilion. But the matchmakers who put the card together seemed to be determined to not make D’Errico… MoreRough, Rowdy, and victorious again: North Providence's D'Errico wins boxing showdown

PAWTUCKET – The Shea High boys’ basketball team defeated St. Raphael Academy, 60-39, last Saturday night to claim its fourth straight Donaldson-Lynch Memorial Basketball Tournament championship at the Boys & Girls Club of Pawtucket. MoreShea boys win fourth straight Donaldson-Lynch Memorial tournament title

PAWTUCKET – After enduring a winless Division I season last winter, the St. Raphael Academy girls’ basketball team came out on top of the Donaldson-Lynch Memorial Basketball Tournament last Saturday night by defeating the tourney’s defending champion, the Tolman/Shea co-op team, 43-32, at th… MoreBack on track: SRA girls' basketball team reclaims Donaldson-Lynch crown

SMITHFIELD – After years of battling injuries throughout his running career at Mount Saint Charles Academy, Cumberland native Ryan Slaney has hit his stride in his sophomore year at Bryant University. MoreInjuries behind him, Cumberland's Slaney shines for Bryant's running program

LINCOLN – When Christian Toro and Jillian Leahy first stepped onto Lincoln High’s campus as freshmen in the fall of 2018, becoming superstars in the school’s track and field program was the furthest thing from their minds. MoreLincoln's Toro signs NLI with Duke, Leahy decides to go to Brown

THOMPSON, Conn. – Chepachet’s Rachel Morin, who is a senior at Marianapolis Preparatory School in Thompson, Conn., recently signed a National Letter of Intent to continue her outstanding track and field career at nearby Stonehill College, which competes in the Division I’s Northeast Conferen… MoreChepachet's Morin signs NLI to continue track and field career at Stonehill

A year after creating a buzz throughout the region with its debut edition, the Fall All-Scholastic sports section has returned to the Valley Breeze & Observer Newspapers, again honoring a male and a female student-athlete from each of our circulation’s 15 high schools for their excellenc… MoreTalented soccer players make up half of this year's Fall All-Scholastics

A Winter All-Scholastics selection last year as a member of his school’s basketball team, Giwa “has quietly turned himself into a solid football player in just two short years,” said Davies head coach Henry Cabral. MoreFall 2022 All-Scholastics story, Part II

NORTH PROVIDENCE – For the past 26 years as a physical education and health teacher in the Central Falls school district, as well as the last 11 as the high school’s athletic director, Central Falls has truly felt like a second home to Anthony Ficocelli. MoreFicocelli embraces 'chance to go home' as North Providence's new athletic director