LINCOLN – Despite graduating seven starters from a talented squad that lost to eventual champion Cumberland in last year’s Division II semifinals, the Lincoln High field hockey team could be on its way to an impressive season, especially after kicking off its Division II-B schedule with thre… More

NORTH SMITHFIELD – It’s been a long time since the Ponaganset High football team played in a down-to-the-wire contest, but that’s what happened to the Chieftains last Friday night in their non-league opener against the North Smithfield/Mount Saint Charles co-op team at North Smithfield High. More

NORTH PROVIDENCE – The red carpet was rolled out for the community last Friday night for the North Providence High football team’s Division IV opener against neighboring rival Smithfield High at the high school’s newly turfed and refurbished Serio Field. More

CENTRAL FALLS – Back in Division IV for the first time since 2015, the Central Falls/Blackstone Valley Prep/Achievement First co-op football team kicked off its season on the right foot last Saturday afternoon with a 50-0 victory over Hope High at Macomber Stadium. More

NORTH SMITHFIELD – Fielding the smallest team in a competitive division is tough. So is being unable to partake in any summer workouts. More

LINCOLN – In Year 1, the goal was to build the foundation for a successful high school football program. More

GLOCESTER – As expected, the Ponaganset High football team, which won 15 of its last 16 games in Division IV and captured the D-IV championship last fall, is playing in Division III this season in the RIIL’s offseason realignment. More

PAWTUCKET – Even though there are only three returning starters who played on both sides of the ball, the numbers are high on this season’s Tolman High football team, which has nearly 65 players on its roster. More

PAWTUCKET – When Dino Campopiano became the full-time athletic director for the city’s two public high schools last fall, it appeared that his decades-long career as the Shea High head football coach was going to be coming to a close. More

NORTH PROVIDENCE – It was a long summer for the North Providence-Smithfield Babe Ruth Baseball League, but it culminated with Pauly Penta’s Deli walking off with a 4-3 victory over Courts Sporting Goods in the third and deciding game of their best-of-three title series last Wednesday night a… More

LINCOLN – The numbers are sky high on this season’s Lincoln High football team. More

SMITHFIELD – When the Smithfield High football team began its preseason workouts 2 1/2 weeks ago, the Sentinels found themselves with an unusual problem that the program most likely had never seen in its 55-year existence. More

WOONSOCKET – It’s been said that in order to win a championship, you have to win the offseason, and the Woonsocket High football team certainly did its part to put together a productive nine months away from the gridiron. More

NORTH SMITHFIELD – The Gator’s Pub Summer Volleyball League recently concluded regular-season play in its 10 divisions on its outdoor sand courts, and while Next Gen repeated as the Monday’s Co-ed ‘B’ regular-season champions by winning over 40 matches for the second straight season, the Emp… More

NORTH PROVIDENCE – It’s the dawn of a new era at North Providence High, and that’s not just because the school will be unveiling a brand new turf facility on its campus that’s sure to rival the state’s top complexes. More

PAWTUCKET – If the St. Raphael Academy football team hopes to make its third straight trip to the Division II Super Bowl, then the Saints are going to have to contend with a loaded division that doesn’t resemble at all the D-II’s of seasons past. More

NEWPORT – The North Providence-based R&R Construction baseball team recently won its second George Donnelly Sunset League championship in the last three years, and fourth title in the last 10 years, by sweeping its best-of-three title series with Town Dock at Newport’s Cardines Field. More

CUMBERLAND – When the state’s 43 high school football programs were ranked prior to the RIIL’s offseason realignment, based on their winning percentages, enrollments, and success in the playoffs, Cumberland High found itself perched at number five, which according to head coach Josh Lima, “i… More

WOONSOCKET – Owners of a 3-4 record, including an ugly 33-18 loss to Lincoln, and only two regular-season games left on its schedule, the Woonsocket High boys’ basketball team’s hopes of reaching the Mount Saint Charles Summer Basketball League finals for a record sixth time appeared grim. More

SCITUATE – After spending the past 28 seasons as an assistant coach, the first two at Johnston High and the last 26 for one of the state’s legendary head coaches, Damon Scarduzio is finally calling the shots as the head coach of the Scituate High football team. More

PAWTUCKET – When the quarterfinals for the 22nd annual Christopher Andreozzi Memorial Baseball Tournament took place on Tuesday night at Slater Park’s Cosimini and Ruthowski Fields, the host team was not among the eight teams in action. More

NORTH PROVIDENCE – When the North Providence-Smithfield Babe Ruth League’s best-of-three championship series begins this week, Pauly Penta’s Deli will look to claim its first championship since 2007. More

PAWTUCKET – When she was four years old and first signed up to play youth soccer, Valentina Ramirez knew that the sport was going to take her places. More

CUMBERLAND – Chris Wright hadn’t played in a baseball game in New England in more than three years, but the former Cumberland High and Bryant University standout more than made up for lost time earlier this month. More

PROVIDENCE – Becoming a world champion in the shot put earlier this month at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia was truly a marvelous accomplishment for Tarik Robinson-O’Hagan, but the Woonsocket All-American thrower has his sights on bigger and better accolades down the road. More

WOONSOCKET – In its first year participating in the Woonsocket Little League’s Jim Carr Memorial Jimmy Fund Tournament, the Scituate Foster Little League’s Minor Division ages 8-10 all-star baseball team won five of its six games to capture the championship at Lajoie Field. More

WOONSOCKET – The Lincoln Little League’s Minor Division ages 8-10 all-star baseball team made its 12th straight trip to the finals of the Woonsocket Little League’s Jim Carr Memorial Jimmy Fund Tournament last week at Lajoie Field, but were unable to top a team that was a newcomer to the tou… More

CUMBERLAND – After spending this past spring and summer in their dugouts and the coach’s boxes, the Cumberland Youth Baseball & Softball League’s baseball and softball managers and coaches stepped onto the diamond and took center stage for a fun-filled, nine-inning fundraiser softball ga… More

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Two weeks after sharing the regular-season title, Pauly Penta’s Deli and two-time defending champion Admiral are on the verge of dueling each other again – this time for all the marbles in the North Providence-Smithfield Babe Ruth League championship series. More

PAWTUCKET – It took eight innings on Monday night to decide the winner of the Pawtucket Boys & Girls Club RBI Baseball League’s Junior Division (ages 13-15) championship, but B&M Catering was able to repeat as champions by shutting out Collette, 3-0, at Slater Park. More