STONINGTON — After graduating 10 seniors from a boys soccer team that went 19-1-1 and reached the state quarterfinals, Stonington High was cautiously optimistic heading into the fall of 2018.
PROVIDENCE — Abby Cole and Elizabeth LaCroix finished first in two events as Chariho High opened the Dwyer Division indoor girls track season with a pair of wins Tuesday night at the Providence Career & Technical Academy.
WEST WARWICK — Jesse Samo scored 17 points, but Westerly Middle lost to Deering, 52-49, in a boys basketball game Tuesday.
PROVIDENCE — Westerly High finished first in three individual events and split a Bayha Division girls indoor track meet Tuesday night at the Providence Career & Technical Academy.
WESTERLY — Turnovers and missed free throws. Too many of one and it's awful tough to win a basketball game. Too many of both and ... well, it's impossible.
PROVIDENCE — Westerly High finished second in two races as it dropped a pair of Southern Division indoor boys track meets on Monday.
Head coach: Jim Knapp (2nd season). Assistant coach: Terry Hiltz
PROVIDENCE — James Penhallow finished first in one event and second in another as Chariho High split its Southern Division boys indoor track opener on Monday.
GROTON — Miranda Arruda scored 23 points and Zoe Ribeiro finished with 14 as the Stonington High girls basketball team defeated Fitch, 56-28, in the ECC-Division II opener for both schools.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Dylan LaBelle scored 18 points and Levi King added 12 as Chariho High earned its first boys basketball win of the season, 64-55, against Toll Gate in a nonleague game Tuesday night.
PUTNAM — Putnam jumped to a 12-point lead at the half and defeated Wheeler High, 45-20, in an ECC-Division IV girls basketball game on Tuesday.
SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) — George Blagojevic had career-highs with 28 points — on 11-of-14 shooting — and 14 rebounds and Hartford beat Bryant 91-74 on Wednesday night.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Stars & Stripes Team USA has been accepted as a challenger for the 2021 America's Cup, promising to have an all-American squad in a competition where nationality has mattered little in recent decades.
BOSTON (AP) — Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has gone after Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter, drawing the ire of U.S. Rep. David Cicilline.
WESTERLY — Bereket Janat had 10 points and 21 rebounds as Westerly High bounced back from a season-opening loss with a 78-61 victory over Ponaganset on Monday night.
Head coach: Dave Federico (18th season).
DANIELSON, Conn. — Savannah Galluci scored 16 points and the Wheeler High girls basketball team defeated Ellis Tech, 38-16, in the season opener for both teams Monday.
Head coach: Natalie Baggesen (second season).
BOSTON (AP) — In a span of five minutes, the Boston Bruins turned a two-goal deficit into a two-goal lead.
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Bruins forward David Backes rushed himself off the ice Tuesday night after taking a skate blade to the face late in the first period but returned at the start of the second and finished the game.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Paul Atkinson had 20 points and nine rebounds and Yale defeated Albany 71-63 on Tuesday night.
Jessica Mendoza will have more of a presence on various ESPN platforms starting next baseball season.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Adrease Jackson scored 20 points, Chris Knight had seven points, 12 rebounds, nine assists and four blocks and Dartmouth beat Sacred Heart 82-73 on Monday.
Jon Champion is making a Brexit of his own, leaving England to become ESPN's lead announcer for Major League Soccer.
NEW YORK (AP) — A win over Oregon vaulted Michigan State into the women's AP Top 25.
NEW YORK (AP) — AP POLL ALERT: Michigan State enters AP Top 25 women's hoops poll after beating Oregon, which drops four spots to No. 7.
Head coach: Paulla Solar (18th season). Assistant coaches: Samantha Ryan, Ed Kolnaski (volunteer).
Head coach: Christine Corah (fourth season). Assistant coach: Eric Collins.
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — B.J. Stith scored 28 points and grabbed a career-high 14 rebounds and Old Dominion remained unbeaten at home beating Fairfield 79-69 on Sunday.
Head coach: Mike Gleason (13th season). Assistant coaches: Brent Fusaro, Jody Vacca, Austin Cilley (volunteer), Keith Kennedy (volunteer).
Head coach: Corey Downey (eighth season). Assistant coaches: Adam Champlin, Tom Longolucco (volunteer).
NORTH STONINGTON — Back in early September, first-year Wheeler High girls volleyball coach Jeff Cummings said his goals for the season were for the Lions to have a better record than in 2017 and to qualify for the state tournament.
NORTH KINGSTOWN — Seven Chariho High wrestlers finished first in their weight classes as the Chargers topped the field in the South County wrestling tournament Saturday.
WORCESTER, Mass. — David Cox is so experienced when it comes to the Princeton system that he could easily coach in it. His University of Rhode Island Rams don’t run a system very similar to the ball screen-happy Princeton offense, but Cox’s prep work paid off in Saturday’s 79-63 win over Hol…
WORCESTER, Mass. — One run gave the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team control, and the other allowed the Rams to finish when they lost their grip.
WESTERLY — Perhaps the best thing about the first game of the basketball season for players, coaches and officials is that it only happens once.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High's Gabi Huzyk had two attributes that paid big dividends for her this tennis season.
PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth rolled past Chariho High, 62-25, in a nonleague girls basketball game Friday night, the season opener for both teams.
NORTH SCITUATE — Chariho High trailed by 12 points in the second half before taking the lead with six minutes to go, but the Chargers ultimately fell to Ponaganset, 76-70, in the season-opening boys basketball game for both teams Friday night.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High junior hitter Kate Powers did it all for the Charger girls volleyball team this season.
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut will retire the numbers of former basketball stars Ray Allen and Rebecca Lobo.
STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn basketball coach Dan Hurley was teaching high school history at St. Benedict's in Newark, New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001, when he looked out the window and saw smoke rising from the World Trade Center across the Hudson River in New York.
Head coach: Scott Merritt (28th season). Assistant coach: Derek Adams
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High’s girls soccer team relied on center backs Tia Sardelli and Daria DiBiasio to make sure opponents did not get easy opportunities this season.
Head coach: Al Gaccione (15th season).
NARRAGANSETT — Rachel Federico scored with 1 seconds remaining as the Westerly Middle girls basketball team opened the season with a win against Narragansett, 19-17, on Thursday.
Head coach: Sue Haik (fourth season). Assistant coaches: Erinn Beal, Rana Hamelin.
Head coach: Tom Gilligan (third season). Assistant coaches: Kevin O’Leary, Mike Gilligan (volunteer).
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Two Chariho High boys soccer players were named to the All-Division II first team this season.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Trey Phills and Miye Oni each scored 20 points to lead Yale to a 97-87 home-opening victory over Lehigh on Wednesday night.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Cameron Young hit 3 of 4 free throw attempts and added a layup in the final 18 seconds to lift Quinnipiac to a 64-59 win at Dartmouth on Wednesday night, the sixth straight win over the Big Green for the Bobcats.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Coach Mike Krzyzewski slammed a chair during a timeout shortly after halftime. By the end of the game, RJ Barrett was slamming home an alley-oop pass off the glass.
BOSTON — Providence coach Ed Cooley's team needed a clutch 3-pointer at the end of regulation.