WESTERLY — Former Westerly High basketball sharpshooter Austin Cilley has traded his talent of hitting 3s on the court for shooting threes (birdies) on the golf course.
STONINGTON — Tanner Kelly was the first overall finisher in the third annual Stonington Cross Country Fun Run at Stonington High on Wednesday.
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WARWICK — Citing serious concerns about fan behavior at Rhode Island Interscholastic League sporting events, the Principals’ Committee on Athletics is setting the tone to make sure incidents like the one that unfolded at last spring’s boys lacrosse state title game never happen again.
STONINGTON — Kevin Ferrer found the perfect stepping stone to his UConn baseball career this summer at the Perfect Game Futures League in upstate New York.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High senior catcher Cam Anderson was named to the Division I-South first team for the baseball team this past season.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Tim Champlin of the Chariho High boys track team earned postseason honors for his performances at the Southern Division and Class A championship meets.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High's Abby Cole earned postseason outdoor track and field honors in Class A and the Southern Division.
WESTERLY — Tony Patterson and Chad Graham scored 24 points each as Anderson Law Firm defeated Ginger's Oil, 66-58, to claim the Men's 18+ Summer Basketball League championship Sunday.
Dakota Busch's first year as a scholarship tennis player for Division II University of Tampa came up all aces in the past college season.
NORTH WINDHAM, Conn. — Ron Angotta shot a 73 to post the low gross Flight A score in the South Eastern New England Senior Golf association weekly event Monday at the Windham Club.
WESTERLY — Chris Garvin of Kingston topped the field in the Wahaneeta Trails 5K race at the Wahanetta Preserve Saturday.
WESTERLY — This will be Duane Maranda’s last season as Westerly High football coach as he has accepted a part-time athletic administration job with the Prout School in Wakefield.
STONINGTON — Think of Stonington High's X-back position on the boys lacrosse team as similar to that of a point guard in basketball.
STONINGTON — Stonington High's Grant Hamilton earned ECC Division II first team honors for the golf team this past season.
WESTERLY — Sebastian Reisch ran 8 miles early Wednesday as part of his 45-mile-per-week training regimen for the upcoming Westerly High boys cross country season.
WESTERLY — Brett Perry hit six 3-pointers and scored 30 points to lead Ginger's Oil over the Mosquito Authority, 78-70, in the semifinals of the Ocean Community YMCA 18-Plus Men's Summer Basketball League on Sunday.
NORTH STONINGTON — Wheeler High's young softball team had four players earn All-ECC Division IV honors, including one first-team selection.
NORTH STONINGTON — Wheeler High's Gracie Anderson earned first-team ECC Division IV honors for the girls lacrosse team this season.
NORTH STONINGTON — Wheeler High's Bryce Reck was named first-team All-ECC Division IV for the boys golf team.
KINGSTON — Aaron Parker wasn't wearing a number during the University of Rhode Island football team's first scrimmage of the summer on Sunday. But he was far from anonymous, choosing to instead let his play do the talking.
Getting cut from his junior high baseball team seemed like the worst day of John Falcone's life some 40 years ago in Westerly.
WESTERLY — Westerly High senior Jack Adams earned All-Southern Division first-team honors for the golf team this season.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's 4x800 relay team earned first-team honors in the Southern Division for the boys track team this past spring.
NORTH STONINGTON — Kellie Palmer is returning to the soccer sideline, just not in the brown and white of Stonington High.
When Ryan McCormack played football at Westerly High in the mid 1990s, he had the rare opportunity to play for three legendary Bulldog head coaches during his four-year career.
STONINGTON — Pete Stefanski has won nine Elmridge Golf Club championships in his career and six of the last seven of the match play events.
WESTERLY — Nick Turo, a soon-to-be Westerly High senior, won the 5K race during Week 10 of the Tom McCoy Family Fun Run Series on Wednesday, the series' regular-season finale.
STONINGTON — Ken Pocius' 79 won first low-gross honors in Flight A of a South Eastern New England Golf Association tournament Monday at Elmridge Golf Course in Pawcatuck.
NORTH STONINGTON — Ken Turner has made all the right moves every step of the way in his youth and scholastic athletic career, starting at Pawcatuck Little League and ending as Class M All-State as a Ledyard High baseball pitcher this spring.
KINGSTON — There's no sport with as romantic a turning of the calendar as football. As July becomes August, the cleats and pads come out, with fresh hope thick in the air for teams all over the country. Sharp sounds of whistles and collisions break through the humidity, reminding all those n…
WOOD RIVER JCT. — For Nick Russo the path to his first high school head coaching job has been a bit different.
NEW LONDON — Local scholastic football cynics might be amused to hear that members of the Westerly and Stonington high school football teams played in a summer 7-on-7 passing league Tuesday at Cannemela Field.
WESTERLY — Keith Porter scored 25 points and the Mosquito Authority defeated Anderson Law Firm, 98-87, in the Ocean Community YMCA 18-Plus Men's Basketball Summer League on Sunday.
THOMPSON, Conn. — Ashaway's Kyle James finished sixth in the 30-lap Modified feature at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on Sunday.
NEW LONDON — Geralson Withrow, of Mystic, was the top local finisher in the John & Jessie Kelley Ocean Beach Half Marathon on Saturday.
NEWPORT — Newport's Sam Jacobsak limited Mystic to one hit through six inning as the Schooners lost to the Gulls, 5-2, in a New England Collegiate Baseball League playoff game Saturday night.
WESTERLY —Stonington's Connie Mack baseball team relied on pitching to carry the Stonington-Westerly co-op unit to a 12-3 regular season record and a berth into the state tournamentquarterfinals.
STONINGTON — Before this girls lacrosse season started, Stonington coach Jeff Medeiros sat down with his four captains and discussed team and individual goals.
NARRAGANSETT — Jack Kenser drove in four runs as Chariho beat top-seeded Narragansett, 9-3, in the Connie Mack baseball state tournament quarterfinals Friday at Sprague Field.
RICHMOND — Scott Beattie of Westerly earned the South Eastern New England Senior Golf Association league championship during the last two weeks at Meadow Brook Golf Course.
WESTERLY — Westerly High football coach Duane Maranda knows it's coming. He just wants to be ready when it arrives.
WESTERLY — Nick Turo topped the field in the weekly Tom McCoy Fun Run Wednesday night.
HARTFORD, VT. — Will Lucas drove in four run as the Mystic Schooners defeated the Upper Valley Nighthawks, 10-1, in the first game of a a New England Collegiate Baseball League game doubleheader Wednesday.
OAK BLUFFS, Mass. — Martha's Vineyard scored five runs in the seventh and six more in the eighth to beat the Mystic Schooners, 15-13, in a high-scoring New England Collegiate Baseball League game Thursday night.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — For a while it didn't look like either team would win Tuesday's preliminary-round Connie Mack baseball state tournament game.
WESTERLY — Bennett Luzzi scored 24 points, including six in overtime, as Granite Storage/Danny's Bar defeated Ginger's Oil, 78-73, in the 18-plus men's basketball summer league at the Ocean Community YMCA on Sunday.
WESTERLY — In contrast to its regular season, which resembled a part-time summer baseball experience, the Rhode Island Connie Mack playoffs have the potential to be a daily grind of postseason atmosphere.
WARWICK — Justin Giles struck out seven and allowed just two runs as the Chariho Connie Mack baseball team topped Warwick PAL, 3-2, in a preliminary round state tournament game Monday night.
THOMPSON, Conn. — Westerly's Kyle James finished eighth in the Sunoco Modified 30-lap feature at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on Sunday.
GROTON — TT Bowens hit a grand slam as the Mystic Schooners defeated Danbury, 9-1, to split a doubleheader with the Westerners on Monday night in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
NARRAGANSETT — Little drama has existed in the recent runnings of the Blessing of the Fleet Road Race, with the winner typically leading the race for most of the 10 miles.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — TT Bowens, of the Mystic Schooners, won the New England Collegiate Baseball League home run contest during the league's All-Star night Sunday.
WESTERLY — Those involved in unified sports will tell you how fulfilling it is to see the thrill on the faces of athletes with intellectual or physical challenges participating on the field of play.