Learning a new position. A broken left ankle.
RICMOND — Rob Charette, of Coventry, claimed the gross championship of the South Eastern New England Senior Golf Association in July.
WESTERLY — Westerly High senior football players Mike Garafola and Connor Martin were looking forward to this year's Thanksgiving Day game for very special reasons.
Fall sports for Rhode Island high schools will begin Oct. 2, nearly a month after its scheduled start this season, according to a plan unveiled by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League on Wednesday.
NORTH PROVIDENCE — The Rhody Wave Runners earned three wins before losing in the semifinals of the North Providence 12U Velocity Tournament last weekend.
SEEKONK, Mass. — Stephen Maynard struck out 12 and allowed just one run as the Shoreline Surfers baseball team swept a doubleheader against KR Express last Saturday.
The looming decision on what high school sports might look like this fall in Rhode Island is on the minds of many.
STONINGTON — Five area schools will be absorbed by the ECC in order to develop high school sports schedules for the fall.
The good news is Matthew Walker is finally healthy.
NARRAGANSETT — Chariho's Connie Mack baseball team picked up a pair of wins over the weekend and finished tied for first in the league standings.
STONINGTON — For the first time in almost a century, Westerly High and Stonington High will not play each other in a football game scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, another victim to the coronavirus pandemic.
HARTFORD (AP) — The governing body of high school sports in Connecticut publicly released its plans for restarting interscholastic sports this fall, proposing a shortened season that officials said will be “fluid” based on changing COVID-19 health metrics.
WESTERLY — Manny Arriaga hit a walk-off, three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh lifting Blackout/Amigo's past Apice/Shoreline, 15-13, in the Westerly Men's Softball League Wednesday at Craig Field.
HARTFORD — Stonington's Lucas Huesman finished first in a pair of events during the Tuesday Night Criterium Series at Rentschler Field.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — John Pellegrino was a big believer in the old baseball adage of pitching to contact Wednesday in a Connie Mack game against East Greenwich at Old Mountain Field.
WESTERLY — Dylan Serra hit a two-run double and Ryan Calouro finished 3 for 3 as Hoof's Restaurant remained unbeaten with a 7-3 win over C.C. O'Brien's on Tuesday in the Westerly Men's Softball League.
College track and field: Randi Burr has overcome severe reaction to bee sting to contribute at UConn
WESTERLY — Randi Burr sat in her doctor's office and sobbed for 20 minutes.
PAWTUCKET — Major League Baseball’s first significant COVID-19 outbreak of the 2020 season isn’t lost on those at McCoy Stadium — members of the Red Sox taxi squad.
PROVIDENCE — College basketball’s omnipresent transfer market has proved to be a vital source for the Providence Friars to “stay old” — a belief that coach Ed Cooley has sworn by in his desire to build rosters that aren’t overly reliant on youthful inexperience.
WESTERLY — Stephen Maynard struck out 10 and allowed just one hit as the Shoreline Surfers, Westerly's 10U AAU baseball team, swept a doubleheader at Cimalore Field on Sunday.
WESTERLY — Unbeaten EZ Midway Liquors pushed across a run in the eighth inning and defeated C.C. O'Brien's, 12-11, in the Westerly Men's Softball League at Craig Field on Sunday.
PAWTUCKET — Key takeaways from the Red Sox taxi squad working out at McCoy Stadium:
Jamison Magowan had been a starter at every level of soccer growing up, from his time in Stonington's youth program to club teams to high school.
WESTERLY — Chuck Innes and John Naylor drove in six runs each as Blackout/Amigo's defeated Clydesdale Tavern, 28-16, in the Westerly Men's Softball League Thursday night.
RICHMOND — Lionel Pepin shot an 82 to take low gross honors in the Flight A at the weekly South Eastern New England Senior Golf Association event at Meadowbrook Golf Club Monday.
WEST WARWICK — Justin Giles doubled and drove in four runs as the Chariho Connie Mack baseball team defeated West Warwick, 14-0, Wednesday night.
WESTERLY — Jake Nolan hit a two-run homer and drove in four runs as E-Z Midway Liquors defeated Cleats Sports Club, 16-4, in the Westerly Men's Softball League Tuesday at Craig Field.
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WESTERLY — When Isaac Martin delivered a blast to deep left field in Monday night's baseball game with the Chariho Connie Mack squad, he thought it was a home run for sure.
Versatility remains Emma Santee's trademark.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Fields and courts at the University of Rhode Island will remain quiet this fall, as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic seep into another season on the sports calendar.
RICHMOND — Donald Krikorian, Paul Krikorian, Ray Podgorski and James Porter combined to take first in the South Eastern New England Senior Golf Association event Monday at Beaver River Golf Club.
PROVIDENCE — Three years ago, Providence College men’s basketball coach Ed Cooley was thrust into an uncomfortable situation in his native state.
CRANSTON — Chariho’s Connie Mack team lost to Cranston, 5-4, in eight innings during a game Wednesday night.
Sydney Federico, the Providence Journal’s Honor Roll girl award winner, will be the guest Saturday on the WBLQ Sports Report at 8:25 a.m. The program is broadcast on 1230AM and 103.1 FM. It can also be heard on wblq.net.
EAST GREENWICH — For Josh Smithey, nothing can really make up for missing his senior year of baseball at Chariho High.
WESTERLY — In golf, a hole-in-one is pretty special.
STONINGTON — For the first time, Stonington High's Kathryn Logel was going to be on the lacrosse field without Kate Johnson, Hannah Lamb and Emma Sabbadini.
Kata Cummings was a rare breed in high school — a four-sport athlete.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Jack Kesner and Justin Giles combined for a no-hitter as the Chariho Connie Mack baseball team beat Coventry, 3-0, Wednesday night at Old Mountain Field.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's Sydney Federico and Rocco Cillino each received the Kevin Woll Award this year.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Expect one of McCoy Stadium’s distinct features to be part of the fan-viewing experience at Polar Park.
STONINGTON — For Ian Thornell, rowing has been about the community and the feeling of family it creates.
EXETER — Chariho's Connie Mack baseball team lost to Flood Ford, 2-0, in a game Tuesday night.
HOPKINTON — Monroe College in New Rochelle, N.Y., has exactly what Dylan Jessop wants.
STONINGTON — When Zach Pasquin started rowing at Stonington High in his sophomore year, it was for one purpose only: He wanted to be in good shape for lacrosse.
Good baseball will be played on Friday in Rhode Island, even without the originally scheduled NECBL matchup between the Ocean State Waves and the Newport Gulls.
Thrilling highs. Emotional lows.
STONINGTON — Grace Ferrara didn't hesitate when asked what she had learned during her four years as a student-athlete at the Pomfret School.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Justin Giles finished 3 for 3 with an RBI as the Chariho Connie Mack baseball team defeated Slocum, 6-3, Wednesday night in the season opener at Chariho High.
STONINGTON — Pete Stefanski has learned a thing or two in his 50-plus years playing golf.
PAWTUCKET — By Friday night, fans would have been down to just 31 opportunities remaining to see the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium. Thanks to COVID-19, a sledgehammer was taken to a 2020 schedule that figured to run the emotional gamut.
NORTH STONINGTON — One of the enduring memories Aidan Cameron will have of his time at Wheeler High came when he was a freshman on the baseball team.
WESTERLY — Westerly High’s Sydney Federico has received the Providence Journal’s Honor Roll award.
Track and field took a backseat to academics in Helena Hall-Thomsen's first year at Johns Hopkins University.