06/22/2007

Burrillville sweeps Johnston
PAWTUCKET — Over the course of their high school careers, some of them led Burrillville to a Division II hockey championship.

Meo gem crowning touch for Falcons
PAWTUCKET — He calmly walked to the center of the McCoy Stadium infield and accepted the Most Valuable Player award without showing much emotion — which probably isn’t surprising for a teenager who already has made history and influenced the future.

Cranston West overpowers South Kingstown
PAWTUCKET — Nothing could stop Cranston West from becoming the first public school baseball team in 32 years to win back-to-back Division I state titles.

06/21/2007

Broncos draw first blood against Panthers
PROVIDENCE — Burrillville pitcher Kyle VanRossum says he and his teammates took the field in Game One of the Amica Insurance R.I. Interscholastic League Division II Baseball Championships yesterday filled with confidence in knowing that their club had beaten Johnston twice during the regular season, but also mindful of what their opponent had accomplished since its second loss to the Broncos.

Rebels will get a shot at Falcons
PAWTUCKET — South Kingstown posted an 8-4 victory over Portsmouth in the tournament’s losers-bracket final at McCoy Stadium.

06/20/2007

Cranston West one win away from rare feat
PAWTUCKET — They know they can etch their name into Rhode Island high school baseball history.

06/18/2007

Cranston West hands Portsmouth first loss
WEST WARWICK — The Cranston West baseball team moved to within a victory of capturing its second straight state championship last night when in dramatic fashion the Falcons overcame a one-run deficit with three runs in the top of the seventh en route to a 9-7 victory over nationally ranked and previously undefeated Portsmouth at McCarthy Field.

Rebels oust Hendricken
WEST WARWICK — Jackson Geary tossed his 12th complete game of the season and his South Kingstown High School teammates took advantage of nine walks and four Hendricken errors.

Falcons soar on 3 homers
WEST WARWICK — Small ball, long ball, the Cranston West baseball team does whatever it takes to win a game.

Portsmouth extends win streak
WEST WARWICK – Portsmouth maintained its status as Rhode Island’s only undefeated high school baseball team yesterday as the nationally ranked Patriots posted a 7-4 victory over South Kingstown in their opening round game of the R.I. Interscholastic League’s four-team, double-elimination Division I Championship series.

06/15/2007

Hendricken saves best for last
EAST PROVIDENCE — The Hendricken baseball team was a strike away from going home last night. Instead, the Hawks are headed to the Final Four.

06/14/2007

Burrillville going to Division II title series
EAST PROVIDENCE — The Burrillville High School baseball team reached the Division II state championship game last night by taking the South Regional, 4-3, over Prout.

06/13/2007

Geary leads Rebels to region title
South Kingstown ace Jackson Geary finished undefeated for the season and the playoffs as the Rebels rallied for four runs in the fourth inning yesterday and went on to post a 6-5 win over Pilgrim in the championship game of Region III state finals.

Colby’s heroics allow Skippers to play on
EAST PROVIDENCE — If you’re going to pitch the best game of your high school career, you probably couldn’t pick a better time than when your team is on the brink of elimination in the state tournament and you’re playing the state’s perennial baseball powerhouse.

Portsmouth in Final Four
EAST PROVIDENCE — Portsmouth didn’t waste any time clinching a berth in the Final Four of the Interscholastic League Division I state baseball tournament as the undefeated Patriots jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first two innings yesterday and never looked back.

06/12/2007

Pilgrim is this year’s Cinderella
There’s a nationally ranked team; there’s the defending state champion and there’s the perennial powerhouse, the team that has won 7 of the last 10 state titles.

Baseball roundup: Saints stay in the hunt
The St. Raphael baseball team earned another shot at unbeaten Portsmouth thanks to a 3-2 victory over Chariho yesterday in the Division I-Region 1 losers-bracket championship game.

06/11/2007

Today's Best: Monday, June 11
Fifth-seeded Pilgrim, which lost its first game of the Division I–Region III baseball playoffs, upset top-seeded Lincoln, 10-5, yesterday in the losers’ bracket final.

Today's Best: Saturday, June 9
Cranston West scored 10 runs in the third inning and pitcher Anthony Meo took a no-hitter into the seventh inning as the Falcons routed Moses Brown, 11-2, to reach the Division I - Region 2 baseball championship game.

06/08/2007

Eagles' Hallam, Rams' Medeiros named players of week
Projo.com readers have voted for Jamie Hallam of Barrington as softball player of the week, and Kevin Medeiros of La Salle as baseball player of the week.

Today's Best: Friday, June 8
Yesterday’s Top Game

Aces were on top of their games for Patriots, Rebels
Apparently, four days is more than enough rest for some of the state’s top high school pitchers.

06/07/2007

Today's Best: Thursday, June 7
Scituate scored two runs with two out in the top of the eighth inning and defeated Exeter/West Greenwich, 5-3, in an elimination game of the Division II - South Region baseball playoffs.

Baseball: Sophomore leads Rams past Barrington
PROVIDENCE — Many athletes buckle under the intense pressure of an elimination playoff game, but not La Salle pitcher Connor Mercurio.

06/06/2007

Baseball: Townies get a jolt from Chargers
EAST PROVIDENCE — It’s every coach’s wish come true when a team that doesn’t perform as well as expected during the regular season comes alive in the playoffs.

Massachusetts: Bishop Feehan advances to quarterfinals
ATTLEBORO — Elias Chahine finally took some weight off his shoulders by capturing his third singles competition to clinch the MIAA Division Two first-round playoff match for Bishop Feehan against visiting Martha’s Vineyard yesterday.

Today's Best: Wednesday, June 6
A single in the bottom of the ninth inning by Jimmy Brewer scored Paul Judice to give the Middletown baseball team a 3-2 victory over Woonsocket in an elimination game of the Division I Region 2 playoffs.

06/05/2007

Hope sprints to golds at states
It’s not often that students from the same school capture the gold medals in all the sprint events at the state meet.

06/04/2007

Today's Best: Monday, June 4
Alison Burdick tossed a three-hitter, striking out four and walking one, in guiding Westerly to a 3-0 victory over Toll Gate in a Division I winners-bracket game of the RIIL Softball Championships, yesterday at Rhode Island College.

Today's Best: Sunday, June 3
Courtney St. Germain knocked in the winning run with a suicide squeeze in the 11th inning as Lincoln pulled out a 2-1 victory over La Salle in a Division I winners bracket fast-pitch softball playoff game yesterday.

06/01/2007

Townies' Clancy, Hawks' Hardy named players of week
Projo.com readers have selected Kelley Clancy of East Providence softball player of the week and Chris Hardy of Hendricken baseball player of the week in our latest polls.

Bodinski helps Rocketeers advance
NORTH ATTLEBORO — Reliever Mike Bodinski snuffed out two threats in the final 3 1/3 innings to preserve an 8-6 MIAA Division 1 South first-round win for fifth-seeded North Attleboro (16-5) over 12th-seeded Braintree (11-10) at Community Field yesterday.

Today's Best: Friday, June 1
Kevin Medeiros pitched six scoreless innings in relief and La Salle scored five runs in the 12th as the Rams defeated Woonsocket, 8-3, in the Division I baseball playoffs.

Aces may crown playoff kings
One outstanding pitcher may not guarantee a team a state title this year, but it certainly enhances the chances of a Final Four appearance.

05/29/2007

Rebels’ title run worthy of a yell
The story of the South Kingstown boys tennis team just keeps getting better.

Today's Best: Saturday, May 26
Chris Hardy’s two-run triple and a throwing error in the bottom of the seventh inning helped Hendricken overcome a 2-0 deficit as the Hawks rallied to beat Cranston West, 3-2, in Division I baseball.

Worton’s arm, bat push Mounties past Burrillville for title
BURRILLVILLE — Brendan Worton won two division titles with the Mount St. Charles boys soccer team, but he hadn’t won a division title with the baseball team until yesterday when he led the Mounties to an 11-4 victory over Burrillville in a battle between the top-two Division II-North teams.

Division I powers vying for playoff seeds
You would think when a team plays through the first nine weeks of a season without losing a league game by the time the final weekend of the regular season rolls around that that squad could take for granted that it is going to be the top-seeded team in the playoffs.

Today's Best: Friday, May 25
Four years ago, the Prout baseball team made its debut in the R.I. Interscholastic League and finished the season with a 0-18 record.

05/24/2007

Mounties' Ryan, Skippers' Brown win player of the week honors
Projo.com readers have picked Kelly Ryan of Mount St. Charles softball player of the week and Austin Brown of North Kingstown baseball player of the week.

Today's Best: Thursday, May 24
The Woonsocket baseball team scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning to take a 2-1 lead over La Salle, but the Rams came back with two runs in their half of the inning for a 3-2 Division I win.

05/23/2007

Today's Best: Wednesday, May 23
St. Raphael clinched the final Division I softball playoff berth with a 4-3, eight-inning victory over Chariho.

05/22/2007

Old habits die hard, including those metal baseball bats
Two years ago, North Dakota became the first state in the country to mandate that all of its high school baseball teams use wood rather than metal bats, but my bet is it won’t be long before other states go back to getting “good wood on the ball.”

Today's Best: Tuesday, May 22
YESTERDAY’S TOP GAME J.P. Stone doubled, reached third on an error and scored on Nate Lindsley’s sacrifice fly as Narragansett pulled out a 7-6 victory over West Warwick in eight innings in a Division I baseball quarterfinal game.

Clippers’ 5-run sixth overtakes the Saints
CUMBERLAND — Cumberland is a team known for scoring a lot of runs, but St. Raphael coach Tom Sorrentine had all the confidence in the world in his undefeated ace, Chris Hall.

05/21/2007

Today's Best: Sunday, May 20
Jim Castonguay knocked in two runs, including the game-winner in the bottom of the seventh, as the Woonsocket baseball team defeated South Kingstown, 4-3.

05/18/2007

Mounties' Ryan, Skippers' Normand named players of the week
Projo.com readers have named Kelly Ryan of Mount St. Charles softball player of the week and Cody Normand of North Kingstown baseball player of the week in our latest poll.

Today's Best: Friday, May 18
Kelly Ryan pitched an eight-inning no-hitter with 12 strikeouts and also drove in both runs as Mount St. Charles defeated East Providence, 2-0, in Division I softball.

Portsmouth is ranked 45th nationally
They have been playing baseball at Portsmouth High for more than four decades, so it’s not easy for a Patriots baseball team to register a school first.

05/17/2007

First year a stumble for North Attleboro
NORTH ATTLEBORO — Canton’s Mike Haggarty and Alex Siguera each struck for three goals in a 12-3 triumph yesterday over North Attleboro in a tough and physical Hockomock League contest.

Today's Best: Thursday, May 11
Juan Cintron hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and Billy Collazo added a two-run shot in the sixth to lead Juanita Sanchez to an 8-3 upset of Central in Division II-South baseball.

Classical’s upset hopes left on hold
PROVIDENCE — Classical was itching to get a crack at its intracity-rival Mount Pleasant, ever since the Kilties edged the Purple, 3-1, on April 20.

05/16/2007

Today's Best: Wednesday, May 16
Kyle Creamer flirted with his second no-hitter of the season as he struck out 11 and only allowed an infield hit off his shin by Mike Dewald in the fifth inning, as the West Warwick baseball team defeated Chariho, 5-0.

05/15/2007

Rocketeers' big hitters halt slide
NORTH ATTLEBORO — It was anything but a pitchers’ duel in the Hockomock League baseball game between Canton and North Attleboro yesterday.

Today's Best: Tuesday, May 15
Narragansett scored two goals in the game’s final five minutes, including the game-winner from Matt Hoxsie with five seconds remaining, for an 8-7 victory over Lincoln in a matchup of two of the top teams in Division II boys lacrosse.

05/14/2007

Today's Best: Saturday, May 12
The Providence Country Day lacrosse team had the opportunity to knock off undefeated Hendricken yesterday but 12 Knights penalties, and All-American Colin Briggs (5 goals, 4 assists), kept the Hawks unbeaten with a 16-15 win.

05/11/2007

Townies' Clancy, St. Ray's Hopper are players of the week
Projo.com readers have picked Kelley Clancy of East Providence softball player of the week, for the second week in a row, and Doug Hopper of St. Raphael baseball player of the week.

Mt. Hope can’t sneak up on anyone these days
Nothing is coming easily for the Mt. Hope baseball team these days.

Today's Best: Friday, May 11
Casey McDonald hit a two-out double to left field in the top of the eighth inning that scored two runs to give the Cumberland fast-pitch softball team a 2-0 victory over Lincoln.

05/10/2007

Seekonk’s bats lack firepower
SEEKONK — In a sparkling pitchers’ duel between a couple of seniors, Old Rochester Regional (10-5) mustered just enough offense to defeat Seekonk, 1-0, in a South Coast Conference baseball game yesterday.

Today's Best: Thursday, May 10
Kayla DiBlasi won the 100 high hurdles, Katharine Meinertz captured the 3,000, Colleen Brague won the javelin and Michelle Krol won the long jump, leading Smithfield to the Northern Division girls outdoor track championship.

05/09/2007

Peralta, Knights prevail
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Central coach Dave Hanson said he couldn’t have asked for more from his pitching ace, Chris Peralta.

Today's Best: Wednesday, May 9
Kelley Clancy pitched her second straight shutout, firing a one-hitter with eight strikeouts as East Providence blanked South Kingstown, 1-0, in Division I softball.

05/08/2007

Today's Best: Tuesday, May 8
Olivia Ougheltree broke a 7-7 tie when she scored with five minutes remaining to give the Portsmouth girls lacrosse team an 8-7 win over Narragansett in a Division I match.

05/07/2007

Today's Best: Sunday, May 6
Kelly Ryan of Mount St. Charles allowed one hit and struck out 12 en route to a 3-1 win over North Kingstown in fast-pitch softball yesterday.

Today's Best: Saturday, May 5
The North Kingstown boys volleyball team took unbeaten Hendricken to the brink but the Hawks’ Mark Capuano came up with three key blocks in the final set to help his team to a 3-2 (20-25, 25-20, 25-17, 14-25, 15-9) win in Division I.

05/04/2007

Hendricken's DiBiasio, Townies' Clancy win player polls
Projo.com readers have named Kelley Clancy of East Providence softball player of the week and Eric DiBiasio of Hendricken baseball player of the week.

Today's Best: Friday, May 4
The Cranston West baseball team got back on the winning track with starting pitcher Anthony Meo striking out 10 in a 7-2 win over East Providence.

S. Kingstown belts Cumberland
CUMBERLAND — With clutch two-out hitting, excellent defense, and solid pitching, South Kingstown ended Cumberland’s five-game winning streak with a 15-3, six-inning, 12-run mercy rule Division I crossover victory yesterday at Tucker Field.

Patriots make statement by downing Falcons
Their efforts didn’t produce a championship, didn’t even clinch a top seed for the playoffs, but it’s safe to say the members of the Portsmouth High baseball team did more this week to enhance the reputation of Patriots baseball than any other team in school history.

05/03/2007

Today's Best: Thursday, May 3
Mount St. Charles’ Vaughn Hayward out-dueled Davies’ Skyluar Neal and John Guay provided the heroics on offense as the Mounties improved to 8-1 with a 1-0 victory in Division II baseball.

05/02/2007

Sleeper ices Falcons’ bats
CRANSTON — Two teams arrived at Pagano Field with undefeated records yesterday.

Lincoln players back in spotlight for another title bid
LINCOLN — Chris Pickering remembers it vividly. So does Tom Coulombe.

Today's Best: Wednesday, May 2
The Narragansett boys don’t field a full track squad but Bill Horan won the discus toss (103-0.5) and shot put (40-0) and Andrew Staples swept the jumping events with wins in the high jump (6-2), long jump (22-0) and triple jump (40-4.25) in a meet where NK defeated Prout and Exeter/WG.

Today's Best: Tuesday, May 1
Burrillville (4-3) pounded out 10 hits and scored five times in the third inning as the Broncos defeated previously unbeaten Smithfield, 7-4, in Division II softball.

Pickering and Lions roar
LINCOLN — Chris Pickering will be the first to tell you that he wants the ball in his hands in a big game.

04/30/2007

Today's Best: Sunday, April 29
YESTERDAY’S TOP GAME

04/27/2007

La Salle's Hopkins, Warwick's Cilley win player of the week polls
Projo.com voters have picked Brent Hopkins of La Salle and Kayla Cilley of Warwick Vets as high school baseball and softball players of the week.

Today's Best: Friday, April 27
Westerly scored three times in the top of the sixth inning to erase a 4-2 deficit as the Bulldogs improved to 4-1 with a 6-4 victory over defending state champion Warwick in Division I softball. Ali Burdick’s RBI single tied it at 4-4 and Hayleigh Meeker’s (3-for-4) RBI single plated the winning run.

Pats have been big hit in D-I thus far
Nobody can blame Portsmouth for being excited about what has happened so far in its inaugural season of Interscholastic League Division I competition.

04/26/2007

Today's Best: Thursday, April 26
Juanita Sanchez’s Angel Beltre had nine strikeouts and his counterpart, Exeter/West Greenwich’s Anthony Tortolano fanned six batters in a pitcher’s duel that ended with the Cavaliers earning a 1-0 Division II baseball victory.

04/25/2007

Pettine pitches Somerset past Stang
SOMERSET — After capturing the 2006 MIAA Division Two state championship, Somerset knows it has a large target on its back. So it had to turn to one of the returnees from that squad to break a two-game losing streak and keep it undefeated in the Eastern Athletic Conference.

Today's Best: Wednesday, April 25
Cumberland broke open a scoreless game with three runs in the top of the sixth inning and the Clippers rode a complete game five-hitter from Katie Beauregard to a 3-1 victory over La Salle in Division I softball.

04/26/2007

Boucher leads Case nine past Seekonk
SEEKONK — Errors and miscues were common in this Southeast Conference baseball game yesterday, but left-handed pitcher Tom Boucher came up big at the right time as Case High defeated Seekonk, 7-6.

04/24/2007

R.I. baseballers becoming a major presence
It was easy to miss.

Today's Best: Tuesday, April 24
Brent Hopkins hit a walk-off two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the La Salle baseball team a 5-3 win over West Warwick.

04/23/2007

Today's Best: Sunday, April 22
Tiverton overcame an 11-7 deficit with four runs in the top of the seventh, then added three more in the ninth for a 14-11 victory over Barrington in Division I baseball.

Today's Best: Saturday, April 21
An infield hit with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh gave the Exeter/West Greenwich baseball team a 3-2 victory over Providence Country Day.

04/20/2007

Today's Best: Friday, April 20
Yesterday’s Top Game

Falcons, Hawks tilt has playoff implications
May 25 — mark the date on your calendar.

Patience a virtue for Skippers
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — North Kingstown coach Kevin Gormley will be the first to tell you that in baseball, sometimes it’s better to be patient than aggressive.

04/19/2007

Today's Best: Thursday, April 19
In the first matchup between the two teams since the Falcons knocked the Hawks out out of the Division I baseball playoffs last year, Cranston West’s Anthony Meo threw a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts in a 1-0 victory over Bishop Hendricken yesterday.

04/18/2007

Hanson, Lovejoy, Hopkins star as Falcons fly high
CRANSTON — Not even the frigid temperatures, light drizzle or swirling winds could cool off Cranston West pitcher Ben Hanson and the Falcons’ bats.

Hendricken, Cranston West faceoff has cachet
Today has been circled on the calendar for many high school baseball fans.

04/16/2007

Today's Best: Saturday, April 14
Bay View fell behind, 5-0, in the game’s first four minutes but rallied behind Cate Colucci and Katie Murray,who combined for eight goals, as the Bengals defeated Middletown, 11-10, yesterday in girls lacrosse.

04/12/2007

Today's Best: Thursday, April 12
The Division I baseball game between Portsmouth and East Providence turned into a duel between the Townies’ Justin Adams and the Patriots’ Ryan Westmoreland with both pitchers going the distance and allowing only two hits in a 2-0 Portsmouth victory.

04/11/2007

Today's Best: Wednesday, April 11
Marlene DiRaimo’s game-winning RBI single with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning gave the Bay View fast-pitch softball team a 3-2 win over East Providence.

An eye-catching crop of R.I. baseball players
Rhode Island has become a magnet for college and professional baseball scouts.

04/10/2007

Hanson lifts Falcons
CRANSTON –— Cranston West fans got their first look at their new ace yesterday and they liked what they saw.

Today's Best: Tuesday, April 10
Mount St. Charles travels to Warwick for a Division I fast-pitch softball game against the defending state-champion Hurricanes.

04/06/2007

Today's Best: Friday, April 6
Trailing by 5-2 in the bottom of the final inning, the Chariho girls softball team used a leadoff walk and a fielder’s choice to start a rally that culminated in freshman Lauren McGovern’s two-run single for a 6-5 win over Toll Gate.

Baseball reverts to its roots
It may not be exactly the “good old days”, but Interscholastic League baseball definitely is taking on a retro look this season.

04/04/2007

Thunderbolt give new coach a win
CRANSTON — Every first-year head coach wants to win his first game, but Cranston East rookie baseball coach Michael Walsh never expected the Thunderbolt to play the way they did yesterday in their season-opener.

Finn’s bat, arm power Feehan
NORTH ATTLEBORO — Martin Finn blasted a two-run homer over the left-field fence in the sixth inning, propelling Bishop Feehan to a 2-1 season-opening victory over Seekonk in a nonconference baseball game yesterday.

Today's Best: Wednesday, April 4
Elizabeth Kacz has made quite a splash on the Rhode Island fast-pitch softball scene.

04/03/2007

Today's Best: Tuesday, April 3
Cranston West begins defense of its Division I baseball title today when the Falcons play at Coventry. The first pitch is at 4 p.m.