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11/25/2009

Brown dominates All-Ivy football selections
How did Brown not win the Ivy League football championship?

11/24/2009

URI football team may look to Northeastern transfers for help
Expressions of sympathy poured forth in the wake of Northeastern University football’s death Sunday night.

11/23/2009

Brown, getting in rhythm, defeats Maine, 75-62
The Bears will have two days to rest and practice before they visit Bryant on Wednesday afternoon at 4.

11/22/2009

URI trying to shake 25 years of football futility
The Rams concluded their eighth consecutive losing season Saturday with a 33-27 loss to Northeastern at Meade Stadium. They finished with a 1-10 record, their worst since the 1999 team went 1-10. And they finished with a 10-game losing streak, their longest since the 1992 team dropped 10 straight. Their record in the last 24 years is 81-185.

Facilities are a big reason URI struggles in football
An 0-11 season is about the only depth the University of Rhode Island football program has yet to plumb.

11/20/2009

Commentary: Media blew Woonsocket-Tolman soccer scuffle out of proportion
Leave it to headline writers, television anchors and reporters who were miles from the scene of the action to blow the fight between Woonsocket and Tolman soccer players way out of proportion.

11/14/2009

Division I girls volleyball: Prout sweeps showdown with East Providence
Prout was just too good in the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Girls Volleyball Division I Championship. Too many hitters. Too many diggers. And the best setter in the state, at least on Saturday at the University of Rhode Island.

Division II girls volleyball: Mount St. Charles rallies to win second state crown
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — They tied for the division title and won the same number of games. They split their season series, each winning on its home court.

Division III girls volleyball: Central Falls soars to championship
Central Falls posted its second consecutive 17-0 season and Division III championship. Shea, 12-5, was runner-up for the second year in a row.

College football: Bryant looks for win in home finale; URI to face Maine
Struggling URI hopes a long trip to Orono, Maine, won’t be in vain

11/12/2009

East Providence-Prout just one of three outstanding volleyball matchups on Saturday
The Division I game, though, is a dream matchup between the best two teams in Rhode Island.

11/13/2009

Brown’s Sewall, Farnham prepare for farewell performance in front of home fans
PROVIDENCE — When they update the history of Brown football, they will have to write a few paragraphs on Bobby Sewall and the 2007 Dartmouth game and Buddy Farnham and the 2009 Princeton game, unless Brown’s Dynamic Duo shreds Dartmouth’s defense Saturday in their final home game at Brown Stadium. Then the historians will have to include those exploits.

11/10/2009

Division I girls volleyball: Prout and East Providence to meet in must-see final
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The match every high school volleyball fan has been talking about for a month is on the championship schedule.

Division II volleyball semifinals: Cranston West, Mount St. Charles advance
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Mount St. Charles last played in a girls volleyball final in 2001, when the Mounties lost the Division I championship game to Toll Gate in four games.

Woonsocket, Tolman girls soccer players involved in scuffle could face penalties
PROVIDENCE — Players involved in the fight at the end of the MetLife Soccer Classic Girls Division IV Championship Sunday night face suspension, possibly for five games or more, according to Rhode Island Interscholastic League rules.

11/09/2009

Division IV girls soccer: Woonsocket 5, Tolman 0; punches thrown, stands cleared
PROVIDENCE — The Woonsocket girls delivered another championship to their economically battered city Sunday night when they defeated Tolman, 5-0, in the MetLife Soccer Classic Girls Division IV Championship at Rhode Island College.

Division II girls soccer: Smithfield 3, Exeter/West Greenwich 0
PROVIDENCE –– Good things come to those who wait — and wait — and wait.

Division IV girls soccer: Woonsocket 5, Tolman 0
PROVIDENCE — The Woonsocket girls delivered another championship to their economically battered city Sunday night when they defeated Tolman, 5-0, in the MetLife Soccer Classic Girls Division IV Championship at Rhode Island College.

11/07/2009

Volleyball: East Providence demonstrates why it’s lost only once
EAST PROVIDENCE — There’s a reason the girls who play volleyball for East Providence High School are 18-1, as the girls from Toll Gate High learned again Friday night.

11/06/2009

Division II volleyball: Barrington ousts previously perfect Tiverton
TIVERTON — Dominated in their two regular-season matches against Tiverton, Barrington showed up for the quarterfinals of the Division II Girls Volleyball Championships Tuesday night and shocked the undefeated Tigers, 3-2, in one of the biggest upsets of the RIIL fall sports season.

College football: Brown, URI, Bryant look to rebound
The local elevens got spooked last Saturday, Halloween.

11/05/2009

Boys soccer: Lincoln bounces back after 1-4 start
WARWICK – The 2008 Division II state champions in boys soccer started the 2009 season by winning their first game and then losing their next four.

Boys D-II soccer semifinals: East Greenwich, Lincoln win
WARWICK –– Rhode Island’s highest scoring offense generated another dazzling display Wednesday night in the Boys Division II semifinals of the 29th annual MetLife Soccer Classic.

11/04/2009

Boys soccer semis: Hendricken upsets La Salle; Chariho ousts North Kingstown
CRANSTON — Bishop Hendricken lost to La Salle Academy twice this season, 4-0 and 4-1, so the Hawks were confident when they took the field against the Rams on Tuesday night in the first semifinal of the 29th Annual MetLife Soccer Classic.

10/31/2009

Bob Griffin is a link to the glory days of URI football
Forty-six years after coaching his first football team, Bob Griffin is still at it, still standing on the visitors sideline in the pouring rain at Brown Stadium, still sloshing through puddles in the pouring rain on the practice field at the University of Rhode Island, and, occasionally, still basking in sunshine and victory.

R.I. college football weekend: URI to honor ’84 heroes before William & Mary game
The fifth-ranked team in the Football Championship Division will be on the field Saturday at Meade Stadium, and the heroes of 1984 will take another bow at halftime. Is there a better reason to catch the University of Rhode Island football?

Barrington’s Joe Goniprow is a force on the Penn defensive line
Two Rhode Islanders will play prominent roles when Brown and Pennsylvania meet in the key Ivy League football game of the week Saturday at Brown Stadium.

10/28/2009

Former Eagle Ruggieri carries big stick for PC
Barrington’s Julie Ruggieri stars for the Friars’ playoff-bound field hockey team