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South tennis has high hopes |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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To say the last four seasons have been rough for the South Kingstown girls tennis team would be putting it lightly.
After moving up to Division I in 2004 and going a combined 19-7 with two playoff appearances the first two years, the Rebels have gone 9-43 in the last four seasons and haven’t made the postseason.
So when the divisions were realigned before the start of the fall season and SK found out it was going back to Division II, saying the Rebels were pleased would be an understatement.
“This is going to be nice,” SK coach Mary Lou Morissette said. “Kids who were juniors last year, they were so enthusiastic and they know we’re going to do well. We’ll make the playoffs and anything that happens after that is frosting.”
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Mariners tennis team's goal is simple - playoffs |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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NARRAGANSETT – For nearly two decades, the Narragansett girls tennis team made the postseason.
The streak ended in 2006, continued in 2007, went on in 2008 and kept going in 2009.
It’s not hard to figure out what the goal is for the team this season.
“I think it’s time,” said Narragansett’s Olivia DiPrete, “to get back into the playoffs.”
And after turning over their entire singles lineup and a slew of players battling for one of three spots in doubles, there’s a very good chance the Mariners could end the four-year drought and make a triumphant return to the postseason, something that has changed the attitude of the team as a whole.
“This year everyone’s pretty dedicated,” said DiPrete, who will play No. 2 singles this season. “This year we’re just more dedicated and everyone wants it.”
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SK girls volleyball ready to tower over teams |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN—There’s a lot of gamesmanship that goes into preseason talk by Rhode Island high school volleyball coaches.
Some coaches will say their teams are great when, in actuality, they’re well aware their squad is going through a rebuilding phase and will be lucky to win more than three games overall.
Others will say their team would be satisfied just making the playoffs when, deep down, they know they’ve got a potential championship winner on their hands.
Because of this, you have to take what coaches say about themselves before the season starts with a grain of salt.
But, at some point, when every coach is saying the same thing about one particular team, it starts to gain a little traction and, before you know it, is appear as if it might, in fact, be true.
And what the coaches around Division I are saying is that South Kingstown, the lowly 7-11 squad from a year ago that lost in the first round of the playoffs, may well be a team to contend with.
In fact, they might even be the proverbial team to beat.
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Paul-Etienne may redshirt this year |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By BRANDEN MELLO
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KINGSTON — When Steve Probst transferred to Rhode Island in January after Hofstra surprisingly dropped its football program following the 2009 season, it was thought that Probst would red shirt this season and take over the starting job from current senior Chris Paul-Etienne in 2011.
Now, with the season about to begin, URI still might red shirt a transfer quarterback, but it certainly won’t be Probst, who will start Thursday’s opener at Division I-A Buffalo.
Paul-Etienne, a transfer from Rutgers, played in every game last season but a nagging knee injury kept Paul-Etienne from taking snaps during training camp and kept him on the sidelines for both scrimmages.
“The goal right now is if Chris can function in a limited role as he continues to improve, then we may table that,” URI coach Joe Trainer said Monday afternoon. “If by the end of September the injury isn’t getting any better or it’s one step forward but two steps back, then we’d probably put him on the shelf for the year.”
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Mariners hope rain goes away |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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NARRAGANSETT—Ever since they first put on their shoulder pads and helmets and ran their first drills of training camp, the members of the Narragansett football team have quietly been counting down the days until the official start of the 2010 season, namely this weekend’s Injury Fund scrimmage against Westerly, scheduled for tonight at East Greenwich High School’s new turf field.
It’s not so much that the Mariners were looking forward to playing the Bulldogs, per se. It’s that, with the onset of the Injury Fund game, the real fun begins.
The Injury Fund game is the first time football teams around Rhode Island really get a chance to square off against a real life opponent under real game conditions and rules. It’s the first time they really get to hit someone from another school and the first time they get a real look at how good a team they’re likely to be this fall.
Suffice to say, it’s something every team looks forward to.
Now, however, the Mariners have to keep their eyes focused somewhere else: the clouds.
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NK girls soccer youth could surprise rest of D-I |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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The North Kingstown girls soccer team was young last year.
So far, things haven’t changed much in 2010.
But the difference between last year’s young squad and this season’s version is experience, because while the players are still young in age, the experience is there that can make this a special one for the Skippers.
“Things have been going good all over with the girls that are here,” NK coach David Murphy said. “We have a lot of freshmen and sophomores in and they’re getting a little deer in the headlights look, but I think they’ll come around.”
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New-look NK field hockey has a chance |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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It’s always tough to tell when Julie Maguire is having fun.
That’s far from a knock on the North Kingstown field hockey coach. Her stoic sideline manner is as close to Bill Belichick’s as any coach in the state in any sport. After a tough loss or a big win, her facial mannerisms remain the same, the type of poker face anyone at the WSOP would love to have.
It’s not a bad thing, just if you’re trying to get a read on a coach who has been unreadable to those who aren’t around her on a daily basis.
But this season could be different.
Despite losing 12 seniors from a team last year that never seemed to be able to put it together, Maguire is excited. It’s a situation that would have most coaches heading out to get a resume put together, but for Maguire it’s a chance to do what she does best.
Coach.
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EWG girls soccer going after Division II title |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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The good news is the Exeter-West Greenwich girls soccer team only lost four players from last year’s team that made the Division II finals.
The bad news is that two of those players weren’t exactly replaceable parts.
But heading into the 2010 season, the Knights feel good about their chances of getting back to the Promised Land and know that this year, instead of surprising their competition in D-II, they’ll be the team opponents are coming after.
“There’s some excitement this year because we had three seniors graduate from last year,” EWG coach Kevin Fraser said. “They’re looking forward to the season and to get it underway. They think they have a good opportunity this year.”
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EG volleyball young but ready to win |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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EAST GREENWICH—The East Greenwich girls volleyball team finished 5-13 last year despite having one of the best pure hitters in the state in star Jenna Denice and, since that time, lost all but one returning varsity starter, Denice included.
It’s a combination most coaches would dread.
Not Theresa Jones, though. No, Jones is optimistic.
Why?
Well, they might not win a state championship this season. They might not even make the playoffs. They might not even have a winning record.
But none of those things are as important as what 2010 represents for the future of the EG girls volleyball program. With a slew of fresh faces, and a younger, moldable core, this fall may well be the fall in which the Avs lay the foundation down for the future, when they begin to turn the corner from Division I cellar dweller to title contender.
After all, everyone has to start somewhere.
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Freshman phenom makes EG tennis a threat |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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EAST GREENWICH—You’d be hard pressed to blame the East Greenwich girls tennis team if they were a little upset about the way last season ended.
After winning four of their last five games overall, the Avs improved their record to 6-7 overall but, thanks to a series of convoluted tiebreakers, ended up as the odd team out of a four-way tie for the sixth and final playoff spot in Division I.
And, if that wasn’t enough, the Avs’ hard work was rewarded by a trip down to Division II once realignment kicked in.
So to say the Avengers are entering 2010 with a bit of a chip on their shoulder is an understatement.
It’s more of a boulder.
“Well, it was a little disappointing to fall just short after the kids worked so hard,” EG girls tennis coach Marc Brocato said Tuesday evening. “That showed me a lot about the kids because they started to buy into some of the philosophies of running and doing some conditioning and stuff like that and I think that they became mentally tougher as the season wore on so I think that really bodes well for us right now because we’ve got the majority of our team back and we should be good to go.”
“Good to go” may be an understatement in relation to the 2010 Avengers.
In addition to returning key singles players Jen Miller, Stephanie Huang and Katrina Amaral, not to mention the strong No. 1 doubles unit of Eddye Golden and Jamie Halpern, the Avs have found a secret weapon that may well shake up the balance of power in Division II.
Her name? Aleksandra Drljaca.
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Chariho tennis eyes deep run |
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Thursday, 02 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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WOOD RIVER JCT.— The Chariho girls tennis team had one goal last year: make the playoffs.
That they went 11-3 in the process and made it all the way to the Division III semifinals, falling 4-3 to Ponaganset in a close match, was just a bonus.
Now? Well, now it appears as if they were just getting started.
With just about every member of last year’s D-III powerhouse back and better than ever, Chariho has lofty goals this season and, even though the team moved up to Division II during the offseason, it seems as if the Chargers may be poised to not only make a splash in their new division but compete for a title in it as well.
“We had a good year last year,” Chariho girls tennis coach Betty Walsh said Tuesday afternoon. “Went to the playoffs … and that was the first time we’ve done that in several years so that was very promising.”
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