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North volleyball never gives Coventry a chance |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By BRANDEN MELLO
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COVENTRY — Coventry volleyball coach Jonathan Bartlett knew if his team wanted to keep up with undefeated North Kingstown Wednesday night, the Oakers needed to pass the ball better than they’ve been passing it this season.
To that end, Bartlett said his team had its best passing match of the season against the Skippers, but it still wasn’t enough to take down All-State outside hitter Brett Stetson and the potential state champions.
Even though North Kingstown didn’t play to the same level it played against Chariho Monday night, senior outside hitter Nick Gallant still had 18 kills and Stetson had 14 in a 25-22, 25-16, 25-19 victory over the Oakers.
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – Last Thursday’s match was big for North Kingstown.
OK, maybe not for all the Skippers, who lost to South Kingstown, 6-1, and followed by a makeup loss to La Salle Friday, dropped the team to 2-6, putting them in a must-win scenario for the rest of the season.
But for NK No. 1 singles player Dan Hansen, Thursday’s dramatic, come-from-behind 16, 6-3, 7-5 win over South Kingstown’s Cliff Bueno de Mesquita will go a long way in paving the road in the individual state tournament, which kicks off this weekend with qualifying rounds in every division.
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North softball tops Titans |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By BRANDEN MELLO
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WARWICK — During its recent two-game losing streak, the North Kingstown softball team hasn’t been very kind to pitchers Kelly Stevens and Taylor Butler.
Whether it was because of run-producing errors or an anemic offense, the Skippers were forcing their pitchers to be perfect.
Saturday, against a very good Toll Gate team at Winslow Park, Stevens was perfect when the Titans reached base.
The senior righty did give up eight hits to the Titans, but when a Toll Gate runner reach scoring position, Stevens closed the door. The senior worked her way out of bases-loaded jams in the fourth inning and the seventh inning to lead the I-South leading Skippers to a 2-0 Division I crossover victory.
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Skippers' girls lax sprints past Avengers |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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NORTH KINGSTOWN – In a game of offensive runs, the biggest run of the night came from a player who no one saw coming.
And by the way Jamie Wadovick raced upfield at the end of regulation, that statement can be taken literally and figuratively.
Wadovick’s 60-yard dash through the East Greenwich girls lacrosse team’s defense led to the game-tying goal with less than two minutes to play in regulation and North Kingstown got the game winning from Abby Gannon on a surprising shot with less than two minutes left in the second three-minute overtime session, leading the Skippers to a 12-11comeback win over the Avs, the third overtime loss for EG this season.
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NK boys lacrosse earns important victory |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By BRANDEN MELLO
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NORTH KINGSTOWN — Depending on the numbers you synthesize, the North Kingstown High boys’ lacrosse team should have either blown out rival Hendricken Friday night or been blown out by the aggressive Hawks.
Thanks to an awesome efficient offensive display by Ryan Merz, Jay Clarke and Devin Callahan, the Skippers scored on more than 50 percent of their shots. And, North goalie Mishreky Lawandy saved nearly 85 percent of the shots he faced.
Of course, the Hawks outshot the Skippers 33-11 and North had to survive a third quarter where Hendricken managed to turn over the Skippers numerous times to control the ball for nearly the entire quarter.
Callahan, a junior middie, put North Kingstown ahead with 5 minutes, 56 seconds left in the final quarter and Lawandy made a couple of important saves in the final few minutes to help the Skippers earn an important 6-5 win over the struggling Hawks (1-4).
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Oaker boys, girls run well |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By JAMES BESSETTE
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WEST WARWICK — Ever since Crystal Bourque graduated from Coventry High School three years ago, there has been little action in the field in terms of throwing for the Coventry girls’ outdoor track team.
Given what occurred at Maznicki Field on Monday, that might change in the very near future.
Along with their past success in the running events, the Oakers have started to make some noise in the field this season, especially in the throwing events during their tri-meet victories over West Warwick (84-65) and East Greenwich (73-67) on Monday.
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Home is sweet for Coventry golf vs. Chariho, Gansett |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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COVENTRY – Coventry Pines Golf Course doesn’t boast of mind-bending quick greens, fairways manicured like a sorority girl’s toes, a view pretty enough to put on a postcard or a layout that Old Tom Morris would give an enthusiastic thumbs up to.
None of that matters to the Coventry golf team.
“I always come here and I expect to shoot good because it almost feels like home now,” Coventry’s Seamus Fennelly said. “When I started out playing I was like ‘this is a dump’ but when you know how to play it, it’s really good.”
Coventry Pines might not belong on the same planet as Augusta National, but it does provide the Oakers a home-course advantage few teams can even come close to matching and it showed Wednesday afternoon as Fennelly finished with a nine-hole total of 37, leading Coventry to a team finish of 170, two shots better than Chariho and well ahead of young Narragansett’s 193, which was kind of there just for the ride.
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Same story for Oakers volleyball vs. SK |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By JAMES BESSETTE
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COVENTRY — Chariho’s Brady Borsay gave the Coventry boys’ volleyball team an abundance of fits at the net on Tuesday night. On Wednesday night, it was Nate Finnegan and John Alm’s turn to continue the Oakers’ misery.
On a night where South Kingstown’s passing struggled to get much going in regards to a middle attack, the Rebels’ outside attack worked just fine against Coventry led by both Alm and Finnegan in the Rebels’ 3-0 25-19, 25-20, 25-18 sweep over the Oakers – the first of back-to-back meetings between the two squads.
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SK boys left in the cold vs. Chargers |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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WESTERLY—With an absolute shellacking of Exeter-West Greenwich, Narragansett and Prout Monday afternoon, the North Kingstown boys outdoor track team improved to 7-0 on the season, setting the stage for a winner-takes-all regular season dual meet finale against undefeated South Kingstown next week.
The only problem? The Rebels couldn’t escape a meet against Chariho and Westerly unscathed.
Leave it to the Chargers to rain on SK’s parade and throw a wrench in what should have been a two-team race.
But, hey, raining was more or less the theme of the day.
On a cold and wet afternoon that seemed more suited for indoor season than outdoor, Chariho’s Nick Dubee fought off a stiff breeze and swept both the 110 and 300-meter hurdles, teammate Nate Irwin set a school record in the hammer throw and golf star Tyler Zegarzewski once again excelled in his one track event of the day as Chariho won first place in eight of the 18 total events en route to a 97-57 victory over South Kingstown that put both teams at 6-1 on the season heading into the final week of dual meet action.
Chariho’s win over SK, coupled with its 88-60 defeat of Westerly, means the Chargers can clinch at least a share of the Southern Division regular season title if the Rebels can knock off the Skippers this coming Monday afternoon.
Not bad for a team many thought would be rebuilding this spring.
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Rebels stay perfect, improve to 7-0 |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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WESTERLY—As she walked off the track following the 1,500-meter run Tuesday afternoon, South Kingstown freshman distance runner Kendall Feaster looked over to one of her teammates and said, simply, “I don’t feel cold because I can’t feel my body.”
Feaster may have been referring to her struggles to adjust to the winter-like conditions down in Westerly but her choice of words was fitting, really.
With the way the Rebels were running Tuesday, cold just doesn’t seem to describe them, rain or no rain.
In fact, red hot is a more-fitting description.
With a 5 minute, 7.7 second finish in the 1,500, Feaster did her part to keeping the Rebels unbeaten Tuesday as South Kingstown won first place in 15 of the 18 total events en route to an impressive 133-21 victory over Chariho and a 132-22 victory over Westerly that not only improved SK to 7-0 on the season but kept the team’s hopes of a regular season Southern Division Championship alive.
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Defense no help as Chargers fall |
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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NORTH PROVIDENCE – When the bus pulls into the parking lot, the Chariho girls lacrosse team no longer feels, despite still searching for the program’s first win, like a lamb headed out for slaughter.
“We haven’t stopped believing,” Chariho’s Michaela Allen said. “We keep telling that to ourselves in our heads. We just have to make sure we keep our heads up and not get discouraged.”
And after Monday’s loss to North Providence, the Chargers know where they need to focus is to keep hope alive.
Chariho played its best offensive game of the season Monday, making its way around and through North Providence on its way to the goal, but the Cougars did the same, but more often, in a 23-18 loss, Chariho’s 28th straight as a program, switching the focus of the length of the streak to how the team is going to fix a defense that’s letting the streak live on.
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