By KEVIN RYDER
Special to the Times

PAWTUCKET — Chariho junior quarterback Jesse Dolbey did his best Tom Brady impersonation Friday night at Pariseau Field against Tolman.
With under three minutes left in the game, Dolbey drove the Chargers down the field, completing 5-of-9 passes to get the team within 10 yards of the winning score.
But that is where the drive would stall, as Tolman’s Dion Rubio intercepted Dolbey’s final pass of the game in the end zone, sealing an 18-14 Division II-A victory for Tolman.

For more, read the 10/1 edition of the Chariho Times.

By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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WAKEFIELD—With his eyes on wide receiver Thomas Fitzpatrick and the final seconds ticking off the scoreboard at Conley Stadium, Narragansett sophomore quarterback Mark Griffith launched a desperation pass deep into the air, deep into double coverage.
Griffith, his team down six points, needed a touchdown pass and, with just 10 seconds remaining, had little choice but to toss the ball towards the goal line and hope for a miracle. Given Fitzpatrick’s two other circus receptions over Central defenders in the game, the play could have gone either way.
How did it turn out? Just like every other big play in the game, just like every other clutch moment, Central ended up on the right side of the jump ball, Narragansett didn’t.
Central running back Michael Washington ran for 196 yards on 18 carries but it was his 42-yard TD reception from teammate Joey Diaz with 57 seconds left and a big defensive stop at the final buzzer that proved to be the difference as the Knights rallied from a late six-point deficit en route to winning a wild, back-and-forth Division III contest over Narragansett, 28-22.

For more, read the 9/30 edition of the Narragansett Times.

By BRANDEN MELLO
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN — If struggling Pilgrim was going to compete with two-time defending Division II champion South Kingstown Friday night at Curtis Corner Middle School, the Patriots were going to have to do something to completely put the heavily-favored Rebels off their game.
For one series, the Patriots did just that. Senior quarterback Justin Martin brilliantly executed a 10-play, 66-yard drive with a number of option plays to put his team ahead of the No. 3 Rebels after just one drive.
But, that was as good as it got for the visitors because the Rebels diagnosed the option and proceeded to dismantle the Patriots the way they dominated their first two opponents this season. Senior Pat Gee scored three touchdowns, while senior quarterback Ben Hamill went 6-for-9 for 131 yards and two touchdowns to lead the No. 3 Rebels to a 38-6 win over the Patriots.

For more, read the 9/30 edition of the Narragansett Times.

By BRANDEN MELLO
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The South Kingstown boys soccer team was bound to get frustrated after outplaying two inferior Division I-East teams and only coming out with one point to show for their effort.
Senior captain Taylor Readyhough accepted the frustration of the young Rebels, just as long as the team used their recent failures as motivation.
“Part of our success was frustration,” Readyhough said after Saturday’s night Division I crossover game against East Providence. “Frustration to the point where it gave us motivation. We weren’t getting frustrated with each other, we all know that we were all trying to score goals. We play together, we don’t put our heads down. And we don’t say ‘I’m not going to pass you the ball because you didn’t score.’”
The Rebels outplayed the Townies in the first half, but again, they didn’t score a goal. Everything changed in the second half when senior forward Michael Mulroy volleyed a half-clearance by the Townies over the goalie and into the net in the 44th minute. Nate Finnegan added a goal later in the half before Mulroy scored his second in a crucial 3-0 win for the Rebels.

For more, read the 9/30 edition of the Narragansett Times.

By BRANDEN MELLO
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WAKEFIELD — Like any matchup between two undefeated teams, it was assumed that The Prout School girls’ soccer team and their parochial-school rivals from the north, II-North leading Mount St. Charles, would take a few minutes to feel each other out before finally settling into a rhythm.
It took the Mounties less than a minute to turn that theory on its head. After the Crusaders kicked the ball off the begin the game, the Mounties quickly moved the ball down the field and put the ball in the back of the net when Michaela Connor beat Prout goalie Katherine Keimis with a shot to the far post.
The Crusaders controlled the rest of the first half, but they never managed to recover from the Mounties’ first haymaker as the Crusaders fell 2-1 and lost their first game of the Division II season.

For more, read the 9/30 edition of the Narragansett Times.

By BRANDEN MELLO
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EAST HARTFORD,     Conn. — There were hardly any fans left at Rentschler Field when UConn running back Robbie Frey broke through the URI defensive line and outran the Rams’ last two levels of defense for a 54-yard touchdown with 7 minutes, 46 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Saturday afternoon’s contest.    
The play, which took 22 seconds, perfectly encapsulated the difference between the Big East Huskies and the Football Championship Subdivision Rams. Frey, a fourth-string running back from Pennsylvania, carried the ball for the first time this season Saturday and found his way into the end zone.
The Huskies, who have played the Rams more than any other opponent, received three rushing touchdowns from Dartmouth, Mass. native Jordan Todman and two touchdown passes for stand-in quarterback Cody Endres to hand the Rams their second straight loss on the road, a 52-10 romp in front of 38,620 fans.

For more, pick up any of SRIN's papers on 9/30, 10/1 or 10/2.

By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN—Before the start of Tuesday night’s South Kingstown vs. Coventry girls soccer match, the loudspeakers over Curtis Corner Middle School blared Eminem’s Oscar-winning song “Lose Yourself”.
Midway through the song, the CD skipped.
It was fitting because, once play began, it seemed like the Rebels were playing the same verse on the Oakers over and over and over again.
South Kingstown’s Amanda Graham scored 52 seconds into play and that’s just about the only time the game was competitive as the senior-laden Rebels laid waste to a young and inexperienced Coventry squad, 10-3, to improve to 5-0 on the season.
 

To continue, read the 9/18 edition of the Narragansett Times or Coventry Courier

By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN—South Kingstown field hockey coach Margaret McGregor stood on the sidelines at Curtis Corner Middle School Tuesday afternoon watching her Rebel girls play out the final 60 seconds of regulation against Chariho and, in her mind, began preparing for overtime.
Tied 0-0, McGregor watched Charger goalie Susan Woodard  kick away shot after shot, a stone wall seemingly denying any chance the Rebels had of winning in regulation. And let’s face it, with two winless seasons in a row coming into this fall, South Kingstown has never been the type of team to pull out a clutch victory down the stretch so, if it had gone to overtime, the Chargers may well have won.
But Chariho will never know. See, SK may not have won in regulation … but they didn’t need overtime either and that old line of thinking about the team’s ability in the clutch? Consider it no longer true.
South Kingstown junior Emma Morgan scored off of a penalty corner in Charger territory after time expired, threading the ball through a sea of white and green jerseys, and that goal brought an exciting and competitive game to a sudden and abrupt end as the Rebels outlasted the Chariho, 1-0, to improve to 3-1-1 on the season.
 

To continue, read the 9/18 edition of the Narragansett Times

By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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NARRAGANSETT—As soon as the ref’s whistle blew and Cranston West was called for a handball penalty inside their box, Narragansett boys soccer coach Ryan Kanaczet began preparing for the ensuing penalty kick, knowing that he needed one of his players to come through in the clutch for the Mariners to walk away with a ‘W’ in a game they so clearly dominated.
Kanaczet selected senior forward Jacob Auslander and, immediately, it paid off with a goal. But, as just about any call that results in a penalty kick in the final three minutes tends to do, that whistle created a sense of controversy, a sense that maybe the Mariners didn’t deserve the break they got.
Luckily for Kanaczet, it was a moot point. Less than 90 seconds later, the Mariners scored on their own and erased all doubt about who the better team was. It was a perfect ending to an impressive game.
Narragansett’s Aaron Libman closed out Wednesday’s Division II-South battle against Cranston West with a beautifully-timed one-on-one chance against Falcons’ goalie Alex Padilla, scoring in the top left corner with less than two minutes left as the Mariners put the exclamation point on a strong 3-1 win and improved to 4-1 on the season.

To continue, read the 9/18 edition of the Narragansett Times