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SK girls soccer has holes to fill |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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If you took just the members of the South Kingstown girls soccer team that graduated last year, put them on their own special squad and filled out the rest of the roster with average soccer players, you’d have a group capable of challenging most of Division I and, maybe, even winning a title.
It’s not a stretch, then, to say that the Rebels are going to have their hands full this fall trying to replace all the talent they lost to graduation.
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Mariners' boys soccer looks to improve |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
By ERIC RUEB
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The one thing that hurt the Narragansett boys soccer team last season is the one thing the Mariners cannot control.
Last year, Narragansett was one of the more talented teams in Division II-South, but when it came to injuries, there wasn’t a team hurt worse than the Mariners.
“We had a couple huge injuries from Day 1 last year,” Narragansett coach Ryan Kanaczet said. “I always say the goal is to keep everyone healthy, knock on wood.
“..We started to slip away after some injuries and that’s why we ended up the way we did. For us to finishing in the top of the pack this year, we have to stay healthy.”
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Narragansett girls soccer has the talent to win |
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Thursday, 09 September 2010 |
By PAUL J. SPETRINI
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Narragansett girls soccer coach Kathryn Mahoney has a simple approach to the goals she places on her team every fall.
“I always kind of emphasize that each practice, that each game, we use it as a learning experience,” she said Monday evening.
Mahoney went on to say that she felt last fall, when the Mariners went 7-4-5 overall and reached the Division III semifinals, was a great learning experience for her young team. Not only did they get to go up against some strong competition, they grew as players and as a team as the season wore on.
How much they learned, however, will be tested this season as the Mariners suddenly find themselves chalk full of experience, talent and higher expectations.
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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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