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Record caps comeback: Meet the 2023-24 Girls Track Athlete the Year and Super Team
There were some top performances among SouthCoast female runners during the indoor track season at the various conference championships as well as the divisional meets and Meet of Champions. Here's a look at The Standard-Times' top girls track and field athletes from the 2023-24 season: GIRLS INDOOR TRACK RUNNER OF THE YEAR ...
Swett sails away from competition at Women’s Championship
Traditionally when the boats are close together on the racecourse and at the finish, that’s mirrored in the overall standings. But that wasn’t the case in the 2024 Women’s Championship. While the New York Yacht Club team, skippered by Hannah Swett, won seven of the 13 races in the regatta and won the regatta by a very healthy margin, there was rarely a a lot of daylight between it and the competition.
Marion resident medals at Massachusetts Special Olympics
MARION — Thomas Grondin spent his first nights away from home for the Massachusetts Special Olympics in Boston in early June. Three swim events later, Grondin had three medals. He was one of more than 1,5000 athletes competing at the Massachusetts Special Olympics summer games between June 7 to June 9, which in addition to swimming had events like tennis, volleyball, powerlifting, and track and field.
Meet Greater Fall River's High School Lacrosse All-Scholastic Team
FALL RIVER — The Herald News continues Spring All-Scholastics with lacrosse all-stars. Somerset Berkley and Westport kicked off their inaugural season in the Greater Fall River area in 2024. The Raiders had a boys and girls team while the Wildcats fielded a boys team. Westport and SBR girls had the lone wins out of the three teams.
From the hardwood to the gridiron: Embargo League adds football
Currently in its fourth summer of hosting basketball games: an unlikely “coincidence” has helped the Embargo League add a flag football league to its repertoire. Embargo League co-founder and CEO Dylan Cantara shares a workplace, Cask & Pig in Dartmouth, with Owen Ribeiro and Valentino Aiello, who own the Backyard Football League, an organization that runs one-day football tournaments from time to time on the South Coast.
'They're the lifeblood of what we do': The people who made the U.S. Senior Open happen
NEWPORT — Mike Gilmartin moved with an air of bustling efficiency. He navigated Newport Country Club effortlessly, sheet pan in hand, to serve the latest dish at the U.S. Senior Open. He’s one of many that kept the course stocked and ready for the thousands that descended on the City by the Sea this week.
Eugene golfer Birk Nelson posts top 20 finish at U.S. Senior Open
NEWPORT, R.I. — In May, we brought you the story of Eugene’s Birk Nelson, the former Oregon State golfer who qualified for the U.S. Senior Open in Newport, Rhode Island. Inclement weather forced Sunday’s final round to be suspended, with play resuming on Monday morning. Nelson missed...
The Newport Country Club could not have put on a better showing for the state of Rhode Island
NEWPORT — The State of Rhode Island, Newport Country Club, the United States Golf Association and the Rhode Island Golf Association should be proud for successfully conducting an impressive 44th U.S. Senior Open Championship. It was an incredible week here and no one was disappointed. After COVID-19 forced the...
Dunham Gets Scoring Started, Finishes Game with Walk-Off Double; Patriots Steal 7 Bases
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - The Somerset Patriots walked-off the Reading Fightin Phils in a 7-6 victory on Monday night in game one of a six-game series at TD Bank Ballpark. Somerset stole a season-high seven bases in the contest, which matches the single game Patriots Double-A era record. The Patriots have won six of their first seven games to begin the second half of the season. Over the first seven games of the second half, Somerset leads all of Double-A with a .291 BA, 52 R, 73 H, 32 XBH, and 124 TB as a team.CLICK HERE TO...
Opinion: On the South Coast Bikeway
Thank you for last week’s article about the grants awarded to the shared-use paths in Marion and Mattapoisett. Both the Marion and Mattapoisett shared-use paths are part of the larger South Coast Bikeway, which will be a 50-mile continuous system of multi-use paths and bike lanes connecting existing routes in Rhode Island to Cape Cod. Several segments of the bikeway already exist in Swansea, Fall River, New Bedford, Fairhaven, Mattapoisett and Wareham.
RI was in the spotlight this week. It didn't disappoint.
Good morning, I'm Will Richmond at The Providence Journal and this is the Daily Briefing. On Saturday I headed over to Newport Country Club with the family to take in a couple of hours of the U.S. Senior Open. It was great to walk around the course and take in the scenes that are always closed to the general public. Although the names are big stars to them, my sons got a kick out of being so close to the pros as we watched them tee off on the 16th and 18th holes. Having spent the a good amount of time in Newport the past couple of years, it was great to see it on TV and watch patrons enjoy the course and as Journal columnist Joe McDonald notes, "it was an incredible week here and no one was disappointed." (Well, maybe Hiroyuki Fujita.)
The U.S. Senior Open provided a special homecoming for three Rhode Islanders
NEWPORT — Three of the state’s emissaries to the golf world came home this weekend. Billy Andrade, Brad Faxon and Brett Quigley all spent the last few days on the grounds at Newport Country Club. Andrade and Quigley both played in the U.S. Senior Open and made the cut. Faxon served as lead analyst for the NBC coverage and was in the booth alongside the 18th green.
Bump, Set, Spike: The 2024 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Volleyball All-Scholastics
Another high school boys volleyball season has come and gone in the Greater Taunton area. Dighton-Rehoboth (13-7, 10-4 Tri-Valley League) had its best season in decades, finishing tied for second in the TVL and qualifying for the postseason for the first time in 20 years, reaching the Division 2 Round of 32 before falling to No. 13 Minnechaug. Taunton (5-15) performed a season sweep of Attleboro while also earning wins over Hingham, King Philip and Quincy. ...
Mark "Ziggy" Zyons brings a Rhode Island flavor to the professional golf scene as a caddie
NEWPORT — When the horn sounded at Newport Country Club on Sunday, players scurried off the course, trying to get inside before the impending weather hit. It also forced players and caddies to switch travel plans, finding arrangements to stay another night so they could get back to the club to finish up the final round of the U.S. Senior Open.
GolfNewsRI TV: Episode 7 from Fort Adams in Newport
Taped just prior to the U.S. Senior Open at Fort Adams in Newport, GNRI’s Joe Calabro recaps one of the most exciting Northeast Amateur’s ever played. Also check out his chat with the top amateur in the world and much more.
Newport’s International Tennis Hall of Fame Pulls Out All the Stops for Final Open
There was a collective gasp heard amongst sports aficionados last November when the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport announced the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) would not be renewing the Infosys Hall of Fame Open after 2024. The organization’s premier tournament, a summertime stalwart since the late 1970s, brings the top male players directly from Wimbledon to Newport to play rousing singles and doubles matches for the only professional tournament played on grass courts outside of Europe. Thus, this year’s swan song tourney, happening July 14-21, will go out with a bang, punctuated by fierce competition, a festive atmosphere, a glamorous fashion-forward cocktail affair at one of the city’s most iconic mansions, and some of the best-known names in the game – including Andre Agassi, Kim Clijsters, Stan Smith, Tracy Austin, Rosie Casals, Gigi Fernández, Rick Draney, and Steve Flink – expected to be there to take it all in.
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