SPORTS

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Marcus DaRosa says he can’t stay silent about the injustice that he and members of the North Providence Men’s Basketball League have faced as they’ve effectively been squeezed out of using a local gym. DaRosa says that at best, North Providence school and...

If you want to ride a two-wheeled dirt bike or four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle (ATV) legally, there is only one place in the state open to the public: ButtonwoodsMX in Richmond. We previously reported (“Picking on Poor People: Outlawing minibikes and ATVs” by Michael Bilow, Apr 6, 2021) about police campaigns in urban areas to crack down on such unregistered vehicles, and the state told us there was nowhere that allowed their use. Around the same time, Jordan Carlson (who also owns TetraHydro Club in Wakefield) opened this motocross (“MX”) track, which he jokingly described as “the biggest track in Rhode Island,” now in its third year of operation.

NORTH KINGSTOWN — The championship rematch brought a big crowd to Lischio Field for Thursday’s regular season finale. Those in black and gold left hoping to see the match-up again. Bishop Hendricken out-dueled North Kingstown for a 1-0 victory, stopping the Skippers’ 12-game win streak. But there was...

WOONSOCKET – Ryan Martley kept the youth movement alive and well at Monday morning’s George Nasuti Novans Pride 5K Run/Walk. A senior middle distance runner on the Burrillville High boys’ outdoor track and field team, Martley was the winner of the 9th annual 3.1-mile run, as he covered the hilly course in a time of 19:14.2 that topped the runner-up finisher, North Smithfield’s Jamie Paolino, by 15.6 seconds.

Breed was accused of threatening his girlfriend with a gun in April.

BURRILLVILLE – Burrillville native Brian Allen has walked in more than a few Halls of Fame over the years. He has been inducted into the Burrillville Sports Hall of Fame, the Rhode Island College Athletic Hall of Fame, and the New England Conference College Wrestling Association Hall of Fame. This July, the longtime Johnson and Wales University assistant wrestling coach will be inducted into the National College Wrestling Hall of Fame.

PROVIDENCE – It would have been very easy to write off the Lincoln High boys’ volleyball team three weeks into their Division II season. Back in D-II after winning last year’s D-III regular-season title with a 16-0 mark, the Lions stumbled out of the gates, lost their first four matches, and found themselves near the bottom of the standings with a 1-6 mark.

NORTH PROVIDENCE – Victoria D’Errico has spent her entire life as a Rhode Island resident, but the North Providence amateur boxer may have found a home away from home in West Virginia. For the second time in three months, D’Errico was fighting for a championship in the Mountain...

The Johnston community is mourning the loss Thomas “TJ” May, who was one of the victim’s in last week’s shooting in which his daughter was also injured. May was a beloved family man and community leader, and was a coach in Johnston Little League. May had been a member of JLL for four seasons and was the coach of the Major League Braves. He was also slated to be the coach of the 10-year-old All-Stars this coming summer. May also coached his son in the league.

PROVIDENCE – Smithfield’s Alyssa Parenteau, who is an 8th-grade student at De La Salle Middle School, handily captured the girls’ 1,500-meter state title at Sunday’s RIPCOA Middle School Track & Field Championships at Mount Pleasant’s Conley Stadium, as her winning time of 5:10:53 topped the runner-up finisher by 8.87 seconds.

Barre, VT — One of the American-Canadian Tour’s cornerstone events, the iconic Spring Green, rolls off for the 48th time this Saturday night at Seekonk Speedway. Seekonk will serve as the sixth different host for the longtime ACT standard and could prove to be its most spectacular. In recent years, Seekonk has held the most hotly contested events on the circuit with spectacular duels to the finish line but this time an added challenge awaits the ACT stars as new pavement laid down in the corners of ‘The Cement Palace.’ The best of crew chiefs and drivers will have to come out as everyone looks to join the Spring Green wins list and jump forward in the Brookside Equipment Sales Southern New England Triple Crown point standings.

A four-star athlete out of Providence, Rhode Island, David Rodriguez, posted the following picture from a Michigan visit:

PROVIDENCE – Two days after suffering a tough 9-3 loss to Tiverton in what was a showdown for second place in the Division III standings, the Shea/Tolman co-op softball team officially became the third seed in the playoffs in its regular-season finale last Thursday by rolling to a 15-3 mercy-rule win over Classical at the Purple’s Morro Athletic Complex.

Moses Brown freshman Adriana Eaton and Narragansett senior Sebastian Carlsson took home state individual golf titles on Wednesday at Cranston Country Club.

SCITUATE – After losing in the Division III quarterfinals in back-to-back seasons, as well as six times since 2013, the Scituate High girls’ lacrosse team finally picked up its first playoff victory since its undefeated D-II championship season in 2008. Nine days after suffering a 14-5 loss to...

WESTPORT, Mass. — Former Smithfield High All-State runner Sydney Bagus was the top women’s finisher at the 8th annual Horseneck Half Marathon on May 21 at Horseneck Beach in Westport, Mass., as she took ninth place out of 563 runners in a time of 1:29:36 that was just 11 seconds away from the 7th-place finisher.

TAUNTON— Another spring high school sports regular season has come to a close in the Greater Taunton area. Bristol-Plymouth baseball kicked off last week by claiming a share of the Mayflower Large title while Taunton softball suffered their first loss of the season in a 10 inning contest with King Philp, Dighton-Rehoboth baseball shut out Case, Taunton softball scored a big win over Bishop Feehan, Taunton boys lacrosse finished off their season with a big shutout win against New Bedford, Dighton-Rehoboth baseball earned a comeback win against Norton, several area runners and throwers medaled at their respective Division Championships and the Dighton-Rehoboth softball bats went off again against Greater New Bedford.

For the third consecutive season, the Pilgrim Patriots will be playing for a title.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With the 2023 college season in the rearview mirror, members of the Brown baseball team are filling out the rosters of summer collegiate league teams across the nation. Many of those league's schedules began play this past week, while others will take the field for opening day within the next two weeks and run into early August.

In the spirit of Memorial Day, Gillette Stadium officials announced on Monday that new upgrades to their stadium seating will be used to honor those who fought for our country.