
February 27, 2025


This Week In Sports – 2/27
Women’s Swim and Dive Atlantic 10 Championship (2/20-2/22) The University of Rhode Island fourth-years Hannah Benavides and Ella Hacker posted the team’s best finishes at the Atlantic 10 Swim and Dive Championship on Saturday. Benavides tied for sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke, while Hacker also placed sixth in the 200-yard butterfly. Their performances contributed to…

A-10 WBB Power Rankings: Week of 2/24
With just two games to go in the regular season, the women’s basketball landscape in the Atlantic 10 Conference has finally started to solidify as playoffs loom. Only two teams held their position this week, with two of the conference’s top win streaks coming to an end. Each week, The Good Five Cent Cigar sports…

A-10 MBB Power Rankings: Week of 2/24
It’s coming down to the wire for men’s basketball in the Atlantic 10 Conference, and it was a week of clarifying which teams are legitimate. Each week, The Good Five Cent Cigar sports staff ranks the 15 teams in the conference. Here’s how the rankings turned out as of Feb. 24: 15th Place: Fordham University…

‘This is how I grieved’: Sixth-year infielder plays for hometown hero
Sixth-year infielder DJ Perron discovered 14-year-old Brayden Cabral’s story last year through the Facebook group “Bray’s Fight is Our Fight,” and this year he is showing his support through his cleats. Cabral was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in February 2024. Perron felt a personal connection through their shared love of baseball and both growing…

Swim and Dive sees best championship performance since 2017
The University of Rhode Island women’s swim and dive team competed in the Atlantic 10 Championship across four days this week, finishing in 10th place while posting its best score since 2017 with 189 points. “There is always a desire to place higher as a team, but we doubled the amount of finals appearances this…

Rams ride strong second round to top-five finish
The University of Rhode Island men’s golf team began its spring season with a top-five finish at the World Golf Village Collegiate in St. Augustine, Florida this week. Coming off a fall season where they had four wins in the span of five tournaments, the most overall wins for the program since the 2016-17 season,…

Inside Scoop: Women’s lacrosse arrives in Kingston
The University of Rhode Island women’s lacrosse team debuted on Feb. 17, culminating years of preparation and anticipation. “It certainly was a special week for us, to be able to actually finally play a game,” Rhode Island Director of Athletics Thorr Bjorn said. First announced in December 2021, women’s lacrosse marks the 17th Division I…

Women’s club hockey ends season with one-goal defeats
The University of Rhode Island women’s club hockey team dropped two games this weekend to the University of Massachusetts. This was the third and fourth time these two clubs have faced off this season. The teams split a pair at the Mullins Center last time they battled. Friday night’s game was special for URI as…

Rams stay red-hot with pair of victories in Newport
Over the weekend, the University of Rhode Island women’s tennis team traveled back to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, winning both matches against Stonehill College on Saturday and Sacred Heart University on Sunday. The match started on Saturday against Stonehill with fourth-year Klara Nelander and third-year Sophie Hermann getting a 6-0 victory…