Photo by Autumn Walter |CIGAR| Nicole Jorgensen has doubled her scoring and averaged two more rebounds per game this season. You’re sitting underneath the basketball hoop watching the ball being passed back and forth on the edge of the three-point line. All of a sudden you see a gap, and throw your arms into the…
Football lands 22 recruits on National Signing Day Jim Fleming and the University of Rhode Island football team welcomed 22 new recruits on Feb. 7 as part of National Signing Day, and the direction of the program has never looked brighter in the eyes of the coaching staff. The recruiting class of 2018 consists of…
Autumn Walter|CIGAR| The URI baseball team is looking forward to a successful spring season. The weather might tell you otherwise but college baseball season is upon us. The 2018 University of Rhode Island Rams head to College Station, Texas this weekend to battle Texas A&M in a three game series to start the year. …
Autumn Walter|CIGAR| E.C. Matthews scored six points at the Davidson game. Mid-right: In the first half of the Tuesday night game, Mathews was injured in a collision with Richmond’s no. 33. What was just another night in the Ryan Center turned into complete panic and silence when E.C Matthews went down with a left-knee injury…
Photo by Anna Messick | CIGAR | The URI men’s hockey team split their weekend series with New York University, snapping their seven-game win streak. The Rams also lost assistant captain Matt Kowash for the season with a broken femur. Kowash’s official injury is a broken femur, sprained PCL and torn quadriceps tendon. He is…
Photo courtesy of Mike Scott | Brandon Amo in action at the Sorlien Memorial Meet Imagine only competing in a sport for one year in high school and then deciding to try out for a team at the University of Rhode Island. It sounds like something out of a movie, but that’s exactly what senior…
Photo courtesy of Rhode Island Athletics | URI’s Karlee Fowler competes in pole vault On Friday, Feb. 2, the URI track and field programs traveled to Boston for the New England Championship. The women’s team finished in fourth and the men’s placed third. URI and Northeastern were the only schools to have both teams place…
Photos by Autumn Walter | CIGAR | Women’s ice hockey wins ECWHL Championship against Penn State last Saturday. The University of Rhode Island’s Women’s ice hockey team won the 2018 ECWHL Championship this weekend after back-to-back shutouts against Penn State University. It is the Rams first conference championship since 2014. The nationally ranked No. 12 Rams defeated…
Photo by Autumn Walter | CIGAR | All of URI is excited to be cheering on the Rams basketball team in their upcoming game against the Davidson Wildcats this Friday. On Monday afternoon the URI men’s basketball team checked in at No. 18 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 Poll, the highest the program…
As the URI men’s basketball season progresses, the Rams continue to rise in the national rankings. This week, the team jumped to No. 18 in the AP Poll, and look to extend their win streak to 15 games with a Friday night home game against the Davidson Wildcats. While the Rams have shown conviction (e.i….