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….
Photo courtesy of Erin Edgerton, The Commonwealth Times The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team sailed past Virginia Commonwealth University 81-68 this past Saturday, extending their winning streak to 14 games and advancing to 11-0 in Atlantic 10 conference play. URI would display their dominance early-on, as Andre Berry would score the first points…
Photo by Anna Messick The University of Rhode Island men’s hockey team swept West Chester University over the weekend and extended their win streak to seven games. “We just thought about what we were supposed to do instead of going to sleep and letting them take advantage of us, more mental preparation than physical,” head…
Men’s basketball extends winning streak to 13 games Top: Jared Terrell soars to the baskest against Duquesne. Bottom: Rams “dog- pile” on Stan Robinson following his game-winning three as time expired on Saturday afternoon. Photos courtesy of Photo by Friday. The No. 22 University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team recorded their 12th and 13th…
I imagine it was a picture-perfect New England, Sunday afternoon in Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the fall of sometime in the 1970s. There is a man in his backyard raking leaves, listening to the booming voice of Gil Santos play through his radio. It’s Patriots gameday. Quarterback Jim Plunkett, a former number one overall pick…