I can tell you two things about my freshman year of college. I wanted to transfer from the University of Rhode Island and Ben Bentil changed the course of my college experience. My weeks were all the same freshmen year. They started on Sunday nights watching Sunday Night Football in my dressing-room-sized Weldin Hall dorm…
Men’s club volleyball team gets ready for the national tournament later this month. | Photo courtesy of URI Men’s Volleyball Team. Club sports at the University of Rhode Island can slide under the radar sometimes due to the nature of a Division I school. Everybody hears about the thunderous slam dunks put down in the…
Junior Lefty Jake Walker winds up and gets ready to deliver the pitch. | Photo by Anna Meassick. This past weekend, baseball played a three game series in 20 hours against the Davidson Wildcats, walking away with just one win on the weekend. The third and final game turned out to be a tremendous 4-0…
Senior outfielder Rebecca Simms had a pair of singles during the double-header on Saturday vs SBU. | Photo by Anna Meassick The euphoria of a walk-off home run to end a game is a feeling that not many players get to feel during a season or even a career. For Ari Castillo, she won’t have…
Sophomore Chris Francoeur tied for fourth in the URI invitational this past weekend. |Photo courtesy of GoRhody. For the second time in four events, Rhode Island Men’s Golf won, taking home first place at the Rhode Island Invitational at Quidnessett Country Club. URI was able to win with a team score of 898, or 34…
Rhode Island Men’s Track and Field finished third out of ten teams at the Northeast Challenge hosted by the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut this past weekend. The Rams were able to pull in 85 team points in total over the weekend. UConn won the event with a team total of 164 points. Southern…
This past Saturday the University of Rhode Island’s Women’s Track and Field team finished in third out of 72 teams at the University of Connecticut Northeast Challenge in Storrs, Connecticut. The Rams recorded 19 personal or season bests on the day as well as two URI top ten marks and one class record. Although the…
Sophomore Xavier Vargas gets ready to scoop the incoming ball as the runner dives head first into the bag. |Photo by Greg Clark. Rhode Island Rams baseball is the hottest they’ve been all season after a weekend sweep against the Richmond Spiders. The Rams have now won all three conference series that they’ve played, but…
Lotte Black and the women’s track and field team traveled to UMass this past weekend to compete in the Minutemen Invitational. |Photo courtesy of Michaela Benford. This past weekend, Rhode Island women’s track and field finished third out of 10 teams at the Minuteman Invitational, hosted by the University of Massachusetts. Three Rams came away…
Sophomore Chris Francoeur and Rhody golf finished seventh at the Wildcat invitational. |Photo courtesy of Michaela Benford. Rhode Island Golf finished seventh out of 20 teams this past week at the Villanova Wildcat Invitational, hosted by Villanova University. “We hoped for a top three finish so anything other than that was disappointing,” said Head Coach…