Monday, April 30, 2012
Players, coaches and parents celebrate the start of the the 2012 season.
The Coventry Cal Ripken League got off to a rousing start on a cool, brisk Saturday morning in Opening Day ceremonies held at its home fields behind Alan Shawn Feinstein Middle School. Thirteen teams of boys and girls ages 4-10 dressed in colorful uniforms and hats marched onto the field with their coaches as parents, relatives and friends applauded, snapped pictures and took videos. “Opening day is one of those special days that kids and their families seem to remember,” said Lou Simon, in his first year as League President. “I can still remember my first one when I was a 7-year-old player and how I felt seeing all the players in uniform, the smell of the grass, the National Anthem and all the pomp and circumstance.” In a special twist …
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Post 14-1 victory over Scituate.
Dakota Reyes hurled a complete game two-hitter and struck out 10 batters while her Coventry Crush teammates delivered many key hits in a 14-1 win over Scituate in a Darlington Girls Softball League Tournament game held at Paine Field on Friday night. Nearly every Coventry player had at least a hit. Shannon Tiernan, Sierra Reyes, McKenzie Ricci, Dakota Reyes, Caitlin Gamelin and Miranda Medeiros each had two hits for the winners. Coventry struck for three runs- one in the first inning and two in the second- mostly on walks. They scored three more times in the third on a series of more walks, but their bats erupted later. In the fourth, Coventry added three more runs, with Dakota Reyes and Sarah Steinkamp each contributing RBI singles. …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Central Coventry loses, 3-0 in first game of tourney.
Steve Salisbury of Cranston West needed just 71 pitches and faced only 19 batters- one short of perfection- in a no-hit masterpiece against Central Coventry, resulting in a 3-0 victory to begin the Rhode Island State Little League All-Stars Major Division Tournament held at Warwick West Side on late Saturday afternoon. “It was a phenomenal performance,” said Cranston West manager Gary Bucci of a performance he or no other CWLL official could ever recall being duplicated in their league. "He (Salisbury) is so skilled that he could call his own game.” The righty struck out seven batters and was denied a perfect game when he hit Regine with a pitch in the fourth inning. Richard Vaughn hit the only ball hit to the outfield by a Central …
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Brendan Rix' 6 RBI secure the 12-9 win for Warwick.
Brendan Rix had four hits and six RBI, and stroked a three-run, bases-loaded double to deep center in the fifth inning to lead Warwick past Coventry, 12-9, in a loser’s bracket game of the Rhode Island Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Stars State Tournament held at Cranston Stadium on Tuesday night. Warwick reliever Danny Greaves got off to a rough start in his four-inning stint, but the tall righty settled in afterward, retiring the side in the fifth and getting two Coventry batters on a groundout and another on a fly ball. He worked his way out of a jam in the seventh, forcing a two-out popup to end the game after a leadoff single, an error and a two-out walk loaded the bases. “Danny (Greaves) has been pretty much lights out pitching for us," …
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Pitching by Shawn Pacifico keys All-Stars win.
The quest by Coventry to emerge from the loser’s bracket and make it to the finals of the Babe Ruth 14 year-old All-Stars State Championship playoffs began with a 6-1 victory over Cumberland at Cranston Stadium on Friday night. "The pitching by Shawn Pacifico and Anthony Masseur in relief was the main story,” said Coventry manager Joe Vigeant. “I was impressed by Shawn because he hadn’t pitched in a while and he only made 66 pitches and did a nice job changing speeds. I didn’t like that we had 10 strikeouts, but we had some good situational hitting.” Pacifico pitched five innings, scattering four hits and striking out four, while issuing just one walk and hitting a batter. He also chipped in with a double. But the offense also featured …
Monday, July 18, 2011
Late rally sinks local All-Stars.
Coventry hung on for five innings, but finally bowed to North Providence-Smithfield, 10-0, in a three-hour long Rhode Island Babe Ruth 13-year-old All-Star State Tournament opener at North Providence on Saturday night. Ahead, 2-0, North Providence scored eight runs combined in the sixth and seventh innings, despite Coventry reliever Anthony Andriote retiring the first two batters in each inning on ground balls. In the sixth, North Providence surged ahead, 7-0, on a combination of four hits, a walk, a few passed balls and wild pitches. Shawn Seaberg and Kevin Graham each had RBI singles, but Kevin Ciprian and Brendon Mennella had the biggest blows, each stroking long RBI triples to spark the inning. In the fifth inning, Coventry had kept …
Tyler Walsh has inside-the-park Home Run.
Tyler Walsh hit a spectacular inside-the-park three-run homer in the third inning for Coventry, but North Providence-Smithfield still prevailed, 7-5, in the winner’s bracket of the Rhode Island Babe Ruth 14-year-old All-Star State Tournament held at Cranston Stadium. Brandon Kenyon started for Coventry and retired the first two batters in the first inning. Then six straight batters reached base. C.J. Dandeneau (3-for-3, two runs scored and one RBI), started a five-run rally on an infield hit despite a diving stab and just-too-late throw to first by Coventry shortstop, Max Marcotte. Following an RBI single by Tim Lombardi and a few walks, Nick Russo hit a two-run single and he’d score on a wild pitch, passed ball and error on a rundown. …
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Coventry and Warwick Continental collide on Friday.
Coventry scored 10 runs combined in the fourth and sixth innings to put away a dangerous Wickford club, 12-6, in a Rhode Island Little League District Three All-Star 11’s winner’s bracket game held Monday at the Coventry LL home field on Wood Street. With rain halting action last Friday, play resumed in the second inning with Wickford leading, 2-1. Wickford gained momentum when Spencer Coleman doubled and Brian Slattery moved him along with a bloop single. Slattery delayed a steal to second, but Coventry shortstop Manny Bjorklund alertly got the throw from the catcher, but fired the ball back home when Coleman made a dash for the plate. The throw arrived in plenty of time for the out. Ryan Maloney followed up with a RBI single to drive in …
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Zack Furtado drives in two runs in CCLL loss.
The Wickford Little League All-Stars ended the quest by Central Coventry Little League to advance in the District 3 playoffs with a 14-3 triumph on Thursday night in North Kingstown. The visitors had an uphill battle after Wickford posted 10 runs in the first two innings and cruised to the victory in five innings, in a 10-run, mercy-rule game. In streaking to the 10-0 advantage, Wickford had just four hits in the first two innings, but also drew six walks, had two hit batsmen and capitalized on an error. Max Naya had a two-run single and Nick Quarella an RBI single in the first. In the second, Mike Halloran had a ground-rule double and a bloop single by Tristan Curran drove in two runs. CCLL did not surrender easily. In the second inning, …
Friday, July 8, 2011
Jake Riccitelli has 2-run double in Coventry loss in Connie Mack baseball.
Chariho pitcher Ed Woodruff neutralized Coventry bats by scattering six hits and striking out 11 in a 4-2 complete-game win in Connie Mack League play in Richmond on Wednesday night. In four of the innings Woodruff whiffed at least two batters, and struck out the side in the second and sixth innings. Coventry made a last-gasp chance to tie or go ahead in the top of the seventh when Jake Riccitelli reached on an error followed by walks to Andrew Donilon and Vincent Zanella to load the bases. But Woodruff bore down to get a short fly to right and a foul popout to catcher Dan Rathbone to strand all three runners and end the contest. Coventry scored its only runs in the third inning when Blake Rapecis reached first on a one-out infield …
