Author: Will Geoghegan

Max O’Connell ended a two-year state title drought for the Cranston West wrestling team on Saturday. It also happened to be a family title drought. The West junior has two brothers who were state champions for the Falcons. Nick O’Connell won in 2009, while Ricondo more »

Warwick Beacon – Oct. 21, 2013 By William Geoghegan Someday, Mike and Kelly Xiarhos will tell their child about the time they went to the World Series at Fenway Park. They’ll talk about the crowd going crazy, Lester twirling a gem, Napoli breaking the game more »

Warwick Beacon – March 11, 2014 By William Geoghegan In 2006, the Warwick girls’ hockey co-op team made its Rhode Island Interscholastic League debut and won its first game by an 11-1 score over Bishop Keough. Maybe it was a sign of things to come. more »

Warwick Beacon – March 11, 2014 By William Geoghegan The season began with a question. Why not us? When the season ended on the ice at Brown University’s Meehan Auditorium, the Warwick Lady Titans had their answer. Warwick’s co-op squad captured the state girls’ hockey more »

Warwick Beacon – May 8, 2014 By William Geoghegan Since 1997, the Pilgrim baseball team has won 149 games. I know this, of course, because Tuck told me. He has chronicled all of them, one pitch, one out, one inning at a time. In his more »

Warwick Beacon – June 26, 2014 By William Geoghegan Before the games and the laundry and the lifelong friendships and the passion that defines their every spring and summer, the whole thing started with a few weeds poking through a baseball field. It was 1986, more »

Warwick Beacon – Oct. 2, 2014 By William Geoghegan Soccer, the argument goes, is boring because there aren’t enough goals. You’ve heard it before. It’s an old, tired refrain. It seems to lose steam with every World Cup. And in Warwick this fall, it’s also more »

Warwick Beacon – Oct. 23, 2014 By William Geoghegan Darren Grant knows the ins and outs of the Pilgrim football team’s defensive scheme better than most. He’s also a captain as a junior, one of the clear leaders of an improving team. Considering his football more »

The Independent – June 4, 2015 By William Geoghegan PROVIDENCE — They had been there before. At this point, they’ve been everywhere before. An early deficit in a championship game? They could go back to a few weeks ago, when they trailed 5-0 in a more »