Category: Journalism Clips

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 »

The Independent – Nov. 5, 2015 By William Geoghegan BRISTOL — Rhode Island’s pre-eminent field hockey powerhouse had something special brewing this fall. Barrington and Moses Brown were already pulling away in Division I, but the seeds were being planted. East Greenwich was emerging as more »

The Independent – Feb. 19, 2015 By William Geoghegan Usually, if a 3-pointer gave the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team a 14-point lead, Jason Coppa would be the loudest fan in the Ryan Center. “I get a little unhinged,” he said. He was more »

The Independent – Dec. 3, 2015 By William Geoghegan SOUTH KINGSTOWN — Terell Handley savored every yard, all 248 of them. It’s what you do in your last high school game, especially when it’s on Thanksgiving. He gave thanks for every touchdown, all four. It more »