Brendan McGair
Sports Writer at The Pawtucket Times
Used to cover the Pawtucket Red Sox, but still chronicling college and high school sports for the Pawtucket Times and Woonsocket Call. Freelance extraordinaire.
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1 week ago |
woonsocketcall.com | Brendan McGair
CUMBERLAND – To be finished at another time. The last two Division I baseball teams to win the state title competed to a 4-4 tie after a 10-inning battle that lasted three-plus hours and saw hometown Cumberland and Bishop Hendricken exit Bentley Field with very few visible traces of daylight showing by the time the clock read 7:15 p.m. on Monday.
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2 weeks ago |
woonsocketcall.com | Brendan McGair |Branden Mello
The last four seasons have featured a high school softball team from the Call/Times readership area celebrating a championship at Rhode Island College. In 2021, Burrillville/North Smithfield celebrated a Division III title, while co-op forces featuring Shea and Tolman basked in a similar glow after capturing the 2022 D-III championship.
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2 weeks ago |
woonsocketcall.com | Brendan McGair
A little of this, a little of that …• There’s a championship-level tradition to uphold and Brandon Kelly is ready is keep the good times rolling with Upper Deck Post 14. Kelly has been appointed head coach of the local American Legion Senior Division baseball outfit that enters this summer as three-time defending state champs. He’s no stranger to the program – he pitched for Upper Deck during the late 2010s and re-entered the fold last summer as an assistant coach.
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2 weeks ago |
woonsocketcall.com | Brendan McGair
Brad Witherspoon has spent the past three years providing the same answer to the same question concerning Jason Edwards, who last week announced that he’s joining Providence College. Setting the table, Witherspoon coached Edwards during the 2022-23 season at Kansas-based Dodge City Community College. That year, Edwards averaged just under 22 points per game and shot at a high clip from the field (47 percent) and from three-point range (41 percent).
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2 weeks ago |
woonsocketcall.com | Brendan McGair
PROVIDENCE – High school baseball isn’t meant to be played when the temperature is in the low 40s and the wind is whipping so hard that players like Pawtucket senior Claudio Martinez find it necessary to make an unorthodox fashion statement by wearing a ski mask. “It’s difficult. I’m from the Dominican [Republic],” said Martinez after Pawtucket improved to 2-0 on the young season following Tuesday’s 9-4 win over Hope in Division III action.
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From @Branden_Mello & this scribe, your soup-to-nuts Call/Times Softball Preview. @GoBlueClippers @LHSRI_Athletics @CFWARRIORSRI @DaviesTechHS @whsnovanews #Pawtucket https://t.co/IwREVCcd74 via @WoonsocketCall
Also, another changing change for @whsnovanews; @SRASaints alum returns to mound at RWU with a flourish; @SheaHigh alum back in Green Bay, etc:
The latest “tag you’re it” column begins with Lincoln's Brandon Kelly taking over as Upper Deck Post 14's head coach @UDPost14 @LHSRI_Athletics @Clipper_Ball https://t.co/ZmfzUGLtvb via @WoonsocketCall
The latest “tag you’re it” column begins with Lincoln's Brandon Kelly taking over as Upper Deck Post 14's head coach @UDPost14 @LHSRI_Athletics @Clipper_Ball https://t.co/ZmfzUGLtvb via @WoonsocketCall