CCRI ROUNDUP

Men and women set for region championships

Posted 2/27/14

The CCRI men’s and women’s basketball teams will play for their respective region championships this weekend.

The Knights, who went 18-12 in the regular season, will travel to Franklin, …

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CCRI ROUNDUP

Men and women set for region championships

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The CCRI men’s and women’s basketball teams will play for their respective region championships this weekend.

The Knights, who went 18-12 in the regular season, will travel to Franklin, Mass., to take on Dean College for the Region XXI title on Saturday at 1 p.m. Dean is the top seed and beat CCRI in the regular season last week to move to 17-3. The Bulldogs are also ranked 12th nationally in NJCAA Division II.

The Knights lost both of their contests with the Bulldogs this season. The region champion will advance and host the Northeast District Championship against the Region III champion the following weekend.

The women’s team will hit the road for New Rochelle, N.Y., to play in the four-team Region XV/XXI tournament hosted by Monroe College. Dean College is the No. 1 seed, Monroe is the No. 2, CCRI is No. 3 and Orange County Community College is the No. 4.

CCRI, which went 16-8 in the regular season, begins tournament play Saturday at 2 p.m., against Monroe. The teams split their two regular-season meetings. Dean will play Orange County at 4 p.m. On Sunday, the winners meet at 1 p.m. for the championship, but both teams in the title game will advance to the district tournament.

Knights fall to No. 12 ranked Dean

 

Dean clinched the top spot in Region XXI thanks to a 108-69 victory over the Knights last week.

CCRI struggled and ran into a hot-shooting Bulldogs team that hit on 52 percent from the field and 46 percent from beyond the 3-point arc. Dean built a 21-point halftime lead and cruised from there. Former St. Raphael standout Charles Correa scored a game-high 21 points for the Bulldogs.

Leading the way for the Knights were Anthony Jernigan (East Hartford, Conn.) and Malieke Young (Providence), who scored 11 points each.

“We got off to a sluggish start and missed some easy scoring opportunities early but Dean was missing their shots early on also,” said CCRI head coach Rick Harris. “We continued to struggle offensively and Dean started to attack the basket to score too many points in the paint. We will, like always, put this game behind us and get ready to play them again on March 1 for the regional championship.”

 

Teixeira leads Knights at USATFNE

 

The Knights and Lady Knights had a strong showing Sunday at the USA Track & Field New England Championship held at Gordon Track Center on the campus of Harvard University.

The Knights and Lady Knights had a number of top ten finishes in the meet, highlighted by two from freshman Shenelle Teixeira (Barrington). She took third in the 200m dash with a time of 26.77 seconds, breaking her own school record of 26.78, and also took sixth place in the 400m run with a season-best time of 1 minute, 2.03 seconds. In the 400m run for the men, Samson Olowoporoku (Osun-State, Nigeria) put forth a career-best run, finishing in seventh with a time of 51.64.

Colin Cabral (Cumberland) and Kevin Redmond (South Kingstown) each had strong showings in the shot put, with Cabral notching seventh with a toss of 12.68m and Redmond finishing eleventh with a toss of 11.06.

The Knights had three runners in the 800m run, with the best finish coming from sophomore Daniel Duquette (North Attleboro, Mass.) at 21st place with a time of 2:02.37. Duquette’s performance was followed by a 62nd-place finish by Britton Laney (Pascoag), who finished with a time of 2:15.17, the second best of his career, and a 63rd-place finish from Joseph Gareri (Uxbridge, Mass.) with a time of 2:22.11.

The meet was the last of the indoor season for the Knights and Lady Knights. Their first outdoor meet will take place at Bridgewater State University on March 22.

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