STARS OF THE DAY: Downing, King, Robinson, Connerton and Crowley deliver in hoop wins
Jack Downing, Portsmouth boys basketball
Downing poured in 24 points, a season season, in leading Portsmouth to a 61-46 victory over East Greenwich in a Division I game Friday night. The Patriots led 27-20 at the half and continued to build on their advantage over the final 16 minutes.
Izayah King, Rogers boys basketball
King is developing into a consistent scoring option for the Vikings. He had 25 points on Friday night as Rogers downed Cranston West 75-54 in a Division II tilt.
Tristan White, Tiverton basketball
White helped the Tigers whittle an 11-point halftime deficit to five with 14 second-half points, but host Wheeler held on for a 63-53 win despite White’s game-high 25 points on Friday in Providence.
Timmy Robinson and Ben Connerton, Middletown boys basketball
Connerton scored 16 points and Robinson finished with 15 for Middletown, which outlasted visiting Lincoln on Friday night.
Maeve Crowley, Rogers girls basketball
Crowley drained five 3-pointers and scored a game-high 25 points while grabbing 14 rebounds as the Vikings downed Portsmouth 55-40 in a nonleague game in Newport on Friday night.
Ethan Arruda, JNPT hockey
The senior goalie made 56 saves as the Johnston/North Providence/Tiverton cooperative hockey team lost to the West Warwick/Exeter-West Greenwich co-op squad 7-1 on Friday in West Warwick.
Emma Lopes, Tiverton girls basketball
Lopes tallied 17 points as fast-starting Tiverton downed visiting Prout 42-30 on Friday to raise its Division II record to 4-6.
Ava Moore, Portsmouth girls basketball
Moore single handedly kept Portsmouth in the game in the first half as she knocked down five 3-pointers to keep the Patriots within three points of Rogers at halftime. The host Vikings owned the second half and got the win 55-40 as Moore finished with a team-high 19 points.
Luc Guerin, RMR hockey
Guerin scored the only goal for RMR, assisted by Kenny Firling, in the second period of a 4-1 loss to North Kingstown on Friday night at St. George's School.
Will Alves, Portsmouth freshman boys basketball
The Patriots defeated host Barrington 48-34 on Friday to lift their record to 7-1. Alves had 11 points and five assists and played solid defense.
Thursday's stars
Colby Fahrney and Kaden Kluth, Portsmouth boys track
Fahrney and Kluth each won three individual events and combined to score 62.5 of Portsmouth’s 104 team points as the Patriots finished as runner-up to North Kingstown (115) in the nine-team Southern Division championship meet Thursday in Providence.
Fahrney won the 55-meter dash in 6.63 seconds, a personal-best and school-record time. He took the 300 (37.51), was a member of the victorious 4x100 relay team (1:36.40 seconds) and captured the long jump with a bound of 22 feet, 8 inches.
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“Colby was on his absolute ‘A’ game last night,” Portsmouth coach Shaun Horgan told The Daily News on Friday. “He lit up the track in the 55. He won the 300 out of the unseeded section, (which is) tough to do without kids to race against.
“But his succession of jumps to end the long jump — 22-6 and 22-8 — were a joy to watch. That's his main event, and it's been a long road to get to this point. He's going into the championship meets in very good shape. Colby is jumping at the Millrose Games on Saturday in New York City.”
Kluth won the 600 with a time of 1:25.27 seconds, and also prevailed in the 1,000 (2:38.57) and the 3,000 (9:00.80).
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“Kaden's performance was incredible,” Horgan said. “The 3,000, 600, and 1,000 is a very tough triple, especially with the amount of talent in our division. But he wasn't going to accept anything less than a win in each event, and he pulled it off. It was pretty special to watch. He has a gift for sure. He could have run through a brick wall for us last night.”
Luis Betancourt, Rogers boys track
Betancourt proved he was the best 55-meter hurdler in the division as he won the event with a time of 8.46 seconds while also placing third in the long jump as the Vikings finished in fourth place out of nine teams in the Southern Division championship meet Thursday in Providence.
Abby Monkevicz, Tiverton girls basketball
The junior forward tallied a team-high 15 points, but the Tigers couldn’t keep up with host West Warwick as the Wizards scored a 57-35 win Tuesday in a Division II contest.
Lily Sokol, Middletown girls basketball
The freshman center scored 16 points to outscore the entire Davies squad as the visiting Islanders rolled to a 52-15 win Thursday. Middletown's Division III mark elevated to 8-1.
Maeve Crowley, Rogers girls basketball
Crowley netted 16 of her game-high 22 points in the second half and pulled down nine rebounds for the Vikings, who downed host Chariho 60-28 on Thursday to remain undefeated (11-0) in Division II.
Emily Maiato, Portsmouth girls basketball
Maiato notched 18 points for visiting Portsmouth, but the Patriots misfired on 16 of 23 free throws in falling to Scituate 46-44 in overtime. The loss left Portsmouth at 4-7 in Division I.
Abby DeSantis, Middletown junior varsity girls basketball
DeSantis scored a team-best 16 points for Middletown, which topped host Davies 36-21 on Thursday.
Wednesday's stars
Elijah Neal and Darian Piker, Rogers boys basketball
Neal scored a team-high 15 points, and Piker had 14, including a late 3-pointer to send the game to overtime, as Rogers held off Coventry 50-46 on Wednesday night. The victory put the Vikings back on track after a loss earlier in the week.
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Jeff Brady, Portsmouth boys basketball
Brady finished with eight points and held his own down low against state power Classical, which came away with a 49-45 win over the Patriots in Portsmouth on Wednesday night.
Portsmouth led 29-18 at the half before the Purple mounted a comeback and scored the final four points of the game.
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Timmy Robinson, Middletown boys basketball
The junior guard poured in 21 points in helping Middletown hold off visiting Johnston in a 67-62 victory on Wednesday night.
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Tristan White, Tiverton boys basketball
After getting off to a slow start to the season, the Tigers have now won two of their past three games. The most recent was a 62-60 overtime triumph over West Warwick on Wednesday. White led the way for Tiverton with 17 points, including a trio of 3-pointers.
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Tuesday's stars
Morgan Casey and Emily Maiato, Portsmouth girls basketball
The two junior frontcourt players combined to score all but eight of visiting Portsmouth’s points in a 66-35 loss to unbeaten North Kingstown on Tuesday. Casey had a game-best 15 points and Maiato dropped in 12 while making all six of her free-throw attempts.
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Samantha Bettencourt, Tiverton girls basketball
Tiverton made just four field goals in the game and none in the second half as it fell to Westerly 35-25 on Tuesday. Bettencourt scored all of her team-high nine points from the free-throw line.
Miyah Brooks, Rogers girls basketball
The junior guard scored four points and played a strong all-around game as the host Vikings continued their unbeaten ways with a win over Central on Tuesday.
Mia DeSantis and Ella Bolano, Middletown girls basketball
DeSantis poured in 19 points and Bolano came through with 15 points as the host Islanders pushed their winning streak to three and their Division III record to 7-1 with a 54-42 victory over Central Falls.
Jason Zhang, Portsmouth freshman boys basketball
Zhang dropped in 12 points, snared nine rebounds and played well defensively on Tuesday as the host Patriots downed Smithfield 70-33.
Monday's stars
Jeff Brady, Portsmouth basketball
Brady snagged eight rebounds and dropped in 12 points, including six in the third period, when host Portsmouth overtook defending state champ Bishop Hendricken. But the Patriots (4-5) could not maintain their slim advantage and bowed to the Hawks 51-49 on Monday.
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Izayah King, Rogers basketball
The Vikings' six-game winning streak came to an end, but King did his best to prevent that as he scored 25 points to lead Rogers (6-2) in a 74-54 setback to host Chariho in a Division II game Monday.
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Luke Del Deo, Tiverton basketball
Del Deo took over the offense in the second half, netting 14 of his team-high 16 points in that span, but no other teammate managed to score in double figures for the visiting Tigers (1-9), who fell to Tolman 69-48 on Monday in a Division II contest.
Tim Robinson, Middletown basketball
The junior guard racked up 18 points and dished out 10 assists but it wasn’t enough to keep Middletown (5-6) from falling to Hope 69-64 in a Division II clash Monday in Providence.
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Abby Monkevicz, Tiverton basketball
Monkevicz dropped in a team-high 11 points and helped the Tigers (3-4) start their four-game week with a 46-32 triumph over host North Providence on Monday in a Division II game.
Olivia Peters, Rogers girls swimming
Peters won the 200-yard freestyle and was a member of a pair of victorious relay teams as she helped the Vikings down host East Providence 52-28 on Monday.
Nick Bodycoat, Rogers boys swimming
Bodycoat captured the 100-yard butterfly, the 100 backstroke and combined with Matt Mullins, Ryan Barnett and Pat Bryan to win the 200 freestyle relay as the shorthanded Vikings fell to host East Providence 62-25 on Monday.
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Julian Donovan, Thompson Middle School basketball
Donovan finished with 11 points and four assists in leading the Islanders to a 30-23 victory over rival Thompson on Monday.
Jackson Hackley, Portsmouth Middle School basketball
Hackley poured in 17 points, grabbed seven rebounds and had four steals to help keep Portsmouth unbeaten with a 47-43 victory over Barrington on Monday.
This article originally appeared on Newport Daily News: STARS OF THE DAY: Newport County's top athletic performances Jan. 24-30
