Townies Tennis, Girls Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Track Winning

EPHS Tennis
The Townies upset favored Classical to take the tennis Quarterfinals on May 20th. Kiril Burkovskyi was a key in his three-set win to propel the Townies. Burkovskyi won 6-2 and 7-5. Also big winners were John Vaughn and Malachi Smith. EP doubles team of James Lynch and Ryan Mottur also had a key win, 6-4, 6-2. East Providence will move on to semifinal play against Narragansett in Narragansett on Tuesday May 27th.

“After graduating 17 seniors & losing 9 or 10 starters, our team returns to the Semifinals for the second year in a row,” said Head Coach Slade Sharma. “This was made possible due to the tremendous amount of hard work that our 10 starters (and our whole team) have put in. That hard work was put on display in the Quarterfinal win over a very good and well coached Classical team,” added Sharma.

Townie Tennis Summer Camp
The East Providence High School Tennis Program is back with its second Townie Summer Tennis Camp, open to grades 3-12. “Whether your child is a beginner or has some experience, they’ll improve their skills through drills, coaching, and team games while making friends,” said Camp Director Slade Sharma. There are two sessions: June 30th to July 17th and July 28th to August 14th. The camp is open to ALL students, even those outside of East Providence. One-hour sessions are held Monday-Thursday (rain date Friday) at the EPHS tennis courts. Get more information and register here: https://ow.ly/QfTQ50VMIGH

EPHS Girls Lacrosse
The 13-0 Townie Girls Lacrosse Team defeated St. Mary Academy Bay View/St. Rays 15-7 on May 20th in their last regular season match before playoffs. The Townies are strong favorites to take the overall championship. Dylan Flynn scored 4 goals, Alyssa Karalekas 3 goals, Ava Soares, Maggie Robinson and Katherine Almeida 2 goals, while getting one goal apiece were Kloey Iacavone and Sophia Carreiro. East Providence Goalie Ava Williams made 7 saves.

Sofia Moreno-Mouna and Zion Clarke-Heath each scored 3 goals for Bay View.

Earlier the undefeated Townies dominated Pilgrim High in an away game. The 16-0 lopsided victory kept coach Nick Boyce’s team with their 12th consecutive win. The Townies have now outscored their opponents 189-73 to date.

EPHS Baseball
East Providences Brian Rutkowski and Gavin Palombo provided the RBI punch to beat North Kingstown at home on May 20th 2-1. Tyler Dicecco was sharp on the mound to hold back a good NK team. Townies baseball isn’t known for scoring lots of runs this year, but they do score in a timely fashion as they reached their 12th win on the season. In what amounted to another pitching duel, Tyler Dicecco was the winner limiting the Skippers to 4 hits and one unearned run while striking out 7. NK scored first with a run in the top of the 3rd. Dicecco struck out the first two batters and then Arnold laced a double to left field. A walk next, a steal of third a ground ball error brought in the game’s first score. The game remained 1-0 until the Townies bottom of the 5th. Colin Roche doubled to right field. Kyle Desrosiers reached base on a dropped third strike passed ball with Roche taking third base. Townie catcher Brian Rutkowski then knocked in the first EP run with a sacrifice drive to right field scoring Roche. Next up Gavin Palombo drove a single to left field, plating Desrosiers. The inning ended when Palombo was out trying to steal second, but the 2-1 score held up as Dicecco and team finished with a key win. The key back-to-back wins against LaSalle and NK may have given East Providence a home game as playoffs begin. The league playoff schedule is TBD.

EPHS Softball
The Townies defeated Moses Brown 9-7 on Tuesday night at home. Each team scored a run in the first inning. Moses Brown scored two in the third to take the lead but the Townies came back with three runs in the bottom of the third to take a 4-3 lead. Caroline Welch singled for two RBI and Ella Grimley put down an RBI sacrifice bunt. However, Moses Brown re-took the lead 5-4 with two runs in the top of the fifth. The back-and-forth game continued as the Townies scored two in their half of the fifth. MB grabbed a run in the sixth with an RBI single to left and once again, EP fought back with three runs in the bottom of the sixth. A pop out, an error, an RBI single by Audrey Bernard scoring Lourenco, a double by Cassie Dulude followed by an RBI ground ball by Nethania Figueroa, pushed the score to 9-6 for the Townies. MB grabbed a run in the seventh, but Dulude and Pina (in relief) held on for the Townie win. Bernard, Welch, Figueroa and Dulude each had two hits in the game. Others with hits were Boisseau, Provencher and Dulude. Dulude, Bernard and Welsh each had a double. Dulude was the winning pitcher.

EPHS Boys & Girls Outdoor Track & Field
The boys outdoor track and field scored nearly 100 team points and finished fourth at the Eastern Division Championship on May 18th. The following boys placed during the meet: Jack Pawlik first in the 200 meter and 100 meter with a meet record in the 100 meter. Justin Jardine 1st in the 400 meter and 2nd in the 200 meter. The 4x100 meter relay consisting of Drake Silva, Justin Jardine, Kwamahn Gilliard and Jack Pawlik 1st place. The 4x400 meter relay consisting of Jukian Monteiro, Kwamahn Gilliard, Julius Cortes, and Justin Jardine 2nd place. Kwamahn Gilliard 2nd place in the 100 meter and 6th place in the 200 meter.

Julian Monteiro 5th place in the 110 meter hurdles and 3rd place in the 300 meter hurdles. Bryan Rivera 4th place in the pole vault. Roger Beaudet 6th place in the pole vault. Gerry Gagnon 7th place in the triple jump, Licas Santa Cruz 8th place in the triple jump. Machar Francis 7th place in the shot put.the 4x800 meter relay consisting of Will Massey, Daniel Lukusa, Jay Chang, and Gerry Gagnon 5th place.

The team 8-2 overall will compete for the Class Championship on May 24th at Coventry High at 10 am. The freshman championship will be played on May 28th at Cranston West at 4 pm and varsity will compete at the Hendricken Invitational on May 31st at 10 am. The state championship meet will be held at Brown University on June 7th at 11 am.

The 9-2 girls track team competed recently at the Divisional Championship and took home 2nd place in the Eastern Division. Nazarae Phillip scored big for the Townies winning the High Jump, 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay. Also on the 4x100m relay were Kendra Daniel who placed 3rd in the 100m and 3rd in the 200m; Gionna DosSantos who also placed 2nd in the 100m and 4th in the 200m; and Ryley Souto who placed 2nd in the 300m hurdles and 3rd in the 100m hurdles. The 4x800m relay placed 2nd also. The team consisted of Katie Patalano, Sadie Gagnon, Abby Raphael who also placed 4th in the 400m and Layla Bates who placed 4th in the 100m hurdles and 4th in the 300m hurdles. Bates, Raphael, Daniel, and Souto also placed 3rd in the 4x400m relay. Audrey Lepine placed in both Long and Triple Jump. Wendy Monteiro and Adrianna Perry placed in the Shot put, Discus, and Javelin.