Category: Sports – Friar Sports

Hockey Mid-Season Review

by Jeremy Perrigo ’18 Sports Staff   The Providence College Men’s Ice Hockey Team has played 16 games thus far in the 2017-18 season, posting an overall record of 9-6-1. The Friars are 6-4-1 against conference opponents, good for third place in the Hockey East behind only Boston College (9-2-0) and Northeastern University (7-3-0).   […]

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Friars Fall in Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament

by Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff   Providence College welcomed the top four women’s basketball teams of Rhode Island to Mullaney Gym Saturday, December 2. The second annual Ocean State Tip-Off Tournament allows for Brown University, Bryant University, the University of Rhode Island, and Providence College to compete in a special kind of rivalry.   […]

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Basketball Team Wins 2K Classic

By Max Anderson ’18 Sports Staff On Friday, November 17, the Providence College Men’s Basketball Team was able to add another piece of hardware to the trophy cabinet by winning the 2K Classic Tournament, held annually at Madison Square Garden. The tournament kicked off with a preliminary regional round matchup on Nov. 10, which saw […]

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Friars Go to Ireland

By Sam Scanlon ’19 Sports Staff Last week, the Providence College Men’s Ice Hockey Team took a journey across the pond to participate in the 2017 Friendship Four Tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Over the course of their weeklong trip, the Friars toured Dublin, Ireland, as well as Belfast Northern Ireland, including Northern Ireland’s Parliament […]

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Coach Ray Treacy Wins His Own Award

By Eileen Flynn ’20 Sports Staff Ray Treacy is a respected and well-known name around Providence College’s campus and in the Cross Country and Track and Field communities. The school was recently reminded of the coach’s talents because Treacy was awarded the Northeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year award for the second consecutive year. […]

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Former Hockey Player Dies of Ewing’s Sarcoma

By Meaghan Cahill ’20 Sports Co-Editor Andrew “Drew” Brown ’16 may not have physically been in Schneider Arena this past weekend, but his presence was surely known and felt as the Friars went on to beat University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Seven goals were scored for number seven on that emotional Saturday night of Nov. 11. It […]

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Fall Sports Wrap-Up

By Joe Myko ’19 Sports Staff   As the year creeps further into November, fall sports at Providence College are beginning to wrap-up. With the exception of volleyball, all the fall sports have ended. Now, before we fully turn our attention to hockey, basketball, and other winter sports, let’s take a look back on an […]

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Men’s Basketball Splits First Weekend of Play

By Chris McCormack ’18 Sports Staff   The Providence College Men’s Basketball Team kicked off their  season last weekend with a 84-55 win over the Houston Baptist Huskies in Alumni Hall. With comic-con being held at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Nov. 10, the Friars were able to play the first men’s basketball game on […]

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Women’s Hockey Comes Out Strong

By: Jeremy Perrigo ’18   Sports Staff     The Providence College Women’s Ice Hockey Team, after finishing the 2016-17 campaign 17-17-3, is off to a strong start this season with a record of 6-3-2.      The Friars swept the Northeastern Universty Huskies in a home-and-home over the weekend of Oct. 28 with 2-1 […]

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Swim Team Gears Up for Big Meet

By Meaghan Cahill Sports Co-Editor    The second biggest meet of the season is on the horizon for the Providence College Men’s and Women’s Swim and Dive Teams. The Harold Anderson Invitational, which takes place this year at the University of Rhode Island, is “treated as the Big East Championsips,” according to Madeline Snow ’19. […]

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