As it awaits NCAA waiver decisions on its cast of incoming transfers, the University of Rhode Island men's basketball team picked up a late reinforcement on Saturday night.

One team has emerged as the class of the Newport Collegiate Baseball League, and former South Kingstown High School standout Shaun Gamelin has been a big part of the success.

Nothing can make up for the cancellation of Copeland’s senior season at Prout, but an opportunity to pitch in the Newport Collegiate Baseball League is a welcome consolation prize.

The fall season was postponed in conjunction with decisions by the A-10 and CAA. The hope is to shift fall sports to spring. 

Players relish opportunity in Newport league

Rosters for the Newport Collegiate Baseball League include more than a dozen former standouts from the local high school ranks, the University of Rhode Island and the Ocean State Waves.

Good baseball will be played on July 10 in Rhode Island, even without the originally scheduled NECBL matchup between the Ocean State Waves and the Newport Gulls.

With the coronavirus pandemic canceling athletics and sending students home, student-athletes at URI have had to get creative

Elijah Dunham, the top hitter for the 2019 Ocean State Waves, signed a free agent contract with the New York Yankees last week.

Rhode Island’s Jackson Coutts signed a free agent contract with the Washington Nationals.

The University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team has its marching orders for a return trip to Mohegan Sun Arena this year.

Never say never, yet don’t bet against the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft going down in the annals as the final one of its kind.

Jalen Carey makes five, and his credentials make him one of the headliners in the University of Rhode Island's deep incoming class of transfers.