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The Tiverton soccer team fell to Smithfield 2-1 during a Division 2 home game on Tuesday, 9/22. Senior center back Colby Lopes headed in a Nolan Oliveira corner kick for the Tigers lone goal of the …

The Tiverton girls tennis team topped Mt. Hope 6-1 in a home match on Tuesday evening. First singles player Brooke Sowa, third and fourth singles players Caroline Durost  and Bella Scull and all …

The Tiverton tennis team fell to Porstmouth 6-1 during a Division 2 away match on Friday afternoon. The Tigers fell to 4-4, while the Patriots improved their record to 6-1.  Tiverton first singles player Brooke Sowa won the lone match for the Tigers, beating Patriots Elizabeth Carrubba in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. The senior has started the season strong at 7-1, after struggling in the top spot last year. 

The Portsmouth girls’ tennis team beat Tiverton, 6-1, during a Division 2 home match Friday afternoon. The Patriots improved to 6-1, while the Tigers fell to 4-4. Portsmouth, which moved down …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School’s boys’ soccer team came up just short against Barrington on Saturday, falling 3-2 in a matchup of two of the state’s top teams. The loss was the …

There was a jovial feeling in the air. Fans were cheering loudly and the stands were packed for as for the Tiverton football team's first home game of the season under the lights on Friday night. …

A year after they forfeited all but three games in an injury-shortened season, The Tiverton Tigers are back with a full squad and hope to get back to winning football games. “You can see it in …

PORTSMOUTH — Sean Gray had one goal when he stepped onto the track Saturday at the Rhode Island outdoor track and field state championships.

The Tiverton girls' softball team are Division-3 champs for the second straight year, after beating rival Rogers 5-2 in the division championship at Rhode Island College on Sunday afternoon. The 21-2 …

The Tiverton girls lacrosse team hugged their teary senior captains on the field for the last time after falling to powerhouse Lincoln 9-4 in the Division-4 semifinals at Lincoln on Wednesday …

The first place division-champion Tigers took care of business slugging 15 hits in beating Rogers 14-9 during the winner's bracket final at Rhode Island College on Tuesday evening. Tiverton will play …

The Tiverton girls' lacrosse team beat Classical 14-6 during a Division-4 quarterfinals home game on Thursday afternoon. The 9-6 Tigers move on to play at Lincoln in the semifinals on Wednesday at 4 …

The Tiverton girls' softball team had been slugging their way through the Division-3 playoffs, but are currently marred in a dogfight with rival Rogers during the D-3 winner’s bracket final that …

PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth softball team outslugged Tiverton, 13-10, in a crossover game Saturday morning at Tiverton High School as the teams combined for 23 hits over seven innings. …

It’s not about winning or losing for the 0-7 Tiverton lacrosse team. The Tigers 11-man squad is gritty, determined and refuse to quit, while trying to keep their lacrosse tradition alive. They have …

The Tiverton softball team clobbered Central Falls/Blackstone Valley Prep 16-1 in three innings, during a Division 3 home game on Friday evening. The 10-1 defending champs have won seven in a row and …

It's been a difficult season for the 1-8 Tiverton Tigers, but the sun was out and things were looking up Tuesday. Facing off against the Mt. Pleasant Kilties in a Division 3 home game, relief …

Threatened with physical abuse on and off the field of play, accosted in the restroom or even at the gas pump. Those are a few of the incidents recited by local athletic officials as they seek the …

As referees in athletics at all levels increasingly face not just verbal, but physical abuse by attendees of events, state legislators have offered up what is a harsh, though likely necessary …

The Tiverton basketball team fell to the Lincoln School 50-47 in a nail-biting, back and fourth Division-2 championship game at the Amica Mutual Pavilion on Thursday night. The Tigers came back …

The Tiverton girls' basketball team is heading to the Division 2 championship game after edging Coventry 47-45 in an intense, physical battle of a semifinals game on Tuesday night. Jah’niece Branch …

The Tiverton girls' basketball team torched Lincoln 51-33 during the Division-2 quarterfinals at home on Saturday afternoon. The 13-6 Tigers move on to host Coventry in the semifinals on Tuesday …

The Tiverton basketball team ended their season, falling two-points shy to Prout, 64-62, in a Division three preliminary playoff game in South County on Friday night. The loss dropped Tiverton to …

The East Bay Hurricanes boys' hockey co-op closed out its 2025-26 regular season schedule last week with three games, including a 2-1 shoot-out loss to Division I Prout Friday afternoon, Feb. 20, at …

Center Jah’niece Branch scored a team high 16 points as the Tiverton girls basketball team beat Coventry 47-41 during a Division 2 home game on Friday night. The second place Tigers have won eight …

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A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.