Rhode Island High School
Girls' Volleyball
Class A
1998

              W  L
             -- --
E Providence 13  3
N Smithfield 12  3
Lincoln       9  4
Woonsocket   10  3
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Burrillville  7  8
Ponagansett   6  9
Cumberland    5  9
Classical     3 12
MtSt Charles  1 15

              W  L
             -- --
N Kingstown  14  0
Toll Gate    12  2
Pilgrim       9  5
Warwick       8  5
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Mt Hope       5  7
S Kingstown   4 10
Coventry      1 12
Middletown    0 12

Player of the Year; May 30, 1998 (Pre-Playoffs)
Diane Dynon - The North Kingstown junior is
very impressive. Her biggest asset is her leaping ability. She can
really get up in the air as she spikes from the left side. And it's 
not one of those wimpy, excuse-me, spikes. She really kills it, often
deep and to the right. The Skippers breezed through the season and
Diane was one of the biggest reasons.
Week #8; May 23, 1998
Caroline Boggs - She plays for Toll Gate and is a
thinking player. Watch her serve. She had a great game against South 
Kingstown from the service area.
Michelle Berker - The South Kingstown senior has been to 
hell and back because of a very serious car accident just a few games 
into the season. She appeared at Senior Night in good spirts as she 
continues to work her way back to good health.

Week #7; May 16, 1998
Diane Dynon - The junior from North Kingstown is the 
best spiker SCFun has seen. She had nine kills against South 
Kingstown and seven against Warwick as North Kingstown remained 
undefeated. She really gets up in the air. And when she's "up there",
she slams the ball very hard. She is "instrument-rated" and can 
compete on cloudy, overcast days. Are those two small scars on her 
legs? - she may have had her legs "corked". South Kingstown's request
to have her legs x-rayed was turned down by the Rhode Island 
Interscholastic League.
Week #6; May 09, 1998
Alicia Fay - An MVP type player for Mt. Hope, she single
handily destroyed South Kingstown with her kills and blocks from the
front line. Her play may have secured a play-off spot for Mt. Hope.
Week #5; May 02, 1998
Meg McGonagle - Pilgrim had two wins during the week. 
The first against Warwick. In the second win, against South Kingstown, 
Pilgrim's big gun had 12 kills, 3 blocks and 3 aces.
Week #4; Apr 25, 1998
Kyshawn Ruff, MaryBeth Lambert and Olubummi Akinusoto - 
Woonsocket won two and are right in the thick of things in the North. 
Akinusoto and Lambert led them to victory over Mt. St. Charles. 
Kyshawn had nine kills and seven blocks in their win over East 
Providence.
Erin Burke - Erin plays for Middletown and played well in 
their loss to South Kingstown. She has one of the strongest, most
accurate serves of anyone in the league.

Week #3; Apr 18, 1998
Vacation Week - Classical's Mai Vue, Ducha Hand, 
Saveth Huy, Jaime Singer, April Wilkiner and their teammates had
a strong shutout win against Mount Saint Charles. Classical also beat
Ponagansett.
Week #2; Apr 11, 1998
Jill McEwen, Diane Dynon, Linda Ferencko and their 
teammates - North Kingstown appears to be the cream of the 
Southern crop.
Erin McGovern - The Warwick Vets sophomore had a great 
game against South Kingstown with kill after kill.
Week #1; Apr 04, 1998 (A long week for the Northern Division. The 
Northern Division gets a week and a half head start on the Southern 
Division.)
Melissa DiQuinzio, Brandi Blakely, and their teammates - 
East Providence (4-0) is off to a great start.
Erica Johnson, Christine Mathieu, and their teammates - 
North Smithfield (3-1) is right on the tail of East Providence.

May 27, 1998 (Game #P1): Mt. Hope vs Woonsocket at Woonsocket

   Mt. Hope               ?   ?   ?  xx  xx  --  0
   Woonsocket             ?   ?   ?  xx  xx  --  3

   MH: ?.
   WO: Kyshawn Ruff - 16 kills; Bunmi Akinnusotu - 10 kills.

May 27, 1998 (Game #P2): Burrillville vs Warwick at
Warwick

   Burrillville           ?   ?   ?  xx  xx  --  3
   Warwick                ?   ?   ?  xx  xx  --  0

   BU: Patty Garrepy - 11 kills, 4 blocks.
   WA: Erin McGovern - 6 kills, 6 blocks.

May 28, 1998 (Game #Q1): Burrillville vs EP at EP

   Burrillville           5  12  15   5  xx  --  1
   East Providence       15  15   8  15  xx  --  3

   BU: Patty Garrepy - 14 kills.
   EP: Michaela Murphy - 8 kills, 6 blocks.
       Melissa DiQuinzio - 9 kills.

May 28, 1998 (Game #Q2): Lincoln vs Toll Gate at Toll Gate

   Lincoln                5   4  13  xx  xx  --  0
   Toll Gate             15  15  15  xx  xx  --  3

   LI: Aimee Walsh - 5 kills.
   TG: Lindsay Ryan - 12 kills, 3 blocks.
       Meghan Daniel - 18 assists, 9 digs.

May 28, 1998 (Game #Q3): Woonsocket vs North Kingstown at North Kingstown

   Woonsocket            13   1  10  xx  xx  --  0
   North Kingstown       15  15  15  xx  xx  --  3

   WO: Kyshawn Ruff played well.
   NK: Dolly Fischer - 11 kills, 2 blocks.
       Linda Ferencko - 9 kills, 2 blocks.

May 28, 1998 (Game #Q4): Pilgrim vs N. Smithfield at N. Smithfield

   Pilgrim               15  12  15  15  xx  --  3
   North Smithfield       3  15  11   5  xx  --  1

   PI: Are scores backwards in the paper?
   NS: ?.

Jun 04, 1998 (Game #S1 & #S2): Toll Gate vs East Providence,
Pilgrim vs North Kingstown at CCRI

   East Providence       15  15  14   4   6  --  2
   Toll Gate             13   8   16 15  15  --  3

   Pilgrim                3   3   4  xx  xx  --  0
   North Kingstown       15  15  15  xx  xx  --  3

LINCOLN - East Providence was one point away from the
state finals last night when it ran into trouble,
trouble of Titanic proportion, in the CCRI fieldhouse.
  Leading two games to none, and ahead 14-9 in game
three, the Townies were stonewalled by Toll Gate. The
Titans caught fire, tied game three on a service ace by
Caitlin Machon, took the lead on a Sarah Hines block,
and won it, 16-14, on an East Providence error.
  The Townies were crushed and never got back to the
terrific play that carried them to 15-13, 15-8
victories in the first two games.
  "We stopped playing when it was 14-9 in that third
game," East Providence coach Luis Carvalho said, "and
we couldn't get the motor running again."
  They couldn't get it sputter or cough, either. It was
dead after the third-game stunner. After looking so
good early, the Townies lost their composure, and were
never in the next two games in which they scored a
combined 10 points, and practically watched the Titans
roll into tonight's Class A Championship with 15-4 and
15-6 wins that capped the most incredible comeback.
  Setter Meggan Daniel said the Titans, the defending
state champions, just didn't want to lose that winning
feeling.
  "We are young, but incredible," she said. "We had
too much desire to lose."
  The Titans, who have only four seniors on their roster,
play their archrival, unbeaten regular-season champion
North Kingstown, next Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Toll Gate
beat the Skippers for the title last year.
  North rolled over South Division rival Pilgrim 3-0 in
the second match of the Class A semifinal doubleheader.
  Using a variety of different offensive looks, a variety
of set plays masterminded by setter Jill McEwen and
executed by hitters Diane Dynon, Linda Ferencko and
Tracie Andrew, the Skippers rolled over the Pats, 15-3,
15-3, and 15-4.
  McEwen said the Skippers will be ready for Toll Gate
Tuesday night.
  "It's going to be a revenge match," she said. "We
are a totally different team this year. We care about
each other and get along so well that we are
unstoppable. We are friends and teammates, and you
can't beat that."
  McEwen said great coaching and long practices have made
the Skippers unbeaten this year. "We practice and
practice 'til we get it perfect. Then we get it perfect
in the games," she said.
  As usual, the Pats got a gutsy performance from senior
Meaghan McGonagle in her final appearance.
  The night though belonged to the Titans - and the
Townies, who were every bit as dominating in the first
two games and 14 points as the Titans were in their
blistering finish.
  The Townies, who tied North Smithfield for the North
Division title, had a number of heroes staking out a
two-game lead. None was bigger than hustling setter
Sofia Carvalho, who was all over the court, making
dazzling saves when she wasn't setting up impressive
hits by Melissa DiQuinzio, Michaela Murphy, and Tianna
Lopes Speaks.
  The Titans marched into the championship game with
sterling performances from Daniel, Caroline Boggs,
Kristen Acciaioli, Lindsay Ryan, Holly Hummel, and
Caitlin Machon.
  Daniel said the third-game comeback did it. "We felt if
we could come back from that deficit, we could do
anything."
  And they did.
  By BUD BARKER Journal-Bulletin Sports Writer

Jun 09, 1998 (Game #F1): Toll Gate vs North Kingstown at CCRI

   Toll Gate              8   6  15  15  13  --  2
   North Kingstown       15  15   9   2? 15  --  3

LINCOLN - It looked like Toll Gate had North Kingstown
just where it wanted it last night when the Titans lost
the first two games of Class A Championship match.
  Everyone in the packed Flanagan fieldhouse on the
CCRI-Lincoln campus knew what happened to East
Providence when the Titans were in a similar situation
in last week's semifinals.
  The Titans came back and beat the Townies, and had the
Skippers on the ropes last night, when they tied the
match with solid victories in games three and four of
the Interscholatic League tournament sponsored by the
Providence Journal-Bulletin.
  Although Toll Gate coach Jim Roch kept telling his team
it had all night to have fun, time finally ran out on
the Titans' bid for another miracle comeback.
  "We didn't go out as smooth as we wanted to," said
North coach Joanne Fitts, who is stepping down as the
girls coach at NK, "but I attribute that to what Toll
Gate was doing. They rose to the occasion, and played
real hard."
  Diane Dynon, the match's Most Valuable Player, broke a
13-13 tie in game five with her second ace serve of the
night. And on the Skippers' next possession, Dolly
Fisher dumped a Jill McEwen set to the floor, giving
the Skippers their fifth championship of this decade.
  The Titans, though, were celebrating every bit as much
as the Skippers when it was over.
  With good reason. Although they were the defending
champions, having spoiled the Skippers' unbeaten season
last year with a three-game title-match sweep, Toll
Gate was the decided underdog last night.
  Unbeaten again in regular-season play, North had swept
the Titans twice, and had only sets only to Warwick and
Pilgrim. And nobody had taken the Skippers to five game
in three years.
  It didn't look like the Titans were going to do it
either. Toll Gate went out on a 7-0 run in the first
game, but the Skippers came back to win by outscoring
Toll Gate, 15-1 from that point.
  The Skippers rolled in game two, 15-6 behind some big
hits from Brandee Trainor (11 kills), and seemed to
have thoughts of making it an early night.
  Trainor and McEwen rushed North out to a 7-3 lead in
game three. With Caroline Boggs blocking and Holly
Hummel and Caitlin Machon doing the blasting, the
Titans outscored North 12-2 and got back in the match.
  "We watched them play East Providence, and we knew
they could come back," said Dynon, who had 14 kills.
"We didn't want them to get to the third game and win
it. We were overconfident; we let down after we won the
first two games."
  The Titans took another slap at the Skippers'
confidence when they sent North reeling in game four,
taking a 9-2 lead with help of a bunch of North
Kingstown errors, and won it with a run of four points
on a Hummel kill, a Lindsey Ryan block, and an ace by
Tracy Walsh.
  "We just had to stay tough," Dynon said. "We needed
to start swinging, and talking to each other. We needed
to pick our heads up. When we messed up we were putting
our heads down."
  Game five was a battle to the exciting finish of the
21/2-hour match. North was up 8-3, only to have Toll
Gate make it 8-8 and 12-12 and 13-13 before Dynon and
Fischer got the North fans breathing easy again.
  "Everybody had fun out there; we didn't let ourselves
get down," Toll Gate's Boggs said. "We just made the
best out of it. We played with our hearts. We are not
disappointed. We came out and gave them a fight.
  The Skippers knew they had been in a fight.
  "But it's a momentum game, and we just hung in
there," McEwen said. "We just dug as deep as we
possibly could. We just stuck to our guns. We were
tight, but we worked through it and got the job done."
  By BUD BARKER Journal-Bulletin Sports Writer

   1st Team
   Linda Ferencko      North Kingstown     Sacred Heart U                      
   Jill McEwen         North Kingstown     Boston C
   Meggan Daniel       Toll Gate           Fairfield U
   Erika Johnson       North Smithfield    Northeastern U
   Roxann Plamondon    Lincoln             Bryant C         
   Sofia Carvalho      East Providence     U of New Hampshire       

   2nd Team
   Megan Mello         Tiverton
   Holly Hummel        Toll Gate
   Heather Fraser      Pilgrim
   Tracie Andrew       North Kingstown
   Yatar Kuyateh       Mt. Pleasant
   Olubunmi Akinnsotu  Woonsocket

   1st Team - North                   
   Roxann Plamondon    Lincoln
   Erika Johnson       North Smithfield
   Sofia Carvalho      East Providence
   Olubunmi Akinnusotu Woonsocket
   Paula Kelly         North Smithfield
   Michaela Murphy     Eat Providence

   1st Team - South  
   Linda Ferencko      North Kingstown                      
   Jill McEwen         North Kingstown
   Meggan Daniel       Toll Gate
   Holly Hummel        Toll Gate
   Tracie Andrew       North Kingstown
   Heather Fraser      Pilgrim

Former RIHS Players in College

First, those with pictures!
Debbie Bidhay * Providence College, '01 (Toll Gate, '97)	Katie Craft Iona ('02-History) (North Kingstown, '97)	Jen Ferencko * Providence College, '98 (North Kingstown, '94)	Lauren Ferruolo * Central Conn, '99 (Toll Gate, '95)
Wendy Romblad * URI, '00 (Woonsocket, '96)	___	___	___
Then, those without pictures!
Lisa Barry * Connecticut College, '01 (Coventry, '97)	Melissa Benevides Anna Maria College, '01 (Woonsocket, '97)	Tara Benson Anna Maria College, '99 (N. Providence, '95)	Shana Davis * Connecticut College, '99 (NKHS, '95 - Jamestown)
Diane Dynon Merrimack College, '03 (NKHS, '99)	Alicia Demers Clark University, '01 (Warwick Vets, '97)	Danielle Dobson * Colby-Sawyer, '00 (Coventry, '96)	Kenji Gardner URI Pro-Beach VB Tour (90's) (NKHS, '92?)
Meredith Glynn Clark University, '99 (Toll Gate, '95)	Gayle Malachowski Providence College, '04 (Toll Gate, '00)	Ashlee Reed * Wellesley, '99 (Warwick, '95)	___
Those colleges with an "*" used to have links at College Links on SCFan
Thanks to Katie Craft (NKHS, '97) for her input - 10/17/02.

   1st Team
   Debbie Bihday       Toll Gate             
   Katie Craft         North Kingstown         
   Jessica Arrighi     East Providence               
   Tessa Badeau        Woonsocket                
   Laura Augusto       Tiverton              
   Shellie Parkinson   South Kingstown   

   2nd Team
   Amanda Yanski       Mount St. Charles 
   La Boualuang        Mt. Plesant
   Allie Bentley       North Kingstown   
   Jill McEwen         North Kingstown
   Lori Silberman      Toll Gate
   Ariana Dolock       Chariho

   1st Team - North                   
   Jessica Arrighi, East Providence                      
   Tessa Badeau, Woonsocket                
   Amanda Yanski, Mount St. Charles                  
   Roxanne Piamondon, Lincoln                      
   Jessica Robertson, East Providence            
   Kimberly Lebrun, Woonsocket             

   1st Team - South  
   Katie Craft, North Kingstown      
   Debbie Bihday, Toll Gate 
   Jill McEwen, North Kingstown 
   Shellie Parkinson, South Kingstown
   Allie Bentley, North Kingstown 
   Meaghan McGonagle, Pilgrim

   1st Team                           
   Meghann Carney      North Kingstown     
   Nancy Van der Veer  North Kingstown
   Debbie Bihday ?     Pilgrim
   2nd Team
   Amanda Yanski       Mount St. Charles

   1st Team                      2nd Team

   History of Rhode Island Volleyball ...

South Kingstown High School "Rebels"

Uniform Award - 1998
Vicki TEFFT		Head Coach
Michael HARRINGTON		Assist Coach
#	Name	Class	Position
9	Meagan ARCAND	'00	_
18	Rebecca BELL - C	'98	_
4	Renee BELL - C	'98	_
23	Michelle BERKER - C	'98	_
3	Audra CRISCIONE	'99	_
13	Emily HARBIN	'01	_
11	Jessica HARVEY	'00	_
6	Justine HENDERSON	'01	_
20	Courtney JOHNSON	'01	_
1	Lindsey JOHNSON - C	'98	Setter
5	Danielle MARRINAN	'00	_
10	Amanda NELSON	'00	_
12	Sheila NIPPO	'00	_
7	Sarah STANHOPE	'98	Setter

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