It may be too early in the season to make a definite declaration, but we might have seen the dawning of a new era in the R.I. Interscholastic League’s lacrosse ranks on April 14.

On that day, the North Kingstown girls lacrosse team ended Barrington’s 39-game undefeated streak with a 12-5 victory over the Eagles, and the La Salle boys team posted what could have been the Rams’ first Interscholastic League lacrosse victory over Hendricken.

“I’m not sure, but I think it could have been our first victory over Hendricken since we both started playing in the Interscholastic League,” veteran La Salle athletic director Ted Quigley said of the Rams’ 10-5 victory over the Hawks last week.

Barrington has won all seven Division I girls state titles since the Interscholastic League introduced lacrosse as a varsity sport in 2001. Hendricken has won four of the seven boys Division I titles, and the Hawks have played in the state title game every year.

But the North Kingstown girls, who lost to Barrington in last year’s state title game, and the La Salle boys, who have played in only one state title game in the first seven years of Interscholastic League play, have to be considered the teams to beat in the quest for this year’s state crowns.

The Skippers girls and the Rams boys are the only Division I teams that came into this week undefeated. The North Kingstown girls started the week 5-0, which includes victories over Barrington and Moses Brown, the only teams with only one loss.

The La Salle boys went into last night’s game with North Kingstown (3-1) at 4-0.

La Salle seeking coach

Speaking of La Salle, the school is advertising for a head boys basketball coach, but that doesn’t mean veteran Rams mentor Ed Heroux will not be back next season.

Heroux, who has coached La Salle boys hoops for 24 years, plans to spend one more season at the helm. But next school year, he will become La Salle’s academic Director of Guidance. So the plan is to hire a new coach who will serve as co-head coach with Heroux next season, then take over as head coach in the 2009-10 season. Heroux will enter next season needing only four victories to reach 400 for his career.

Fundraiser for Reed

Friends of Michael Reed, the former Classical High and Bryant College basketball star, are joining to help the two-time All-Stater in his battle with kidney disease.

Reed, a first-team All-State selection at Classical in 1983 and 1984, had both kidneys removed in November and is undergoing twice-daily dialysis treatments that hopefully will enable him to have a kidney transplant next year.

Reed’s friends are holding a fundraiser to help cover his medical costs Saturday night at the PROV restaurant in Providence. For more information, contact Lenny Lopes at (401) 533-4872. Contributions also can be sent to Friends of Michael Reed Fund, BankRI, c/o of Manny Barrows, One Turks Head Place, Providence, R.I., 02903.

Hall of Fame dinner

April 30 is the deadline for ordering tickets for the May 7 Interscholastic League Hall of Fame induction dinner.

Eleven individuals who distinguished themselves as athletes, coaches or officials over the last 60 years are included in this year’s induction class.

The inductees include former Mount St.Charles hockey star Brian Lawton; Hope High track coach Thom Spann; Don Panciera, 1940s La Salle football star; former Lincoln High three-sport star Maureen Dyer; former Cranston East and St. Xavier girls basketball coach Joe Conley; North Kingstown High volleyball coach Joanne Fitts; longtime hockey and tennis coach Dick Ernst and veteran high school game official Leroy Archibald.

Skip Kenyon, the late Chariho baseball coach; Louis “Duke” Abbruzzi and the late Mount Pleasant basketball coach Jim Ahern will be inducted posthumously.

For ticket information, contact the RIIL office at (401) 277-9844.

All-Star football game

Stanley Dunbar and Jordan Monk, the All-State quarterback and running back, respectively, whose explosive talents helped St. Raphael capture the Division I state football championship last fall, are among 49 players selected to play for the Rhode Island team in the annual Rhode Island-Connecticut Senior All-Star game on June 28 at Rentschler Field in Connecticut.

Joining Dunbar and Monk on the team will be six of their St. Raphael teammates — Hans Hall, Dan Hayes, Will Lopes, Justin Rapp, Craig Argencourt and Brandon Sherratt.

The other members of the team are Nate Lovett, Ron Woodley and Jacob Burton of East Providence; Darren Williams, Andrew Ferreira, Bobby Booth and Jim Jaworski of Hendricken; Emmanuel Tutu, Patrick Onye, Tom Cole, J.R. Whesu and Daniel Perkins of Classical; Neal Rooney, Ray Bundy, Mark Laurito, Rob Maggiacomo, Nick Rodrigues and Josh James of La Salle; Bryan DeWitt and Joe Saunders of Rogers; Geoff Gilson of Cranston East; Josh Ponte, Josh Perry and Greg Dubee of South Kingstown; John Pedrotty of Portsmouth; Rob Carbone, Alex Mendez and Alex Loewenthal of Cranston West; Zak Gumkowski and Tom Davis of East Greenwich; John Perrotti, Brent Semple and Riley O’Brien of North Kingstown; Howard Robinson and Ruben Gonzalez of Central; Matt Greenhalgh of Ponaganset; Ron Durfee of Chariho; Anthony Petrarca of Warwick; Roablas Lumpkins of Mount Pleasant, and Taj Eddington of Juanita Sanchez.

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