5 THINGS: College Sports and Ribbon Cutting

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Tuesday, May 1, 2012:

Cutting ribbons on a sweet new ride. The South Kingstown Department of Senior Services is hosting a ribbon-cutting for its new van today at 10:30 a.m. at . For more info, click .

Is your child ready for kindergarten? South Kingstown is hosting its screening on May 1, 2 and 3, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Appointments are about one hour long, and you MUST schedule ahead! For more information, click .

Sports news and notes. From around the web:

• Unfortunately, Stonehill women’s tennis was bounced from the 2012 NCAA Division II Women’s Tennis Tournament on Monday afternoon by Concordia, 5-3. Narragansett’s Amy Toegemann lost 6-0, 6-0 at No. 1 singles, and Wakefield’s Katie Gilligan lost 7-5, 6-1 at No. 2 singles.
• The Portland Press Herald has a story on a Maine baseball game involving University of Rhode Island commit Louie DiStasio.
• From The Sentinel and Enterprise in Leominster, MA, an article on the Leominster High School cheerleading team, which features Molly Gallagher, who is going to URI this fall.

Register for Narragansett or South Kingstown summer camp! Narragansett Parks and Recreation is now taking registrations for , which begins June 25. The cost is $135, and the camp typically runs into late August. South Kingstown is also , and to see their summer camp guide, go here.

Blog blog blog blog blogggggg. At Narragansett-South Kingstown Patch, we’re always looking for new bloggers, despite our obnoxiously long name. If you’d like free exposure for your existing blog, or simply want to start writing, feel free to shoot an email to Stephen.greenwell@patch.com to get the process started. You can write about WHATEVER you’d like!

Steve Greenwell thinks Rickey Henderson is awesome. On this day in 1991, Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock’s stolen base record. Rickey Henderson is also the Charles Barkley of baseball, in that all of his quotes (warning: some salty language) are awesome.

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