5 THINGS: Prout, SK Runners-Up; SK Graduation Tonight

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Friday, June 15, 2012:

South Kingstown commencement tonight! The ceremonies start at 6 p.m. at the Ryan Center. (Seniors are due at the Ryan Center at 5 p.m. though!) Following graduation, there will be a reception at Keaney Gym next door. Did you miss our story on the Narragansett High School graduation this morning? Read it ! Want to be e-mailed when our SK graduation story is posted on Friday night? Click the “keep me posted!” button on the bottom of the NHS graduation story.

Rebels take second in Division I baseball. In a do-or-die game, South Kingstown struggled in game two of their best-of-three series against Hendricken, losing 5-0 at McCoy Stadium. Tom Pannone only allowed a single hit against the Rebels and was named the most valuable player of the series. For a small article from The Providence Journal, click here.

Crusaders take second in Division II baseball. Things weren’t any better on the diamond for Prout on Thursday night. The Crusaders lost to Johnston, 7-1, as the Panthers swept Prout in the best-of-three series. Johnston Patch’s Joe Hutnak did a liveblog from the game – Click to read it. The Providence Journal also wrote about the game, which you can read here.

In case you missed it – Rebels’ volleyball wins state championship. Check out video and photos from South Kingstown’s win against Bishop Hendricken .

Definitely not like True Blood, since there are no sassy southern vampires, and everyone is not naked. There will be a blood drive 3 p.m. today at the South County Church of Christ. For more info, click .

Potter Productions picks pleasantly pleasing… movies. Tonight is the first meeting of the Potter Productions film club at the Kingston Free Library. They’ll be screening Harold and Maude at 7:30 p.m. For more info, click . (Note: Harold and Maude is rated-PG, but you might want to read about it on IMDB, and the recommended groups for the event are moms, dads and seniors.)

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Whew, close call! On this day in 2002, we narrowly missed being hit by 2002 MN, an asteroid. Of course, “narrow” is a relative term in space, and in this case it means 75,000 miles.

Ah, my doppleganger! Singer Harry Nilsson would be 71 if he were alive. I mostly know him as “the celebrity that looks freakishly like me.” The resemblance isn’t super-strong in that Wikipedia link, but if you really want to see it, go to Amazon. (Although, I don’t smoke a pipe, or smoke at all.)

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