5 THINGS: Today Is Not Tuesday, It’s Wednesday

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Wednesday (not Tuesday), May 30, 2012:

High school sports playoff fever, catch it! A look at the upcoming games and recent results, arranged by date:

• In Division I baseball, No. 4 South Kingstown beat No. 13 Warwick Vets 3-2 on Tuesday evening. The Rebels host No. 5 La Salle, who beat No. 12 Pilgrim 3-0, at 4 p.m. Thursday
• In the Division II baseball playoffs, No. 5 Narragansett hosts No. 12 Juanita Sanchez at 4 p.m.
• In the Division II baseball playoffs, No. 2 Prout hosts No. 15 Burrillville at 4 p.m.
• In the Division III boys’ lacrosse playoffs, No. 2 Narragansett hosts No. 3 Toll Gate at 4:30 p.m. today.
• In the Division II girls’ lacrosse playoffs, No. 2 Narragansett hosts Tiverton at 4 p.m. today.
• In the Division II boys’ lacrosse playoffs, No. 2 South Kingstown hosts No. 7 Mt. Hope at 6 p.m. Thursday.

“Bicycle, bicycle!” – Freddy Mercury, Queen, from this song. Every Wednesday until the end of the school year, there will be a bike train to Curtis Corner, Broad Rock, Wakefield and Peace Dale schools. For more info, such as departing times, click .

Donate to the book sale! The Friends of the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library are accepting donations for their annual book sale, which takes place on June 8 and June 9. Donations are being accepted during normal business hours. For more info, click .

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.” – Oscar Wilde. The Contemporary Theatre Company is offering acting classes at 5 p.m. The cost is $10.

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!

Book clubs, movies and tennis lessons! Have you checked out our events calendar lately? You know, it is where I get most of my information for this article. Also, as long as you have a Patch account, you can create your own events and save us some hard work. (Thanks in advance!)

Although, to quote a wise man known as Monty Python, just because some twit gives you a sword and divine inspiration doesn’t necessarily mean anything… On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. Yikes.

Just Manny being… something. Happy 39^th birthday to Manny Ramirez!

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