EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ soccer team, which used a final week surge to qualify for the postseason, will play at South Kingstown in the opening round of the …
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EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ soccer team, which used a final week surge to qualify for the postseason, will play at South Kingstown in the opening round of the Division I state championship playoffs.
The 13th-seeded Townies (4-9-1, 13 points) face the fourth-seeded Rebels (8-3-3, 27 points) on the road Tuesday evening, Oct. 31, at the Curtis Corner Middle School athletic complex. First kick is 6:30 p.m.
East Providence needed and earned seven points from its final three regular season games played last week to earn a playoff berth, capping its run by playing sixth-seeded Portsmouth (6-2-6, 24 points) to a 1-all draw Friday evening, Oct. 27.
South Kingstown’s three loses all came to playoff teams: Portsmouth, Tolman and North Kingstown. N.K. (11-2-1, 34 points) is the overall No. 1 seed in the state tourney. The Skippers along with second-seeded LaSalle, D-I’s lone unbeaten side at 9-0-5, and third-seeded Hendricken (9-2-3) earned opening round byes. Those three teams will be joined in the quarterfinals with the winners of the five preliminary round games.
South Kingstown shut out East Providence, 2-0, in the teams’ lone regular season meeting played in city on October 2. The winner between the Rebels and Townies faces the winner of the prelim between fifth-seeded Barrington and 12th-seeded Central in the quarters.