Warren Athletic Hall of Fame announces 2019 inductees

2007 Mt. Hope girls' soccer champs, others get Hall of Fame nod

Posted 3/14/19

The Warren Athletic Hall of Fame Committee has announced its inductees for 2019. They will be honored at a banquet Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Venus de Milo, Swansea, MA. For tickets call Martha …

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Warren Athletic Hall of Fame announces 2019 inductees

2007 Mt. Hope girls' soccer champs, others get Hall of Fame nod

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The Warren Athletic Hall of Fame Committee has announced its inductees for 2019. They will be honored at a banquet Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Venus de Milo, Swansea, MA. For tickets call Martha Delekta at 245-1361 or email mgdelekta@cox.net. Inductees include:

Hanna MacDougall
Hanna began her soccer career playing for the Warren Youth Association Under-12 Girls team, which won the 2001 Divisional Championship.  Two years later, she played on the Under-14 State Playoff runners-up and the next year starred for the Super-Liga regular season champions. Playing for Mt. Hope High School, Hanna was named second team All State in 2006. The following year, Hanna's great goalie skills earned her her first All State, 1st All Division One North, and State Playoff Most Valuable Player honors.  She allowed only one goal during the state final shootout against nationally-ranked La Salle Academy. At Springfield College, Hanna played goalie for teams that won two New England Conference Championships, finished second twice, and competed in three NCAA tourneys. As a sophomore Hanna compiled an 8-1-2 record and received her school's Unsung Hero Award.

Raoul “Mac” McCarthy
As a 12-year-old pin boy, Raoul ‘Mac” McCarthy began his lifelong involvement with Duckpin Bowling. He was one of the Bristol County League Founders in 1952. He served as secretary in 1958. Bowling for Dallaire’s Plumbing in 1960, “Mac” had the high average of 123. In 1961, Raoul McCarthy was the 30th best bowler in the country. His best scores were 197 single and 491 three. In 1963, Mac was reported to be the ranked 23rd among duckpin bowlers in the country. He bowled for the league champion Dallaire’s Plumbing that same year. In 1965, McCarthy was the Rhode Island/Massachusetts six-string Tourney Champion. 1971 found Mac receiving the award for the high average (132) in the Bristol County League. Mr. McCarthy was also an official of the National Duckpin Bowling Congress.

Neil Swift
Neil was a two-sport standout in both baseball and soccer. In 1980 he was a member of the Warren Boys League Baseball All Stars. That same year he played soccer for the East Bay Club of Barrington, which won the Pele Association Under-14 Divisional championship. The following year he was a member of the Pele Association State Champions, as well as being named to the Summer League All Star team.  While at Warren High School, Neil coached in the School Indoor Soccer League for three years. As a shortstop, he earned 1985 Divisional honors while batting .333; he was also named to the American Legion All Stars in both 1985 and 1986. As boys' soccer co-captain in 1985, Swift was selected First All Division Two South and played on the Warren High Boys' Soccer Division Two South Co-Champions and Division Two State Tourney Champions. In 1986, Neil was named the Warren High Journal-Bulletin Honor Roll Boy nominee. Switching to golf after high school, Neil was a member of the Substance Abuse Tourney-winning foursome in 1993.

Ariel Teixeira
Playing soccer for the Warren Youth Association Under-12s, Ariel helped lead her team to Divisional Regular Season and Playoff Championships. She lettered in soccer, basketball and lacrosse at Mt. Hope High School.  She was a three-time All State soccer selection, including first team as both a junior and senior. As team captain in her senior year, she recorded 17 goals and eight assists, as the Lady Huskies captured the overall State Championship. A four-year starter at Southern New Hampshire University, where she now coaches, Teixeira scored 25 goals and twenty-five assists, placing her seventh in program history in assists and tenth in career points. Ariel was a four-time All Conference Award recipient, a three-time Northeast-10 first team honoree, and was named NSCAA third team All American as a senior.

Daniel Thielman
Wrestling was Dan's first claim to athletic fame. Between 1989 and 1994, he helped lead his wrestling teams to four State Championships and three New England titles. In 1994 team captain Thielman won First All State and First Class A-One honors, while wrestling at 130 pounds. In his senior year at Mt. Hope High School, he switched sports and joined the track team, and also served as captain.  At Division I University of Hartford, he broke school track records in the 800 and 4x400 relay.  Now a member of the Corinthian Yacht Club in San Francisco, he was named Sailor of the Year in 2012 and will be competing in the Sailing World Championship in April.

Frank J. Alfano
In his senior year at Warren High School, Frank was selected as the Journal-Bulletin Honor Roll Boy nominee. He began his coaching career as a four-year Babe Ruth/Senior League baseball coach. At Portsmouth High School, Frank served as Girls' Softball Coach from 1978 to 2000. His teams won 10 Newport County titles and six Divisional Championships; they finished in the top four in the state seven times, capturing State Runners-Up status on two occasions. Frank also served as Portsmouth's Athletic Director for four years and was an assistant coach of State Championship football and girls basketball squads. He was the coach of the Rhode Island Select softball team that competed in the 1993 Junior Olympics Eastern Region and the coach of the team that represented Rhode Island in the 2001 World Scholar Athlete Games.

Pete Larrivee
Pete Larrivee coached Senior League Baseball from 1984 to 2001. During that timeframe Pete’s teams were a constant contender, winning several league titles. A colleague convinced him to coach Pop Warner Football and later he was elected President of this same league, serving from 1984 to 1996. He later served as Assistant Commissioner on the State Board of Youth Football. In 1997 he was the Warren nominee for the WJAR Jefferson Award and five years later he was named a National Pop Warner Little Scholars Volunteer of the Year.

Abbot Fletcher
In 1942 Moses Brown School's Fletcher was named a first team All State wrestler, having pinned a Cranston 155-pound opponent in the state finals. As a youth he sailed with his grandfather (a retired Navy Admiral) throughout New England waters. In the 1990s he coached the sailing team at Maine's Bowdoin College and in 1997 he sailed his 38' sloop "Majek" to first place overall in the Marion, Massachusetts to Bermuda race. On Orr’s Island, Maine, you will find the Abott Fletcher Sailing School – named in his honor.

Al Mercier
Al was a first team All Class B forward on the Warren High School 1929 Class B Champions, a Hall of Fame team that lost only to Class A Champion Mt. St. Charles after leading at the half. As a baseball player, he competed for the Warren Wanderers and the Narries; a five-time participant in the Warren/Bristol Little World Series, he batted .500 in the 1932 Series.  Playing for the Narries in the Twilight Baseball League, Al was named an All Star outfielder in both 1933 and 1935. In 1940 Mercier brought his athletic career to a close by playing for the Softball League Champion Narries.

Mt. Hope Girls Soccer 2007 State Champions
In the State Division One quarterfinals, the Mt. Hope girls defeated Toll Gate, 2-1, on goals by Tara Turnbull and Emily Donahue. Next, they reached the finals with a 2-1 triple-overtime win over Barrington, as Alison Massed scored the game winner. In the finals they captured the state title with a shootout victory over previously unbeaten and nationally-ranked La Salle.  Donahue scored in regulation, while Teixeira, Massed, and Lauren Patriarca (the game winner) tallied in the shootout.  Goalie Hannah MacDougall saved three of four shots in the shootout and was named Tournament Most Valuable Player for the Roy Borges-coached team.  Borges was named the Coach of the Year by the Rhode Island Coaches Association.  Teixeira and Turnbull were named All State for the third consecutive year, while Donahue and MacDougall earned All State honors for the second year in a row. Borges, MacDougall and Teixeira are now individual members of the Hall of Fame.

Warren Artillery target shooters, 1897
In the spring of 1897, the First Light Infantry accepted Warren Artillery's challenge and went down to defeat by 19 points. The Artillery later defeated the Bristol Artillery by an even larger margin of 63 points, as Sergeant Sanford White hit 14 consecutive bullseyes, the best ever in the state.  (Note that the teams were shooting primarily at 200 and 300 yards). Finally in October the Artillery team captured the State Championship, something that they also did the prior year.

1923 Warren Wanderers Football
The semi-pro Wanderers won the State 125-pound championship with a 6-0 defeat of the Providence's Richardson Club, a squad that had entered the contest undefeated, having scored 212 points and given up none. The Wanderers' stars included Joe Davis, Hugh Gourley, Jack Heuberger, LaFlamme, Gus Nerone, Bernard Sevigny, and Leo Sevigny.  Nerone stopped many end runs near the goal line during the title game.  Ernie Hoar, Terry Martin, and Leo Sevigny are individual members of the Hall of Fame.

Michael P. Marolla, a member of the Class of 2018, will also be officially inducted.





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