Chloe Patel

Sports reporter for MassLive

The Providence Journal

See my work from my time as a sports intern at The Journal in Summer 2024.

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Warren family honors legacy of late son, a Mt. Hope hockey player, for 22 years. Here's how.

Less than three weeks before what would have been J.P. Medeiros’ 43rd birthday, the scholarship fund named in his memory awarded its 100th scholarship to Mt. Hope High School senior Tommy Godbout.

Godbout played on Mt. Hope’s ice hockey team until his sophomore year, when he received a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia.

“The community that was around me was amazing. … I think I would get a text every single day from at least one person on my team,” Godbout said. “I don’t know much about
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RI native Christina Batastini brings winning ways to FIBA 3x3 women's basketball tourney

Providence native and former Stanford women’s basketball player Christina Batastini has made a home in Mexico City for the past week, where she is currently coaching USA Basketball’s team in the FIBA 3x3 U23 Nations League Americas Tournament. There are six teams from North and South America competing in the tournament from July 22-28, and the winner of the tournament will receive an automatic bid to the World Cup, which will occur in September in Mongolia.  More:RI women's coaches Tammi Reiss a...
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Next step for ex-Bear Shay Maloney — a chance to skate for PHWL Boston

Shay Maloney’s hockey career, from youth boys hockey leagues, in which she played from ages 4 to 14, to Brown University to, most recently, a draftee selected in June by Boston of the Professional Women's Hockey League, followed a similar pattern through every step — keep playing despite the limits women’s ice hockey players faced.

"We didn't really have a set league to be able to have goals towards," Maloney said. "The goal was to get to college. That was the highest level that we had to look...
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Here's how the Patriots quarterbacks performed in the preseason opener vs. Carolina

FOXBORO — It wasn’t the Drake Maye show, or the Jacoby Brissett one, as some expected in the New England Patriots' first preseason game against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday.

Instead of the coveted third-overall draft pick or the nine-year veteran, Patriots fans watched over two quarters of Bailey Zappe before Joe Milton III came into the game in the third quarter to round out the first game of the 2024 Patriots under the new leadership of head coach Jerod Mayo.
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Can the Newport Gulls repeat as NECBL champs? Playoffs open Thursday at Cardines Field

The Newport Gulls’ goal heading into the upcoming NECBL playoffs? “Repeat,” according to Newport manager Mike Coombs.

“Repeat and go in there with a good attitude. Be a little humble, eat some humble pie before you come on. Don’t get the big ego. Just play your game and everything will take care of itself.”

Last summer, a win streak of six fueled the Gulls on the road to their seventh championship in the 22-season history of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, following the relocation...
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Patriots center David Andrews thanks nurses at Hasbro hospital after caring for his baby

The New England Patriots, seven days away from their first preseason game against the Carolina Panthers, held a full practice on Thursday morning in Foxboro despite a heat index in the high 90s throughout the two-hour practice.Here are some of the storylines from the day. David Andrews, the longtime center for New England, was back on the field on Thursday after missing practice earlier in the week. Andrews revealed that his son is in the hospital and is being treated at Hasbro Children's Hospit...
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Patriots fans optimistic about new team, new coach and new season as training camp opens

A new era in New England Patriots history is underway, and fans are ready for it.Day One of the 2024 Patriots training camp kicked off on Wednesday morning, with first-year head coach Jerod Mayo in charge. It's a change that the organization has not seen since 2000, when Bill Belichick accepted the head coaching job for the Patriots. Ahead of training camp, Mayo spoke to the growth and competition he expects out of this New England squad and what this season will bring. “The most important thing...
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RI Senior Games rise again with post-COVID schedule; pickleball's the premier event

The Rhode Island Senior Games are making a resurgence in 2024. Over the course of the late summer and early fall months, athletic events across Rhode Island will be held for participants who are 50 and older.

After the past few post-COVID years compelled a shorter schedule of events, Mike Lyons, who has run the Senior Games for the past 30 years, has recruited volunteers to assist in revitalizing the games.

Lyons and the RISG will hold eight events this year with the help of David Belhumeur, T...
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Cranston Western does what it does best and earns Little League softball state title

PORTSMOUTH — The Cranston Western Little League softball team had to do two things headed into a possible championship-winning game against Tiverton: Stay calm and do what it had been doing all tournament, and season, long — score runs.  Against a team they had seen earlier in the Little League Softball Rhode Island State Tournament, the Cranston Western players did just that, scoring in all but one inning and getting a dominant pitching effort from Isabella Marcano in a 12-0 victory over Tivert...
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Another first for RIFC. Here's what they did at home on Wednesday night.

SMITHFIELD — Rhode Island FC was searching for its first win at its home field in front of 3,500 fans on Wednesday night when the El Paso Locomotive came to town.

They did just that with a decisive 3-0 victory over the USL Championship league’s last-place El Paso, thanks to a trio of goals from Albert Dikwa, Jojea Kwizera and Noah Fuson.

“Really happy to get that result in front of all our supporters, people who work for us, fans, family members.” coach Khano Smith said postgame. “Everybody’s
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Former Providence basketball star Jovana Nogic eager to play for native Serbia in Olympics

Former Providence basketball star Jovana Nogic eager to play for native Serbia in Olympics

Jovana Nogic’s time on the Providence College’s women’s basketball team reminded her of the "American Dream" she saw in movies and television shows as a youngster in Portugal. But competing in the Olympics for Team Serbia is a whole different type of dream come true.

“It's something that I've worked toward for my entire life and something that I had set up as a goal since I was a little girl,” Nogic said
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Celtics fans paint town green as Boston celebrates team's 18th NBA title with a parade

Commutes took much longer than they were supposed to and a sea of green took over the City of Boston on Friday as New Englanders celebrated the Boston Celtics’ championship win over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday.

One of the hundreds of fans, David Williams, who took the commuter rail from Providence in the morning to attend the parade, said he was looking forward to “see how it compares to 2008 and the 2004 Red Sox” championship parades. Friday marked the first championship parade in Boston si

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