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June 23, 2008

CCRI Year in Review: Women's hoops, soccer remained big winners

By MIKE SZOSTAK
Journal Sports Writer

The Community College of Rhode Island experienced two major changes in 2007-08, but three constants remained.

Lou Pullano, director of athletics since 2002, left his position before school started for a temporary assignment as vice president for enrollment management at CCRI. When the state offered incentives to certain employees to take early retirement, he accepted. His last day on the job was Friday, and he will be the guest of honor at a reception and dinner this Friday at the West Valley Inn, in West Warwick.

Joe Pavone, a longtime athletics administrator at CCRI, served as interim athletics director and is a candidate for the position.

Women's basketball coach Marcus Reilly led the Knights to another 20-win season and a berth in the NJCAA Tournament. Early in the spring he left to become head coach of the Rhode Island College women's team.

The constants? Women's basketball, which continued to win against a challenging national schedule; women's soccer, which posted a 15-2 record despite a season-ending injury to its best player, and another string of athletes transferring to NCAA Division I, II and III colleges to continue their careers.

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