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December 12, 2007

Conway signs with URI

Ben Conway has decided to become a Ram next year.

The Tiverton High product, who is the reigning R.I. Interscholastic League golf champion as well as the state Public Links champion, is one of three players who has signed a national letter of intent to play golf for the University of Rhode Island, beginning in September of next year.

Taylor Fontaine, of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Kevin Josephson of Berlin, Ct., also have signed national letters, Tom Drennan, the URI golf coach announced today.

"We are delighted to have these three outstanding young men join the URI golf program," said Drennan. "All three are outstanding students and exceptional golfers. I'm excited to have them join our family."

Conway has rapidly developed into one of the top young players in the state. He has excelled both at the interscholastic level as well as in R.I. Golf Association competition. He helped his Tiverton team win the state title in his junior year and he also won the U.S. Challenge Cup championship.

Fontaine comes to URI after a fine prep career at St. John's H.S. The runner-up for the 2006 Massachusetts Junior Player of the Year award, he captured individual honors at the 2007 New England Junior Amateur Championship. He also was top medalist at the Junior World Qualifier and made the match play round at the United States Junior Amateur. He posted three consecutive second-place finishes (2004-06) at the Massachusetts Junior Amateur Championship, while finishing third in 2007.

Josephson is a two-time Hartford Courant All-State honoree, in 2005 and 2006. This past summer, he captured the Computer Merchants Cup tournament at Wintonbury Hills in Bloomfield, Conn., finishing with a two-day total of 148 (70-72). As a junior at Berlin H.S., Josephson finished second overall in the CIAC Division II State Championship, leading his squad to a second-place finish. He was an 18-time medalist in his prep career.

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