SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Moses Meus didn’t see anything like this growing up.

The University of Rhode Island wasn’t a championship football program. There were times the Rams seemed more likely to – or certainly heard more outside calls to – drop the program entirely than eventually become champions again.

That’s part of what made Saturday afternoon at Meade Stadium extra sweet. URI put its hands on a second straight Coastal Athletic Association trophy, and the Rams did it with some significant help from a few in-state natives.

Meus was one of them, and his joy at the postgame podium was obvious. The former standout at St. Raphael now has a pair of rings to show off in his native Pawtucket following a 38-10 dusting of Hampton on Nov. 22.

“It was an expectation,” URI coach Jim Fleming said. “R

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