A member of All Star baseball squads in both the Warren Little League and the Warren Babe Ruth League, Joel Morrissette earned class and divisional honors at Warren High School and Mt. Hope High School on five separate occasions.

In 1994 he was named first team All Class C Two, as his Mt. Hope Huskies five were Class C Two Co-Champions before winning the Class C Tourney Championship. 

The following year Joel scored thirty points and snared twenty-four rebounds against Middletown and was the first Mt. Hope boys basketball player to reach the one thousand point scoring plateau.

In his junior year of baseball he was the starting pitcher in a Rhode Island All Star game and struck out five of the six hitters he faced.

Joel and fellow Hall of Famer Sal Corona starred on a three-on-three seventeen and eighteen-year-old basketball team that won the 1994 Rhode Island Championship in five straight games.  They then traveled to Colorado where they notched the eighteen-nineteen-year-old National title.  Their game-winning scores were 20-18, 20-17, 20-16, 20-8, and 20-17, the last over a team from South Dakota.   

He received Class B East honors as his Huskies baseball nine edged Barrington twice and snared the Class B East Championship of 1995 with a record of fourteen wins and two losses.  (This came thirty-nine years after the 1956 Redskins, who won the state’s Eastern Division Co-Championship, were the last Warren High championship baseball team.)  The Huskies then beat Central, Classical, and Mt. St. Charles in playoff games before being eliminated from the Class B Final Four play.  Joel lashed two long home runs in the final two weeks of competition.

That summer he played for the Allstate American Legion team that won the Rhode Island Legion regular season title.  Joel whacked three singles, a double, a triple, and a home run in back-to-back late-season wins over Barrington and North Kingstown.

At Rhode Island College he was elected to the Little East All Conference team as a first baseman/designated hitter.  In men’s softball Joel has been the Warren Men’s League Rookie of the Year, the Bristol Men’s League Most Valuable Player, and a member of championship teams in Barrington and East Providence in the same year.

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