Sports
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•April 27, 2022
Southern Regional Girls Golfers Grab Sixth in Conference Tournament
The Southern Regional girls golf team missed capturing a second straight Ocean County Tournament title by one stroke two weeks ago. On Monday, April 25, the Rams made up for it by becoming the…
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•April 27, 2022
Southern Regional Baseball Team Completes Comeback Victory With Two Runs in Eighth
Thus far, the Southern Regional baseball team’s season has been a little like listening to Paula Abdul and MC Skat Kat sing “Opposites Attract.” You know, a two-steps-forward, two-steps-back kind of…
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•April 21, 2022
Southern Softball Squad Advances to Championship With Shutout of Pinelands
No question, the way last season ended still doesn’t sit well with many of the players on the Southern Regional softball team.
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•April 21, 2022
Southern Regional Boys Volleyball Team Doing Exactly What It Should Be Doing Right Now
If anybody in the state had been wondering whether the Southern Regional High School volleyball team was just going through the motions during the first week of the season, April 12 was proof the…
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•April 20, 2022
Pinelands Regional Baseball Team Wins Pair Against Liberty, Improves to 5-2
After its bats were cooled off by Lacey during back-to-back games, the Pinelands Regional High School baseball team bounced back later last week, scoring a pair of shutout wins over Shore Conference…
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•April 20, 2022
Barnegat Boys Lacrosse Squad Starts Well But Lack of Possession Leads to Loss
Typically, the outcome in a lacrosse match hinges on possession time. The more a team controls the ball, the chances of winning increase dramatically.
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•April 14, 2022
Barnegat Girls Snatch County Title for First Time While Pinelands’ Klements Wins Individual Crown Again
Sue Rogers has been coaching for a few decades, so, by now, probably not much shocks her. Monday evening, she experienced one of those rare occasions.
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•April 14, 2022
After Three Losses, Pinelands Regional Girls Cruise to Second Straight Victory
During the previous two seasons, the Pinelands Regional girls lacrosse team waited until May to win two straight games. This season, head coach Paul Millar’s Wildcats have accomplished the feat prior…
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•April 13, 2022
Barnegat Works Through Second-Game Hiccups to Knock Off Lakewood
Even with a core group of players to build around, Barnegat boys volleyball coach Karla Jennings realizes her team is still a work in progress because of an influx of new players to the program.
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•April 13, 2022
Southern Regional Softball Squad Snubs Brick Memorial, Faces Pinelands in OCT Semis
For the Ocean County Tournament, the Southern Regional softball team received the top seed for a second straight season – except this time the Rams didn’t exit early.
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•April 11, 2022
Jacob Coupe Golfs His Way to Special Olympics Berth
Barnegat Township resident Jacob Coupe will be going to the Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Fla., June 5-12. He will be representing Special Olympics Team New Jersey for golf.
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•April 7, 2022
Pinelands Baseball Already Surpasses 2021 Win Total
The opening days of the new spring sports season were successful ones for many local scholastic squads. The Pinelands Regional High School baseball team was among them.
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•April 7, 2022
Southern Regional Squads Return Talent to Go After Big Things
Last spring, a colossal team effort helped secure the NJSIAA Group IV championship for the Southern Regional boys track and field team. The Rams had an excellent stint earlier this year during the…
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•April 6, 2022
Southern Sailors Talented Enough to Win Big Regattas
Coach Steve Warren saw flashes of brilliance from the Southern Regional sailing team during the fall. Now he wants the moments to turn into longer stretches.
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•April 6, 2022
Despite Loss to Trinity Hall, Southern Girls Can Reap Benefits
Certainly, playing against top competition early in the season has its benefits. It gives experience to younger players, provides solid leadership opportunities for others, and offers the chance for…
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•April 6, 2022
Young Guns Gain Experience as Southern Squares Off With Kingsway
There’s a reason Southern Regional softball coach added two-time defending sectional champion Kingsway to the schedule for an early-season tilt: It was mainly to give all the younger players who are…
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•March 31, 2022
Southern Rebuilding While Barnegat, Pinelands Look to Climb Higher
For the past few years, Ed Truitt learned a lot about playing a new brand of ball, and he did a good job as an assistant softball coach alongside Jamie Bernaldo. But now he’s returning to his roots…
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•March 30, 2022
With Senior Pitcher Leading the Way, Southern Regional Softball Squad Should Be Solid
After winning 15 of its first 16 games last spring, everything was going great for the Southern Regional softball team, and then head coach Jamie Bernaldo’s son decided it was time to be born. Days…
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•March 30, 2022
Pinelands Regional Boys Tennis Team Again Loaded with Experience
When a team has won the division championship each of the previous three seasons, the coach often gets used to his team being a target. Such is the case with Pinelands Regional coach Brian Jones.
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•March 30, 2022
Southern Regional Boys Every Bit of a Powerhouse Squad This Season
After the Southern Regional boys lacrosse team trounced Monroe to capture the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV championship, coach John Pampalone made it a point to remind people that his team was a…
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•March 23, 2022
Like Every Other Year, Southern Regional Has Its Eyes on a State Title Run
The word “rebuilding” hasn’t been part of Eric Maxwell’s vocabulary in at least a dozen years. It’s just a fact – the Southern Regional boys volleyball program just doesn’t use the word.
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•March 23, 2022
Southern Regional Girls Golfers Good Enough to Repeat Success of Last Spring
Perhaps nobody was as thrilled with the way the Southern Regional girls golf team ended its season last spring more than coach Jeff Reilly. And he may be the most excited of the bunch that the new…
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•March 18, 2022
Brown’s Next Stop Is Set But He Still Has More to Accomplish at Southern Regional
Jaiden Brown isn’t a stranger to changes in scenery. When his family moved to Manahawkin from Jackson during the summer prior to his sophomore year, he had to get acclimated to life in Southern Ocean…
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•March 16, 2022
Second Annual Tuna Open Now Registering
The Beach Haven Marlin and Tuna Club, the home every August of the longest running white marlin tournament in the U.S., is holding its second annual Tuna Open from June 5 to 11.
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•March 10, 2022
Southern Regional’s Sean White Makes History at State Championship Meet
Sean White hadn’t swum competitively for nearly five weeks before going up against the best breaststrokers in the state this past weekend.
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•March 10, 2022
First-timers to Boardwalk Hall Find Out What State Championships Are All About
During the third episode of the inaugural season of “The Mandalorian,” a character known as the Armorer explains that when “one walks the way of the Mandalore, you are both hunter and prey.”
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•March 10, 2022
Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club Teen Grabs Second Spot in Winter Series Event
With the spring season just around the corner, Southern Regional High School sailor Turner Ryon has gained valuable experience so far this winter. Not around here, of course.
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•March 10, 2022
Southern Regional’s Brown Takes Third, Gonzalez Grabs Fifth in Meet of Champions Shot Put
This time, it was Jaiden Brown’s turn to mark the highest of the Southern Regional shot putters. Of course, the senior did it when it mattered most, at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions.
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•March 9, 2022
Southern Regional Wrestlers Collins, Velardi and Henrich Climb Onto Podium in A.C.
Conor Collins could have tried to blame the official for not allowing him to reach the championship match at 120 pounds, but he didn’t. Instead, the Southern Regional junior put the onus on himself…
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•March 3, 2022
Southern Regional’s Collins, Velardi, Henrich and Stout Capture Region VII Crowns
Conor Collins already has his eyes on the possibility of returning to the state final at 120 pounds. Perhaps that’s why he gave up a takedown to Camden Catholic’s Jackson Young with 1:28 left in the…
