Sports
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•March 14, 2018
McCoy, Revello Basketball Legacy: Best Ever at Barnegat High School
Growing up, Shannon McCoy consistently got teased by her older brother, Mark, that she wasn’t quite an athlete on his level. Everybody in Barnegat knew Mark. He was a three-sport athlete who excelled…
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•March 7, 2018
Barnegat Girls Basketball Squad Stuns Cinnaminson in South Group II Quarters
If Shannon McCoy was nervous, nobody in the Cinnaminson High School gym knew it. Maybe it was the fact the senior had been through many hair-raising moments on the basketball court throughout her…
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•March 7, 2018
Former Southern Regional Star Mike Gesicki Tears It Up at NFL Combine
During his last two seasons with Penn State, former Southern Regional star athlete Mike Gesicki became one of the most viable and reliable tight ends in the country, and in doing so became a likely…
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•March 7, 2018
Former Southern Lacrosse Player Dylan Jinks Reaches 100 Career Points at Hartford
Former Southern Regional lacrosse standout Dylan Jinks has had a productive career thus far at the University of Hartford. On March 3,he joined an exclusive group, becoming the 23rd Hawk in the…
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•March 7, 2018
Southern Regional Wrestlers Fall Short in Bid for Podium Spots at State Championships
After capturing NJSIAA Region VIII championships, Southern Regional wrestlers Matt Barnett, Nick O’Connell and John Stout were among some of the higher seeds for the state championships, annually…
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•March 7, 2018
Barnegat Boys Hoops Squad Shocks Top Seed in South Group II Tourney
All season long, the seniors have led the way for the Barnegat boys basketball team. On March 1, facing an uphill climb against the top-seeded team in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group II tournament…
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•February 28, 2018
Southern Regional Delivers Eight Wrestlers to Boardwalk Hall for State Championships
About a week after Southern Regional wrestler Matt Barnett’s freshman season ended, a life-changing event occurred in his family. The date was Feb. 24, 2015, and an explosion at an unoccupied house…
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•February 28, 2018
Joe Miele Heads Southern’s Efforts in NJSIAA Indoor Track Meet of Champions
The indoor track season concluded this past weekend with the NJSIAA Meet of Champions, and a half-dozen Southern Regional athletes were among the crowd of competitors inside the Bennett Center in…
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•February 28, 2018
Pinelands Boys Hoops Squad Makes History By Ousting Gloucester Tech in State Tourney
For several weeks, the excitement about hosting the first state-tournament boys basketball game in history had been brewing inside Pinelands Regional High School. The only development that topped the…
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•February 21, 2018
Southern Regional’s Miele, Bulger and Relay Set for Indoor Track Meet of Champions
When the NJSIAA Meet of Champions rolls around, in either the winter or spring, Southern Regional track and field athletes have made it a habit of being among the state’s best. And that will be the…
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•February 21, 2018
Southern Regional Wrestlers Snatch Second Straight NJSIAA District 29 Crown
The Southern Regional wrestling team is 2-for-2 in the NJSIAA District 29 tournament. On Feb. 17, the Rams scored 241.5 points to claim the team title for a second straight season, after being moved…
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•February 21, 2018
Barnegat Boys Swim Team Falls to Oakcrest in State Sectional Final
Last year, when the Barnegat boys swim team competed inside the mammoth facility at Gloucester Institute of Technology, Haddonfield made sure the Bengals’ first time in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group…
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•February 21, 2018
Barnegat Basketball Squads Capture First-Ever Conference Tournament Wins
The Barnegat High School boys and girls basketball teams didn’t merely earn spots in this year’s Shore Conference Tournament, they each went a step farther by scoring their first SCT wins in program…
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•February 14, 2018
Southern Regional Wrestlers Capture State Sectional Crown, Fall in Group Final
When a lead is eight points or less in the NJSIAA wrestling tournament, it’s not considered safe unless a team still has a hammer or two left in the tool box. So with his team up by seven heading…
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•February 14, 2018
Pinelands Regional Boys Hoops Team Cruises Into Shore Conference Tournament
It may be fair to say last week was the Pinelands Regional boys basketball team’s biggest in its history to date. But it wasn’t because the Wildcats won three consecutive games; they’d already done…
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•February 14, 2018
Barnegat Boys Swim Team Looks to Make History in Final, Cruises Through Sectional Semifinals
About a month ago, Barnegat High School Athletic Director John Germano had mentioned to boys swimming head coach Emily Cherry that her Bengals had a chance to make history by capturing a state…
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•February 14, 2018
Southern’s Miele, Springstead Snag Sectional Indoor Track Titles
As the winter sports moves into its final weeks, February is when champions rise to the forefront. Southern Regional track and field athletes Joe Miele and David Springstead rose to the top on Feb.…
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•February 9, 2018
Southern Regional Girls Hoops Squad Rallies Past Freehold for Fifth Straight Win
It’s a good thing the Southern Regional girls basketball team has experienced players who don’t often crack under pressure, even when they’re not scoring a ton of points.
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•February 7, 2018
Southern Bowler Wilkinson Qualifies for State Individual Tournament
With the fourth-highest average on the team this season, Southern Regional senior bowler Jeff Wilkinson definitely had his share of brilliant flashes thus far. On Feb. 3 in the NJSIAA South Jersey…
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•February 7, 2018
Southern Girls Rally for Win Over Freehold
It’s a good thing the Southern Regional girls basketball team has experienced players who don’t often crack under pressure, even when they’re not scoring a ton of points.
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•February 7, 2018
Southern’s Hockey Season Hits Abrupt End
Despite high expectations, there are times when a team’s season just doesn’t go the way everybody had hoped. For the Southern Regional ice hockey team, the 2017-18 season was one of those seasons.
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•February 7, 2018
Local All-Around Athlete Loves Life With Hockey Stars
Michael Koval had played floor hockey for 20 years, so making the transition to ice wasn’t too difficult.
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•January 31, 2018
Amy Bruno a Standout on Georgian Court V-Ball Squad
At Barnegat High School, Amy Bruno was one of the top performers on the girls varsity volleyball team, and she has continued to excel as an outside hitter and middle blocker forGeorgian Court…
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•January 31, 2018
Local Resident to Play With Stars in Challenger Winter Classic on Feb. 4
When Little Egg Harbor resident Michael Koval steps onto the ice of Avon Pond Sunday, Feb. 4, he and the Brick Stars Challenger hockey team will have one primary goal and a secondary one. The first…
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•January 31, 2018
Barnegat Boys Swim Team Routs Central Regional as It Preps for State Tournament
With a whole crew of returning swimmers back in the pool, the Barnegat High School boys team started the season knowing it had a really strong chance of making the NJSIAA South Jersey Group C…
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•January 31, 2018
Barnegat’s Shannon McCoy Breaks Girls Hoops Career Scoring Mark
Two weeks ago, when Barnegat basketball player Shannon McCoy used a 42-point effort to break the 1,000-point mark for her career, the next milestone awaiting her was Catherine Keough’s career-points…
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•January 24, 2018
Jordan Erskine a Young Star at Rutgers-Camden
Jordan Erskine, the former Barnegat High School volleyball and track standout, is beginning to make her mark at the Rutgers University-Camden athletic program.
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•January 24, 2018
Barnegat’s Revello Tops Hoops 1,000-Point Milestone
On Dec. 29, Mike Revello became the first Barnegat High school boys basketball player to reach 1,000 career points.
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•January 24, 2018
Local Squads Use Rams Invitational Cheer Competition as Tuneup for Nationals
The last third of January always sparks a fire among competition cheer squads across the state, and in Southern Ocean County the fire is blazing. After all, the Universal Cheerleaders Association…
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•January 24, 2018
Former Southern Regional Standout Clark Harris in First Pro Bowl
Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin knows a lot about Clark Harris. After all, the Steelers play against the Cincinnati Bengals twice per season because they reside together in the AFC Central…
