Sports
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•February 11, 2026
Pinelands Regional Stomps Past Manchester to Stay in Title Hunt
Donny Johnston, Cayden Lucas and the rest of the Pinelands Regional boys basketball team’s players don’t seem to mind working hard. In fact, they’ve realized the benefit of practicing how they intend…
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•February 11, 2026
Southern Girls Place Third in Conference Swim Meet
It’s difficult to say whether the postponement of the Shore Conference Championships helped or hindered the Southern Regional girls swim team, especially with the state tournament fully in gear last…
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•February 5, 2026
Seniors Come Through as Southern Regional Girls Surge Past Washington Township
When the hammer needed to come down and the nails driven into the coffin, Cassandra Marco, Hadley Marti, Emily Kulinski, Sevanah Oravets and Emily Baker delivered the death blows that ultimately…
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•February 4, 2026
Southern Regional Learns Lessons From Loss and Looks Ahead to Tourney Time
While everything about high school athletics is a learning experience, Southern Regional’s wrestlers really start to learn lessons as February nears. There’s a reason why head coach Dan Roy devises…
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•February 4, 2026
Plescho Buries Five Three-Pointers to Push Barnegat Past Lacey
Barnegat girls basketball head coach Tammy Nicolini is full of fire. Everybody who’s been around the game during the past 15 years knows it. She’s a screamer, but Madysen Plescho understands.
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•February 4, 2026
Barnegat, Southern Boys Hoops Squads Bounce Back After Losses
Rebounding isn’t just an important element of basketball, it’s also vital to a team after a bitter loss. Such was the case for both the Barnegat and Southern Regional boys basketball teams during the…
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•January 29, 2026
Barnegat Girls, Southern Boys Bowlers Dialing in for Conference, State Tourney Runs
At this point in the bowling season, it’s become quite clear which Southern Ocean County squads could make some big waves during the state tournament. They’re the same two as last year – the Barnegat…
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•January 28, 2026
Barnegat Boys Hoops Squad Keeps Plugging Away, Routs Lakewood
With the way the Shore Conference operates nowadays, a team’s fate sometimes could be doomed by having a successful season the year before. Take the Barnegat boys basketball team, for example.
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•January 28, 2026
Southern Hits Cold Spell After Four-Game Win Streak
Following a 4-5 start, the Southern Regional boys basketball team went on a four-game winning streak through a 10-day period and things were looking promising for the second half of the season.
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•January 28, 2026
Southern Regional Sophomore Snags Shore Conference Wrestling Crown
Shae Guido appears ready to make a run in the state wrestling tournament next month. She became a Shore Conference champion last week.
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•January 22, 2026
Southern’s Guido, Vigilante, McDermott Set Course for Tournament Time
Shae Guido has pinned quite a few opponents during her relatively short high school wrestling career. On Jan. 16, she didn’t get a pin, but she came close.
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•January 21, 2026
Barnegat Seniors Lead Way in Final Home Swim Meet
There’s no hiding it. The Barnegat girls and boys swim teams are not dozens deep. But where they’re not big in numbers, coaches Emily Cherry and Taylor Teliszewski will tell you they’re big in heart…
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•January 21, 2026
Southern Girls, Pinelands Boys Basketball Squads Extend Win Streaks
Two local high school basketball teams are still perfect in 2026, as both the Southern Regional girls and Pinelands Regional boys captured victories late last week to keep winning streaks alive.
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•January 21, 2026
Pinelands on the Prowl for Next Division Title After Solid Wins
Wyatt Pharo decided it was time to do something funky for a change, create a different kind of vibe on the Pinelands Regional wrestling team’s bench.
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•January 15, 2026
Southern Regional Ousts Rumson, Brick Memorial to Stay Undefeated
Now into the toughest part of its dual-meet schedule, the Southern Regional wrestling team’s main goal isn’t necessarily to remain undefeated as it surges toward February, but more likely to prepare…
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•January 14, 2026
Southern Regional Swim Squads Secure County Titles Again
As the Southern Regional girls swim team traveled to the Ocean County YMCA in Toms River on Jan. 11, the seniors addressing the squad on the bus made it quite clear what they were expecting out of…
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•January 14, 2026
Pinelands Hoops Crew Wins Pair, Improves to 6-2
The Pinelands Regional boys basketball team started the season with a loss, then ended 2025 with another, sandwiching four victories in between. Twelve days into the new year, the Wildcats are…
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•January 9, 2026
Awesome Individual Efforts Top the Chart, But No. 1 Belongs to the Bowler
Every year, many get to witness the triumphs of our Southern Ocean County sports teams and athletes at varying levels. Most of the time, our list of the best stories to come out of a particular year…
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•January 7, 2026
Pratola Leads Balanced Offensive Attack as Southern Regional Girls Bounce Steinert
With one junior, two sophomores and two freshmen as a starting five, Southern Regional girls basketball coach Sean Sweeney is quite pleased with the results seven games into the season.
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•December 18, 2025
Southern Regional Ice Hockey Squad Completes Six-Game Stint With OT Win
When the ice hockey season started, Southern Regional head coach Graham Borg knew the opening six-game stretch during the first two weeks would provide valuable insight as to the team’s chemistry and…
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•December 17, 2025
Get Festive and Enjoy Hoops for the Holidays at Southern Regional
Mark the calendar and get ready to enjoy some hoops during the holidays. The annual Score at the Shore basketball tournament is back for another year at Southern Regional High School.
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•December 17, 2025
Southern Regional a Viable Contender With Perna, Sliwinski Back
After the Southern Regional boys basketball team won its first state tournament game in 10 years last February, head coach John Pampalone was pleased with the progress of the program and thankful…
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•December 17, 2025
On Heels of 20-Win Season, Barnegat Looks to New Leaders on Offense
The Barnegat girls basketball team had an outstanding season last winter. Coach Tammy Nicolini’s squad won 20 games and captured a Shore Conference division championship for the first time ever.
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•December 10, 2025
Southern Hockey Squad Rallies on Offense, But Not Enough Against Colonia
About six minutes into the second period on Dec. 3, Max McTague and Keegan Costello started throwing their bodies around a little more. That’s when the spark happened and the light flickered to life.
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•December 10, 2025
Mason, Vigilante, Collins Lead Southern’s Younger Wrestlers This Winter
Yes, Anthony Mason is one of the leaders of the Southern Regional wrestling team this winter. And yes, he’s probably going to be in the hunt for a state title in March.
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•December 10, 2025
Southern Regional Girls Rout Colts Neck in Opener, Off to Strong Start
Not long ago, Karleigh Stout used to come to the St. Francis Community Center to compete against the Southern Regional girls swim team. On Dec. 2, she was the new coach of the squad, just trying to…
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•December 7, 2025
Southern Regional Girls’ Squad Full of Firepower and Depth
Let’s get one fact immediately clear: The Southern Regional girls swim team is stacked and jacked. That’s it. The Rams are just a mammoth of a squad.
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•December 3, 2025
Southern Regional Ice Hockey Squad Will Rely on New Generation of Goal Scorers
When Andrew Buda, Aidan Ruiz, Jack Capecci and Nic Wheeler graduated following the Southern Regional ice hockey team’s season last winter, they took with them 73% of the Rams’ goals from their 14-9-1…
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•December 3, 2025
Southern Regional Boys Earn Two Victories During Opening Week
The Southern Regional boys bowling team is off to a hot start, scoring victories in its first two matches of the season last week.
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•November 26, 2025
Superstar Senior Leads the Way as Barnegat Girls Aim for Division Crown
At the end of last season, Barnegat girls bowling coach Jon Gordon hurt for Jamie White as her season concluded in the stepladder semifinals of the NJSIAA individual tournament, where she finished…
