Sports
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•June 26, 2014
Pinelands Jr. Wildcats Notch Banner Year
The past year was a successful one for the Pinelands Jr. Wildcats football and cheer programs, with several academic and competitive highlights in both the fall 2013 and spring 2014 seasons.
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•June 26, 2014
Wrestling Leaves Audience in Wonderment in Little Egg Harbor
The physical grit of a hockey fight met the emotional performance of a Broadway musical at Little Egg Harbor Community Center on June 21 – otherwise known as wrestling.
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•June 25, 2014
Pinelands Girls Track Coach in the Running for Inspiring Coach Award
In just four years, Pinelands Regional High School girls track coach Jason Capelli turned an 0-7 team into 7-0 conference champions. His dedication, and the part he’s played in the team’s success…
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•June 25, 2014
Southern’s Gesicki Named Best Volleyball Player in New Jersey
Forget All-State. Call Southern Regional’s Mike Gesicki All-Everything. In the past week the Penn State-bound, three-sport athlete was named the New Jersey Player of the Year in boys volleyball by…
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•June 20, 2014
Growing SUP-stantially on the Water
In the 1960s,everyone had to have a surfboard. It was, for lack of a better term, the original action sport. Having coolers and beach blankets were cool, but a surfboard was downright sexy. In the…
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•June 20, 2014
Retroview: A Hazy Look at the 1978 SandPaper Surf Classic
The year 1978 seems to be a bit hazy in some folks’ memory. That was the summer of the SandPaper Surf Classic in Harvey Cedars. Granted, it was a “hazy” kind of age for folks in general. But while…
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•June 19, 2014
Southern Regional Basketball Camps Handles the Minutiae
Practice? Talkin’ ’bout practice? Yeah, this article talks about practice, Allen Iverson. Southern Regional High School is offering a chance for anyone from grades three to nine.
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•June 12, 2014
Southern Repeats as State Champs in Boys Volleyball
Would Muhammad Ali be remembered as one of the greatest heavyweights in boxing history if he had beaten only the likes of Chuck Wepner and Joe Bugner and never fought George Foreman and Joe Frazier?…
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•June 12, 2014
Southern Regional Girls Track Champions Are Built, Not Born
As reported a couple of weeks ago when the Southern Regional High School girls track team won its seventh South Jersey Group IV championship, the strength of the program has always been middle- to…
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•June 5, 2014
Southern Regional High School Qualifies 11 Girls for Track and Field Meet of Champions
The winnowing process in the New Jersey high outdoor school track and field postseason can be brutal. As reported last week, the Southern Regional girls team fairly easily won a seventh South Jersey…
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•June 4, 2014
Barnegat Bengals Get Blanked in Two Title Tilts
There are heartbreaking losses, and then there are really heartbreaking losses.
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•June 4, 2014
Pinelands Regional High School Softball Team Playing In Shore Conference Title Game
If a New Jersey high school athletic team is still playing in June, you know it has to be pretty good. The regular season, after all, came to an end weeks ago.
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•June 4, 2014
Southern Boys Lacrosse Team Falls in State Championship Game
“Wait ’til next year” can sometimes be a hackneyed phrase in the world of sports. Just ask the fans of the Chicago Cubs, who have been waiting ’til next year since that club won its last World Series…
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•June 3, 2014
Southern Volleyball Is Win Away From State Title Match
Sometimes it is easy to forget just how much fun high school sports can be, especially when things get ever so serious in the post-season when titles are at stake and every tournament game can be a…
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•June 3, 2014
Southern Regional Sailing Team Cruises Through 2013-14 Season
On local waters, and elsewhere along the East Coast, the Southern Regional High School Sailing Team navigated its way through a successful 2013-14 season.
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•June 1, 2014
Stacy Lewis Wins 2014 ShopRite LPGA Classic
Stacy Lewis claimed her 10th career Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour win last weekend with a six-shot victory in the ShopRite LPGA Classic. More than 100 of the best female golfers in the…
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•May 29, 2014
Southern Girls Win South Jersey Track and Field Championship
The Southern Regional High School girls track team won its seventh South Jersey Group IV championship this past weekend, racking up 67 points to runner-up Lenape’s 57. Just as in the previous…
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•May 29, 2014
Southern Boys Lacrosse Team Repeats as South Jersey Champs
It is definitely easy to get the idea that if the boys lacrosse teams of Southern Regional and Lenape had played 10 games this season, each school would have won five. Timing, though, is everything.
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•May 29, 2014
Young Guns Drive Boys Golf at Southern Regional High School
For high school sports teams, maintaining success is tough. There areno contracts or recruiting, so when a school gets a good, young team, it’s something to be valued. That’s exactly what Southern…
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•May 28, 2014
Barnegat Baseball in South Jersey Championship Game Friday
Last December, the Barnegat High School football team had a chance to become the first Bengal squad to win a state title, but lost to Delsea Regional.
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•May 22, 2014
Extreme Gymnastics Team First in the State on Floor for Second Straight Year
The Level 3 Gymdawgs of Extreme Gymnastics in Cedar Run earned the first-place team award in floor exercise for the second consecutive year at the annual Jersey Optional Gymnastics Association Level…
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•May 22, 2014
Southern Girls Track Team Closing In on Another ‘Triple Crown’
Can California Chrome win the Triple Crown of racing? “The People’s Horse” is probably going to be a heavy favorite when the Belmont Stakes goes off on June 7. Remember, though, that a full dozen…
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•May 21, 2014
Losses Don’t Deter Ram Boys Volleyball and Lacrosse Teams
The Southern Regional High School boys volleyball team has been the top-ranked squad in the state all season long. That makes sense considering the Rams are the defending state champions and have…
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•May 20, 2014
It’s a Tee Party: Women’s Golf League Hits 40th Year
Surrounded by her home’s tans and whites, colors made for the beach, Marylu Danna was thinking about the greens. Danna has been swingingher golf club with the Ocean Acres Ladies Golf Association for…
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•May 20, 2014
A Day at the Stand-Up Paddle Races
Photos from Island Surf and Sail Stand-Up Paddle Race held on Saturday, May 17, at Bayview Park in Brant Beach.
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•May 14, 2014
Southern Regional Lacrosse Sticks It to Barnegat, 11-2
As the Southern Regional and Barnegat High School boys lacrosse players walked off Southern’s field late in the afternoon on May 8, ACDC’s “Thunderstruck” was screeching from a loudspeaker.
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•May 14, 2014
Former Southern Football Player Glenn Carson Going to NFL
From last Thursday night until Saturday afternoon, hundreds of hopeful football players watched their televisions and phones in hopes they would be selected in the National Football League’s draft.…
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•May 13, 2014
Local High School Teams Had An Amazing Saturday
All three of the area’s high schools had athletic teams that excelled on Saturday.
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•May 13, 2014
Pinelands Regional Alumna Alison Ceresani Wins National Equestrian Award
Pinelands Regional High School alumna Alison Ceresani of Tuckertonwasn’t horsing around at this year’s National Collegiate Equestrian Association Championships in Waco, Texas. Ceresani’s solid…
