Sports
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•May 8, 2014
Young Wrestler Takes First at State Championships, Second at Nationals
Hayden Hochstrasser, 7, of Manahawkin is following in his father’s footsteps as a wrestling champion. The boy, who has been wrestling only a year and a half with Mat Warriors Youth Wrestling Club in…
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•May 8, 2014
With College Afoot, Runners Make Their Decisions
National signing day: one of the biggest days on a college sports junkie’s calendar. These addicts include fans, coaches, donors and more. This is the day in which high school athletes officially…
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•May 7, 2014
Eastern Surfing Association Regional Qualifier to Bring Surf Action and Business to the LBI’s South End
2003 was a cold winter and spring – not so brutal as this year’s, but it was chilly. The Eastern Surfing Association held its Northeast Regional Qualifier event in Harvey Cedars May 16-18 that year.…
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•May 6, 2014
LBIF’s Paint Your Sole 5-Mile Run
The first-ever Paint Your Sole LBI 5-Mile Run on Sunday, May 4, took runners on a 1- or 5-mile circuit that began and ended at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences in Loveladies.…
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•April 30, 2014
Pinelands Softball Team Playing Hardball This Spring
Statistics show the 2014 Pinelands Regional High School softball team is a good squad.
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•April 19, 2014
Barnegat Bengals’ Kerry Butler Is East Carolina-Bound
Kerry Butler, shortstop for the Barnegat High School varsity girls softball team, recentlycommitted to a full athletic scholarship to East Carolina University, a NCAA Division 1 school located in…
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•April 17, 2014
Baseball Bengals Banking on Pitching for Success
Two recent impressive wins by the Barnegat High School varsity baseball teamare fueling head coach Dan McCoy’s hopes for the Bengals improving on last year’s 9-13 mark and contending for a Shore…
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•March 13, 2014
Extreme Gymnasts Nab Nearly 50 Top-10 Awards at State Championships
The Gymdawgs of Extreme Gymnastics in Cedar Run captured 49 top-10 individual awards, including 10 state championships, at the Jersey Optional Gymnastics Association’s Level 5-6 Gymnastics…
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•March 12, 2014
Zach Wilhelm, Gerardo Jorge Place at State Wrestling Finals
At least one Southern Regional High School wrestler, and sometimes many more, placed at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Championship Tournament each year from 2002 to 2011.…
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•March 10, 2014
Southern Boys Follow Up Amazing Win With Blow-Out Loss
On Thursday night, March 6, the Southern Regional High School boys basketball team was floating in air after beating two-time defending state Group IV champs Atlantic City, 57-56, thanks to a Jake…
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•March 7, 2014
Layup at Buzzer Sends Ram Boys to South Jersey Semifinals
Jake Logue’s buzzer-beating layup that sealed a 57-56 Southern win over Atlantic City in thesecondroundof the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV Tournament on Thursday night will surely be remembered as…
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•March 6, 2014
Pinelands Sports Marketing Class Augments the Atmosphere at Basketball Game
Pinelands Regional High School ‘s gym was filled with fans the evening of Feb. 24 to cheer on the Wildcats boys basketball team as it took on the Rams of Southern Regional. The tight game kept the…
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•March 6, 2014
Southern Girls, Boys, Advance in South Jersey Basketball Tourney
Talk about nice timing! Southern Regional High School senior Allison Spaschak scored her 1,000th career point on Tuesday evening. Itcouldn’t have come at a better timeconsidering Southern was playing…
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•March 5, 2014
Three Southern Regional Wrestlers Crowned Regional Champions
This is a brutal time of year for New Jersey high school wrestlers. The cream is rising to the top so guys withgreat regular season records suddenly crash to the ground; district champs face district…
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•March 3, 2014
Southern’s Boys and Girls Basketball Teams in State Playoff Action
Southern Regional High School will host an unusual basketball doubleheader – in two buildings – on Tuesday, March 4, when both the boys and girls teams will play opening round home games in their…
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•February 27, 2014
Six Southern Regional Wrestlers Are District Champions
Just last week this writer compared the 2014 Southern Regional High School wrestling teamto the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Those Dolphins were the only NFL team to have ever posted a perfect season…
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•February 27, 2014
Local High School Cheerleaders Compete in National Competition
Many of the local high school cheerleading teams earned a spot at the country’s largest national cheerleading competition, held earlier this month at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.…
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•February 26, 2014
Barnegat’s Moran Emerges as Outstanding Wrestler of District 24
Barnegat High School’s 195-pound wrestler Gregory Moran has certainly had himself a memorable senior season. He has been perfect so far, going 31-0. In fact, he was more than perfect – if such a…
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•February 25, 2014
Southern Regional Ice Hockey Team Notches Overtime Win in First Round of States
Junior defenseman Zsolt Peter scored less than a minute into overtime to give the Southern Regional High School varsity ice hockey team the 3-2 win against Montgomery High School in Monday night’s…
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•February 20, 2014
Southern Wrestlers Win South Jersey Group IV Championship
As I watched the top-seeded Rams of Southern Regional win their 10th South Jersey Group IV Championship (nine in the past 10 years)by defeating the second-seeded Lions of Cherry Hill West, 51-9,on…
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•February 11, 2014
Southern Wrestling Team Top Seed in South Jersey Group IV Team Tournament
The Southern Regional High School wrestling team has been a state power for a decade. The 2014 squad, though, is looking very special.
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•February 6, 2014
Despite Dragged-Out Domination, South Jerseyans Find Their Own Fun at Super Bowl
Peyton Manning and The Broncos’ Super Bowl hopes and dreams may havegone south quickly on Sunday, but the South Jerseyans who headed north weren’t afraid to brave the elements and pay the price for a…
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•February 5, 2014
More Than 200 Take the Super Plunge
Two hundred and eight brave souls dashed in, and quickly out, of the 34-degree Atlantic at this year ‘s 10th annual Super Plunge, held Sunday, Feb. 2, on the 48th Street beach in Brant Beach.
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•January 29, 2014
Southern and Lacey Play a Classic Basketball Game
Southern Regional High School has beenfiguratively covered in buntingsince last Friday morning when the news broke that longtime teacher and girls basketball and field hockey coach Kathy Snyder had…
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•January 23, 2014
Barnegat’s Jennings is Shore Conference VB Coach of the Year
Head coach Karla Jennings thought this season’s Barnegat High school girls varsity volleyball team had more athleticism and work ethic than any of her earlier squads since fielding a varsity team in…
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•January 23, 2014
Young Girls Basketball Team Making Waves at Southern Regional
Editor’s Note: This story was written just days before coach Kathy Snyder suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on Friday, Jan. 24. A memorial service was scheduled to be held 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28…
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•January 22, 2014
Barnegat Bengal Girls Bowler Setting School Records
While some scholastic athletes have multi-sport resumes, Jessica Zalewski just concentrates on one: bowling. And does she ever excel. The senior captain of the Barnegat High School varsity girls…
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•January 16, 2014
Pinelands Regional Athletes, Coach Recognized for Impressive Fall Seasons
Pinelands Regional’s girls cross country and field hockey teams both capped excellent fall seasons with a number of prestigious player and coach awards announced the end of last month.
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•January 16, 2014
Southern Wins Another State Championship
Several of the usual suspects popped up as this reporter attempted to rank the Top10 sports stories of 2013 in Southern Ocean Countyas reported in the pages of The SandPaper. The Southern Regional…
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•January 13, 2014
SRHS Cheerleaders Host Rams Invitational Cheerleading Competition Sunday, Jan. 19
The Southern Regional High School cheerleaders will sponsor their annual Rams Invitational Cheerleading Competition on Sunday, Jan. 19,at SRHS in the 11/12 gymnasium, located at 90 Cedar Bridge Rd.…
