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The Red Bank Regional girls’ lacrosse team is off to a 7 win and 6-loss re-cord this season and are fighting for a playoff spot. In a recent game against Manasquan the Buccaneers only trailed 5 to 3 at halftime and gave a great ef-fort and came up just short in the 9 to 6 loss. Goalie Mia Nelson made 9 saves in the game while Murphy Davis scored 3 goals for Red Bank. Devon Vanlon

scored 1 goal as did Abbey Gwiydir.

In another game against Ocean (12-3) the Buccaneers were tied at halftime with a talented Spartan team but were outscored 6 to 5 in the second half los-ing a close game to the number 8th ranked team in the Shore Conference by the score of 12 to 11. Davis scored 4 goals and added 3 assists while Kend-all Sidun scored 4 goals and Stephanie Garley added 2 goals. Cathy Murphy added 1 goal for Red Bank. Goalie Nelson made 7 saves in the game.

For the season Nelson has made 111 saves and Davis leads the team in scor-ing with 38 goals and 16 assists. Sidun has scored 18 goals and added 2 as-sists while Garley has added 16 goals and 3 assists. Murphy had also scored 14 goals and 4 assists.

Red Bank Regional has games left against Point Pleasant Boro (1-11) and St John Vianney (6-7).

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JERSEY SHORE— CBA junior golfer Jerry Wall won the Shore Conference Tournament in boys’ golf and in the process helped to send the Colts to the team title last week at Eagle Ridge Golf Club in Lakewood. Wall captured the crown in a second playoff hole against Rumson-Fair Haven senior, John Edler. The junior calmly birdied his putt attempt and was crowned the champion when Edler’s putt came up short of the hole. Wall shot a 73 for the day on the par-72 course. CBA’s first place four-man team total was 310 highlighted by Wall and defend-ing individual champ, Vince Palazzol-lo (78). RFH came in second at 332 and Wall Township finished third at 344.

Despite the disappointment in the SCT, RFH had plenty to celebrate recently. The Bulldogs won the Mon-mouth County Tournament the week before at Hominy Hill in Colts Neck where they defeated rival CBA. In that outing, Edler was victorious as the individual champion, his second title in three years.

In the girls’ Shore Conference Tour-nament, Red Bank Catholic senior Taylor Totland continued her domi-nance of the state golf scene at Pine Barrens Golf Club in Jackson. The defending state champion had plenty of motivation for this SCT after los-ing by one stroke last year to Colts Neck’s Emily Mills. Totland earned

redemption by shooting a 76, two-over-par, that gave her a three-shot edge over Mills for the individual title. Totland’s effort lifted the Caseys to the team title with a four-player total of 344. Her sister, Nicole Totland, was second on the team and third overall at 85. Clare Rochford and Arianna Palmeri rounded out the four-some.

Holmdel finished in second in the SCT as senior Beth Bohny shot an 88 which was good for fourth place. The Hornets had two players, Paulina Miller and Haley Mander, tied for fifth in the individual standings. RFH came in third place as a team with Katie Veasey leading the way.

CBA’s Wall, RBC’s Totland Win SCT GolfBy Ted Kaiser

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MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP - Mater Dei’s veteran softball coach, Jean Dick-inson, was optimistic going into the sea-son, but the Seraphs have exceeded all expectations as they have rolled to a 13-1 overall record including wrapping up their third straight B Central Division title last week.

“I expected to be strong defensively,” said Dickinson following a 17-1 rout of Asbury Park Thursday, “but I’m sur-prised how well we are doing offensive-ly. We are batting .450 as a team, which is shocking. We have five players that are hitting .500 or better.”

These players are shortstop Larissa Chiesa (.702), ace pitcher Jackie Nash (.579), third baseman Emily Boman (.578), catcher Erin Batz (.520) and out-fielder Maggie Klatt (.500).

Mater Dei used mostly its reserves against Asbury Park but still broke a 1-1 tie with eight runs in both the second and third innings. The game was called in the fourth inning by the Mercy Rule.

Klatt was the winning pitcher, allowing two hits, striking out seven and walk-ing one batter. She also helepd her own cause with a triple, single and five RBIs. Madeline Hourican collected a home run, single, scored two runs and knocked in two.

“This is one of my best hitting teams,” said Dickinson, whose only loss was to Middletown South.

“We were able to stay with Middletown South, but we made several key errors. We’ll see how we do out of the division. We play the winner of the Marlboro-Red Bank Regional game in the Monmouth County Tournament next (this) week,”

Mater Dei won the NJSIAA Non-Public B Tournament in 2008, and should be a contender this season, although Dickin-son is cautious.

“It depends,” said Dickisnon, “Nash is our top pitcher and is doing well, but she is not overpowering. Sometimes you need to throw fast to win in the states.”

Asbury Park, which has turned out strong football and basketball teams, has traditionally struggled in both soft-ball and baseball, rarely winning more than one or two games a season, Lack of a Middle School program along with a scarcity of players have been the main reasons.

“We have the fields,” said Asbury Park coach Dave Johnson. “We need to get the younger kids interested in the Little Leagues. We advertise for players, but they don’t come out,”

Johnson sees some progress, however, with his team.

“We had 15 players turn out for the team, and that is the most we have had in a long while,” he said. “We have just two seniors and our pitcher, Destiny Smith, is getting better. The girls enjoy playing softball and we look to be better next year.”

SERAPHS HAVE EXCCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONSBy Jim Hintelmann

Freehold Township boys’ lacrosse team is off to a 10-1 record and they are ranked #6 in the Shore Confer-ence. The Patriots have won 8 games in a row including a big 11 to 8 win over the #8 ranked Manasquan War-riors.

Their latest victory was against Red Bank Regional (6-6) with Dan Blood-good scoring 5 goals and adding 1 assist while Stephen O’Brien scored 4 goals and added 1 assist. Brandon Nunez and Sean Koubek each scored 1 goal and added 2 assists. Goalie Todd Bitsko made 7 saves in goal for the Patriots. They also defeated Manasquan (4-3) who is ranked #8 in the Shore Con-ference by the score of 11 to 8. Bitsko came up big in goal making 10 saves while Bloodgood scored 4 goals and had 2 assists. O’Brien added 2 goals

and 2 assists while Koubek added 1 goal and had 2 assists. Manasquan scored first before Freehold Township scored 3 straight goals and the Patri-ots never trailed again. Manasquan mounted a comeback in the third quarter after Bloodgood scored again making the score 9 to 4. Joe Mur-phy scored 3 consecutive goals for Manasquan cutting the lead to 9 to 7. Luke Messing scored for Freehold Township making the score 10 to 7 early in the fourth quarter as Blood-good scored his final goal making the final score 11 to 8. Head coach Mike Ferrando said, “I told our guys that they are a good team and that they are one of the better teams in the Shore Conference. This was a good test for our team”. Freehold Township has games coming up against Red Bank Regional (6-6), Jackson Liberty (1-6) and St. John Vianney (5-7).

Patriots Lacrosse Ranked 6th in Shore ConferenceBy Michael Rogers

FREEHOLD # 2 DAN BLOODGOODPhoto By: Kenneth Cook

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TOMS RIVER – With College scouts in the stands to watch Toms River North senior right-hander Steven Slagmolen pitch, Toms River South’s sophomore righty Tyler Mellott stole the spotlight in the Indians 2-1 victory over No.5 ranked Toms River North (9-5,7-5) Thursday night on the Mar-iners home field.

Mellott had one thing in mind before making his first career start for the No.4 ranked Indians (10-5,8-4). “I watched my friend, Vinny Scrudato, pitch a shutout in his first varsity start and I wanted to do the same thing.”

Mellott was referring to his sopho-more teammate’s 5-0 shutout win over Brick Memorial on April 16. “It definitely motivated me and gave me confidence knowing he did it; so I felt I could do it,” Mellott said.

Mellott came close to duplicating his friends fete in the Indians 2-1 victory by tossing a complete game six hitter, giving up only one unearned run in the process. He struck out six, walked two and hit a batter in his first varsity start. He entered Thursday’s game with 5 1/3 scoreless relief innings for the season and finished the game with a 0.00 earned run average.

With the Indians holding onto a one-run lead in the bottom of the seventh after the Mariners pulled to within one in the bottom of the sixth, head coach Ken Frank decided to stick with Mellott for the seventh. “It was a tough decision,” Frank said. “But I stuck with the kid and he bulldogged it out, he pitched a tremendous game for us.”

Mellott struck out pinch hitter Mike Miraglia to start the inning before Carmen Sclafani drilled a line drive into the gap in left center that looked like a sure extra base hit, with the ball possible rolling to the wall.

But center fielder Kevin Fox appeared out of nowhere to run down the ball and make a diving grab as he ex-tended himself parallel to the ground for as good-a-game-saving catch as you’ll see anywhere.

Fox also stepped into the leadoff spot in place of star right fielder Russell Messler, who’s sidelined with a knee sprain. Fox singled and scored the game’s first run in the first inning and drove in the games winning run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the fourth to supply the offense as well as the defense.

MELLOTT, FOX LEAD TOMS RIVER SOUTH OVER CROSSTOWN RIVAL TOMS RIVER NORTHBy Mike ReadyOn April 29th, the Raritan softball team

defeated Red Bank Catholic, 7-6 and erupted for all seven runs in the bottom of the first inning.Emily Schaffer led things off with a home-run, Laura Gesario belted a two-run dou-ble and Bethany Budner drove in two runs with a single. Nicole Coppolino capped the rally by crushing a two-run homer. “It is always great to get a big win against a quality team like RBC,” Raritan head coach Aado Kommendant said. “Our of-fense was really firing on all cylinders.”

The Rockets followed up their win against RBC with a dramatic 5-4 loss at Manasquan on April 30th.

With the Warriors ahead 3-0 after five in-nings and Olivia Galinis pitching a per-fect game to that point, Schaffer hit a two-run homer with two outs in the top of the sixth to help the Rockets cut the deficit to 3-2. Raritan added two more runs in the top of the seventh to take a 4-3 lead, but Manasquan rallied back in the bottom of the seventh inning.

After Megan Gilly drew a leadoff walk, Shakyra Moore hit a walk off two-run homer to give the Warriors their sec-ond win of the season over the Rockets. Manasquan also defeated Raritan, 3-1 earlier in the season.

“We didn’t give up and kept playing hard,” Kommendant said. “You have to give credit to Manasquan.”

On May 1st, the Rockets rebounded from their loss against Manasquan with a 10-0

win at home against Rumson-Fair Haven to improve their overall record to 11-7.

The Rockets soared out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first and exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the third with the big hit in the inning being a three-run homer by Schaffer.

Also turning in solid performances for Raritan were Budner, who picked up her second win of the season and struck out nine batters and Lindsey Carver, Brianna Rinaldi and Daniella Marino, who each hit doubles.

“We have played a really tough sched-ule and I am very happy with the effort the girls have put in,” Kommendant said. “We just want to continue to get better as the season goes on.”

Upcoming games for the Rockets include May 7th at St. John Vianney, May 9th at Shore Regional, May 10th at Middletown South and May 14th at home against Ma-ter Dei Prep.

Rockets Look Impressive In Wins Over RBC And RFHBy Sean Simmons

Continued on page 12RARITAN’S #20 SARAH REILLY

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The Lacey Township boys’ lacrosse team punctuated the most success-ful season in the five-year history of the program, with an 11-4 win over Brick Memorial on May 1. The victory improved the Lions’ overall record to 7-7 – five wins better than the prior program high – and allowed them to qualify for their first ever Shore Con-ference Tournament.

Senior attackman Brock Torre, last year’s team MVP, led the way in the all-important seventh win by notching three goals. Teammates Lucas Firot-niak and Matt Opacity each added two goals, while junior midfielder Dan Cannon scored a goal and as-sisted on two more. Three other Lions also found the net, including senior midfielder Tom Prosser, who will con-tinue his playing career at Division III FDU-Florham next year, and ju-nior Joe Long with his team-leading twenty-ninth goal, one less than dou-ble the team-high from a year ago.

Their scoring came in support of se-nior goalie Tyler Walsh, who made 11 saves.

Lacey having its most successful sea-son became a certainty early on when the Lions opened the season with a program-best three-game winning streak at the expense of Marlboro, Toms River East and Neptune. After a blowout loss to Jackson Memorial, the Lions improved to 4-1 with an 11-7 win over Ocean Township. From there, winning became a lot more dif-ficult for the Lions, who managed just one win in their next seven games – a 9-6 win over Jackson Liberty on April 20. With their backs against the wall in terms of a tournament bid, Lacey got back on course with back-to-back wins against Lower Cape May (14-5 on April 27) and Brick Memorial.

“We’ve had some success this year,” said Coach Shane Allen. “We’ve been blessed with a good team and… we have great leadership from our se-niors,” a group that includes Torre, Prosser, Walsh, and defenseman Casey Sirotniak, the program’s first four-year varsity letterman.

Lacey’s first round opponent for the Shore Conference Tournament was announced on Friday night, May 3. A fifteen seed, the Lions will once again meet up with second-seeded Jackson Memorial in Jackson on May 7.

“We realize we’re probably going to (receive a lower seeding),” Allen said before the tournament pairings were announced. “But my guys are look-ing forward to the opportunity to compete.”

LACEY HAVING ITS MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASONby Kevin Davis

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HOLMDEL – In a classic battle of aces, Saint John Vianney (SJV) junior Kate Beriont (12-1) out-distanced Middle-town South senior, Alli Podmajersky, 3-0 Thursday, in a Monmouth County Tournament Red Division quarterfinals matchup at SJV. The Lancers (14-1) are ranked number one in the Shore Con-

ference and sixth in the state, while the Eagles (11-5) are ranked sixth in the Shore.

Beriont was a little wild and battled control problems in the early innings. However, she eventually settled down and had a no hitter going into the

top of the seventh with two outs, when Veronica Zega lined a single into right field. On the play, Tiffani Lambert, who had reached on an error was caught in a rundown between second and third and was tagged out for the final out of the game.

Beriont tossed seven innings of one-hit shutout ball, striking out six and walking an uncharacter-istic three batters.

“I was a little wild and my pitch count was up in the early in-nings,” Beriont said.“Coach Kim (Lombardi) had me working on it between innings and I settled down as the game went on. Our defense is really sound behind

me and today they showcased it; Kate (Baron) and Erica (Krumbine) made tremendous plays.”

“Kate pitched well enough to win,” head coach Kin Lombardi said. “The last two innings was the Kate I know. It was an off day, but a good day for her; she did almost pitch a no hitter. I commend her for battling through her wildness; she did a nice job for us stay-

ing focused.”

The Lancers scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first when Aman-da Durham reached on an error, was sacrificed to second on Jackie Gal-legher’s bunt and then scored after being caught in a run down between third and home, beating the throw to the plate.

The two pitchers matched each other’s zeros until the bottom of the fifth, when Ashley Ventura led off with a walk and was safe at second when Abbey Schul-tz fielded Helena Coppola’s Sacrifice bunt and tried to get the force out at second but was late.

Marlena Bevilacqua then sacrificed the runners over before Amanda Durham drilled a RBI single off the third base-man, with the runners advancing to second and third on the throw. Jackie Gallagher then ripped a single to cen-ter driving in the second run, handing the Lancers a 3-0 lead.

In the top of the fifth, Veronica Zega led off with a walk before Baron made the play of the game. Erin Cotterell drilled a sinking liner into right field that Baron made a fabulous sliding shoe-string catch, and easily doubled up Zega, who was already half way to second. She followed that up with an-other tough catch on a liner to end the inning.

“I’m very proud of Kate,” Lombardi said. “She’s been here since her fresh-man year and her experience paid off today with two great catches. The girl’s all work hard on their defense and they see results; defense will always be strong here.”

Podmajersky (9-4) was a tough luck loser, going six innings, giving up two earned runs on three hits, while strik-ing out eight and walking only one.“Pod (Podmajersky) was really on to-day,” Beriont said. “She’s one of the best pitchers we’ve faced this year. I’m proud of my team, the way they adapt-ed. We’re playing together as a team, it’s not just one person. We don’t count on just one person; everybody contrib-utes and does their job both offensively and defensively.”

“There is no ‘I’ on this team,” Lom-bardi said. ”Everyone is dedicated to the team concept, nobody cares about individual stats, they constantly pick each other up. This is a unique team; it’s all about making everyone feel good about themselves and letting the coach do her job. It’s a pleasure to coach them; they’re all very coach-able.”

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WALL – Wall baseball kept its winning tra-dition in tact Friday, with a 5-3 division-clinching win over Matawan (11-4, 8-3) at the Crimson Knights 18th Avenue Field. The win marked the fourth straight Class B North championship for Wall, who has now won a title of some kind in 11 of the last 12 years.

With graduation taking its toll, Wall (13-2, 10-1) ranked sixth in the Shore, found itself in a position where it had to replace eight position players and two starting pitch-ers. The Crimson Knights were not even on the radar in preseason polls, but reloading

is nothing new for Wall head coach Todd Schmitt, who has led the Knights to 10 divi-sion titles in his 16 seasons at the helm.

“The players buy into what we’re selling as a program,” Schmitt said. “The Wall pro-gram has become what it is because the kid behind you sees it and believes in it. It’s May, we play for championships in May. It’s this teams’ turn, they’re a bunch of sopho-more and juniors with a couple of seniors sprinkled in, it doesn’t matter; it’s their turn. That’s the way it’s always been here.”

Pitcher Luke Malone (4-2), one of the only

true impact seniors to start this year, went the distance, allowing eight hits, striking out three and walking only one.

“We’re playing awesome,” Malone said. “I couldn’t do it without my defense behind me, we work hard on defense in practice and it shows in games. Nobody thought we would be 13-2 at this point, we’re rolling into the tournaments and ready to keep on winning.”

“Luke’s a bulldog on the mound, Schmitt said. “He throws strikes; he only walked one, that’s the key to high school baseball. He got into a little trouble, but settled right back into it. He buys into what the program is all about and when you have leaders buy-ing in, then everyone else follows.”

The first play of the game set the tone for Wall as shortstop Chris Barcas backhanded a ball in the hole and threw across the dia-mond for the out on a great defensive play.

“We go to practice and the kids like to hit,” Schmitt said. “But we spend so much time on defense and all the little things: execut-ing a bunt, bunt defense, driving the ball with the pitch, moving runners over and base running; we’ve proven it successful for years. We haven’t hit a home run this year, but we haven’t given up one either.”

Barcus kept the game scoreless in the top of third on another defensive gem, when he took a throw from catcher Dan Wondrack on an attempted double steal and fired it right back to snare the runner at the plate.

In the bottom of the third, Wall used some of those ‘little things,’ scoring two runs with the ball barely leaving the infield. Malone led off with a shot off shortstop Scott Thompson for an infield hit and moved to third on Matt Tancredi’s sacrifice bunt.

Nick Martinez followed with another bunt, reaching on an error when Matawan failed to cover first base allowing Malone to score. Tancredi then scored on another error on an

errant throw to second on a steal by Marti-nez.

Wall extended the lead to 5-0 in the bottom of the fourth when a walk, bunt single and another walk loaded the bases with no outs. After a flyout by Malone, Tancredi lined an RBI single into short right field for a 3-0 ad-vantage.

Martinez brought in the next run with a RBI single to center before Chris Barcas then added a RBI sacrifice fly to right field to ex-tend the lead to 5-0.

Matawan staged a two-out, three-run rally in the top of the fifth when Thompson lined a single off third baseman Ryan Orender for a hit, catcher Matt Rackett doubled over the left fielders head and first baseman Dan Incle dropped a two-run double down the right field line to close the gap to 5-2.

Second baseman Branden Biegert then let a grounder escape between his legs allowing Incle to score the third run of the inning, cut-ting the deficit to 5-3.

Malone got some defensive help in the top of the sixth when Biegert redeemed himself in the field. With one out Anthony Principe reached first on a single up the middle and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Center fielder Mike Denino then lined a scorcher right at a leaping Biegert at second base, who snagged it and flipped it to Barcus to double up the runner to end the inning.

The Huskies had the tying run at the plate in the top of the seventh with two outs after Incle reached first on a slow bouncer down the third base line. Pitcher Justin Harnett ended the game on a fly out to deep center field.

Harnett (5-3) was the hard-luck loser going the distance, giving up three earned runs on seven hits, striking out six and walking two. Incle went 3-4 with a double, a run scored and two RBI’s for Matawan.

WALL CLAIMS FOURTH STAIGHT CLASS B NORTH DIVISION TITLE By Mike Ready

WALL #13 TYLER SWIGGARTPhoto By: Francine Attardi

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The Shore Regional boys’ lacrosse team is having a great season with a 9 win and 3-loss season and they have won seven games in a row. Their latest win was a 9 to 8 victory against Red Bank Catholic (2-7). Red Bank Catholic led 3 to 1 at the end of the first but the Blue Devil’s out scored the Casey’s 3 to 0 in the second to take a 4 to 3 halftime lead. Shore and Red Bank Catholic scored 2 goals in the third and 3 goals in the fourth as Shore hung on for the 9 to 8 victory. Jack Kelly led the way for Shore with a team-high 4 goals. Jesse Phalanakorn scored 3 goals and Ryan Latham added 3 assists. Luke Dwyer and Chris Sipler each also scored a goal. Goalie Andrew Johnsen made 14 big saves in goal for the Blue Dev-il’s, while Tyler Leonard also made 14 saves for the Casey’s. Chris Whitlock led the Casey’s in scoring with 2 goals and 2 assists.

Shore also defeated St. Rose (2-6) by the score of 16 to 3. Chris Francisco scored 4 goals and added 1 assist while Kyle Gironda scored 3 goals. Johnsen made 7 saves in goal while Christian Bostwick made 2 saves in goal for the Blue Devil’s. Shore finishes the season with games against Monsignor Dono-van (0-5), Red Bank Regional (6-6), and southern (12-0).

Blue Devil's Lacrosse Scoring WinsBy Michael Rogers

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Ocean Twp.- Coming into her senior season with the Ocean Township Spartans, Gianna Kinhofer was look-ing to improve on the teams early exit in both last years Shore Confer-ence and NJSIAA Tournaments.

Coming off an impressive junior season in which she went 14-10 with and ERA around 3.00 and 152 strike outs, Gianna has the Spar-tans primed for a return to Spartan glory days. So far this season she has compiled a record of 13-4 with 124 strike outs and an ERA just under 3.00. Along with her young battery mate in freshman catcher Veronica

Woehr, the pair are firing on all cyl-inders in keeping opposing teams off balance.

The key to making the Spartans again a power house club will be more consistency on offense. Last season Kinhoffer lead the Spartans in both average and RBI’s (.494 and 29 rbi). This year she is getting extra protection and production in the line-up from Jeana Ambrosio (ave. .356), Kelli Shapiro (ave. .341) and Sabrina Batista (ave. .271).

With a predominantly young squad, veteran coach Mark Frankel has found the winning formula once again. He has the young Spartans sitting at 13-4 and in prime position at a Shore Conference and NJSIAA tournament run. He will need to con-tinue to receive offensive production to go along with the team’s stingy de-fense and position.

Kinhofer Leading The Way For SpartansBy Eric Braun

The Monsignor Donovan baseball team is having a super season with a 13 win and 4 loss record and they lead the B South Division over Jackson Liberty with a 7-2 record. Jackson Liberty has a 6-2 division record.

In their latest game, the Griffins de-feated Point Pleasant Boro (8-7) by the score of 9 to 4. Monsignor Donovan did lose to Jackson Liberty (11-4) by the score of 10 to 0, but maintained their lead in the division. They did defeat Pinelands (3-9) by the score of 5 to 0. Rich Powers pitched a 1 hitter and had

10 strikeouts and only 1 walk in the game. Dan McGeehan went 3 for 3 in the game from the plate with 2 doubles and 2 runs batted in. Chris Calderon also had a 2 run single for Monsignor Donovan. They also defeated Neptune (2-9) by the score of12 to1 in a game played at First Energy Park. Meyredes got the win on the mound giving up only 3 hits and the Griffiths pounded out 9 hits and scored 12 runs in the first two innings.

For the season Ryan leads the Shore Conference and the team in pitching wins with a 4-0 record. Lee is also un-defeated with a 2-0 record, while Adam Holowienka has a 2-1 record and a 1.17 earned run average. Ryan has 32 strikeouts, which is 5th in the Shore Conference and has a .062 earned run average which is second in the Shore Conference. At the plate McGeehan has 10 doubles which also leads the Shore Conference, while Meyreles is 3rd in the Shore Conference with 2 home runs and he also has 8 runs bat-ted in on the season.

Monsignor Donovan finishes the sea-son with games against Manchester Township (7-6), Point Pleasant Beach (8-2), and Toms River East (6-6).

Griffins Having Super Season By Michael Rogers

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By Eric BraunLONG BRANCH- Coming off a frustrating 5-5 season in2011, the Green Wave from Long Branch High Schoolhave gotten back to their tradition of ground and pound.The Wave has rushed out to a 2-0 record with wins overManasquan and Monmouth, relying mostly on the legs ofJosil Jackson and the arm of Avery Griffin.

Long Branch took a hit during their final pre-seasongame when senior tailback Dwight Clark went down witha broken left ankle. Clark is expected back by midseasonbut Coach Dan George needs to keep his team focused andmoving forward to get back to Class B North dominanceand be eligible for the NJSIAA tournament. CoachGeorge also lost senior tight- end and linebacker Dominic Mincieli when he suffered a knee injury in the spring, butMincieli should be back in the first couple weeks of the

season.Minus the injuries, the Green Wave is in prime posi-

tion to challenge Neptune, Wall and Ocean in the ShoreConference B North division. Top to bottom this is thetoughest division in the Shore Conference. Coach Georgewill look to get additional contributions from juniorShabazz Shuler and seniors Curtis Gunther and TreySmith at wide outs. On defense, the Wave will look forChris Pappayluo and senior safeties Corey Morris andBrett Roach to shutdown opposing offenses.

By Brian DanemanThe Howell Rebels might have known they were in

for a rough night at the swamp when they were calledfor a delay of game penalty before the game even start-ed. The penalty was rightfully called because theRebels did not enter the field until well after 7pm leav-ing the home team to wait on the sidelines.

The game was riddled with penalties on both sides ofthe ball. Nineteen penalties were called to be exact andfive were on just the first series. But otherwise, it wasa well-played game. Howell’s passing efforts actuallylooked quite sharp on their first two possessions withsix completions and four first downs. On their thirdpossession, the relentless Eagle defensive line sackedRebel quarterback Connor McGlynn at the Rebels ownthree- yard line. In doing so, they knocked him out ofthe game and into an awaiting ambulance with a pos-sible neck or shoulder injury.

From this point late in the first quarter MiddletownSouth began to soar behind the power running of JakeRipnick scoring on three subsequent drives. Ripnickran for 157 yards and two touchdowns on 24 carries.The Eagles took advantage of the loss of the Howellquarterback and pressured his substitute Aaron Trimblefor the rest of the night leading to five sacks and twointerceptions; one by junior Andrew Wisialko for sixyards and one later in the second half by speedsterElijah Smith for a 60- yard touchdown return. TheSouth defense was tenacious all night and gave theoffense great field position on every series.

The offense led by Ripnick and quarterback Kyle

Bray moved the ball well throughout the game relyingheavy on the run but also sprinkling in a few passesto shake things up. Bray’s throws were accurate espe-cially the 25- yard bullet he threw to junior wide outTaylor Hendrickson late in the second quarter for thethird score of the game. The two connected on four

passes for the entire game. The South offensive anddefensive lines controlled the line of scrimmage foralmost the entire game and helped to earn the lopsidedvictory.

The Rebels did manage to score a touchdown late inthe fourth quarter on a 24- yard throw from Trimble to

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New Jersey- A day filled with expec-tations of two teams looking to im-prove on their Shore Conference and NJSIAA seedings ended with both teams being eliminated from the NJ-SIAA tournament before it even be-gan, while another incident saw an adult coach strike a teenage umpire in little league baseball. Between the two different contests the sports world in New Jersey now sees two adults facing criminal charges and 36 ball players ejected from games that they all love.

In the first event, two long time and cross-town rivals squared off for what was to be a building block for both teams trying to make it to tournament play. For the better part of the contest it was evenly matched and emotion-ally intact contest. Then in the bot-tom of the sixth with the game tied 1-1, Red Bank Regional attempted a squeeze play that failed, leaving the runner to have to give himself up. Unfortunately, this was not the case as the runner took the more aggres-sive approach and lowered his shoul-der to take out the Rumson catcher. Rather then letting the umpire throw the runner out of the game, due to the fact that in high school baseball you are supposed to give yourself up, the Rumson catcher got up swinging.

The result of both actions left both benches empty. Even though both coaching staffs did a tremendous job of quickly restoring order, under NJ-SIAA guidelines if a player leaves the bench area during the fight he/she is immediately ejected. With both

benches being cleared it left Rumson with 22 players ejected and Red Bank with 14 ejections. These ejections also took more serious consequences under NJSIAA ruling that state, “the ejection of more then 3 players from a team results in mandatory 2 game ban for unsportsmanlike behavior.

Normally the story would end here with players learning their lessons; unfortunately this is not the case. On top of the 36 players being ejected there was one Rumson parent that could face more serious consequenc-es after being charged with simple assault from apparently charging onto the field and striking a Red Bank player, the parent has pleaded not guilty.

Both teams played their next two games with junior varsity and fresh-man players in an attempt to salvage their tournament hopes, but both teams lost their two games.

In another contest, this time at the Little League baseball level, an adult coach got into a confrontation with a teenage umpire and slapped him. The 43 year-old baseball manager has been charged with assault after witnesses told police he slapped a 17-year-old umpire who had ejected him from a game.

For his actions he now faces two counts of simple assault, according to the township police department. The manager in question left the con-test before being questioned and was later found at home by law enforce-

ment and issued two summonses — one for simple assault and another for simple assault at a sporting event in the presence of children under the age of 16.

These recent events leave us with a stark reminder that everyone must be held accountable for their actions and not just a slap on the wrist. Too many high profile athletes who are thrust into the spotlight as role mod-els, never face any real consequenc-es for their actions, leaving our youth players to follow in their steps.

In the case of the high school game, it was the heat of the moment play at the plate in which both the runner and catcher should have been the only ones ejected, but because all major sporting events and society pull for the bench clearing brawls, these high school players followed suit. Their punishment, two game suspensions, no tournament play and the seniors involved with no chance of one fi-nal tournament run. As for the Little League game, nothing more to say except that this coach should no lon-ger be allowed to participate, watch or be in the same area as any youth competition. His actions not only put a black mark on Berkley Township Little League, the umpire involved, but also the young players that had to witness this cowardly act.

Let the player’s play, let the coach’s coach, let the officials officiate and you be a fan of the game and not be part of the outcome!

Recent Baseball Outcomes Remind Us of The Ugliness in SportsBy Eric Braun

“Messler’s our best hitter and we’re not a very good hitting lineup with-out him,” Fox said. “But we know how to score runs. We run the bases, we move the runners, and we put pressure on the defense. We knew if we did that and played defense, Tyler was going to throw strikes, and we were going to be in the game.”

Toms River South actually had a chance to break the game open early in the game. After Fox scored the first run of the game, the Indi-ans still had the bases loaded with no outs. Slagmolen then worked his way out of the jam by striking out Eric Fricks and retiring the next two batters on short pop-ups and the pitching duel was set in motion.

Toms River North cut the Indians lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning when Mariners first baseman Karl Blum reached on an error with one out and scored on an RBI single to right by junior third baseman Julian Feliz to set up Fox’s seventh inning heroics.

“Anytime you’re playing a rival, there’s going to be added inten-sity,” Fox said. “We don’t like North and they don’t like us; It’s bragging rights. You want to be able to say you’re the best team in Toms River, so beating them twice is a good feeling.”

Thursday’s win gives the Indians a regular-season sweep of its cross-town rival, with both wins coming in one-run games. In Toms River North’s five losses this season, four have come by one run.

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WALL - The Lady Knights of Wall Township have set out on a mission this season to take down their com-petition and once again rise to the top of the Shore Conference and State.

They have jumped out to an impres-sive start on the season with a re-cord of 15-1, their lone loss coming at the hands of State power Bishop Arh. Leading the way for the Knights

is pitcher Jackie Howarth who leads the way for the Wall pitching staff with a 10-1 record and 1.43 earned run average. This combined with the stingy and superb defense has the Knights battling St. John Vian-ney for the class of the Shore Con-ference.

The Knights are lead on offense by Dani Petrone, who leads the Shore Conference with 7 home runs, 31

runs batted in and second in batting average with .600. Along with the slugging leadership of Petrone the Knights have gotten major contribu-tions this season from Sydney Can-essa with an average of .590 and Katie Wingel .536.

With the stellar pitching, there has been a defensive and offensive explosion so far this season, the

Knights have already clinched the B-North division and look to dethrone St. John Vianney in the Shore Con-ference Championships. This years Wall Township squad has all the pieces in place to make another title run in the NJSIAA tournament and will continue to lean on the veteran leadership of Howarth and Petrone to bring both titles back to Wall.

Wall Township Clicking on All Cylinders By Eric Braun

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Despite losing only one more game within their division than they had a year ago, tougher competition in the form of a realigned Red Bank Catho-lic has prevented the St. John Vianney varsity baseball team from capturing their third consecutive A Central cham-pionship. With a surprising 11-9 loss to Holmdel on May 3, the Lancers fell four games behind the Caseys, who remain undefeated within their division and only had one loss on the season as of May 3.

While the Lancers might have fallen shy of where they’d like to be as a team, the performance of Evan Pietronico has certainly been a bright spot for SJV. The junior outfielder has been an offensive force for his team, batting .545 and collecting many of those hits in a timely fashion, giving him the Shore Confer-ence lead in runs batted in. In fact, be-tween April 6 and 25, Pietronico put to-gether an eight-game RBI streak during which the Lancers went 7-1. His top RBI mark came on April 11 when he hom-

ered and drove in six runs. He added two more home runs on April 25, when he knocked in all five of SJV’s runs in a 9-5 loss to RBC.

Along with Pietronico, juniors Joe Ro-telli and Anthony LaVigne have been key contributors to the Lancers’ offen-sive attack. Rotelli’s homer in the loss to Holmdel tied him with Pietronico for the team lead with three longballs, while LaVigne put together a five-game doubles streak between April 11 and 23. Pitchers Richard Hoffman and Jus-tin Chin have made a habit of making those offensive efforts stand up, each posting a 3-1 record as of May 1 with the senior Hoffman doing so with an earned run average of 1.54.

At 10-4, the Lancers earned the fifth seed in the Monmouth County Tourna-ment and hosted twelfth-seeded Ocean on May 4 in the round of 16.

LANCERS MIGHT HAVE FALLEN SHY OF WHERE THEY’D LIKE TO BE AS A TEAMby Kevin Davis

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After beginning the 2013 season ranked No.2 in the Shore Conference and No.7 in New Jersey, the Christian Brothers Academy Colts have gotten off to a very strong start so far this season. The squad from Lincroft cur-rently stands at 12-1 on the season, with the Shore Conference Tourna-ment and NJSIAA State Tournament on the horizon for the Colts.

The Colts started off the 2013 season 3-0 with three convincing victories over local foes, the Colts faced their first real test of the season when they took part in the Hillsborough Tour-

nament, their first tournament of the season. The Colts advanced all the way to the semifinals for a showdown with their archrival Southern, two teams that have no love lost between each other. Despite winning the first set of the match by a score of 25-23, the Colts lost the second set 17-25, and therefore, lost the entire match based on point differential.

However, only a mere four days would pass before the Colts were matched up again with Southern, except with this match taking place at CBA. De-spite home court advantage, CBA fell to Southern in straight sets by scores of 25-12 and 25-22.

On the plus side, the Colts have been able to rattle off eight straight wins since their last loss. Their most no-table win came at home in dominant fashion against No.16 Piscataway in straight sets by scores of 25-15 and 25-16. After the victory over Pisca-taway, the Colts captured their first Crusader Invitational title, hosted by Bergen Catholic. The Colts went 6-2 in pool play at the third edition of this tournament, followed by a victory over fellow Shore Conference squad Marlboro in the quarterfinals and tak-ing out No.15 Vernon in the semifi-nals. The Colts took down Ridge in the championship by way of straight sets with scores of 25-14 and 25-13. The tournament showed that the Colts

were ready for any team and any competition that they would face for the rest of the season.

Unfortunately, the Colts were unable to repeat as Livingston Tournament champions, as they were upended in the semifinals of the tournament by ri-val, No.4 St. Joseph’s (Metuchen), the following weekend.

So far this season, the most valuable player for CBA has been senior set-ter Doug Dzema, who plans to con-tinue his volleyball career next year at Sacred Heart University. So far on the season, Dzema has recorded 197 assists, 24 blocks, 16 kills, nine aces, and seven digs. In the championship game of the Crusader Invitational, Dzema posted a terrific day of 20 as-sists, three kills, two blocks, and an ace to propel the Colts to victory. It is clear why he is the glue of the squad from Lincroft.

With the regular season coming to a close and sitting at No.8 in the most recent New Jersey Top 20 State Rank-ings, the CBA Colts now turn their focus to both the Shore Conference Tournament and the NJSIAA State Tournament. The biggest challenge that the Colts will need to weather in their conference tournament will be an all-but-very-likely third matchup this season with Southern, who has the Colts’ number this season. With

regards to the state competition, the Colts will need to focus not only on teams like Southern and St. Joseph’s that they have played this season, but other volleyball powerhouses such as Old Bridge and East Brunswick. The Colts stand a terrific chance at win-ning both their conference and state group titles, but they will need to play at the same level that they did during their eight game winning streak and their Crusader Invitational victory.

CBA Volleyball Off to Strong Start This SeasonBy: Pat Ralph

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