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By Michael RogersFor the first time ever, the

Christian Brothers Academy(CBA) boys’ basketball team hadto play in a preliminary round.The Colts were trying to wintheir 17th Shore ConferenceTournament championship. Asthe number 15th seed, the Coltstook on the 18th seed in PointBeach. The Colts came out with

a 60- 57 win.CBA fell behind by 11 points

but Kieran Hughes helped bringCBA back scoring 27 points andalso grabbing 16 rebounds andfour assists. The Colts got eightpoints from Hughes as theyoutscored Point Beach 19-15 totie the score at 48 at the end ofregulation. Hughes also had ninepoints in the second overtime.For Point Beach; Matt Farrellled his team in scoring 26points.

With the win CBA moved onto play the number two seed inLakewood. The Colts’ offensecould not get going against atough Lakewood (17-5) defense.The Colts (13-9) lost by thescore of 52 - 36. Tyrice Beveretteled a balanced attack for thePiners scoring 12 points.Lakewood will now move on toplay the number 10 seed inManasquan for the third timethis season. CBA will now getready for the state tournament.

Bob Sickles gives advice on how to pick theright orange or grapefruit.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIC B A’s Kiernan Hughes(41) flies over his oppo-nents to the basket.

Jersey Sporting News • February 21 - March 6 CBA Knocked Out Of SCT

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Roses Reach Final FourBy Ted KaiserLINCROFT— The St. Rosegirls’ basketball team continuedtheir strong season last week inthe Shore Conference Tourna-ment (SCT). The Purple Rosesdefeated Point Boro 51-41 toadvance to the semifinalsbehind a solid defensive effortin the second half. Sarah Kurtzhad an outstanding game with18 points, a career-high. ThePanthers tested St. Rose for agood portion of the game. Itwasn’t until about midwaythrough the third quarter thatthe Roses took their first leadand it was eerily similar totheir previous game.

The Roses survived a scare inthe Round of 16. Colts Neck,the 15th seed, led by seven athalftime before St. Rose turnedup the defense. They held theCougars to nine points in eachof the final two quarters. Thetrio of Samantha Clark, Diana

Malanaga and Kasey Chambers all scored 11 points. ColtsNeck received 13 points fromboth Rachel Krauss and JessieFifield.

Point Boro reached the quar-terfinals by virtue of a 53-33over 10th seeded MiddletownSouth. Guard Kelly Hugheshad a double-double with 16points and 10 rebounds.Freshman Lindsey Havensadded 14 points for thePanthers. The Class A NorthDivision Champion Eaglestrailed by only five at halftime,but could not get the offensegoing in the second half.

The Roses will face thirdseeded St. John Vianney in theSCT semifinals on Tuesday,February 21st at 7:45pm atBrookdale Community Col-lege. The winner will advanceto the SCT Final at MonmouthUniversity on Friday, February24th at 6:00pm.

By Ted KaiserLINCROFT— The Shore Conference Tournament(SCT) semifinals begin on Wednesday and the top seedremains alive for the championship. Colts Neck defeat-ed Asbury Park 59-43 in the quarterfinals to advance.Brandon Federici scored 24 points to lead the Cougars.“We are playing a very athletic team that has three bigtime scorers. It’s going to be a battle,” said Colts NeckHead Coach Lou Piccola before Sunday’s game. “Welike to think our body of work in terms of practice andtough games prepares us well for these games.Everybody in the final eight has a chance to win sothere are no easy games.”

Colts Neck blasted 17th seeded Toms River South inthe Round of 16 last Thursday. Sean O’Reilly had 17points as the Cougars rolled to a 74-46 win. HunterWysocki and Brandon Federici scored 16 and 15 pointsrespectively. Junior guard Tim Vangelis also hit doublefigures with 13 points. Elija Dupree had a game-high18 points for the Indians.“We shot the ball real well and I think we wore themdown,” explained Coach Piccola. “They are a veryscrappy team, well-coached and they run their offensewell. I thought they did a real good job of breaking usdown, but we made some plays.”

Meanwhile, Asbury Park advanced to the quarterfi-nals with a thrilling 61-59 win over defending champi-on Raritan. Armond Conover came alive in the fourthquarter to finish with 11 points after being quieted formost of the game. Thomond Hammary pumped in ateam-high 22 points and Amir Conover added 16points. The Rockets did not go quietly. Last year’splayer of the year, senior center Mike Aaman, scored agame-high 25 points to nearly lift his squad to the vic-tory.

The Cougars will face Middletown North in the SCT

semifinals on Wednesday, February 22nd at 6:00pm atBrookdale Community College. The winner willadvance to the SCT Final at Monmouth University onFriday, February 24th at 7:45pm.

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PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIAsbury Park’s Samantha Clark (2) goes tothe basket for two points.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIPt. Boro’s Lindsey Havens (12) goes upagainst a St. Rose player trying to block theshot .

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIAsbury Parks Armond Conover (5) knocks over aColts Neck player as he flies to the basket.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDILucas Lalima (11) beats his opponents to thebasket for Colts Neck.

Jersey Sporting News • February 21 - March 6


By Ted KaiserBRICK TOWNSHIP— The BrickMemorial wrestling team knew they faced atall order in the NJSIAA Central JerseyGroup IV sectional final. Their opponent,Jackson Memorial, entered the match as thetwo-time defending champion and with aperfect 19-0 record. But the Mustangs wres-tled without fear and came away with threepins and two major decisions on their wayto a 35-29 upset of the Jaguars.

Jackson Memorial had a lead early in thematch, however, the tide began to change at145 lbs. Freshman Cliff Ruggiero, 138 lb.,wrestled up to the 145 lb. weight class andpulled out a dramatic pin. That started astrong of victories for Brick Memorial.

Senior Evan Berti recoreded a pin at 152 lbs. and the Mustangs got a major decision fromjunior Tyler Richardson at 170 lbs. TheJaguars steadied themselves with majordecision wins at 182 lbs. and 195 lbs. mak-ing the match come down to a few keybouts. Junior Matt Moore scored a criticalvictory for Brick Memorial with a pin at220 lbs. and sophomore Tyler Poling tookthe heavyweight bout.

The Mustangs advanced to the overallGroup IV semifinals which took place lastSunday at Pine Belt Arena/Toms RiverNorth. They battled fellow ShoreConference foe Southern for the right toplay for the Gro up IV championship laterin the day.

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Southern’s Steve Johns wrestles against Brick’s Nick Costa.

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By Ted KaiserLINCROFT— TheManasquan boys’basketball team stun-ned heavily favoredLakewood in thequarterfinals of theShore ConferenceTournament (SCT)with a 54-53 win inovertime. After trail-ing in the fourth quar-ter, the Warriors ral-lied and overcame asix-point deficit. J.R.Hobbie, who scored agame-high 19 points,hit two free throws inthe final seconds ofovertime to giveManasquan a three-point lead. JimmyWalsh chipped in 16points. Lakewoodwas led by 18 pointsfrom Tyrice Bever-ette.

In the Round of 16,Lakewood ousted pe-rennial power Chris-tian Brothers Acad-emy (CBA) whocame in as an unusu-ally low fifteenth seeddue to their rebuildingseason. The Pinerstrailed by five after one quarter andheld only a one-point lead at half-time. However, the third quarter

was all Lakewood and they rolledfor a 52-36 victory. Point guardTyrice Beverette led the way with12 points, while Jameer Jones and

Manasquan ousted Lacey in theRound of 16 with a 55-46 victory.The Warriors will face Neptune inthe SCT semifinals on Wednesday,

February 22nd at 7:45pm atBrookdale Community College.The winner will advance to theSCT Final at Monmouth Universityon Friday, February 24th at7:45pm.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIManasquan’s Jack Fay (14) muscles his way to the basket asSquan tops Lakewood in an upset win.


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Jeremy LinBy Jim Garrett

Jeremy Lin has made a greatstory for everyone whether theyare sports fans or not. He playedat Harvard and was released bytwo NBA teams. He was signedby the Knicks and has made agreat impression on basketballfans because he plays with greatjoy and tremendous emotion. Hisapparent love of playing thegame should be a great examplefor all young athletes to nevergive up and continue to pursueyour dreams. He has shown hisveteran NBA teammates his ded-ication to be a productive player.His game effort drives his fellowplayers to match his competitivehard driving energy to be a mem-ber of a winning team. He facedfailure and never turned awayfrom his goal to be an NBA play-er. He is a hero to all athleteswho seek to reach their goals. Heis a great role model for kids andadults and he is my hero.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDILakewood’s DaJuan Morris (31) fights off two Manasquan playersto get to the basket.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDINeptune’s Nahje Carter (33) flies to the basket. She scoreda game-high 18 points during the game against RBC.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIIvy Harrington (13) jumps to the basket for Neptunein the win over RBC.


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By Michael RogersThe Red Bank Catholic girls’ bas-

ketball team (18-5) went into theShore Conference Tournament on aroll winning eight of their last ninegames. In the first round of the tour-nament they faced Marlboro (13-6)and continued their winning waysearning a 54 30 victory. Theymoved on to the quarter finals atBrookdale Community Collegewhere they played Neptune who wasthe number four seed in the tourna-ment.The Caseys came up shortagainst the Lady Fliers losing by thescore of 47- 40.

In their game against Marlborothe RBC used a first half where theydominated Marlboro outscoringthem 31 -7 in the first half. MorganArnott led the way with 14 pointswhile Alex Alfano added 11 pointson their way to a 54- 30 win. JackieCajical and Caroline Corcoran eachscored seven points for RBC. HaleyUnger led the way for Marlboro with10 points.

RBC was the number five seed andmoved on to play the number fourseed in Marlboro. The Caseysplayed tough but came up short los-ing 47- 40. For Neptune, NahjaCarter scored a game high 18 points.Cydney Mooney finished with 12points while Amerisse Rogers andIve Harrington each scored eightpoints. Mary Kate Cavalry led theway with nine points. Neptune willnow move on to play the numberone seed in Manasquan.

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By Michael RogersThe Lady Bulldogs (17-7) entered

the Shore Conference Tournament(SCT) as the number eight seed andfaced the number nine seed inHolmdel (15-9) and Rumson/FairHaven (RFH) came out with a 56-42win. The victory gave the Bulldogsthe chance to take on the numberone seed in Manasquan (22-1). TheLady Bulldogs played tough but theMabrey sisters were just too muchand RFH lost by the score of 68-45.

In the game against Holmdel, SamSabino helped RFH get out to a 22-7 lead scoring seven points. ForRFH, Casey Weiss led the way with12 points while Jess Harvey addednine points and Hannah Millerscored eight points. Miller alsograbbed six rebounds. With the win,RFH moved on to play number oneseeded Manasquan.

The Lady Bulldogs played realtough against the number one seedbut the Bulldogs lost by the score of68-45. After Manasquan jumped outto a large lead the Bulldogs cameback and cut the lead to just fivepoints. After the lead was cut theMabrey sisters helped Manasquango on a 12 point run and put thegame out of reach for the LadyBulldogs. Both Michaela andMarina Mabrey scored a game-high23 points each. Manasquan willmove on to play the number fourseed in Neptune.

By Ted KaiserLINCROFT— Despite a few earlyseason hiccups, the MiddletownNorth basketball team is finallylooking like the squad that was thepre-season favorite in the ShoreConference. The Lions used a bal-anced offensive attack to toppleJackson Memorial by a score of 52-41 in the Shore ConferenceTournament (SCT) semifinals.Four players scored in double fig-ures including Jason Huelbig (13points), Tim Frawler (12 points),Cody Thompson (11 points) andEric Youncofski (11 points).

Middletown North ran away fromdivisional rival Manalapan 64-43 inthe Round of 16. Senior JasonHuelbig poured in 25 points andgrabbed 10 rebounds. Junior guardCody Thompson added 17 pointsand Tim Frawley chipped in with12 points. The win was especiallysweet for the Lions because theBraves defeated them back inDecember and North held on for aclose victory in their second meet-ing.

Also in the Round of 16, JacksonMemorial routed Ocean 54-32.Brandon McDonnell scored 15points and Brian Kenny had 13points for the Jaguars. The Spartanstried to hang tough, but their nine-point halftime deficit doubled bythe end of the third quarter. DanMcGuckin led Ocean with 14points.

The Lions will face Colts Neckin the SCT semifinals onWednesday, February 22nd at6:00pm at Brookdale CommunityCollege. The winner will advanceto the SCT Final at MonmouthUniversity on Friday, February24th at 7:45pm.

Balanced Attack Leads Middletown North Over Jackson Memorial Manasquan Defeats Rumson/Fair Haven In SCT

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIAbove: RFH’s Clair Stefanelli (44) takes a shot at thebasket.Right: Manasquan’s Sam Sullivan (21) makes a grace-ful move to the net .PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDI

Eric Youncofski (4)scored 11 points for Middletown North.PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIJackson Memorial’s Brandon McDonnel (21) scored15 points against Middletown North.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDISt . Rose’s Mark Kukoda (2) flies to the basket surrounded by Neptune play-ers.


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Fliers Fly Past St. RoseBy Ted KaiserLINCROFT— The Neptuneboys’ basketball team soared inthe Shore Conference Tourna-ment (SCT) quarterfinals. TheScarlet Fliers rolled past St. Rosefor a 58-39 victory to advance tothe semifinals. Jaheem Woodsscored a team-high 17 points,while Ikie Calderon added 14and Keith Kirkwood chipped in10 points.

Neptune coasted by Point Boroin the Round of 16 by a score of62-41. After trailing by a pointafter the first quarter, the Fliersfound another gear and increasetheir scoring as the game wenton. Jaheem Woods had 19 pointsand Ikie Calderon added 16points. The Panthers got a game-high 25 points from guard ShaunCooke, but no other player came

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PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDITop right: Neptune’s Josh Jenkins(1) fights for possession of thebal l .Left: Neptune’s Rahsul Holland( 11) fights for the ball against aSt. Rose player.Bottom right: Neptune’s Ik ieCalderon scores his 1000th pointfrom the free-throw line.

close to scoring double figures. St. Rose reached the quarterfinals thanks to a 74-68

upset of sixth seeded Freehold Township. MarkKukoda caught fire for a game-high 31 points, ConorLeddy scored 15, and guard Jim Rockstedt nailed fourthree-pointers to finish with 12 points. The Rosesdrained 12 three-point field goals in the game and thatproved to be the difference. John Horrigan had 21points to lead the Patriots.

The Scarlet Fliers will face Manasquan in the SCTsemifinals on Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:45pm atBrookdale Community College. The winner willadvance to the SCT Final at Monmouth University onFriday, February 24th at 7:45pm.

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By Ted KaiserOCEAN TOWNSHIP— A decisivevictory gave Ocean Township theNJSIAA Central Jersey Group IIIwrestling championship. The Spartanswon their first sectional title since2009 (their last of five consecutive)with a 39-9 win over Brick Township.While Ocean only had one pin, theydominated the Green Dragons fromstart to finish. They won 10 of the 13total bouts.

Freshman Zach Hertling (120 lbs.)was the lone Spartan to record a pin.He put Dean Sherry down for the countin a quick matchup. The remarkablefreshman is an outstanding 25-0 on theseason. His veteran teammate, seniorColton Bigelow, remained undefeatedimproving to 29-0 in the 220 lb. weight class. Bigelow, also a key contributor for the football team last fall, won a

major decision over Brick’s DaveWallis.

Ocean ran off a streak of five straightbouts in the middle weight classesbeginning with Jason DeCruz’s win at132 lbs. Orion Rovegno (138 lbs.),Withler Marcelin (145 lbs.), NickPappayliou (152 lbs.) and Mike Andre(160 lbs.) rounded out the winningstreak.

The Spartans were slated to faceParamus last Sunday afternoon in theGroup III semifinal at the Pine BeltArena. A victory would have Oceanvying for the overallGroup III state cham-pionship.

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Top right: Ocean’sJacob Bell gets theadvantage over MattPozi of Paramus.

Bottom right: Ocean’sScot t Bigelow pinshis opponent in the220-lb. weight divi-s ion .

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By Ted KaiserBRICK TOWNSHIP— The BrickMemorial wrestling team knewthey faced a tall order in the NJSI-AA Central Jersey Group IV sec-tional final. Their opponent,Jackson Memorial, entered thematch as the two-time defendingchampion and a perfect 19-0record. But the Mustangs wrestledwithout fear and came away with

three pins and two major decisions on their way to a 35-29 upset of theJaguars.

Jackson Memorial had a leadearly in the match; however, thetide began to change at 145 lbs.Freshman Cliff Ruggiero (138 lb.)wrestled up to the 145 lb. weightclass and pulled out a dramatic pin.That started a string of victories for

Brick Memorial. Senior Evan Bertirecorded a pin at 152 lbs. and the Mustangs got a major decisionfrom junior Tyler Richardson at 170lbs. The Jaguars steadied them-selves with major decision wins at182 lbs. and 195 lbs. making thematch come down to a few keybouts. Junior Matt Moore scored acritical victory for Brick Memorial

with a pin at 220 lbs. and sopho-more Tyler Poling took the heavy-weight bout.

The Mustangs advanced to theoverall Group IV semifinals whichtook place last Sunday at Pine BeltArena/Toms River North. They bat-tled fellow Shore Conference foeSouthern for the right to play for theGroup IV championship later in the day.

Mustangs Knock Defending Champs Off Mat

By Ted KaiserBRICK TOWNSHIP— The stagewas set for a dramatic gamebetween two bitter crosstown rivalson the ice. Brick Township andBrick Memorial have a strong rival-ry in many sports, but ice hockeyalways seems to be one of the mosthotly contested. Last week’s meet-ing on Wednesday night at theOcean Ice Palace was no exception.In fact, this game was even moreimportant because it was the quar-terfinals of the Handchen Cup.Brick Township (12-5-3) entered asthe third seed and Brick Memorial(9-11-4) came in as the sixth seed.Although the Mustangs have been

struggling a bit this winter, therewas no doubt that they would theirA game against the Green Dragons.

Freshman Ryan Monaghan gotBrick Memorial on the scoreboardfirst on a feed from senior forwardJustin Apgar. The 1-0 score wouldhold through the end of the firstperiod. Apgar found the back of thenet in the early stages of the secondperiod and Brick Township sudden-ly found itself in a 2-0 hole. Seniorforward Tyler Martin respondedwith a shorthanded goal to trim thedeficit in half, however, theMustangs answered just 16 secondslater on a power play goal by Nick

Spinelli. Sophomore forward RyanPrice answered for the GreenDragons and the second periodended with a 3-2 Brick Memoriallead.

Steven Bruno scored to start thethird period and push the lead to 4-2. Sophomore David Kearns andthen senior Brendan Dowd scoredback-to-back goals for the GreenDragons to tie the game. Onceagain, the Mustangs clawed aheadon another goal by Bruno. BrickTownship had one last comeback inthem though. Brian Murphy scoredwith 42 seconds remaining to tiethe game at 5-5 and force overtime.

The five-minute overtime wasplayed without a score and thethriller went to a shootout. Even theshootout went to a second roundafter the first round ended 1-1.Brendan Dowd came through as thehero to get the goal ahead shootoutscore and goaltender Jake Lampiasi(12 saves) made a final save to sealthe victory. Not to be lost in thetremendous game was the effort ofBrick Memorial goaltender TimScheiss who made an astounding46 saves. Brick Township advancesto the Handchen Cup semifinalsagainst Toms River North.

Nick Lustrino is looking to makea smooth transition to Division Ibaseball as he begins the 2012 cam-paign for the Temple UniversityOwls. First year Head Coach RyanWheeler will use Lustrino’s athleti-cism in a number of roles this sea-son. The season began February17th at Old Dominion Universitywith a three game series. Accordingto Coach Wheeler, “We've movedNick Lustrino there who as a fresh-man coming in has just done a phe-nomenal job. We've bounced himaround from short stop, third base,catcher, first base. He's been an all-purpose player, but we've thrownhim over there at first base.Positionally, like I said, Lustrino

has really stood out so far becauseof his versatility and I think we canbounce him around in a number ofdifferent positions. I told him he'sprobably not going to get knockedinto any one position this year. So,he just needs to be flexible and gowith it.”

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2012 season at: www.owlsports.comColin Briant who stands at 6”5’’

is entering his second season on themound at West Point. Briant sawmound duty in eight contests duringhis freshman season. He picked uphis first career win againstQuinnipiac, tossing five scorelessinnings. Briant established careerbests with four strikeouts and fiveinnings pitched in that contest. Heearned Patriot League Rookie ofthe Week honors following that out-ing as well. Briant matched hiscareer high with four strikeouts inhis next start against Siena, tossing4.1 innings in a no-decision. Hemade four relief appearances dur-ing the course of the season. Briantcame out of the bullpen againstRadford, Ohio State, Dartmouth

and Marist. His best relief outingcame against the Buckeyes when hethrew 1.2 innings of scoreless ballin which he did not allow a hit.Army opens their season onFebruary 17th at High PointUniversity in North Carolina.

Briant will continue to add depthto the Black Knights' pitching staffas they consider him an athleticspecimen with the ability to throwin the mid-to-upper-80s. He doespossess a quality breaking ball anda developing changeup and he hasbeen penciled in as a midweekstarter after serving in that role as afreshman last season. Briant isexpected to challenge for work outof the Black Knights' bullpen dur-ing Patriot League weekends thisspring as a middle reliever.

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Colin Briant of Manasquan is a pitcher for Army.Nick Lustrino of Spring Lake is an infielder forTemple University.

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Monmouth Softball Makes Donation ToJanelle Moorehead Scholarship FundHawks allocate portion of proceeds from recent clinics to

scholarship fundThe Monmouth University softball team has announced that it will

donate a portion of the proceeds from their Jan. 22 winter clinic to theJanelle Moorehead Scholarship Fund. Moorehead was a freshman on thesoftball team during the 2010-11 academic year, before becoming ill andsuddenly passing away on Jan. 6, 2011. The fund, established byMonmouth Athletics in Moorehead’s memory, set a goal of raising$25,000 of support by 2015 to provide future financial assistance forMonmouth Softball players.

The Moorehead family and friends continue to keep Janelle’s memorythrough fundraising camps, among other efforts, to benefit the JanelleMoorehead Scholarship Fund. In December, the family raised more than$2,000 through a softball camp. All of the proceeds went to the scholar-ship fund. In addition, a family friend also recently secured a $500 dona-tion to the fund by a local ABC television affiliate in California.

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With the first pitch just around thecorner, many local youth league coach-es have been training all winter withtheir teams. Coaches are able to get alot of indoor work done at the FrozenRopes training center in Tinton Falls.Batting practice is commonly thoughtof as one player hitting live on a fieldwhile the others wait their turn. Withthe facility having batting cages andvarious training aids such as battingtees, pitching machines, protectivescreens and more coaches have found

that in just one hour you can get a lotof quality work done.

Indoor practices make it possible formore than one hitter to take battingpractice or work on hitting drills whileothers do the same. Getting the mostout of cage use has really helped youthleague coaches manage their practicetime more efficiently. Frozen Ropestraining center owner Matt Passerellelooks forward to youth coaches inquir-ing on how to run a well-organizedpractice. Passerelle offers coaches clin-

ics to the local leagues and has spenttime traveling to the area leagues toconduct such training. He has manylocal travel teams training with theFrozen Ropes staff and they are able toget a head start on the spring whilegetting quality instruction in an indoorsession.

Frozen Ropes offers instructionfrom current and former college andprofessional players. There are proplayers frequently in the facilitypreparing for spring training and are

happy to share their knowledge withyouth players. Seton Hall pitchingcoach, Phil Cundari who was namedNational Collegiate Pitching Coach ofthe Year in 2011 has helped Passerelledevelop a youth pitching program forarea coaches. Cundari has worked withpitchers of all ages and knows whatgoes into an off- season indoor pro-gram. Frozen Ropes offers manyoptions to training indoors all yearlong. Players of all ages are welcometo train at the center.

Youth Baseball Coaches Getting Most Out Of Indoor Facility

By Ted KaiserLINCROFT — After last year’s bitterone point defeat at the hands of BishopAhr in the sectional final, the ChristianBrothers Academy (CBA) wrestlingteam wanted a different outcome thistime. The Colts (19-5) rolled to a 42-14win over St. Augustine (21-9) to takethe NSIAA South Jersey Non-Public Achampionship. Richard Long won theopening bout in the 138 lb. weightclass, but then St. Augustine won twostraight bouts to take an early lead.There was no panic on the Colts’ sideand the team went on to take nine of thenext 11 bouts. “Our team really feeds offeach other, once one of the guys whohas a close match wins, it just gets theother guys pumped up to wrestle theirhearts out,” explained assistant CoachAndrew Skove.

Senior Vin Favia turned the early 7-3deficit around with another win bymajor decision in the 160 lb. weightclass. Favia improved to a perfect 31-0on the season. From that point on,

CBA was dominant and never relin-quished the lead. Senior Mike Hoeglerwon at 170 lbs., the Colts gained a for-

feit at 195 lbs., Hayden Hrymack (220lbs.) and senior Kirby Gardner (HWT)earned back-to-back pins during a nice

run. Sophomores Erik Beshada (113lbs.) and Christian Casselli (126 lbs.)were among others to pick up wins.

In the District 22 championships lastweekend, CBA figured to have a goodchance for at least three champions. VinFavia is a reigning champ, the top seedin the bracket and a favorite at 160 lbs.Senior Mike Matlaga, bound for theUniversity of Chicago next fall, was thenumber one seed at 138 lbs. SeniorHayden Hrymack also hoped to go outwith a championship at 195 lbs. “It wasa really hard district this year with somany state champions like us, Oceanand Raritan in the district,” said CoachSkove. “District 22 is probably thetoughest in the state this year.”

In all, nine CBA wrestlers remainedalive for a district title heading into thesemifinal round. The Colts did in factcapture four individual crowns onSaturday with Favia, Hrymack, EricBeshada (113 lbs.), and Mike Hoegler(170 lbs.) winning titles.

CBA’s Christian Casselli vs. Romulo Garcia of Long Branch in the 126-lb match.

Colts Crowned Sectional ChampionsJersey Sporting News • February 21 - March 6

Eagles Continue To Soar Jersey Sporting News • February 21 - March 6

By John HealyThe Middletown South boys’

ice hockey team does not expe-rience much losing these days.In fact, the Eagles are currentlyflying high with a 12-gameunbeaten streak, going 10-0-2 intheir previous 12 games, includ-ing a current six-game winningstreak to extend their record to15-5-2. Not only are the Eagleswinning games, but their playersare achieving significant mile-stones along the way.

In the first round of theHandchen Cup on Feb. 17, sen-ior forward Chris Connor talliedhis 150th career point with a hattrick and two assists in theEagles’ 6-2 victory over Howell.“Chris has been playing great allseason and his line of TylerRalph and Zach England is pret-ty tough to defend,” MiddletownSouth Head Coach Stan Guttsaid to the Star Ledger. “He hasbeen so steady since he was afreshman.”

Meanwhile, James Burns alsocontributed with three assists inthe win, while England had twogoals and an assist. GoaltenderTrevor Ralph also stopped 30 of32 shots in the game to helpadvance the top-seeded Eaglesto the semifinal round where

they will square off against Wallon Feb. 22.

Howell, who previouslydefeated the Eagles on Dec. 29in the Bridgewater HolidayTournament, kept the gameclose until the third periodwhere the Eagles broke thegame open. The Eagles took a 2-1 lead into the final period andextended it to a 3-1 lead whenConnor found the back of thenet for his second goal just overfive minutes into the period.Howell responded with a power-play goal from Steven Bernhardtbut it was not enough. Connorscored another goal just 35 sec-onds later to give the Eagles a 4-2 lead. Steven Sangermano andEngland scored the final twogoals in the period, capping the6-2 victory.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIAbove r ight: MiddletownSouth’s Chris Connor (28)steals the puck from Holmdel’sMatt Schiek (12).

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIBotom right: Middletown Southgoalie Trever Ralph was suc-cessful at stopping a Holmdelgoal .

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