Sports
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•April 24, 2019
Southern Volleyball Squad Drops First Match of Season Against Fair Lawn
With one of the team’s best and most experienced hitters sidelined with an ankle injury, the Southern Regional boys volleyball team has needed to find offensive prowess on the outsides by committee.
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•April 19, 2019
Crisp Defense Fueling Baseball Bengals’ Good Start
Six games into the 2019 campaign, the Barnegat High School varsity baseball team is halfway to last year’s win total with a 4-2 mark (3-0 in B South.) Last year, the Bengals went 8-15 (5-7 in B…
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•April 19, 2019
Seniors and Sophs Dominate Barnegat Boys Lacrosse
Not too long ago, the Barnegat High School boys varsity lacrosse team looked like they were going places.
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•April 19, 2019
Confident Barnegat Lacrosse Squad Takes Aim at Division Title
It’s an unusual situation when a coach has an entire roster of players returning from one season to the next. Barnegat girls lacrosse coach Lyndsey Torre was in such a situation as the season started…
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•April 19, 2019
Balanced Group of Barnegat Golfers Take Shot at Division
Following a 10-6 campaign last spring, the Barnegat High School boys golf team brought back a strong lineup to the links for this season. In fact, it’s one of the Bengals most experienced teams in…
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•April 19, 2019
Still Young, Barnegat Softball Squad Looks to Climb Ranks
Most often, returning seven of nine starters from a previous season’s softball team is a great thing. Yet when your team is still one of the youngest in a division that features several of the top…
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•April 19, 2019
Sprinters, Throwers Lead Way for Barnegat Boys Track and Field
It’s hard to say whether the Barnegat High School boys track and field squad is going through a rebuilding process. Following last season, the Bengals graduated several prominent athletes, and those…
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•April 19, 2019
Experience Turns Barnegat Boys Volleyball Around
If Ed Peters, the 13-year head coach of the Barnegat High School boys volleyball team, continues to prove prescient, his squad may have quite the 2019 season. Before the season started, Peters said…
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•April 19, 2019
Larger Turnout Bodes Well for Barnegat Boys Tennis
There is a bright spot for the 2019 Barnegat High School boys tennis team, a program that hasn’t had many for the past few years.
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•April 17, 2019
Stout Steps Down as Southern Wrestling Coach After 18 Seasons
Throughout his tenure as the Southern Regional wrestling team’s head coach, John Stout has been in the corner or matside for dozens of sensational bouts.
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•April 17, 2019
Martin Truex Jr. Captures First Victory With Joe Gibbs Racing
It took him 81 tries, but Martin Truex Jr. finally snagged victory No. 1 on Richmond Raceway short track on April 13.
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•April 17, 2019
Barnegat Boys Volleyball Team Makes It Five Straight With Win Over T.R. East
At times during its match against Toms River East on April 12, the Barnegat High School boys volleyball team scored points easily, but not every point was pretty. Still, the Bengals managed a 25-14…
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•April 17, 2019
Southern Athlete Erika Barbera Receives U.S. Marine Corps All-American Award
Erika Barbera remembers Oct. 29, 2012 very well.
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•April 12, 2019
Sophs and Seniors Leading the Way for Rams Baseball
Keith Cocuzza, head coach of the Southern Regional High School varsity baseball team, is relying on a mixture of youth and experience.
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•April 12, 2019
Experienced Southern Regional Softball Squad Takes Aim at Another Division Title
It’s always nice when a softball team returns a bunch of players from the previous season. Second-year Southern Regional coach Jamie Bernaldo has it beyond nice.
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•April 12, 2019
Southern Regional Girls Lacrosse Fields Explosive Offense
A year ago, Southern Regional girls lacrosse was developing its offense around younger players, and the defense had the more experienced crew. This spring, things have flipped a bit. The Rams are…
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•April 12, 2019
Southern Loaded With Talent for Girls Track and Field
After many years of dominance, Southern Regional girls track and field has found itself trying to regain the Shore Conference Class A South throne during the past couple of seasons. This spring, the…
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•April 12, 2019
Plenty of New Faces on Southern Regional Golf Squads
Graduating three top-notch golfers who had led a squad for several season generally takes a big toll on a high school program for at least a year. Fortunately, that’s not the case for the Southern…
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•April 12, 2019
After Young Sailors Gain More Experience, Southern Regional Sailing Team in Good Shape as Spring Season Rolls On
Following a solid fall season during which it registered top-10 finishes in several big regattas, the Southern Regional sailing team entered the spring campaign with a positive outlook. After all…
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•April 12, 2019
‘Expectations’ Unchanged for Southern’s 6-Time Volleyball Champions
The Southern Regional High School boys volleyball team has reached the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state championship match 10 straight years, winning six of them, four in…
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•April 12, 2019
Rams Stickmen Hope to Keep A-South Title Streak Intact
The Southern Regional High School boys varsity lacrosse team has been making a habit of winning A-South championships, as the Rams captured the crown again last year forthe seventh straight time.…
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•April 11, 2019
Dunwoody Brothers Enhance Southern’s Boys Tennis Team
Southern Regional High School boys tennis coach Evan Brosniak was psyched going into the 2018 season because his squad was built around a core group of returnees with experience.
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•April 10, 2019
Pinelands Track and Field Boys Find New Track Has Winning Feel
Last year, the Pinelands Regional boys track and field team wasn’t allowed to compete at their home track because it was to be reconstructed sometime during spring. Instead, the Wildcats traveled for…
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•April 10, 2019
Southern Routs Jackson Memorial, Improves to 6-0 in Girls Lacrosse
Senior Colleen Mason and her four classmates on the Southern Regional girls lacrosse team fully expect to enjoy some fun in the sun when they head for Florida later this week for the senior trip. The…
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•April 10, 2019
Southern, Pinelands Trade Volleys in New Middle School Sports
Perhaps some credit for the institution and development of middle school boys volleyball this season can be given to Eric Maxwell at Southern Regional High School. Many years ago, Maxwell and…
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•April 5, 2019
Ex-Wildcat Star Now at the Helm of Pinelands Regional Baseball
A solid core of seniors is a key to success in what new head baseball coach Justin Loomissays is a “difficult B-South Conference.” Last year, the Wildcats were 9-10 (8-6 in the B-South).
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•April 5, 2019
Pinelands Regional Boys Tennis Team Loaded for Bear in 2019
Many a high school athletic coach would love to be in the position of Brian Jones as he enters his eighth year as head coach of the Pinelands Regional High School boys tennis team. Jones already had…
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•April 5, 2019
Pinelands Girls Lacrosse Hopes to Rise With Youth Movement
As the spring season approached, Pinelands Regional High School girls lacrosse coach Paul Millar was looking forward to a team full of returning starters. But when eight of last year’s players didn’t…
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•April 5, 2019
Pinelands Regional Faces Tough Climb in B South Softball
As the cycle goes in high school sports, there are times when a team graduates a player or two and it instantly causes the next season to be an uphill climb. One of those times has arrived for…
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•April 5, 2019
Seniors, Juniors Lead Pinelands Track and Field Season
Throughout last spring, a number of juniors and sophomores started rising up within the Pinelands Regional girls track and field program to provide coach Matt Fuller with some depth in certain…
