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July 14, 2026

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Ocean City softball wins its first South Jersey title in 37 years

Red Raider girls beat Clearview 4-2 for sectional championship OCEAN CITY – When senior Brooke Douglas took the mound in the fifth inning of the South Jersey Group III championship softball game June 4, she finished what pitching partner Jessica Mooney started. The two young women have been swapping places on the mound since their […]

Ocean City boys lacrosse beats Manasquan in four-overtime game to win South Jersey title

Entress scores winning goal; teammate Windfelder makes 17 saves OCEAN CITY – It took everything he and his teammates had, but Kevin Entress and the Ocean City Red Raiders are South Jersey lacrosse champions. After four overtime periods of a back-and-forth defensive battle, Entress scored the golden goal to lift the Red Raiders past Manasquan […]

OCBP comes from behind to win 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship

Ocean City lifeguards win final two events to top Wildwood Crest, Avalon and seven other patrols WILDWOOD CREST — Every point counted as the Ocean City Beach Patrol came from behind to win the 2026 Cape May County Lifeguard Championship on July 10, besting host Wildwood Crest by one point. The OCBP scored in all […]

Atlantic City wins season-opening women’s lifeguard race

Upper Township women finish second, Sea Ice City beach Patrol third LONGPORT — The Atlantic City Beach Patrol used a combination of veteran leadership and youthful exuberance to win the 28th Longport Women’s Lifeguard Invitational on July 7. The ACBP won the swim and surf dash and took second in the doubles row en route […]

Harlan gets hole-in-one at O.C. Tuesday Senior Golf League

By TONY CHERBY/For the Sentinel BUENA VISTA – Greg Harlan described how he managed the Ocean City Tuesday Senior Golf League’s “Best Shot Ever” at Buena Vista Country Club June 30. “As I always say, sometimes it’s good to be lucky. It was hole 12, one of Ralph (DeLanzo’s) favorites. He was beating me so […]

Ocean City Stingrays earn medals at Summer Games

By SUSAN DAVIS/For the Sentinel EWING – The Ocean City Stingrays Swim Team competed in the New Jersey Special Olympics State Summer Games at The College of New Jersey June 5-7 against swimmers from 36 teams from throughout the state. The athletes compete in all four major strokes in various distances, ranging from the 25-meter freestyle […]

More outstanding golf for Thursday seniors; Fong fires season-low 64

By BEN FONG/For the Sentinel EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The race toward the playoffs continued to intensify in Week 8 of the Thursday Ocean City Senior Golf League as players produced another week of exceptional scoring at Harbor Pines Golf Club.  Low rounds, dominant match play victories, and a rare eagle highlighted another memorable Thursday […]

Harlan fires 72, DeLanzo still undefeated in O.C. Tuesday Senior Golf 

By TONY CHERBY/For the Sentinel BUENA VISTA — On June 23, the Ocean City Tuesday Senior Golf League (well, most of us) assembled at Buena Vista Country Club with trepidation under what the TV weather bunnies like to call “threatening skies.”  We found ourselves checking those radar cartoons every 2 minutes, the ones that magically […]

Tuesday Senior Golf: Gardner and Salgado tame league’s toughest holes

By TONY CHERBY/For the Sentinel BUENA VISTA – June 16 marked the fifth week and fourth round of match play for the Tuesday edition of the Ocean City Senior Golf League. Happily, El Nino has been El Nullo in these parts, with a bit of nip in the air as we started our engines and […]

Upsets, low scores and a flock of birdies for Ocean City Thursday Senior Golf 

By BEN FONG/For the Sentinel EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — As the season reached its seventh week, the Thursday Ocean City Senior Golf League continued to deliver exciting competition at Harbor Pines Golf Club.  Several established contenders faced stiff challenges, while a number of players posted impressive scores in the race for valuable points as the […]

Harlan, Wright, Cornell win Senior Golf Scramble; Schultz bags eagle

By TONY CHERBY/For the Sentinel BUENA VISTA – There are golf holes that, once visited, are never forgotten. “The Road Hole” at St. Andrews comes to my mind.  Any hope for a birdie on 17 requires a blind tee shot over a hotel. In 2015, in his final round at the Home of Golf, I […]

Low scores, birdie runs fuel exciting O.C. Thursday Senior Golf week

By BEN FONG/For the Sentinel EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Week 6 of the Thursday Ocean City Senior Golf League season delivered some of the best scoring of the year so far, with multiple golfers firing rounds in the mid-60s as competition continued to intensify at Harbor Pines Golf Club. In A Flight action, Ben Fong […]