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December 22, 2024

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Ocean City football stunned in final-minute 7-0 loss

EGG HARBOR CITY – Ocean City High School finished up the football regular season with another tight game. The Red Raiders were locked into a scoreless defensive struggle with Cedar Creek High School Friday until the game’s final minute, when the Pirates broke the stalemate.  Quarterback Reilly Hoffacker led Cedar Creek on a 14-play, 99-yard […]

Ocean City girls soccer wins CAL championship with 3-1 win over Egg Harbor Township

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The Red Raiders girls soccer team got three goals from three players and kept the Eagles’ top threats off the scoreboard as they won their fifth consecutive  Cape-Atlantic League Tournament title 3-1 on Oct. 23 at Egg Harbor Township High School. The top-seeded Eagles had the Raiders on their heels in […]

Raider field hockey rolls over Atlantic City

The Ocean City High School field hockey team rolled past Atlantic City 9-0 Monday afternoon in a Coaches vs. Cancer game in which a $9,300 check – raised through the Ocean City pink hair initiative – was presented to Gilda’s Club. The game was in honor of late coach Mikenzie Helphenstine. In the game, Stevie […]

Heartbreaker for Ocean City football vs. Holy Spirit

Late penalty upends upset in the making OCEAN CITY ­— After a thrilling comeback victory last week over Middle Township, Ocean City High School looked primed to do it again in the annual homecoming game. The Red Raiders hosted powerhouse Holy Spirit High School (7-1) on Oct. 18. They put the Spartans on upset alert […]

Winslow ends Mustang football’s home winning streak

LINWOOD — The Mainland Regional football team’s last winning streak — 15 games at home — came crashing down last Friday at the hands of undefeated Group IV kingpins Winslow, but the Mustangs will have another challenge this week at defending Group III state champion Delsea. The 47-24 loss to Winslow (8-0), a team the […]

Mustang field hockey refuses to quit, scores as time expires

After slow start, MRHS girls add another six wins to improve to 8-4-3 LINWOOD — When the Sentinel last checked in with the Mustang field hockey team, the girls were 2-2-2 and just about to add a tie with Cedar Creek. Since then the Mustangs added six more wins against two losses to improve to […]

Cape May County Cross Country Championships run on the Avalon beach, boardwalk

AVALON — The Ocean City High School boys and girls cross country teams won the 2024 Cape May County Cross Country Championships on Thursday, Oct. 19, on a softer-than-usual course — the Avalon beach. The boys swept the top five places and seven of the top eight and the Raider girls all finished in the […]

200th win for coach trying ‘to build better men’

Bogushefsky credits his team, assistant coach for milestone OCEAN CITY — Ocean City High School boys soccer coach Aaron Bogushefsky isn’t just trying to build better soccer players. His aim is to build better men. He’s been doing it as head coach since 2009. Bogushefsky recently hit the coaching milestone of 200 wins, but he […]

Ocean City girls soccer edges Mainland in rematch

LINWOOD — Sometimes all it takes is one moment of brilliance to win a soccer game, when the ball is delivered perfectly into the box at head-height for the onrushing forward and she slams it home for the goal. Such was the case Oct. 11 in Linwood, where the Ocean City Red Raiders topped the […]

Ocean City, Mainland girls fall in South Jersey tennis semifinals

OCEAN CITY — The Ocean City and Mainland Regional girls tennis teams made it to the South Jersey semifinals, but both were knocked out of the sectional tournaments by the top two seeds Oct. 10. That isn’t bad considering the Red Raiders and Mustangs came into the season with overhauled lineups, except for their seniors […]