Ocean City girls basketball team: Don’t renew coaches’ contracts
Players tell school board coaches have been ‘demeaning,’ ‘disrespectful’ OCEAN CITY — About a dozen members of the Ocean City High School girls basketball team stood before the Board of Education on Wednesday night and asked that their coaches’ contracts not be renewed for next season. They offered complaints including being “verbally degraded, bullied, sworn […]
OCHS swimmers end 60-year dry spell
Boys win sectional first time since 1962; coach McGrath was a man with a plan SEE RELATED STORY SEWELL — The spectators at the NJSIAA South Jersey boys swimming final Thursday between Ocean City’s Red Raiders and Moorestown’s Quakers could be forgiven for thinking the results were up in the air until the final event, […]
‘It feels amazing’: Hard work pays off for Red Raiders
SEWELL — Twenty-six morning weight-lifting sessions. More than 80 practices. Hard work every day for months. It all added up to the first sectional championship for the Ocean City High School boys swim team since 1962. On Thursday evening, the Red Raiders were crowned the 2022 South Jersey Public B champions and it made them […]
MRHS swimmers power past CHW
Mustang girls win first sectional title since 2013 season SEE RELATED STORY SEWELL — The Cherry Hill West girls swim team upset Moorestown and Clearview to make it the South Jersey Public B finals Wednesday, Feb. 16, but CHW was no match for the Mustang girls, who put in the performance of the tournament to […]
Mustang swimmers ecstatic with victory
SEWELL — Two years ago, the Mainland Mustang girls swim team made it to the South Jersey Public B finals but fell to the powerhouse Moorestown Quakers. A year ago, despite having an unbeaten regular season, there was no sectional tournament. Restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic put the kibosh on it, not giving the girls a […]
Mustang boys swimmers defeat TRS in quarterfinals
LINWOOD – The Mainland Mustang boys breezed through their quarterfinal swim meet Friday afternoon, leading Toms River South from start to finish before winning 116-54. The Mustangs, the No. 3 seed, were 10-2 as they traveled to No. 2 seed Moorestown Tuesday evening after the Sentinel sports section went to press to decide who would […]
Atlantic City High School Vikings cheerleaders liven up the house
During Atlantic City High School’s home basketball games, the Vikings cheerleaders keep the house jumping with cheers from the bleachers throughout the games and routines on the court during breaks in the action. Here the girls perform during last week’s game between the hometown Vikings and the visiting Mainland Regional High School girls basketball team. […]
Bretones leads Mainland girls basketball over Atlantic City Vikings
ATLANTIC CITY – The Atlantic City High School girls had the height and power to get their shots off against visiting Mainland Regional Friday night, but the Mustang defense kept them off balance all game so too many of those shots turned into near misses. The last time around, the Mustangs had to come from […]
Mainland girls swim team powers past Ocean City in semifinals
Mustangs head to GCIT to compete for South Jersey sectional championship LINWOOD – The Mainland Regional girls came out firing on all cylinders in Monday’s South Jersey Public B swimming tournament semifinal against Ocean City’s Red Raiders, jumping to a huge 37-9 lead after the first three events and then powering their way to a […]
Ocean City boys swim team in finals: ‘We’re not done yet’
Top-seeded Red Raiders dunk Cherry Hill West, go for first title since ’62 OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City High School boys swim team isn’t finished. On Monday afternoon at the Ocean City Aquatic and Fitness Center, the Red Raiders earned a berth in the South Jersey Public B final with a dominating win over […]