Ocean City girls basketball dispatches Highland in Group III hoops opener
OCEAN CITY — The Red Raider girls basketball team made quick work of the Highland Tartans on Tuesday evening in the first round of the NJSIAA South Jersey Group III tournament.Ocean City, the No. 3 seed, opened with a bang, scoring the most points in the first quarter en route to shutting down Highland, the No. […]
City honors Linwood Panthers for their championship season
LINWOOD — More than a dozen young athletes gathered Wednesday, Feb. 23, at City Hall for the cherry on top of their victory sundae. City Council congratulated and honored the Linwood Panthers varsity football team for its “notable achievement,” stating in a proclamation that it “brought substantial recognition to the members … their coaches, families and […]
BEST MRHS GIRLS SWIM SEASON EVER
Mustang girls finish as state Group B finalist SEWELL – The Mainland Regional High School girls swimming team finished its best season ever Sunday night, making it to the state finals for the first time in school history after securing only the team’s second South Jersey championship 12 days earlier. The girls lost in the […]
MUSTANG BOYS & GIRLS SCORE CAL HOOPS TITLES
ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONSHIPS Mainland boys upset everyone, take O.T. thriller over the Prep GALLOWAY – The Mainland Regional boys basketball team pulled off the unthinkable Saturday afternoon, stunning St. Augustine Prep 58-56 for the Cape-Atlantic League championship. “It’s unbelievable,” head coach Dan Williams said. “I have to believe that some of it is, being […]
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 […]