Athlete Profile/MELINA GALIAS
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel SOMERS POINT – Leaving high school behind but cherishing the lessons learned, Melina Galias, a 17-year-old Somers Point resident, will soon be flipping to the last page of her four-year athletic career in cross country and spring track. Now a senior, Galias has been a consistent runner for the […]
Mainland girls edge rival Ocean City in season opener
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE A FULL GALLERY OF THIS GAME Game starts out ugly but builds to its usual crescendo down the stretch By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The first quarter of last week’s season-opening basketball game between fierce rivals Ocean City and Mainland was ugly. It took nearly four and a half […]
Red Raiders beat Mustangs
By CLYDE HUGHES/Special to the Sentinel LINWOOD – While Gannon Brady may be going to Fordham on a baseball scholarship, he is getting the most out of his senior year of basketball so far, helping Ocean City beat Mainland in the season opener last Tuesday, Jan. 26. For Mainland, which lost nearly all of its […]
Athlete Profile/JAKE INSERRA
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel UPPER TOWNSHIP – The importance of family. A blood brotherhood which has come to define the culture of a program. That’s Ocean City High School football, according to Jake Inserra, 18, who has played in integral role on the team for three years. Last fall he was able to […]
Athlete Profile/MEGAN ERDMAN
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel LINWOOD – A Linwood resident taking her field hockey skills abroad, Megan Erdman, 17, is representing her hometown as she competes for Holy Spirit High School. “Growing up [here] has taught me the importance of working hard and giving everything my all,” she said. Erdman first fell in love […]
Brady tops 1,000 points
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY OF THIS GAME Red Raider senior needed 11, scored 34 By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – Red Raider senior Gannon Brady needed 11 points in Thursday night’s game against Lower Cape May Regional to hit the 1,000-point plateau in his basketball career at Ocean City High School. He […]
Ocean City surfer rides N.J. big ‘wave of the winter’
Video of Rob Kelly’s ride viewed worldwide By BILL BARLOW/Special to the Sentinel MANAESQUAN – Picture a cold, rolling hillside built of 52-degree salt water. Then imagine Ocean City’s Rob Kelly sliding down the face as that hill rolls over itself, tucking him behind an overhead waterfall to eventually pop out the far side. On […]
Ocean City High School fall football cheerleaders
The Ocean City High School football cheerleaders have been at all of the Red Raiders football games this season, cheering from the track and, toward the end of the season, performing a dance and acrobatics routine during haltime.
Linwood Panthers JV team goes undefeated in league conference
By CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff LINWOOD — The Linwood Panthers junior varsity team recently completed a perfect season, ending in its second-straight victory in the National Conference Championship of the Atlantic County Junior Football League. The Panthers, made up of 26 boys from Linwood in fifth and sixth grades, defeated the Absecon Blue Devils 8-7 […]
What a strange football season it’s been
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY Red Raider football wraps up successful but odd fall with a half-game CRAIG D. SCHENCK/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY — A fantastic football season for the Ocean City Red Raiders came to an abrupt and unexpected end Wednesday night when the visiting Williamstown Braves were ordered to withdraw immediately at […]