Athlete Profile/GAVIN WEIS
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel SOMERS POINT – A man can love many things. A man can love his wife, his dog and his children. There is nothing that can get between a man and what he loves, but there will always be room in a man’s heart for his favored sport. Try to get […]
Camryn Dirkes finds her ‘natural high’
She is unfailingly polite, but relentless By DAVID NAHAN Sentinel staff LINWOOD – Looking at Camryn Dirkes on the basketball court – or, for that matter, on the soccer pitch in the fall or throwing the javelin during track and field in the spring – there is nothing that reveals the fierce competitor inside. Until […]
Mustangs run over listless Red Raider team
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY OF THE GAME Mainland girls beat rival Ocean City, 47-25, with start-to-finish pressure By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff LINWOOD – The Mainland Regional High School girls basketball team pressed Ocean City throughout Friday night’s game, but the Red Raiders didn’t match the intensity. Games between the cross-bay rivals are usually […]
Athlete Profile/SAMANTHA ROTHMAN
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel LINWOOD – Samantha Rothman, 17, is quick on the field and faster in life. She is always looking toward the future. The Mainland Regional High School senior is ahead of the curve. Rothman is taking both high school- and college-level courses. “I am taking classes right now at ACCC (Atlantic […]
Athlete Profile/BRODY LEVIN
By JACOB WEEKS/Special to the Sentinel SOMERS POINT – Like father, like son. The legacy continues for the Levin baseball dynasty. Brody Levin, 18, is following in father Frank’s footsteps. “To this day, my dad is and was a stud baseball player,” he said. Levin aspires to follow the path his father has carved for […]
Ocean City girls fall to Middle, 46-41
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY OF THE GAME Panther Kate Herlihy gets hot from 3-point range By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City High School girls basketball team controlled the first half of the Feb. 3 game against Middle Township and quickly ran up a 9-point lead early in the second […]
Red Raider boys basketball edges WCA, 46-44
SCROLL DOWN FOR A FULL GALLERY OF THE GAME Ocean City hustles to get ball back, hit foul shots with 2.2 seconds to go to win By DAVID NAHAN/Sentinel staff OCEAN CITY – With 20 seconds left and the score tied 44-44, Wildwood Catholic Academy had the ball and plenty of time to set up […]
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 […]