Here are scores and details from Monday’s high school sports action in Salem County made available to Riverview Sports News; coaches, don’t wait for the sketchy dot-com reports, send your results to Riverview Sports News directly at al.muskewitz@gmail.com.
BOYS TENNIS
Penns Grove 4, Clayton 1
Pennsville 5, Glassboro 0
Woodstown 4, Triton 1
WOODSTOWN 4, TRITON 1
Steve Schilder (T) def. Tim Schwienbacher, 6-2, 6-2
Drew Stengel 
def. Tristyn Malone, 6-1, 5-2
Eric Lipovzky def. William Ahrens, 6-4, 6-0
Ben Stengel-Joseph Kurpis def. Tirth Patel-Brennan Zabala, 6-1, 6-1
Jason LaFond-Luke Shaw def. Sean Gorski-Cole Durham, 6-0, 6-1
Records: Woodstown 2-0, Triton 0-1.
PENNS GROVE 4, CLAYTON 1
Chase Fronczklewucz (CL) def. Alex Ramirez Martinez, 6-0, 6-0
Poyraz Erdonmez (PG) def. Chase Murphy, 6-3, 6-1
Angel Perez Herrera (PG) def. Troy Hollis, 6-3, 6-2
Ricardo Vichi-Anthony Pacheco (PG) def. Jayden Sanchez-James Mai, 7-5, 6-1
Pablo Sanchez Correa-Stuart Mondragon (PG) def. Ian Johnson-Dyshamir Miller, 6-1, 6-2.
BOYS LACROSSE
Woodstown 13, Cedar Creek 5: Woodstown (2-2) outscored Cedar Creek 6-0 in the second quarter to take a 9-3 halftime lead.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Haddonfield 17, Woodstown 2: Riley Austin scored four goals and Stella Stolarick dished four assists to lead Haddonfield. Delaney Walker and Jaime Deal scored Woodstown’s goals.
GOLF
Boys
Pitman 198, Salem Tech 246 – Medalist: Joey Zubert (P) 45
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
GCIT 2, Salem Tech 0 (25-12, 25-10): Nicholas Caltabiano had six kills and three aces for GCIT to spoil the Chargers’ season opener. Mason Hohl had five kills and six digs.
Month: April 2024
‘A good win’
Pennsville softball opens a busy week with a victory over county rival Woodstown; Schalick uses two big innings to pick up its first win of the season
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
WOODSTOWN – It was a strange game on so many fronts, but in the end, Pennsville pulled out a big victory to start what for the Eagles is a week of big games.
The Eagles took down county rival Woodstown 7-3 Monday. The game time was pushed back a half-hour to allow the solar eclipse to run its course. The Eagles arrived at 3 p.m. to find an empty stadium as the Wolverines waited things out in the gym, but it did allow them to experience the celestial event.
When the game did get underway, they lost their starting pitcher to a blister blowout in the fifth inning, but their reliever kept the hard-hitting Wolverines off the board the rest of the way.
“It was just a crazy afternoon,” Pennsville coach Beth Jackson said.
Savannah Palverento started in the circle for the Eagles (3-1) and was pitching through a blister on her throwing hand that developed during Saturday’s doubleheader. It finally burst in the fifth inning, forcing her out of the circle into left field and calling Sierra Stultz out of the bullpen.
Palverento gave up three runs in the first two innings, but kept the Wolverines off the board up to the time she came out with one out in the bottom of the fifth and Stultz shut them out on three hits the rest of the way. Lilly Birney helped keep Woodstown off the board with a great catch in centerfield in the seventh.
“The two of them pitched well,” Jackson said. “Sierra came in and helped out and did her job. We had a couple hiccups in the field, but other than that the girls were making the plays. Lilly Birney made an excellent play in centerfield in the bottom of the seventh.”
Palverento’s availability to pitch the rest of the week wasn’t immediately certain.
Woodstown (2-1) scored a pair of runs in the first on Ellie Wygand’s RBI single and Katie Brown’s run-scoring fielder’s choice. Pennsville scored four runs in the second on a pair of errors to take the lead. Five of Pennsville’s runs were unearned.
Birney and Reagan Wariwanchik each had two hits for the Eagles.
“Our whole lineup was hitting the ball, making contact,” Jackson said. “There were a few plays we took advantage of and we added on with some hits.
“We hit the ball pretty much through the lineup, put the ball in play. My dad always says put the ball in play, good things will happen.”
The Eagles didn’t have any more luck getting Woodstown leadoff hitter Tulana Mingin out than anybody else that has played the Wolverines this year. Mingin reached base all four times she batted, extending her streak of reaching safely to 14 straight plate appearances going back to last season. The single she got in the sixth inning ran her career total to 104 hits.
“This was a good win,” Jackson said. “Like I said to them, playing Millville and Ocean City on Saturday. I think that really helped prepare them for this week.
“That was my post on Instagram. I said we went 1-1 and no rest for the weary next week. We’re playing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. We have a tough week and I think this was a good way to start this week.”
SCHALICK 16, CLAYTON 2: The Cougars put together a pair of seven-run innings to score their first win of the season.
Alex Shimp had a pair of hits and three RBIs to lead the offense and Abby Willoughby spun a complete game with eight strikeouts. Cloe Elliott also had two hits, while Addi Shimp, Taylor Sparks, Ava Scurry, Cayla Sbrana and Willoughby all had one.
‘He’s Luke, you know’
Wood gives Pennsville six good innings in his first start of the season, then goes behind the plate for the first time to guide his reliever to the save
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE – Luke Wood does a pretty good job keeping his emotions in check when he’s out on the mound. Inside, his heart might be pounding like a bass drum and every nerve on fire, but outwardly he remains as steady as an ace of the staff should be.
Which is what made what happened on the final pitch of his first start of the season so noteworthy.
Maybe he knew it was going to be his last pitch of the day. Maybe he was just relieved to have pitched out of a little jam in a tight game. Maybe he just appreciated the strikeout.
Whatever the reason, the Pennsville junior let out a very audible “Let’s go,” after he blew a fastball past Woodstown’s Sam Chard for the final out of the sixth before switching places with batterymate Connor Starn to close out Monday’s 4-2 victory.
“I was trying to stay locked in all game, keep my emotions very level,” he said, “but I got out of that first-and-second (situation), which was really huge up by two (and) not giving up any runs there, and I think the emotions came over me. I was excited.
“I’m always pretty fiery when I’m on the mound. Any time I’m throwing well I’m pumped up. It’s a good feeling to go out and throw well.”
Wood thought his first start of the year went “pretty good” outside of the one inning Woodstown scored its runs. He wasn’t on a pitch count and wanted to finish the game, but coach Matt Karr lifted his ace after six innings and 85 pitches “looking out for him” for the long run. No sense in running risk in the third game in April when there’s bigger stakes in late May and June.
The Eagles (2-1) have games against powerhouses Delsea and Gloucester Catholic later this week and as much as the baseball world would love to see Wood on the mound in those situations he probably won’t pitch against either of them.
The left-hander gave up seven hits, a four-pitch walk and hit two batters in his in his final inning on Eclipse Monday, but he struck out nine, including the side in order in the third inning. Woodstown touched him for four straight hits and both their runs leading off the fourth, but he got out of it with two strikeouts and kept the Wolverines off the board the rest of the game.
“He’s Luke, you know,” Karr said. “We get him on the mound and we expect to win a baseball game, he expects to win a baseball game. I think he’ll tell you he can be better. It’s his first outing of the year and we’re still trying to build him up to where he wants to be pitching at the end of May and early June.
“He’s just working through some things, mechanical stuff. He was injured in basketball, so he’s a little behind in his throw program, but he’s a gamer. We know when we put Luke on the mound we can beat anybody.”
When Wood came off the mound for the last time he didn’t go far. He switched places with his catcher in a move he appreciated on a number of fronts. He got to break in the new catcher’s mitt he got for Christmas in anticipation of being behind the plate some this season and he was happy not to be “stuck out in the outfield without much control of what’s going on.”
When he set up for Starn in the seventh, it was his first inning of catching in high school.
It got dicey in the seventh inning. The Wolverines (1-2) put some good swings on the ball against Starn and got the tying run on with one out and loaded the bases with two. But Starn got cleanup hitter Brent Williams to ground sharply to shortstop Peyton O’Brien to end the game.
“Catching six innings your legs are a little tired, but you’ve got to push through it,” Starn said. “You can’t be scared. Being scared you’re just going to get beat every time. I just went out there knowing they’re not better than me, throw it where they can’t hit it and hope they call it a strike.”
In assessing his first-time catcher Starn said “he’s not bad, can’t complain.” Wood will be behind the plate every time Starn pitches going forward.
Woodstown took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on RBI singles by Williams and Rocco String, but the Eagles retook the lead in the bottom of the inning on two-out bases-loaded walks to Jacob Grant and Wood. Jeff Wagner’s two-out RBI double gave them an insurance run in the fifth.
Wagner was the first batter reliever Jack Holladay saw when he followed Jack Knorr, but after the double Holladay struck out the last four batters he faced.
The Wolverines outhit their hosts 10-6, but base-running mistakes cost them potentially five runs, three early and two in the seventh. They ran themselves out of two in the first and botched a squeeze in the fourth.
They cost themselves potentially two more in the seventh when Mark Banff misread Ty Coblentz’ shot to the centerfield fence that resulted in a long single with runners at first and second instead of the corners or better with the heart of the order coming to bat.
“We made three outs on the bases in the first two innings; on top of that we missed three (other) opportunities,” Woodstown coach Marc DeCastro said. “We just relied on beating a good pitcher with hitting and then we couldn’t capitalize on anything outside of that and we couldn’t run the bases, so you get what you get.”
PENNSVILLE 4, WOODSTOWN 2
| Woodstown (1-2) | 000 200 0- | 2 10 0 |
| Pennsville (2-1) | 100 210 x- | 4 6 1 |
Still not enough
Salem CC softball among national leaders in hitting, as a team and individually, but remain outside JUCO’s Division II Top 20
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
CARNEYS POINT – The Salem CC softball team is off to its best start in program history. The Mighty Oaks have one of the longest current winning streaks in its division and several players among the national leaders, but it’s still not enough to break them into the national rankings.
The Mighty Oaks (20-4) have an 18-game winning streak and lead JUCO Division II in batting (.436) and on-base percentage (.534) among teams that have played at least 20 games this season, but they weren’t listed in this week’s Top 20 or teams receiving votes.
Oaks leadoff hitter Karyn Trice is second nationally in batting (.594) and first in OBP (.689) among players on teams with a minimum of 20 games. Ella Hayes is fourth in batting (.585), fourth in OBP (.641) and 11th in slugging (1.015). Other statistics are listed on a total basis and Hayes is tied for 14th in total RBIs.
Morgan Mecham is eighth in ERA among pitchers with 10 or more appearances (1.35). The Oaks are sixth in team ERA (2.40) and tenth in strikeouts per seven innings (7.37).
Despite their early-season success, the Oaks remained unranked in the latest D-II Top 20. Among the teams in this week’s poll, only unanimous No. 1 Parkland (30) and No. 14 Bryant & Stratton-Wis. (18) have winning streaks equal or longer than the Oaks.
“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be (in the poll); I think we have a good shot,” Salem coach Angel Rodriguez said after Sunday’s sweep of Bucks CC. “We’re playing hot. We’re doing all the right things.
“The first step was getting a player recognized for the first time (GSAC Player of the Week Hayes). That’s a good start; hopefully we can make a good argument this week and see when the new rankings come up. It’s definitely going to be nice to see it, but (if) we don’t see it, it’s just more motivation for us – what do we have to keep doing to get there.”
JUCO DIVISION II RANKINGS
1. Parkland (37-3), 2. Copiah-Lincoln (27-3), 3. Louisburg (33-3), 4. Murray State (33-5), 5. Pearl River (33-6), 6. Jones (26-10), 7. Johnson County (26-6), 8. LSU-Eunice (32-8), 9. Kirkwood (22-10), 10. Phoenix (25-6);
11. Des Moines Area (23-7), 12. East Central (26-8), 13. St. Johns River (36-13), 14. Bryant & Stratton-Wis. (18-1), 15. Hines (23-11), 16. Spoon River (24-12), 17. Catawba Valley (19-2), 18. Cowley County (29-10), 19. Marion Military Institute (32-12), 20. NW Mississippi (19-13).
Receiving votes: Bryant & Stratton-Va., North Iowa Area, Kankakee, Rock Valley.
This week’s schedule
Here is the sports schedule for teams in Salem County for the week of April 8-13; all events 4 p.m. unless noted
MONDAY
BASEBALL
Penns Grove at Salem
Schalick at Clayton
Woodstown at Pennsville
SOFTBALL
Clayton at Schalick
Pennsville at Woodstown, 4:30 p.m.
Salem at Penns Grove
GOLF
Schalick girls vs. Williamstown, Scotland Run GC
Overbrook vs. Woodstown, Town & Country GL, 4:30 p.m.
Pennsville boys vs. Schalick, Centerton CC, 3:45 p.m.
Salem Tech at Pitman, 3:45 p.m.
BOYS TENNIS
Pennsville at Glassboro, 3:45 p.m.
Triton at Woodstown, 4:30 p.m.
Clayton at Penns Grove, 4:30 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Cedar Creek, 4:30 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Haddonfield, 5:30 p.m.
TRACK
Pennsville at Penns Grove
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Salem Tech at GCIT, 3:45 p.m.
TUESDAY
BASEBALL
Clayton at Woodstown
Delsea at Pennsville
Schalick at Hammonton
SOFTBALL
Pennsville at Delsea
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Middlesex at Salem CC, 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Salem CC at Northampton (2), 3:30 p.m.
GOLF
Pennsville vs. Clayton, Pitman CC, 3:45 p.m.
Schalick girls in South Jersey Open, Westwood GC
BOYS TENNIS
Schalick at Woodstown, 3:45 p.m.
Pennsville at Washington Twp.
TRACK
Overbrook at Woodstown
Schalick at Glassboro
WEDNESDAY
BASEBALL
Gloucester at Woodstown
Overbrook at Penns Grove
Schalick at Glassboro
Wildwood at Salem
SOFTBALL
Glassboro at Schalick
Gloucester Catholic at Pennsville
Penns Grove at Overbrook
Salem at Wildwood
Woodstown at Haddon Heights
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC at Montgomery County CC, 3:30 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Salem CC at RCSJ-Cumberland (2), 3 p.m.
BOYS TENNIS
Woodstown at Penns Grove, 3:45 p.m.
Cumberland at Pennsville
Schalick at Overbrook
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at West Deptford
GOLF
Pennsville vs. West Deptford, Riverwinds GC
Salem Tech vs. Overbrook, Kresson GC, 3:30 p.m.
Schalick girls vs. Clearview, Westwood GC
TRACK
Clayton at Salem
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Salem Tech at Triton, 3:45 p.m.
THURSDAY
BASEBALL
Gloucester Catholic at Pennsville
Schalick at Deptford
SOFTBALL
Camden at Penns Grove
Woodstown at Cumberland
BOYS TENNIS
Pennsville at Vineland, 3:45 p.m.
Schalick at Millville
GOLF
Pennsville vs. Woodstown, Town & Country GL, 3:30 p.m.
Salem Tech vs. Gateway, Riverwinds GC, 3:45 p.m.
Schalick girls vs. Cumberland, Running Deer GC
BOYS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Mainland
FRIDAY
BASEBALL
Penns Grove at Gateway
Salem at Paulsboro
Schalick at Haddon Heights
SOFTBALL
Salem at Cumberland
Schalick at Gloucester Catholic
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Bergen CC at Salem CC, 3:30 p.m.
GOLF
Millville vs. Pennsville, Sakima CC, 3:30 p.m.
BOYS TENNIS
Pitman at Pennsville, 3:45 p.m.
Woodstown at Delsea, 3:45 p.m.
Penns Grove at Wildwood
Schalick at Clayton
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Haddon Heights
SATURDAY
BASEBALL
Woodstown at West Deptford, 10 a.m.
Schalick at Paulsboro, 10 a.m.
SOFTBALL
Pennsville at West Deptford, 6 p.m.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC at Bergen CC (2), noon
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Morris at Salem CC (2), noon
BOYS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Egg Harbor Twp., 10 a.m.
TRACK
Schalick girls, Penns Grove girls, Pennsville, Salem at West Deptford Relays, 9 a.m.
Schalick boys at Bridgeton Relays, 9 a.m.
Penns Grove boys at Cherokee
The beat goes on
Salem CC softball reaches 20 wins for season, extends winning streak to 18 games; perhaps it’s time to bring the Oaks into the national picture
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE – K.C. Garcia was just a little bit surprised when she was asked to participate in the post-game interviews after another weekend of Salem CC softball sweeps.
It isn’t often a reserve outfielder with 25 at bats on the season gets requested to provide some insight on another Mighty Oaks run-rule sweep, but with a little bit of reflection the reason became abundantly clear.
It wasn’t lost on the sophomore from Houston the significance her jersey number has on the results of the day.
Salem reached the 20-win plateau for season Sunday with a 10-2, 11-0 sweep of Bucks CC at Watson Field. Neither game made it past the fifth inning.
“Our 20 wins, which is our highest record that we’ve had,” the Mighty Oaks’ No. 20 said. “It hasn’t (sunk in) yet, but I think it will a little bit later.”
Sunday’s sweep also extended the Oaks’ winning streak to 18 games, which is two more wins than they had all of last season.
The 20 wins aren’t quite enough to get the Oaks (20-4) in the playoffs yet – with a projected 48-game schedule that magic number is four for a .500 record to qualify – but it does represent a significant improvement over the team’s record in its resumption of play a year ago, which has been the goal all along. The Oaks were 13-11 after 24 games a year ago.
“(The 20) means a lot to me,” pitcher Caitlin LaGreca said. “Especially coming from last year since our record was definitely not like that last year.”
“We made our first mark last year, having the first team in quite some time, so anything we did last year was just great because we got it going,” Oaks coach Angel Rodriguez said. “This year we wanted to set the bar a little higher and we went out and got a team that’s going to put in the work to do that. We’re just creating our own history here and we love it. The goal we had was to be better than we were last year and build from there and we’re just glad to be doing that now.”
It was another big day for the offense, supported by more sharp pitching in the circle. The Oaks banged out 27 hits in the two games. The first six batters in their lineup went a combined 23-for-38 with 18 RBIs, 10 extra-base hits and a pair of homers in the doubleheader. Pitchers LaGreca and Morgan Mecham allowed three hits in each game.
Ella Hayes went 4-for-5 with eight RBIs in the doubleheader and came within a homer of hitting the cycle in the nightcap. Karyn Trice went 3-for-3 in Game 2 and 5-for-6 with five runs in the twinbill. Faith Penn had three hits and four runs; Vaye Savage had three hits with a homer in the opener and five RBIs; Haylee Pickrell had three hits with a homer in the nightcap, and Courtney Hoggard had four hits and two RBIs.
“Since I’m the third batter I always tell Karyn and Faith to do a job and I’ll get them in, and they’ve been doing their jobs every time,” Hayes said. “I’m pretty sure they’re all the RBIs I’ve had or pretty close. I really rely on them to get the job done and I know if I can’t get the job done they or (the following hitters) will get it done.”
The pitchers have given up 36 runs in the winning streak, but 21 of those came in two games. LaGreca’s shutout in the nightcap was the Oaks’ seventh during the streak and ninth of the season.
The longer the streak goes, the pitchers might start feeling the squeeze to keep it going. LaGreca said she feels pressure “sometimes,” but she relies on her teammates’ continual support to bring her through it.
“There is pressure, we have that chip on our shoulder, but we also have that swagger in us that allows us to play loose and have fun,” Hayes said.
For all the success the Mighty Oaks have enjoyed in the last month, it hasn’t shown up on the national scene. It remains to be seen if they will be ranked in the JUCO Division II Top 20 when it comes out Monday. Their .427 team batting average would rank fourth nationally, their 9.9 runs per game average would be among the leaders and their 2.40 ERA would be T-7 among teams with 18 games or more.
“There’s no reason why we shouldn’t be; I think we have a good shot,” Rodriguez said. “We’re playing hot. We’re doing all the right things. The first step was getting a player recognized for the first time (GSAC Player of the Week Hayes). That’s a good start; hopefully we can make a good argument this week and see when the new rankings come up. It’s definitely going to be nice to see it, but (if) we don’t see it, it’s just more motivation for us – what do we have to keep doing to get there.”
The Oaks haven’t suffered a loss since March 10, their final game in the Carolinas. They’ve trailed only four times during the winning streak and never after the fifth inning. It begs the question, will the Oaks ever lose again? The law of averages and nature of the game would suggest the streak will end at some point, but the players won’t hear of it.
“No, no shot,” Hayes said. “I won’t allow it. None of us will allow it. We’re going to keep that win streak.”
“Never again, never again,” Garcia said emphatically. “I’ll bet you 20.”
There’s that number again.
No rust from rain
Salem CC softball returns to field and routs Raritan Valley CC, winning streak hits 16
By Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE – Apparently, a week off the field due to inclement weather did little to dull the Salem CC softball team’s eye at the plate or its winning streak.
The Mighty Oaks returned to action for the first time since March 29 and overwhelmed Raritan Valley CC in a 23-1, 19-0 sweep to run their winning streak to 16 games.
The Oaks had only 19 hits in the two games, but drew 10 walks in each.
In their first inning back in competition, they scored 11 runs on one hit. Sixteen batters came to the plate with Courtney Hoggard delivering the only hit, a two-run single that made it 11-0. There were seven walks and five hit batsmen. Each of their first three batters walked – on 13 total pitches.
Hoggard and Ella Hayes both went 3-for-3 in the game. Hoggard had three RBIs. Hayes hit a solo homer and finished with six RBIs.
In the nightcap, Callie Rozak went 2-for-2 with five RBIs, Tessa Wise had three RBIs and Kiki Beukman had two hits and two RBIs.
Two pitchers combined on a one-hitter in the nightcap, facing only two batters over the minimum. Morgan Mecham pitched the first three innings and struck out eight. Jill Robinson closed it out with two innings of no-hit relief.
The Mighty Oaks (18-4) host Bucks County CC in a doubleheader at Watson Field Sunday starting at noon.
Saturday roundup
Here is a roundup of Saturday’s action involving Salem County high schools in track, baseball and lacrosse
Track
DEPTFORD – Salem’s Anthony Parker and DaviYonn (Pop) Jackson won individual events and four other Salem County athletes or relays won medals at the Deptford Spartan Relays Saturday.
Parker won the boys 400 Hurdles in 58.50 and Jackson won by boys triple by by a quarter-inch with a winning jump of 43-5.5.
The top three finishers in each event received medals.
Pennsville’s Connor Ayars finished second in the boys javelin (154-2). Schalick’s Grace O’Neill was third in the girls 400 Hurdles (1:11.64), Pennsville’s Megan Morris was third in the firls pole vault (8-0); and the Cougars’ girls 1600 sprint medley team (Ella Shimp, Karlie Bakley, Zoe Jenkins, Gia Martellacci) was third in 4:39.67.
Below are the Salem County athletes who finished in the top eight of their respective events.
DEPTFORD SPARTAN RELAYS
(Top 3 places win medals)
BOYS
400 Hurdles: 1. Anthony Parker, Salem, 58.50
Distance Medley: 8. Schalick (Bradford Foster, Charles Fuerneisen, Steve Chomo, Salvatore Longo), 12:20.17
800 Sprint Medley: 8. Salem (Jelani Beverly, Omarion Pierce, Terrance Smith, Anthony Parker), 1:41.39
4×100 Shuttle Hurdle: 6. Schalick, 1:18.92
4×800: 4. Schalick (Steve Chomo, Charles Fuerneisen, Wyatt Juczak, Salvatore Longo), 9:11.16
4×200: 4. Salem (Anthony Parker, Terrance Smith, Omarion Pierce, Kaden Robinson), 1:35.41
4×400: 6. Schalick (Reggie Allen, Jacob Carter, Hunter Dragotta, Sickler Kolby), 3:44.72; 8. Penns Grove (Knowledge Young, Theus Barrios, Sebastian Hernandez, Kylee Goodson), 3:47.33
Javelin: 2. Connor Ayars, Pennsville, 154-2; 5. Cole Campbell, Pennsville, 135-10
Long Jump: 5. David Stewart, Schalick, 19-0
Triple Jump: 1. DaviYonn Jackson, Salem, 43-5.5; 7. David Stewart, Schalick, 39-11
GIRLS
400 Hurdles: 3. Grace O’Neill, Schalick, 1:11.64
Distance Medley: 5. Schalick (Jordan Hadfield, Sophia Longo, Ella Shimp, Grace O’Neill), 14:04.16
800 Sprint Medley: 5. Salem (Karima Davenport-White, Anna Buzby, Rhionna Timmons, Dayana Jones), 1:57.57
4×100 Shuttle Hurdle: 4. Salem (Anna Buzby, Karima Davenport-White, Tahirah Davenport-White, LaMiracle Summers), 1:13.74; 8. Schalick (Brooke Watt, Gabriella Simonini, Allison Phillips, Grace O’Neill), 1:16.90
4×800: 6. Schalick (Caylen Taylor, Jordan Hadfield, Ella Shimp, Sophia Longo), 11:15.20
4×200: 4. Salem (Anna Buzby, Karima Davenport-White, Rhionna Timmons, Dayana Jones), 1:53.81
1600 Sprint Medley: 3. Schalick (Ella Shimp, Karlie Bakley, Zoe Jenkins, Gia Martellacci), 4:39.67
4×400: 7. Schalick (Karlie Bakley, Alivia Klancic, Katelyn Little, Sophia Longo), 4:37.77
Discus: 5. Grace O’Neill, Schalick, 97-8
High Jump: T-6. Brooke Watt, Schalick, 4-8
Pole Vault: 3. Megan Morris, Pennsville, 8-0; 5. Anna Buzby, Salem, 7-6
Baseball
KELLY TOURNAMENT
SCHALICK 11, CLAYTON 1
GLOUCESTER CITY 6, SCHALICK 5
The Cougars misplayed Ayden Daily’s bases-loaded grounder to third with two outs in the bottom of the eighth to chase home the decisive run against Gloucester City.
In their opening-game victory, Ricky Watt and Luke Pokrovsky both hit a pair of doubles and combined for seven RBIs and two pitchers combined on a three-hitter as the Cougars beat Clayton.
Seven of the Cougars’ 14 hits in the game were doubles. Every spot in the lineup had at least one hit. Watt went 2-for-3 with four RBIs and Pokrovsky went 2-for-2 with three RBIs.Cole Hartley pitched the first four innings of the five-inning game, giving up two hits and a run. Jamari Whitley pitched a one-hit fifth with three strikeouts.
CEDAR CREEK 12, WOODSTOWN 8: The Wolverines had answers for almost every Cedar Creek salvo except the four-spot the Pirates put up in the third inning and was the difference in the game.
Sean O’Kane and Tyler McCorriston both went 2-for-4 with three RBIs for the Pirates. Brent Williams had the big bat for Woodstown, going 2-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs. Jack Holladay and Ty Coblentz both had a pair of hits for the Wolverines.
GCIT 19, PENNSVILLE 1: Eagles coach Matt Karr wasn’t making excuses, but he can’t remember seeing as many hits off the handle and seeing-eye singles GCIT produced in a 16-run third inning that broke the game open.
The Cheetahs sent 20 batters to the plate in the inning and banged out 12 hits. Ben Sumek batted three times with a walk, single, bases-loaded double and five RBIs, Willie Popoff had a single, triple and four RBIs.
Cohen Petrutz had two of Pennsville’s four hits and Stevie Fatcher drove in their only run.
Lacrosse
WASHINGTON TWP. 16, WOODSTOWN 9: The Wolverines played their visitors even after halftime, but fell into an 11-4 halftime deficit they couldn’t shake. Nine players scored goals for Washington Twp. Robbie Finnegan had five goals and two assists.
Mingin’s milestone
Saturday softball: Mingin surpasses 100 career hits in Woodstown victory; Pennsville splits in Vinick Tournament
SATURDAY SALEM COUNTY SOFTBALL
Woodstown 7, Camden Catholic 1
Millville 6, Pennsville 2
Pennsville 9, Ocean City 7
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
WOODSTOWN – One of the first goals Tulana Mingin set for herself when she started playing varsity softball was to collect 100 hits before she graduated.
Saturday morning, the dream that seemed so long ago became a reality.
The Woodstown senior shortstop became the 11th player in the program’s history – and first since 2018 – to reach 100 career hits while she collected four of them in the Wolverines’ 7-1 victory over Camden Catholic.
It took her 199 at bats and 60 games to reach the milestone.
“It means a lot; I’m really excited about it, because I work really hard on my hitting and it’s nice to see it pay off,” Mingin said. “Going into my freshman year I would think about it because it’s something really cool to do and not a lot of people do it in this program, so it’s a big deal.
“I wasn’t really thinking about it when I was younger, but as it got closer I started to think I’m getting pretty close to it, it would be really cool.”
The East Stroudsburg signee needed only one hit for the milestone entering the game and wasted little time getting it.
Leading off the bottom of the first, she belted the second pitch she saw into left centerfield for a triple. Unfortunately, she was stranded there as the Wolverines loaded the bases but failed to score.
Hit No. 101 was more productive. It was a two-out RBI single to left that put the Wolverines up 1-0. She ended up all the way at third as she circled the infield as the Irish tried to get the lead runner at the plate.
“I was a little bit anxious, but I was pretty relaxed because I know I can’t worry about that stuff,” she said. “I was just going to try to do my best in every at bat, and it worked out.”
Indeed. Teams are still trying to figure a way to get her out. She went 4-for-4 against the Irish and has yet to make an out in eight plate appearances this season (6-for-6 and two walks). In fact, she has reached base in each of her last 10 plate appearances going back to the final game last season. She has been hitless in only nine games in her game, just four over the last three seasons.
“There’s no words to describe how great of a player she is and what she means to our program, what she means to me as a coach,” Woodstown coach Dave Wildermuth said. “She’s just a great all-around player. She works really hard at softball. She deserves every milestone that she reaches and every honor that she receives.
“I don’t know if you’ve noticed like yesterday and today the way teams are shifting on her, they end up pulling the infield in and the outfield up because they think she’s just a slap hitter, but you can see she can drive the softball. If you want to cheat your outfield up on her, she’s going to put the ball over your head or in the gap.”
And that’s what produced the milestone triple. The Irish pulled the fielders in and she got a pitch that looked up in a zone and power slapped it into the left centerfield gap. With her speed that typically turns walks into doubles within a couple pitches, she went into third standing up.
Her 103 total hits (in 202 career at-bats) are now 10th on the Wolverines’ all-time list. The next milestone is the all-time mark – 131, set by Gracee Roberts in 2018 – but that’s not on her mind right now.
“I try not to think about stats like that because then it’s just going to make me play for myself instead of the team and I just need to do my best and not worry about that,” she said.
Grace White, the 1A in the Wolverines’ tandem of aces, gave up four hits and struck out 11 from the circle. The run the Irish (0-1) scored was unearned, coming around on an two-out infield throwing error.
Freshman catcher Lila Bowling, who won the position after an early call-up from the JV camp and according to Wildermuth “has earned the respect of all the upperclassmen,” made three veteran plays behind the plate to keep the Irish off the board.
In each of the first two innings she retrieved balls that went to the backstop and flipped it back to White in time to cut down runners trying to score from third. And then in the fourth she started an inning-ending catcher-to-first-to-home double play with runners at second and third to kill that threat.
“I’ve played with older girls my whole life so I’m kind of used playing with older girls,” Bowling said. “I’m not really worried about anything, I go out there and do whatever.”
The Wolverines (2-0) return to action Monday at home against Pennsville. The game will have a 4:30 p.m. start to give the solar eclipse time to safely clear the area.
WOODSTOWN 7, CAMDEN CATHOLIC 1
| Camden Catholic (0-1) | 000 001 0- | 1 4 0 |
| Woodstown (2-0) | 012 202 x- | 7 8 3 |
Ron Vinick Tournament
PENNSVILLE 9, OCEAN CITY 7: Kylie Harris and Bella Farina, two of the mainstays on the Pennsville LL Senior World Series team last summer, both had three hits with Farina hitting two homers as the Eagles won the consolation game of the tournament.
They lost their tournament opener to host Millville 6-2.
Harris went 3-for-4 with a double, triple and two RBIs. Farina went 3-for-3 with solo homers in the third and sixth innings and four RBIs. Lilly Birney hit an inside-the-park homer in the fifth. Brooke Douglas went 4-for-4 with two homers and six RBIs for Ocean City.
CONSOLATION GAME
PENNSVILLE 9, OCEAN CITY 7
| Ocean City (1-2) | 001 303 0- | 7 10 2 |
| Pennsville (2-1) | 102 411 x- | 9 10 2 |
Woodstown’s All-Time Hits List
| PLAYER | HITS | YEAR |
| Gracee Roberts | 131 | 2018 |
| Megan McCurdy | 128 | 2014 |
| Amy Gray | 126 | 1994 |
| Sarah Morgan | 122 | 2018 |
| Raechelle Hatchell | 117 | 1993 |
| Kim Duus | 115 | 1994 |
| Bethany Mills | 108 | 2001 |
| Amanda Clark | 107 | 2000 |
| Kristen Merkle | 105 | 2000 |
| x-Tulana Mingin | 103 | 2024 |
| Kim Merkle | 102 | 1997 |
Friday roundup
Here is a compilation of sports results from around Salem County Friday; includes college baseball, boys tennis, girls lacrosse
College baseball
RCSJ-CUMBERLAND 9, SALEM CC 4
The Dukes squeezed all nine of three runs into the sixth and seventh innings.
Yen Rodriguez, who’s made a mid-season Mookie Betts move going from right field to shortstop, homered for Salem and Cole Dawson drove in a pair of runs. Ben Charbonneau had three hits
The Mighty Oaks led 1-0 in the fifth, but the Dukes scored five in the sixth, then after Salem got within a run added four in the seventh.
Boys tennis
PENNSVILLE 3, DELSEA 2
Andrew McWilliams (D) def. Gabe Schneider, 6-3, 6-0
Maddox Efelis (P) def. T.J. Natalie, 6-2, 6-2
Brody Wiggins (P) def. Zeph Kell, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
Noah Bohn-Noah Flitcraft (P) def. Eli Croce-Jacob Bramble, 6-2, 6-3
Dominik Maronski-Zach Natalie (D) def. Luke Chamberlain-Sawyer Humphrey, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5
WOODSTOWN 3, KINGSWAY 2
Tim Schwienbacher def. Filip Mirkovic, 6-4, 6-4
Drew Stengel def. Dominic Palladino, 6-4, 2-6, 10-6
Nick Decinque (K) def. Erich Lipovsky, 6-3, 6-2
Joseph Kurpis-Ben Stengel def. Charlie West-Tyler Wilkinson, 1-6, 6-2, 10-8
Aiden Shoemaker-Nolan Steurer (K) def. Jason LaFord-Mason Shimp, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8
HADDON HEIGHTS 3, SCHALICK 2
Ben Mazzucco (H) def. George Gould, 6-4, 6-1
Ryan Connor (H) def. Jesus Espinoza, 6-1, 6-0
David Santana (S) def. Milan Stocker, 6-1, 6-0
Mike Pender-Gavin Ewing (H) def. Conor O’Toole-Rocky Monticello, 2-6, 6-2, 10-7
Kayden Barnes-Cayden Brzozowski (S) def. Josh Harris-David Maher, 6-1, 6-2
Girls lacrosse
PAUL VI 19, WOODSTOWN 2: Paul IV’s Ava Diaz had eight goals and three assists, while Ave Martin and Emma McCarthy each had four goals and four assists. Delaney Walker scored both goals for Woodstown.
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