Pitted in Pitman

Woodstown, Pennsville paired in the final round of pool play in Saturday’s Coach Ginsburg 7×7 at Total Turf

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PITMAN – Woodstown plays three of the other four football-playing Salem County teams this upcoming season and organizers of Saturday’s Coach Larry Ginsburg 7×7 Classic have given the Wolverines the chance to complete the set.

The event schedule-makers have placed the Wolverines and Pennsville in the same bracket for the 7×7 tournament that moves this year to the Total Turf Experience. They will meet in the final game of Bracket II pool play at 1 p.m.

The winners of each of the four brackets advance to the semifinals at 2 p.m. with those winners playing for the championship at 2:45. Woodbury defeated Penns Grove in last year’s championship game.

Woodstown, under the direction of new head coach Frank Trautz, plays the other three county teams – Penns Grove, Salem and Schalick – in division play during the regular season. The Wolverines and Eagles last played in the regular season in 2020 with Woodstown winning 6-0.

Woodstown is coming off a 9-3 season in which it won the South Jersey Group I title and lost to Glassboro in the last minute of the state semifinals. Pennsville is coming off its first winning season since 2016. The Eagles went 6-4, won both of their regional consolation games and returns most of that team.

The Classic benefits the Adam Taliaferro Foundation.

COACH LARRY GINSBURG 7×7
(Saturday, Total Turf Experience, Pitman)

Bracket I (Field 1A): Cherokee, Atlantic City, Gloucester City, West Deptford
Bracket II (Field 1B): Eastern, Bridgeton, Pennsville, Woodstown
Bracket III (Field 2A): Timber Creek, St. Joseph’s, Kipps, Nottingham
Bracket IV (Field 2B): Vineland, Kingsway, Tri-County, Woodbury

SCHEDULE OF GAMES
9:30 a.m.: Cherokee-Gloucester City, Eastern-Pennsville, Timber Creek-Kipps, Vineland-Woodbury.

10:00: Atlantic City-West Deptford, Bridgeton-Woodstown, St. Joseph-Nottingham, Kingsway-Tri-County

10:30: Break

11:00: Cherokee-West Deptford, Eastern-Woodstown, Timber Creek-Nottingham, Vineland-Tri-County

11:30: Atlantic City-Gloucester City, Bridgeton-Pennsville, St. Joseph-Kipps, Kingsway-Woodbury

Noon: Break

12:30 p.m.: Cherokee-Atlantic City, Eastern-Bridgeton, Timber Creek-St. Joseph, Vineland-Kingsway

1:00: West Depford-Gloucester City, Pennsville-Woodstown, Kipps-Nottingham, Woodbury-Tri-County

2:00: Semifinals (Bracket winners), Fields 1A & 1B

2:45: Championship Game, Field 1A

Cover photo: Woodbury won last year’s Ginsburg 7×7 Classic with a come-from-behind win over Penns Grove.