Unhittable from any distance

Penns Grove goes to 2-0 in pool play after Achillius Vong no-hits Pennsville, issue raised about mound distance from plate

DISTRICT 3 LL TOURNAMENT
Saturday’s game
Penns Grove 7, Pennsville 0
Sunday’s game
East Vineland 9, South Vineland 4
Monday’s games
Buena at Pennsville, 5:45 p.m.
North Vineland at Millville, 5:45 p.m.
West Cumberland at Elmer, 5:45 p.m.

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

CARNEYS POINT — On Friday, Achillius Vong showed the way he can impact a game on the bases. On Saturday, he showed the other two elements of his game that justify Penns Grove All-Stars manager Steve Raymond calling him “our Shohei Ohtani.”

Vong delivered three hits at the plate, which was three more than he allowed on the mound as he spun his first career no-hitter in beating Pennsville 7-0 in the District 3 Little League Tournament at the Carneys Point Rec Center.

“You heard what we were calling him when he was on the mound,” Raymond said. “We were calling him ‘Shohei’ and he proved it today.”

“I think it’s really cool,” Vong said of the comparison to the Dodgers’ generational star. “I think it’s a huge compliment and it really makes my day. It brings my confidence up on the baseball diamond.”

Pitching for the first time in a couple weeks, the hard-throwing right-hander threw 69 pitches over six innings, faced one batter over the minimum and struck out 12. He never threw more than 15 pitches in any inning and covered the final four innings in 39 pitches, including just five in the fourth.

He only allowed three baserunners — a leadoff error in the first and a dropped third strike in the third who was swapped out by a fielder’s choice who was erased on an inning-ending double play.

“I felt really good, my arm was great, I haven’t pitched in a while,” Vong said. “Today I was really hitting my spots and I felt really good.

“(The no-hitter) feels really good because Pennsville’s our rival and it’s my first one ever – and it makes us big in the seeding.”

The win was Penns Grove’s second in 24 hours after not having won a district tournament game in 14 years. They sit atop the American Division at 2-0 with two games left in pool play. They can all but clinch a spot in the double-elimination finals with a win at Buena Tuesday that figures to be a bullpen game.

Pennsville hosts Buena on Monday in the rescheduling of Thursday’s washed-out tournament opener.

Vong anticipated celebrating the gem with his teammates in a dogpile, but tripped himself coming off the mound after getting the final strikeout and landed in a heap in the infield.

The gem wasn’t without some controversy. Pennsville supporters questioned the distance between the mound and the plate during the game. Pennsville coach Zach Sedlack satisfied their curiosity and raised their ire by independently taking a tape measure to the mound after the game and found it to be 42 feet, 2 inches to the front of the plate — four feet short of Little League standards.

There was talk of a protest immediately upon that discovery and a lot of raised voices, but Little League Baseball has protocols in place for such action and the rules don’t allow for it after a game is completed. For it to come into play, Pennsville would have had to have acted on its suspicions at some point in the game and made its intentions known to the umpire before play continued.

Pennsville manager Jay Weatherbee said he wasn’t aware if the issue until after the game, but would do “my due diligence and see if that was a legal game.”

Riverview Sports News has reached out to District 3 administrator Tom McCarville for clarification and is awaiting a response.

Pennsville sent three pitchers to the same mound. Starter Trey Sam went four innings and kept Penns Grove off the board in the first two. First reliever Pat Galloway threw a shutout inning in the fifth, getting out of a bases-loaded jam with an inning-ending double play.

“In the long run – I’ll play devil’s advocate here – we had our chance at throwing from shorter, too, and we still didn’t capitalize on it,” Weatherbee said. “Whether you move it back five feet, that kid’s a stud. It may not make a difference, but I have to do my due diligence as the coach.”

Raymond said the mound has been at the same distance “every game we’ve played here.” It is a temporary structure, however, removed as the field also is used for softball events such as last week’s East Coast Showcase. Saturday was the 12U all-stars’ final home of the baseball tournament season, so this mound is destined to “get put away in a crate.”

For his part, Vong said pitching from Saturday’s position felt “about the same” as throwing from other mounds in his experience.

It was the first district tournament game between the neighboring rivals since pool play in 2019.

Penns Grove took the lead with three runs in the third inning. Aiden Robertson had an RBI single and Lucas Ware and Vong delivered back-to-back RBI doubles. Nolan O’Brien’s two-run single made it 6-0 in the fourth and Tanner Raymond had an RBI single in the sixth.

Penns Grove pounded 10 hits in the game.

“The more comfortable they get, the better they’re going to hit,” Raymond said. “They hit, that’s what they do, the whole lineup hits. It’s just going to start happening more and more.”

O’Brien, who wears No. 13 for all-stars as an homage to two-way star Luke Pokrovsky on his dad’s Schalick baseball team, has three straight hits and four RBIs since striking out in his first tournament at-bat.

“I just think about going up there and hitting the ball hard,” he said. “My dad always tells me to do that and I keep that mentality going up to the plate.”

PENNS GROVE 7 PENNSVILLE 0
Penns Grove	003 301 0-	7	10	1
Pennsville	000 000 0-	0	0	3

WP: Achillius Vong (1-0). LP: Trey Sam (0-1). 2B: Lucas Ware (PG), Achillius Vogt (PG). RBIS: Aiden Robertson (PG), Lucas Ware (PG), Achillius Vong (PG), Tanner Raymond (PG), Nolan O’Brien (PG) 2.

District 3 standings

AMERICAN DIVISION		NATIONAL DIVISION
Penns Grove	2-0	East Vineland	2-0
Millville	1-0	South Vineland	1-1
Pennsville	0-1	Elmer	0-1
Buena	0-1	West Cumberland	0-1
North Vineland	0-1

**Penns Grove’s Bryce Myers slides across the plate to score the second run on Nolan O’Brien’s two-run single in the fourth inning. (Screengrab from Gamechanger video)**

Band on the run

Penns Grove All-Stars aggressive on base paths, run to a walk-off win over North Vineland in District 3 LL Tournament opener, their first district win since 2011

DISTRICT 3 LL TOURNAMENT
Friday’s Games
East Vineland 4, Elmer 1 (comp. of susp. game)
Millville 9, Buena 3
Penns Grove 12, North Vineland 2
South Vineland 8, West Cumberland 6
Saturday’s Game
Pennsville at Penns Grove, 5 p.m.

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

CARNEYS POINT – Achillius Vong is a dangerous man, as much of a Shohei as a Little League all-star team can have.

At the plate. On the mound. And on the bases.

North Vineland didn’t give Vong much of a chance to hit in Friday night’s District 3 Little League Tournament opener and he didn’t pitch (that comes Saturday), but the rising seventh grader’s activity on the basepaths led directly to two runs in Penns Grove’s historic 12-2 walk-off win at the Carneys Point Rec Complex.

It was Penns Grove’s first win on the Road to Williamsport in 14 years. They had lost 29 district tournament games in a row. Their last win was a 4-3, eight-inning decision over South Vineland in the opening round of 2011 pool play.

“It feels good for me because these guys all put a ton of hard work in,” Penns Grove manager Steve Raymond said. “They’ve earned it. They definitely earned it.”

Vong walked and was hit by a pitch in his two plate appearances in the four-inning game. Each time he reached third he got North Vineland off its game with his long leads and threats to steal.

The first time, in the first inning, he came halfway down the line on every pitch and eventually forced North Vineland catcher Gianni Gordillo to make a throw that went off third baseman Damien Liberus’ glove into left field.

He did the same thing in the fourth inning. This time Gordillo ran him back to third, but left the plate uncovered and when the catcher tossed it back to the pitcher Vong broke for home and had it stolen easily. It was part of a nine-run inning that let Penns Grove walk it off.

“I like to get in their head; I want to get them rattled,” Vong said. “I want them to be scared of me and my team and once I get the chance I’m stealing home. I started doing it and then my coach got used to me doing it, so every time I get to third they tell me ‘Do your thing.’”

“He’s been playing baseball a long time and he’s a travel ball player, so he knows what to do out there,” Raymond said of his big first baseman. “He knows what he’s doing. (Third-base coach) Jeff (Robertson) will put the leash on him every once in a while to kind of reel him back in, but he basically can do what he wants because he knows what he’s doing.”

That aggressiveness on the basepaths isn’t just limited to Vong; it’s a trademark of this Penns Grove team. They scored their first six runs without the benefit of a hit and had only two hits in the game – a double by Tanner Raymond, the manager’s son, and two-run single by Nolan O’Brien, the son of Schalick baseball coach Sean O’Brien.

They kept the runs coming by reaching base in other ways, stealing bases and moving up on virtually every pitch that got away at the plate – and there were a lot of them.

“That’s why I put him (Robertson) there, because I know how aggressive he is,” Raymond said. “I play against him during the season, I know how he runs on the bases and that’s why I wanted to get him out there because he knows these kids well and he knows when to send them.

“We are going to be super aggressive on the bases. We told the boys if we call it and you get thrown out that’s on us, that’s not on you.”

Jimmy LaPalomento went the distance to get the win. He gave up one hit – a two-run single by Anthony Ebner in the third inning – walked three and struck out 11.

“We got a great version of Jimmy tonight, a great version,” Raymond said. “That’s all I could ask for what I got out him. Playing against him through the season sometimes he can get wild, but I couldn’t ask for anything more out of him. He pitched a beautiful game.”

“I just like to throw strikes, throw fast and set them down,” LaPalomento said.

EAST VINELAND 4, ELMER 1

VINELAND – Elmer returned to complete the final four innings of Thursday’s suspended game looking to make something happen and erase a one-run overnight deficit, but just couldn’t get anything going.

Manager Bob Baldissero brought starter Grayson Bingham back to pitch the resumption and he put up zeroes until the fifth when East Vineland scored on a double and one-out single. East Vineland extended the lead to 4-0 in the sixth.

Bingham allowed only three hits in five innings-plus (87 pitches). Brandon D’Agostino didn’t allow a hit in his wrap-up inning.

Elmer scored its run in the sixth when Cayden Becker hit a leadoff double, went to second on an error and scored on Penn Aulffo’s grounder to second.

PENNS GROVE 12, NORTH VINELAND 2
North Vineland	002 0-	2	1	5
Penns Grove	300 9-	12	2	1

WP: Jimmy LaPalomento. LP: Chase Laspata. Scoring by Riverview Sports News.

EAST VINELAND 4, ELMER 1
East Vineland	100 012 0-	4	3	1
Elmer	000 000 1-	1	5	2

Scoring by Elmer Majors Gamechanger.

District 3 standings

AMERICAN DIVISION		NATIONAL DIVISION
Penns Grove	1-0	East Vineland	1-0
Millville	1-0	South Vineland	1-0
Pennsville	0-0	Elmer	0-1
Buena	0-1	West Cumberland	0-1
North Vineland	0-1

Photo: Penns Grove pitcher Jimmy LaPalomento delivers a pitch during his team’s 12-2 win over North Vineland.

Opening day wash out

Rain, wet grounds wash out first day of District 3 LL Tournament; Pennsville game moved to Monday, Elmer resumes Friday

DISTRICT 3 LL TOURNAMENT
Thursday’s Games
Buena at Pennsville, ppd.
Elmer at East Vineland, susp.
Friday’s Games
Elmer at East Vineland, 5:45 p.m.
North Vineland at Penns Grove, 5:45 p.m.
South Vineland at West Cumberland, 5:45 p.m.
Saturday’s Game
Pennsville at Penns Grove, 5 p.m.

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

Rain and wet conditions won on the opening night of the District 3 Little League Tournament.

Pennsville and Elmer were both scheduled to play their first games of the tournament Thursday, but the elements conspired against it.

Pennsville and Buena never got started. The skies opened about 15 minutes before the scheduled first pitch and left puddles throughout the infield. The coaches had cleaned up the basepaths, but the rain came again.

The game has been rescheduled for Monday at 5:45 p.m. That makes Pennsville’s tournament opener Saturday at Penns Grove.

At least Elmer and East Vineland got a couple innings in before the weather washed them out. They were suspended with one out in the top of the third with East Vineland leading 1-0. The game will resume at that point Friday at 5:45 p.m.

East Vineland scored a run off Elmer starter Grayson Bingham in the top of the first without the benefit of a hit. Their leadoff man reached on an error, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a grounder to short.

Elmer, meanwhile, had two hits in the game — second-inning singles by Brandon D’Agostino and Roman Allen.

“He was doing great, throwing great,” Elmer manager Bob Baldissero said of his pitcher. “He only had that one baserunner. He was doing great.”

Both pitchers threw more than 20 pitches before the weather hit. It wasn’t immediately known if the suspension would impact their availability for Friday. Baldissero said he would bring Bingham back if the pitcher is eligible to continue.

Road to Williamsport

New-look Pennsville enters District 3 Little League Tournament as defending champions; Pennsville, Elmer, Penns Grove representing Salem County

DISTRICT 3 LL TOURNAMENT
Thursday’s Games
Buena at Pennsville, 5:45 p.m.
Elmer at East Vineland, 5:45 p.m.
Friday’s Games
North Vineland at Penns Grove, 5:45 p.m.
South Vineland at West Cumberland, 5:45 p.m.
Saturday’s Game
Pennsville at Penns Grove, 5 p.m.
Full schedule below

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSVILLE – Jay Weatherbee is a new manager with a new team stepping into some pretty big shoes. But instead of shying away from the legacy that went before him, the Pennsville Little League 12U All-Star manager is embracing it and looking to expand it.

Pennsville goes into the District 3 LL Tournament that starts tonight as the defending champion. They open their defense at home against Buena.

The Elmer LL All-Stars also play Thursday, traveling to East Vineland. Penns Grove (PG/CP/PED) is the third Salem County team in the nine-team field and its tournament opener is Friday against North Vineland at the Carneys Point Rec Complex.

Pennsville won its first district title since 2019 last year (and 10th all time) with a robust offense that batted .324 at a team in nine games with 69 runs, 69 hits and belted 12 home runs. Weatherbee wants to keep the line moving.

“We always want to keep the good Pennsville tradition going here,” he said. “I do embrace (what they did last year) a little bit. I embrace it, but I also consider it another chapter in the book. That chapter was last year. We did good. They got the banner. Now it gives me something to strive for with these boys, but it’s a totally different chapter. We’re going to write our own stories this year.”

Only one player returns from last year’s team, Weatherbee’s son Brayden, but the manager had many of the players on the 10U All-Stars. While last year’s team was long on hitting and short on pitching depth, this year’s team has “probably eight or nine who can throw” with “four maybe five” who have shown “real starter quality.”

That’s not to say they lack hitting. Trey Sam and Brayden Weatherbee finished 1-2 in the Pennsville LL’s home run derby.

“Last year they won districts and that’s not a very easy task,” Jay Weatherbee said. “I would just like to follow in the footsteps and start there, but my bigger sights would be, of course, to try to better that. Last year was fun, but, of course like every coach wants to, I’ve got to better that.”

You could call the Elmer team this year’s Killer B’s. Seven of the 12 players (and two of the three coaches) have a B in either their first and last name and according to manager Bob Baldissero, “collectively all those boys have been the driving force on their individual (league) teams.”

In the league championship, Raylan Baldissero threw six shutout innings with 13 strikeouts to force a winner-take-all game and in the clincher Grayson Bingham went 5 1/3 before running out of pitches and Westen Baldissero closed it out. Brandon D’Agostino threw five strong innings for the opposition in the deciding game.

D’Agostino (two) and Raylan Baldissero (one) hit homers during the season.

“If they play to their ability I think we should be in the running to advance,” manager Baldissero said. “I think we have a good pitching staff and hitting-wise I think we’ll be OK as well. We’re just taking one game and at a time and hoping to advance. We’ll take them as they come.”

DISTRICT 3 ALL-STAR ROSTERS
PENNSVILLE
MANAGER: Jay Weatherbee. COACHES: Gino DiMarco, Patrick Galloway, Zack Sedlack.
ROSTER: Tyler Colomy, Dante DiMarco, Chase Doldan, Pat Galloway, Ayden Harris, Jayson Hofacker, Landon Nazar, Trey Sam, Mason Seaver, Jackson Sedlak, Matthew Walker, Brayden Weatherbee.

ELMER
MANAGER: Bob Baldissero. COACHES: Anthony D’Agostino, Bob Baldissero Sr.
ROSTER: Roman Allen, Penn Aulffo, Raylan Baldissero, Westen Baldissero, Cayden Becker, Grayson Bingham, Clayton Bishop, Logan Both, Ryan Coombs, Brandon D’Agostino, Connor Harding, Cash Williams.

N.J. DISTRICT 3 LITTLE LEAGUE
AMERICAN DIVISION: Buena, Millville, North Vineland, Penns Grove, Pennsville
NATIONAL DIVISION: East Vineland, Elmer, South Vineland, West Cumberland

June 19
Buena at Pennsville
Elmer at East Vineland
June 20
North Vineland at Penns Grove
South Vineland at West Cumberland
June 21
Pennsville at Penns Grove, 5 p.m.
June 22
East Vineland at South Vineland, 5 p.m.
June 23
North Vineland at Millville
West Cumberland at Elmer
June 24
Penns Grove at Buena
June 26
Pennsville at North Vineland
East Vineland at West Cumberland
June 27
Penns Grove at Millville
Elmer at South Vineland
June 28
Millville at Pennsville
Buena at North Vineland
FINALS
June 30
At Elmer LL
G1: American 1 vs. National 2
G2: National 1 vs. American 2, 8 p.m.
July 1
At Millville LL
G3: Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner
G4: Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 8 p.m.
July 2
At North Vineland LL
G5: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, 7 p.m.
July 3
At South Vineland
G6: Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 7 p.m.
July 5
At South Vineland
If necessary, 7 p.m.
Winner to Section IV Tournament in District 15 at Deptford Twp. July 11
State Tournament Deptford LL, July 23-28 (regional Bristol, Conn. July 31-Aug. 8)

SECTION IV TOURNAMENT
(Double-loss elimination)
(Opening games)
July 11
District 3 vs. District 16, 6 p.m.
District 14 vs. District 15, 8 p.m.
July 12
District 3-District 16 winner vs. District 13, 5 p.m.

Power trip

Pennsville’s Weber delivers homer, 5 RBIs as Tri-Cape Softball All-Stars sweep bracket in Carpenter Cup, advance to knockout stage

CARPENTER CUP SOFTBALL
Wednesday’s games
(At Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Tri-Cape 6, Burlington County 2
Tri-Cape 5, SOL/BAL 4
Tri-Cape 17, Philadelphia Catholic 4
Monday’s Games
(At FDR Park, Philadelphia)
Tri-Cape vs. A Bracket runnerup, 10 a.m.
Semifinals, noon
Championship game, 2 p.m.

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PHILADELPHIA – Graillyn Weber was a reliable top-of-the-lineup hitter for the Pennsville softball team this past high school season. She added another element to her arsenal Wednesday – power.

Returning to her customary 2-spot after two games near the bottom of the lineup, Weber smashed a two-run over-the-fence homer as the second hitter of the game sending the Tri-Cape All-Stars off to a 17-4 rout of Philadelphia Catholic to complete a three-game sweep of their pool in the Carpenter Cup Softball Tournament.

The sophomore infielder also had a two-run single in the second inning and an RBI single in the opener against Burlington County. For the day she went 3-for-8 with five RBIs, but it was the homer that created the buzz.

“I don’t know what it is,” she said. “I just keep getting that inside slightly high pitch and I’ve just been turning on it and boom. That’s probably my favorite pitch.

“It’s definitely a new experience for me. It’s such a crazy feeling. It’s just exciting.”

Weber hit one homer – the team’s only home run – as a .484 hitter for Pennsville this high school season, an inside-the-parker at Schalick on May 20. She hit her first over-the-fence homer for her travel team last weekend and now has two in the last 10 days.

“I know she was close a couple times,” Pennsville head coach and Tri-Cape assistant Beth Jackson said. “She hit the fence where it just needed a little bit more oomph and it probably would’ve went over.

“She batted in the sixth or seventh spot the first two games (sixth), then because the leadoff girls we had didn’t start the third we talked about the lineup and I said Graillyn batted second for me the whole season, so they put her in the 2-hole and that’s the game she hit the home run.”

Woodstown outfielder Ellie Wygand played in the second two games, getting two hits and scoring two runs. She went 1-for-2 against Suburban One/Bicentennial and 1-for-1 with two runs against Philadelphia Catholic.

Tri-Cape also defeated Burlington County 6-2 and SOL/BAL 5-4 in games played at the University of Pennsylvania. As winners of the C Bracket, they await the rain-delayed A Bracket runner-up in the first round of Monday’s knockout stage. The A Bracket, whose schedule has been hampered by bad weather and poor field conditions, is comprised of Olympic Colonial, Lehigh Valley, Jersey Shore and PCCAF. They will play Thursday at Marple Newtown High School.

Tri-Cape won the Cup two years ago. They also won it in 2014.

“You take a whole group of all-stars and we had two practices and then you put them out there together, it takes time,” Jackson said. “We always joke that when they start out they don’t say a whole lot and then usually halfway through the first day they’re talking and their friends. It’s always cool to see that they come together and play together.”

The last leg

As the relay’s lone senior, Woodstown’s Lucas runs last race with his 4×800 buddies at the New Balance Nationals

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

WOODSTOWN – When Cole Lucas was looking for a sport to play in high school Reggie Teemer encouraged him to try track. It will change your life, the coach told the incoming freshman. It turned out to work both ways.

On the eve of the final race weekend of his high school career Lucas admitted the choice to run track in the spring did change his life. But his impact on the Woodstown track program, especially its decorated 4×800 relay team, has been equally profound.

Since getting put together prior to last year’s South Jersey sectionals specifically to challenge to one team, the quartet of Lucas, Karson Chew, Jacob Marino and Josh Crawford has won state championships and set records many times over with Lucas serving as the reliable setup man to Crawford’s clinching anchor.

But the end of their partnership is near. The last time the Fast Four runs together is Friday night in the New Balance Nationals in Philly’s Franklin Field. Three members of the group will return next year, but Lucas, as the lone senior, will be moving on to the next level.

“I’m going to be very emotional after I finish, but I’m still going to give it my all while I’m running it,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to hit me until after that it’s going to be my last high school race with them.

“I’m definitely going to miss those three. We’re like brothers now. It’s crazy how close we’ve become in these couple of years. I’m going to miss them so much. It hasn’t hit me too much yet, but it will eventually. The memories I’ve made are going to be unforgettable. Teemer said it would change my life and it did.”

Woodstown’s 4×8 is among 11 Salem County athletes competing in six events at the national high school outdoor championships.

Salem’s Anthony Parker is in the boys long jump and Raniyah Parsons-Smith is in the freshman girls 100. Schalick’s boys 4×100 relay (Michael Eberl, Zaeshawn Mills, Reggie Allen, David Stewart), who’ve run the second fastest time in Group I history, is in the field and Navaeh Robinson is entered in the freshman girls javelin. And in addition to the 4×8, Crawford and Lucas will run in the deep individual 800.

There are 99 teams in the 4×8 that will be scored on time, meaning the Wolverines have one shot to shine. Their hope is to run 7:50 – or better. The meet record is 7:36.26.

One thing about this group, when they want something they go after it. They needed to meet the New Balance qualifying standard in the Meet of Champions – their final NJSIAA meet together – and did it in record time (7:54.84).

“I don’t think I’ll ever find another group of guys on the track team at the next level as close are we are,” said Lucas, who’s heading to Marist next year to run indoor and outdoor track.

The feeling is mutual.

“Everybody has their own job, everybody’s making sure our team is dominating and doing well, but Cole really has one of the most important jobs,” Chew said. “If me and Jacob don’t execute the way we want to, he’s there to (bring it back). He’s basically our Mr. Reliable. He’s the most reliable guy on the team and he makes sure we get back that spot that we need for Josh to finish with.”

Amazingly, the unit has only been together for two years. They were put together right before last year’s sectional championship to give Woodbury a run of its money, but it turned into so much more.

“We just wanted to beat Woodbury, we didn’t necessarily care about beating anybody else,” Lucas said. “When we got together that was our main goal, trying to beat Woodbury, and it turned out we beat the whole state.”

Multiple times.

But now it’s coming to an end. The whole group wants to run well for their legacy, but the underclassmen want to go, go, go to give their senior a memorable send off.

“Our plan is to go in there and dominate as much as we possibly can,” Chew said. “It’s the last race of our season and for us three it’s the last race of our career with Cole. We have to make this worth it. We’re going to run our … hearts out and do everything we can to give him a real big send off for the end of his high school career.”

Here are the Salem County athletes competing in the New Balance Outdoor National High School Championships at Franklin Field and the time their events are scheduled

NEW BALANCE NATIONALS
(SALEM COUNTY ENTRIES)
Josh Crawford, Woodstown, boys 800 – Sunday, 1:27 p.m.
Cole Lucas, Woodstown, boys 800 – Sunday, 1:27 p.m.
Anthony Parker, Salem, boys long jump – Sunday, 10 a.m.
Raniyah Parsons-Smith, Salem, freshman girls 100 – Thursday, 12:52 p.m. (prelims), 2:52 p.m. (finals)
Navaeh Robinson, Schalick, freshman girls javelin – Saturday, 10 a.m.
Woodstown 4×800 (Karson Chew, Jacob Marino, Cole Lucas, Josh Crawford) – Friday, 7:42 p.m.
Schalick 4×100 (Michael Eberl, Zaeshawn Mills, Reggie Allen, David Stewart) – Saturday, 1:57 p.m. (prelims), Sunday, 11:57 a.m. (finals)

ALL-SOUTH JERSEY
(Selected by SJTCA)
Track Coaches All-South Jersey Boys
800 – Josh Crawford, Woodstown
LJ – Anthony Parker, Salem
Multi-Event – David Stewart, Schalick
4×800 – Woodstown

Long time coming

Schalick dumps top-seeded Audubon to win first South Jersey Group I baseball title in 33 years, grabbed early lead, turned back threat in seventh

GROUP I SECTIONAL FINALS
Thursday
South: Schalick 4, Audubon 3
Central: Middlesex 7, Point Pleasant Beach 1
North I: Midland Park 1, Wallkill Valley 0
North II: Brearley 8, Verona 0
STATE SEMIFINALS
Monday
Schalick (22-2) at Middlesex (21-5)
Brearley (15-9) at Midland Park (20-8-1)
STATE FINALS
Saturday
At Veterans Park, Hamilton, 1 p.m.

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

AUDUBON — “Somewhere” in the display cases that line the hallways at Schalick High School there’s a 33-year-old trophy gathering dust commemorating one of the greatest accomplishments in the school’s sports history.

But it’s been in there for so long the folks who regularly walk those halls aren’t really sure where it is.

Not to worry. There’s a new, shinier version about to go in the case and everyone will know where it will be.

The Cougars won their first South Jersey Group I baseball title since 1992 Thursday when they held off top-seeded Audubon 4-3 in a game that really was all it was cracked up to be. They now travel to Central champion Middlesex (21-5) in the state semifinals Monday.

“This is the main goal the whole entire year,” starting pitcher Luke Pokrovsky said. “This was the first thing (talked about) when we first walked in the first practice of the year. After beating Woodstown (in the semifinals) we knew we could do it.”

“We’ve worked hard for it and we definitely deserved it,” shortstop Eli Cummings added.

The underdog Cougars (22-2), now the winningest baseball team in school history, a distinction they wrestled from that 1992 team, took the lead early and held it the rest of the game, although they had to survive some seventh-inning Green Wave drama to make it happen.

Pokrovsky once again was brilliant. The senior left-hander gave up four hits and struck out 12, including his 100th of season, and seemed to thrive on the jibes coming from the other side, throwing harder as the game went on.

He wanted to go the distance, but had to come out in the seventh after 113 pitches and Audubon getting the first two batters on with the top of the order coming up. Cougars coach Sean O’Brien went with his most experienced option, bringing in Lucas D’Agostino from right field to close it out, and the senior right-hander didn’t flinch.

He induced dangerous leadoff man Tyler Wiltsey to hit a ball up the middle that that Cummings turned into a double play – and more importantly held the lead runner and tying run at third – and got Nick Kalogiros on a foul pop to first baseman Rico Hatz to end the game.

What made Wiltsey even more dangerous in that situation is he took Pokrovsky deep for a two-run homer in the third that cut Schalick’s lead to 4-3. “He got me pretty good,” Pokrovsky said.

“At first I was relieved because that guy showcased his power early in the game so I was relieved as soon as he hit it and it was on the ground,” D’Agostino said. “It’s been this way the whole year: I trust my defense completely. Once I saw that ball up the middle on the ground and I saw Eli was in perfect position I knew what we had going for us.”

“As soon as I knew that ball was hit to me I knew I was turning that double play,” Cummings said. “Coach OB prepares us for those kind of moments. I knew as soon as it was hit to me, I’ve gotta move. That kid going down the line is quick and he made a close play so I knew I had to come up throwing.”

Hatz called it “a beautiful ball” that Cummings delivered to first.

“I was over at first base praying for a double play so our prayers were answered,” Hatz said. “And to get that final out, it was a feeling of victory.”

The Cougars took a 3-1 lead with three runs off Kalogiros in the second from the bottom third of the lineup. Hatz had a game-tying RBI double, J.T. Fleming dropped the go-ahead RBI single into short left field and Cummings made it 3-1 with a sacrifice fly. They are the 7-8-9 hitters in the Schalick order.

“That’s been kind of like our M.O.,” O’Brien said. “It’s like if the top of the order isn’t doing anything, the bottom of the order does it. It’s been happening all year. We beat some good teams. We beat Cherry Hill West and Rancocas Valley and those guys carried us in those games. That’s why we’re so good because 1 through 9 we compete.”

The Cougars added what proved to be the winning run in the third on D’Agostino’s sacrifice fly after Jamari Whitley doubled Evan Sepers to third. Whitley and Sepers both had two hits in the game.

The coach of that 1992 sectional championship team, Chuck Tortella, was at the game and gave O’Brien some words of encouragement beforehand, words said to be similar to the colorful message Tortella gave his team before they beat Audubon in the ‘92 game.

O’Brien had been to this stage of the playoffs twice before with the Cougars (2019 and 2021) but came up empty both times. This time, they went home celebrating and carried a shiny new piece of hardware for the trophy case with them.

“It’s been a long time coming,” O’Brien said. “We kind of went into those (other two) games not wanting to lose; today, these guys showed up ready to win. They were going to take it.”

“I like the history of the game and especially in my own high school,” D’Agostino said. “I’m very glad we could put some more hardware back in the trophy case and when they look at that team they can say, hey, that’s pretty good.”

Schalick (22-2)	031 000 0-	4	7	2
Audubon (20-7)	102 000 0-	3	4	0

LUKE POKROVSKY, Lucas D’Agostino (7) and Ricky Watt. NIK KALAGIROS and Trent Bantle. 2B: Jamari Whitley (S), Rico Hatz (S). HR: Tyler Wiltsey (A)

Beating the clock

Wednesday roundup: Woodstown’s 4×800 relay qualifies for nationals at Meet of Champions; Pennsville announces Hall of Fame Class, names Athletes of the Year

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSAUKEN – The Woodstown 4×800 relay team had one job in Wednesday’s NJSIAA Meet of Champions and they got it done.

Winning the race would have been a nice get, but the Wolverines were focused on posting a time that would get them in the New Balance Nationals at Franklin Field later this month.

They got it done, even with their anchor a little under the weather. The Group I champion quartet of Karson Chew, Jacob Marino, Cole Lucas and Josh Crawford finished fifth in the MOC, but their 7:54.84 set a new Group I record and got them into the nationals.

“One thing those guys won’t do is shy away from competition,” Wolverines coach Reggie Teemer said. “They feed off it.”

Salem County had athletes in 12 events at the all-group meet. Salem’s Anthony Parker had the best individual finish, placing fourth in the boys long jump with a best of 23-5. Crawford also finished seventh in the 800, Schalick’s David Stewart was eighth in the 400 hurdles and Cougars’ 4×100 relay team (Reggie Allen Jr., Michael Eberl, Zaeshawn Mills, David Stewart) finished sixth.

Woodstown’s 4×800 time was more than four seconds better than their winning time in last weekend’s Group I championship meet. They were just shy of a provisional qualifying time for the nationals, but wanted to run a race in their last chance to get in that would leave no doubt.

Chew led them out in 1:59.50. Marino kept them on pace with a 2:02.4. Lucas set them up with a 1:58.45. And Crawford, running with a “minor” cough and fever that “slightly impacted my running,” brought it home with two laps in the 50s and a 1:54.46. Christian Brothers Academy won the race with a collective 7:48.55.

“We came very mentally prepared to break our previous record in the 4×8 and qualify for the New Balance Nationals and I wasn’t going to let a sickness get in the way of that opportunity for my teammates,” Crawford said. “ I was proud of all my teammates for running this race as if it was our last and thankfully earning another opportunity because of the combined culmination of our efforts to give our senior, Cole, a sendoff for the record books.”

It was a busy day for the junior. He ran in three events. He ran 1:53.83 to get on the podium in the individual 800 and ran a leg on the 4×400 relay.

Here are the Salem County results from the Meet of Champions:

MEET OF CHAMPIONS
At Pennsauken HS
GIRLS
1600: 12. Jordan Hadfield, Schalick, 5:05.56
3200: 21. Jordan Hadfield, Schalick 10:58.85
Shot Put: T-20. Tatiyonna Crawford, Pennsville 34-6
Pole Vault: T-10. Megan Morris, Pennsville 10-6
BOYS
4×800: 5. Woodstown (Karson Chew, Jacob Marino, Cole Lucas, Josh Crawford) 7:54.84
400 Hurdles: 8. David Stewart, Schalick 54.53
4×100: 6. Schalick (Reggie Allen Jr., Michael Eberl, Zaeshawn Mills, David Stewart) 42.08
800: 7. Josh Crawford, Woodstown 1:53.83; 20. Cole Lucas, Woodstown 1:58.23
4×400: 21. Woodstown (Karson Chew, Kyle Reitz, Anthony Costello, Josh Crawford) 3:25.85
Javelin: 14. Connor Ayars, Pennsville 165-0
Long Jump: 4. Anthony Parker, Salem 23-5
Triple Jump: 26. Bryan Garlic, Penns Grove 41-4

Pennsville tabs Hall class

PENNSVILLE – Five decorated athletes spanning five sports and four decades, three successful head coaches and two state champion teams will comprise the 2025 class that will be inducted into the Pennsville Memorial High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

The class was announced at the school’s annual awards assembly Wednesday night. It will be formally inducted in ceremonies at the school Oct. 7.

The class includes athletes Tom Ridgway (Class of 1978), HJ Lopes (’79), Lisa Doran (’86), Dannielle Dolbow-Darby (’95) and Ashley Minch (’08); coaches Ryan Wood (football/baseball), Jack Hathaway (soccer) and Dan LaMont (tennis/wrestling); and the 2005 state champion girls tennis and baseball teams.

“The Hall of Fame Committee did a wonderful job spanning several decades in putting together this year’s class,” Eagles athletics director Jamy Thomas said. “We have a wide variety of sports recognized with our inductees from field hockey, baseball, softball, soccer and tennis. The athletes in this group may have had one sport in which they truly shined, but each of them were great all-around athletes.

“In regards to the coaches being honored this year I have had the opportunity to be taught by Coach Hathaway as a PMHS student and work alongside Coach Wood and Coach LaMont. They are a group of great coaches and even more importantly are great people who are wonderful role models for our student-athletes.”

At the same assembly, potential future Hall of Famers Megan Morris and Connor Ayars were recognized as the school’s PEPPA Scholar-Athletes of the Year. Morris is a multiple state champion pole vaulter and tennis player, while Ayars is football/track standout. Both competed at the Meet of Champions prior to attending the ceremonies.

**Megan Morris (L) and Connor Ayars were named Pennsville’s PEPPA Scholar-Athletes of the Year.**

Stopped in semis

Pennsville, Woodstown see seasons come to an end in losses in South Jersey Group I softball semifinals; will be updated

SOUTH JERSEY GROUP I SOFTBALL
WEDNESDAY’S SEMIFINALS
Audubon 16, Woodstown 0
Haddon Twp. 8, Pennsville 2
FRIDAY’S CHAMPIONSHIP
Haddon Twp. at Audubon

By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News

PENNSVILLE – Beth Jackson was 6 years old when Boston’s Bill Buckner booted that ball against the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series for the error heard ‘round the world. She was probably too young at the time to understand the magnitude of the play, but as she got older and came to learn and love the game the impact of play wasn’t lost on her.

The ghost of that play manifested itself nearly 40 years later Wednesday in Pennsville’s South Jersey Group I softball semifinal game against Haddon Twp. and it had as profound an effect on the team that made it as it did on the Sox.

The two-out error opened the door for a three-run inning that the second-seeded Eagles never quite recovered from in an eventual 8-2 loss. The win sends Haddon Twp. (17-8) to meet top-seeded Audubon (18-7) Friday for the South Jersey Group I title, while the loss ended one of Pennsville’s winningest seasons ever.

Neither team scored in the first inning and Eagles starting pitcher Savannah Brewer-Palverento got the first two outs of the second, just like Red Sox did on the Mets that fateful 10th inning of Game 6 back in ’86. The Hawks got the next runner on and then Karsyn McCoy hit a ball off the end of the bat that rolled up the first base line.

Pennsville first baseman Makenzie Widener made a play on the ball at the bag and had it in her glove, but it spun out and caromed towards second base. She recovered it, but couldn’t get back to the bag in time to get McCoy. The next two batters, Grace Farah and left-handed third baseman Ariana Turkot, delivered RBI singles and suddenly the Hawks had three unearned runs and the Eagles were down 3-0.

“There was just a lot of spin on it and I couldn’t grab it correctly so I couldn’t get it in time,” Widener said. “I had it in my glove and it just (spun away).”

If you’re any kind of baseball fan it’s hard not to know the Buckner play. The Mets were down to their final strike of being closed out, but stayed alive and the error allowed them to win the game, tie the series and win it in Game 7. Both Jackson and pink-haired Haddon Twp. coach Pam McCabe got the connection when it came up in the post-game conversation.

“We’ve talked all year making mistakes and giving other teams extra outs and whatnot,” Jackson said. “We’re all human, we all make mistakes, it’s picking it back up and they did, but every game you have to make sure you make the plays and if you don’t, you give them the opportunity and they took advantage of it, which is tough.”

McCabe’s choice of hair color was the fulfillment of a promise she made to the players if they got this far in the playoffs. It’ll probably stay in for a couple months now, she said.

“They didn’t think I was going to,” she said. “I showed up today I think it pumped up me and my assistant more than it did them. They’re probably the quietest team I’ve ever coached in my life.

The Eagles (21-4) did bounce back from that adversity and got within 3-2 when Graillyn Weber’s aggressive base running produced a run in the fourth and Kylie Harris’ sacrifice fly brought home another in the sixth. Weber was confirmed as a member of the Tri-Cape Carpenter Cup team after the game (along with Woodstown’s Ellie Wygand).

Although Brewer-Palverento pitched well for six innings, giving up only three hits and striking out three, Jackson replaced her with Weber to start to seventh inning in the hopes of giving the Hawks a different look. The visitors didn’t blink and erupted for five runs to put it out of reach.

Pitcher Jordan Strauss, Mikayla Callahan, Julie Broderick and Lexi Broderick delivered consecutive hits that drove runs home.

“They’d seen (SBP) four times already, I think they were on their fifth time seeing her,” Jackson explained. “She did an excellent job today with them, so I wanted to give them something else, just change it up a little bit.”

The last out Brewer-Palverento got in the sixth was her 100th strikeout of the season (and 190th for her career), a feat Jackson called “awesome.” The Eagles huddled around their pitcher as they came off the field and it actually confused her.

“I didn’t even know until they said something,” she said. “They all came up on me and I was like ‘What did I do?,’ the game’s not over with, what’s going on.”

The little celebration seemed to spark the Eagles briefly. When they came to the plate Lily Edwards slapped a leadoff single into left field, stole second, moved to third on Weber’s grounder to the right side and scored the Eagles’ second run on Harris’ sacrifice fly.

“We’ve been watching the College World Series and talking about that,” Jackson said. “Lily brought up errors were made in the games and how they have to have a short-term memory and forget about it and go on to the next one. Here they are at the highest level of softball and they make mistakes too and they didn’t give up. You have to stay at it all 21 outs.”

When the 21st out came for the Eagles Wednesday the season came to an end. There were a lot of tears in the outfield when the players gathered for their post-game huddle. Jackson even started to choke up when she reflected on the season they just completed.

“I told them they had nothing to hang their head about,” she said. “They gave it a good fight.”

Pennsville pitcher Savannah Brewer-Palverento recorded her 100th strikeout of the season in the sixth inning. Top photo: Eagles coach Beth Jackson encourages her team from the third-base coach’s box. (Photos by Brian Tortella)

AUDUBON 16, WOODSTOWN 0: The Wolverines felt ready and excited for the chance to take on the top-seeded Green Wave. They had learned people tell them that under the right set of circumstances they could pull the upset.

It would take a near perfect game from the Wolverines to pull it off and in the end they fell victim to an 11-run first inning and never recovered.

“It was a shock for sure, but I wouldn’t say it was unexpected,” Woodstown coach Rob Hildebrand said. “We knew how good they were and we knew we were going to find out in the first three innings whether we were going to win that game. I would call it more of coming to fruition what we thought could happen.”

The Green Wave sent 16 batters to the plate in the first. It opened with three straight walks followed by a pair of RBI singles. After a strikeout, the next six batters reached safely extending the lead to 9-0. An error allowed the final two runs of the inning to score.

Audubon added five more runs in the second.

“Their approach to the plate was by far the best team I’ve faced all year, not even close,” Hildebrand said. “I don’t know that I’ve seen a softball team that their approach, every batter, 1 through 9, probably 90 percent of the base hits against (Woodstown pitcher Leah Clark) were 1-2 or 2-2 counts. She was getting ahead and just couldn’t quite finish. That’s a testament to them. They are literally a fundamentally sound team.”

The Wolverines had two hits in the game, a two-out opposite-field single by Talia Guardascione in the first and Hannah Hitchner’s two-out single as their next-to-last batter in the fourth.

TCC All-Stars

Here are the Tri-County Conference all-star teams for the Classic and Diamond divisions as selected by the coaches

Baseball

POS	CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
P	Luke Wood, Pennsville	Brian Cuniff, Wildwood
P	Aiden Stranahan, Pitman	Mark Manera, Clayton
C	Jake Sharrow, Pitman	Connor Starn, Pennsville
IF	Hudson Rue, Pitman	Logan Streitz, Pennsville
IF	Nick Watson, Pitman	Peyton O’Brien, Pennsville
IF	Cohen Petrutz, Pennsville	Chase Davis, Salem
IF	Trevor Troiano, Wildwood	Justin Delaney, Clayton
OF	Jackson Austin, Pitman	Dane Collum, Pitman
OF	Chase Burchfield, Pennsville	Mason O’Brien, Pennsville
OF	Jeff Wagner, Pennsville	Jameson Emerle, Clayton

POS	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND SECOND TEAM
P	Tyler Wood, Overbrook	Aaron Foote, Woodstown
P	Lucas D’Agostino, Schalick	Jack Holladay, Woodstown
C	Gavin Dillard, Glassboro	Ricky Watt, Schalick
IF	Lou Hanna, Overbrook	Evan Glassy, Schalick
IF	Cooper Hines, Overbrook	Jude Dempster, Glassboro
IF	Jamari Whitley, Schalick	Joey Tongue, Glassboro
IF	Elijah Crespo, Penns Grove	Brennan Crosse, Glassboro
OF	Rocco String, Woodstown	Mike Romano, Overbrook
OF	Charlie Snyder, Overbrook	Caden Lawless, Overbrook
OF	Luke Pokrovsky, Schalick	Evan Sepers, Schalick

Softball

POS	CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
P	Jessica Bretz, Pitman	Madelyn McGinn, Gloucester Cath.
P	Savannah Brewer-Palverento, Pennsville	Emma Contreras, Wildwood
C	Kylie Harris, Pennsville	Alexus Paden, Clayton
IF	Makenzie Widener, Pennsville	Ayanna Davis, Clayton
IF	Maya Hutchinson, Gloucester Cath.	Avery Watson, Pennsville
IF	Rosalina Pereira, Clayton	Maura Quinn, Pitman
IF	Graillyn Weber, Pennsville	Julia Ennis, Wildwood
OF	Lily Edwards, Pennsville	Sawyer Simmons, Pennsville
OF	Julianna Aguilar, Clayton	Madison Peek, Pitman
OF	Kaitlyn Capalbo, Gloucester Cath.	Samantha Scutt, Pitman

POS	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND SECOND TEAM
P	Addi Shimp, Schalick	Taylor Adcock, Glassboro
P	Leah Clark, Woodstown	Layla Perez, Overbrook
C	Scarlett Saicic, Glassboro	Lila Bowling, Woodstown
OF	Sienna Kudless, Glassboro	Marissa Rode, Glassboro
OF	Gianna Simon, Overbrook	Cecelia Mitchell, Overbrook
OF	Ellie Wygand, Woodstown	Shyann Higinbotham, Woodstown
IF	Olivia VanAcker, Schalick	Ava Landolt, Overbrook
IF	Cloe Elliott, Schalick	Danica Maggi, Overbrook
IF	Aubrie Rennie, Woodstown	Emma Schoch, Glassboro
IF	Alaina Dufresne, Overbrook	Marissa Pasquarello, Glassboro

Tennis

POS	CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
S	Gabe Schneider, Pennsville	Maddox Efelis, Pennsville
S	George Gould, Schalick	Brody Wiggins, Pennsville
S	Chase Fronczkiewicz, Clayton	Rocky Monticolo, Schalick
D	Kaden Barnes, Schalick	Carter Willis, Pennsville
D	Cayden Brzozowski, Schalick	Ian Peacock, Pennsville
D	Lucas Cooksey, Pennsville	David Santana, Schalick
D	Sawyer Humpreys, Pennsville	Anthony McGrath, Schalick

POS	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM
S	Zeph Kell, Delsea	Mohammad Sheyam, Highland
S	Lucius Davis, Deptford	Bradyn Gee, Deptford
S	Drew Stengel, Woodstown	Eli Croce, Delsea
D	Luke Shaw, Woodstown	Alan Marcos, Overbrook
D	Mason Shimp, Woodstown	Gabe Martinez, Overbrook
D	Jacob Bramble, Delsea	Ben Stengel, Woodstown
D	Jude Thompson, Delsea	Nicholas DiTeodoro, Woodstown

Boys Golf

CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
Mikey Joyce, Gloucester Cath.	A.J. Beach, Gloucester Cath.
Joey Zubert, Pitman	Robbie Ricardi, Gloucester Cath.
Owen Boulton, Pitman	Luke Driscoll, Pitman
Jake Bowen-Ashwin, Pitman	Jackson Venuto, Clayton
Max Pappalardo, Pitman	Burke Fotzsimmons, Wildwood
Gavin Burns, Wildwood	Chase Ayars, Salem Tech

DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND SECOND TEAM
Jaxon Weber, Schalick	Riley Bowman, Pennsville
Seth Fisher, Schalick	Trevor Hann, Pennsville
Erich Lipovsky, Woodstown	Jeffrey Boyd, Overbrook
Anthony Sepers, Schalick	Chase Pepper, Cumberland
Grant Prater, Woodstown	Michael Nelson, Schalick
Joey Olbrich, Woodstown	Jack Bucksar, Woodstown

Boys Track

EVT	CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
100	Jason Stewart, Clayton	Josiel Figueroa Marrero, Clayton
200	Willie Weathers, Clayton	Jamel Lemon-Ward, Gloucester Cath.
400	Alexander Osayemi, Clayton	Xavier McGriff, Salem
800	Wyatt Evans, Clayton	Liam Edelman, Pitman
1600	Jake Bowen-Ashwin, Pitman	Samuel Cooke, Salem
3200	Rhys Blackman, Pitman	Maximus Weng, Pitman
100H	Anthony Parker, Salem	Timothy Gregory, Salem
400H	Jerry Seals, Salem	Lucas Razze, Pitman
HJ	Dayvon Williams, Wildwood	Giani Jackson, Wildwood
LJ	Omarion Pierce, Salem	Justice Santiago, Wildwood
TJ	Donovan Weathers, Salem	Mission Barnes, Salem
PV	Gradin Buzby, Salem	Duncan Freeman, Clayton
SP	Pedro Ibarra, Clayton	Torryn Ransome, Salem
DIS	Nate Newcomb, Pitman	Giovani Talavera Rosas, Salem
JAV	Wyatt Irvine, Salem	Jovani Rios, Salem
4×400	Clayton	Salem

EVT	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND SECOND TEAM
100	Xavier Sabb, Glassboro	Colin McGlinn, Pennsville
200	Zaeshawn Mills, Schalick	Axcel Bailey, Overbrook
400	John Froehlich, Overbrook	Kyle Reitz, Woodstown
800	Josh Crawford, Woodstown	Steve Chomo, Schalick
1600	Ty Blackman, Glassboro	Cole Lucas, Woodstown
3200	Joey Saicic, Glassboro	Jacob Marino, Woodstown
100H	Dayshaun Day, Glassboro	Knowledge Young, Penns Grove
400H	Mekhi Parker, Glassboro	Bryan Garlic, Penns Grove
HJ	Amari Sabb, Glassboro	Reggie Allen, Schalick
LJ	Alex Adeleye, Glassboro	Jaiden Mitchell, Overbrook
TJ	David Stewart, Schalick	Moses Robles, Glassboro
PV	Daniel Adams, Glassboro	Salvatore Longo, Schalick
SP	Kyle Williams, Glassboro	Sheldon Goldsborogh, Schalick
DIS	Ethan McLean, Schalick	Aiden Tulane, Woodstown
JAV	Connor Ayars, Pennsville	Nyzier Wonder, Schalick
4×400	Woodstown	Penns Grove

Girls Track

EVT	CLASSIC FIRST TEAM	CLASSIC SECOND TEAM
100	Miyana Johnson, Clayton	Jaiyoni Yates, Clayton
200	Raniyah Parsons-Smith, Salem	Gabrielle Pernell-Lipsey, Clayton
400	Leila Ortiz, Clayton	Molly Wiśniewski, Pitman
800	Amanda Bradley, Pitman	Antonia Yucis, Gloucester Cath.
1600	Macie McCracken, Wildwood	Samantha Dale, Salem
3200	Lauren Streck, Pitman	Mackenzie Whilden, Pitman
100H	Anna Gallo, Clayton	Tahirah Davenport-White, Salem
400H	Audrey Boggs, Salem	Carly Razze, Pitman
HJ	Unique Nance, Salem	Zyonnah Forman, Salem
LJ	MaKayla Smith, Salem	Lily Atkinson, Wildwood
TJ	Alaina Williams, Pitman	Hanna Keefe, Pitman
PV	Kashira Patterson, Salem	Tatiana Miller, Salem
SP	Ava Rodgers, Salem	MarJziah Bundy, Salem
DIS	Destinee Williams, Clayton	Jocelyn O’Brien, Pitman
JAV	Rainelle Blocker, Clayton	Megan Wehlen, Pitman
4×400	Clayton	Salem

EVT	DIAMOND FIRST TEAM	DIAMOND SECOND TEAM
100	Tamia Smith, Glassboro	Kezia Brackett, Glassboro
200	Gia Martellacci, Schalick	Missouri Pratt, Overbrook
400	Rylee Clark, Overbrook	Samantha Sterner, Woodstown
800	Lillian Norman, Woodstown	Kelis Coston, Glassboro
1600	Jordan Hadfield, Schalick	Helen Lillia, Schalick
3200	Abby Marino, Woodstown	Anabel Schaal, Woodstown
100H	Lia Covely, Woodstown	Gabriella Simonini, Schalick
400H	London Banks, Overbrook	Sarah Seiden, Woodstown
HJ	Ashley Armstrong, Glassboro	Kami Casiano, Woodstown
LJ	Phoebe Alward, Schalick	Emma Perry, Woodstown
TJ	Jaelynn Jarmon, Schalick	Onye Peoples, Overbrook
PV	Megan Morris, Pennsville	Elizabeth Mann, Glassboro
SP	Heaven Franklin, Glassboro	Zoey Ceasar, Penns Grove
DIS	Sunny Moore, Glassboro	Virginia Tarasevich, Glassboro
JAV	Allyson Green, Schalick	Nevaeh Robinson, Schalick
4×400	Schalick	Overbrook

Girls Lacrosse

POS	SJILL AMERICAN FIRST TEAM	SJILL AMERICAN SECOND TEAM
G	Shelby Foote, Woodstown	Mackenzie Keleher, Haddonfield
M	Riley Austin, Haddonfield	Callie Warner, Clearview
M	Delaney Walker, Woodstown	Haley Brown, Kingsway
M	Maddie Eastlack, W. Deptford	Riley Walsh, W. Deptford
M	Brooke Schultz, Haddonfield	Jaime Deal, Woodstown
D	Mia Borodin, Clearview	Marley Nate, Clearview
D	Fiona Keenan, Haddonfield	Emily Coyle, Clearview
D	Sienna Struzynski, W. Deptford	Elizabeth Daly, Woodstown
O	Grace Farrell, Haddonfield	Sofia Conrey, Haddonfield (D)
O	Lauren Hamblin, Haddonfield	Reese Remaly, Clearview
O	Phoebe O’Rourke, Kingsway	Riley MacHenry, Clearview
O	Rhea Remaly, Clearview	CeCe Batson, Haddonfield
O	Emma Morgan, Woodstown	Marlina Kadar, Haddonfield

Boys Lacrosse

POS	SJILL AMERICAN FIRST TEAM	SJILL AMERICAN SECOND TEAM
A	Keegan Borkowski, Kingsway	R.J. Sciarrotta, Clearview
A	Owen Dougherty, Kingsway	Jake Borkowski, Washington Twp.
A	Myles Malone, Washington Twp.	Aidan Batterman, Williamstown
A	Robert Donahue, Woodstown	Michael Kugler, Clearview
D	J.D. Seidel, Clearview	Dane Jespersen, Kingsway
D	Cole DeNick, Kingsway	Ethan Wechter, Washington Twp.
D	Dominic Hibbs, Kingsway	Cole Aquino, Washington Twp.
D	Joseph Kopaczewski, Williamstown	Walter Carter, Woodstown
G	John Mentee, Kingsway	Joseph Hatefi, Williamstown (FOGO)
LSM	Ryan Glenn Kingsway	Jake Devereaux, Washington Twp. (G)
M	T.J. Mills, Clearview	Garrett Leyman, Woodstown (M/L/D)
M	Patrick Civitarese, Kingsway	Mason Bryan, Kingsway
M	Robbie Finnegan, Washington Twp.	Nicholas Maccariella, Williamstown
M/F	Thomas Dipietro, Kingsway	Parker Reese, Washington Twp.