Here are the scores and highlights from Thursday’s Salem County sports calendar
BASEBALL
Penns Grove 14, Bridgeton 4: Tim Zamorano went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and the Red Devils answered Bridgeton’s two in the first with eight in the bottom of the dining to snap a three-game losing streak. Bristol Scott and Juan Feliciano both had two hits and Yadiel Sierra Soto had two RBIs. Dylan Hyatt pitched a five-inning complete game, striking out 10.
SOFTBALL
Sterling 17, Schalick 16: The Silver Knights rallied for six runs in the top of the seventh, then denied the Cougars in the bottom of the inning to win it. Schalick rallied from a 10-5 deficit with six in the fourth inning and led 15-11 after five innings. It was the second wild one-run game in as many days for Schalick, which beat Pitman 11-10 on Wednesday.
TENNIS
WOODSTOWN 3, CUMBERLAND 2
Drew Stengel (Wo) def. Carter Fischer, 6-3, 6-4
Joseph Nolan (Cu) def. Mason Shimp, 6-2, 7-5
Luke Shaw (Wo) def. Justin Nolan, 6-4, 6-4
Nick DiTeodoro-Vincent Merendino (Wo) def. Mason Staffieri-Ryker Barlie, 6-3, 6-1
Lukas Henninger-Jeff Basile (Cu) def. Connor Miller-Josh King, 6-2, 6-4
Records: Woodstown 8-2, Cumberland 4-3
PENNSVILLE 4, PITMAN 1
Nolan Russell (Pi) def. Sawyer Humphrey, 6-0, 2-6, 14-12
Lucas Cooksey (Pe) def. Liam Etter, 6-1, 6-0
Ian Peacock (Pe) def. Ben Williams, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4
Coen Rinnier-Jacob Cheeseman (Pe) def. Spencer Bianchini-Jonah Raymer, 6-0, 6-2
Lucas Thomas-Matthew Forino (Pe) def. Ezra Ralph-Ayden Epley, 6-0, 6-3
Records: Pennsville 7-5, Pitman 4-4
TRACK
Woodstown at Lenape Field Day
Pennsville at Penns Grove
BOYS GOLF
Schalick 168, Pennsville 223: Mikey Nelson won medalist honors with a 4-over-par 40 and all four of the Cougars’ counters played better than bogey golf at Sakima CC to win the match. Caden Thomas had Pennsville’s low round (51).
Highland 168, Woodstown 174: Highland teammates Mac Weldon, Lucas Calabro and Michael Comorote and Woodstown’s Logan Jones all shot 6-over 41 to share medalist honors at Town & Country GL.
BOYS LACROSSE
Mainland 12, Woodstown 7: Liam Kennedy scored four goals for the second time in three games for Mainland.
Category: BASEBALL
On a faster track
Woodstown boys hand Mason 399th T&F coaching win, milestone could come vs. former team; Schalick wins girls meet in final 200 meters of 4×400; includes scores from Wednesday’s Salem County sports calendar
BASEBALL
Pennsville 15, Penns Grove 1
Schalick 16, Pitman 4:
Woodstown 10, Salem 0
Salem Tech 10, Cape May Tech 2
SOFTBALL
Pennsville 21, Penns Grove 0
Woodstown 14, Salem 0
Schalick 11, Pitman 10
BOYS GOLF
West Deptford 162, Schalick 178
Gloucester Catholic 157, Salem Tech 220
GIRLS GOLF
Schalick 206, Delsea 246
TENNIS
Woodstown 5, Timber Creek 0
Pennsville 5, Schalick 0
BOYS TRACK
Woodstown 88, Schalick 46
Pennsville at Glassboro
Penns Grove at Overbrook
Salem 77, Pitman 6
GIRLS TRACK
Schalick 74, Woodstown 66
Salem 66, Pitman 40
GIRLS LACROSSE
Mainland 15, Woodstown 3
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
WOODSTOWN – For the last couple years, at least during the cycle of its current seniors, the success of Woodstown’s boys track program was carried on the legs of its long and middle distance runners. “The Four Horsemen” as they’ve been called garnered the points the Wolverines scored every meet through the various events in which they competed and anything else was considered a bonus.
They’ve won some, contended in most, with that approach. But since longtime county track coach Tom Mason came out of retirement to take over the team this spring, the Wolverines have added more elements to their arsenal, elements that make them much more dangerous in the major meets that follow the rest of the spring.
One of the first things Mason expressed upon arrival was a desire to develop jumpers and throwers and sprinters and technical hurdlers to go with the headline runners. Those pieces were on full display Wednesday as the Wolverines ran past rival Schalick 88-46 in a meet that was Mason’s 399th career dual meet victory.
Thrower Aidan Taulane won the shot put and discus, breaking his own school record in the latter. Eli Ceasar and Andrew White posted personal bests in going 1-2, respectively, in the high jump. They also went 1-2 in the triple jump, with White winning the event.
“I’m going to say this and try to say this humbly,” Mason said. “For the county meets it puts us in a better position against the powerhouse Schalick and the Penns Grove team. It puts us in a better position. I’m going to start with that before we comment about farther down the road. If the jumpers alone, if they keep competing the way they are, they could score at least 20-25 points at sections.”
“It shows that we’re a developed team and shows the quality of a coach that we have in that he really forced the program in all areas,” said senior Josh Crawford, one of the aforementioned Four Horsemen. “Within a month or maybe even less he made us into not just the Four Horseman but an entire team. I think it shows our entire team has heart now and we definitely are going to put up much better scores, much better show-outs for the colleges that are looking at my teammates and things of that nature. We’re such a well-rounded team now.”
Taulane broke the school record in the discus he set two weeks ago, sending the disc 166-feet, 1-inch in his second throw. Then he stepped over to the shot put pit a few feet to his right and won that event at 44-8. He hasn’t lost his event in a dual meet since his sophomore but, it was finishing one place out of qualifying for the state meet as a sophomore that has really motivated him these past two seasons.
“It shows that Woodstown’s not just the 4-by-8 team like everybody used to say and what they’re going to see at the sectionals and states is there’s more to Woodstown,” Taulane said. “I think it gives us a good chance to win it all. Nothing is guaranteed, but I think we have a pretty good chance.”
While the boys meet was so much a runaway they didn’t even run the 4×400 relay on that side, the girls meet came down to the wire, literally the final 200 meters of the day.
Schalick pulled out a 74-66 victory, but had to win the final event of the day – the 4×400 relay – to avoid a rare loss in the series. The Cougars had a three-point lead going into the day’s final event but had to win the two-team race to secure enough points for the victory. They actually trailed with about 200 meters to go, but anchor Caylen Taylor made up the deficit and pulled away bringing it home.
“It was obviously stressful.,” Schalick coach Missy Pine said. “We were down, we had some girls get injured while we were here, we had some girls not be able to compete, so for the girls who were able to step up and push and do their best I cannot tell you how proud I am of all of them. And I couldn’t be prouder of that 4×4 team that just went out there and fought with everything they had for that win.”
It was the first time the Cougars had run the race all spring, but they handled it like veterans. They hit the wire in 4:25.7. Woodstown finished in 4:32.5.
Lia Covely, normally Woodstown’s anchor, staked the Wolverines to four-second lead after the opening leg, but Jaelynn Jarmon closed it to basically a dead-heat at the mid-point of the race. Kylie Parvin had the Cougars in the lead again after the third leg, but Kyrsten Dussault caught Schalick anchor Caylen Taylor on the back straightaway and actually pulled ahead briefly before Taylor, supporting Pine’s strategy of putting a good distance runner at the end of relay for endurance sake, kicked it into another gear in the home stretch.
“This is my senior season and I really did not want to get the first loss against Woodstown,” Taylor said. “I really just wanted to go out and give it my all. I knew how much it meant to my coaches and my team and I just wanted to give it my all. I knew it was going to come down to this, so I was mentally preparing myself so I wanted to give it my all and whatever the outcome was I’d be happy with it as long as I did my best. I felt like Jell-O at the end.”
Woodstown coach Kim Kraky called the loss “disheartening.” The Woodstown girls hadn’t beaten the Cougars often, and only once in the County Meet, but they were thisclose this time.
The Wolverines had several multiple winners. Abby Marino won the 800, 1600 and 3200. Covely won both hurdles. Sara Lodge won the shot and discus. And Kami Casiano won the high jump and triple jump, setting the school record in the former with the bar set taller than she is.
Karlie Bakley won the two sprints for Schalick and ran its leadoff leg in the 4×400.
In one of the more anticipated races of the day, Schalick’s David Stewart beat Woodstown’s Josh Crawford by four-tenths of a second to win the boys 400. Stewart also won the 100, a race he runs just “to get my legs moving,” and the long jump.
“It was something I was looking forward to,” Stewart said of the 400. “Last year we faced off at our track and I beat him, so I knew the next time we faced off, which was today, he was going to come back stronger, faster, but I’ve been training, too. I knew it was going to be a tough match. I kind of paced off (Woodstown’s Karson Chew) to the 200 and once I hit the 200 I kicked and I had a really strong kick and I think my kick was stronger than theirs and I finished the race strong.”
“I feel like going into my races when I know the competition I’m up against I get into my head a little bit,” Crawford said. “That part I need to focus more on my strategy. Changing strategy, changing mindset and I’ll have plenty more races to go up against my good opponents.”
Crawford came back and won his specialty, the 800, standing his ground against Steve Chomo, who pushed him to a PR when they raced on the Cougars’ track last year. Jacob Marino, another of the Four Horsemen, won the 1600 and 3200.
The boys win left Mason one shy of 400 for his Hall of Fame coaching career. The milestone win could come as early as April 27, ironically, against the school with which he had built so much of his coaching success, Penns Grove
This story will be updated.
BOYS MEET
WOODSTOWN 88, SCHALICK 46
400 Hurdles: Jacob Carter, Schalick, 1:02.2
100: David Stewart, Schalick, 11.0
1600: Jacob Marino, Woodstown, 4:49
400: David Stewart, Schalick, 48.5
110 Hurdles: Sherrod Jones, Schalick, 15.6
800: Josh Crawford, Woodstown, 2:00
200: Anthony Costello, Woodstown, 22.6
3200: Jacob Marino, Woodstown, 10:48
High Jump: Eli Caesar, Woodstown, 6-2
Long Jump: David Stewart. Schalick, 21-7.25
Triple Jump: Andrew White, Woodstown, 43-3.5
Discus: Aidan Taulane, Woodstown, 166-1
Javelin: Garry Simonini, Schalick, 158-3
Shot Put: Aidan Taulane, Woodstown, 44-8
Pole Vault: Caleb Jenkins, Schalick, 12-0
GIRLS MEET
SCHALICK 74, WOODSTOWN 66
400 Hurdles: Lia Covely, Woodstown, 1:09.6
100: Karlie Bakley, Schalick, 13.4
1600: Abby Marino, Woodstown, 5:33.4
400: Brooke Valentine, Schalick, 1:04
110 Hurdles: Lia Covely, Woodstown, 17.0
800: Abby Marino, Woodstown
200: Karlie Bakley, Schalick
3200: Abby Marino, Woodstown
4×400 Relay: Schalick (Karlie Bakley, Jaelynn Jarmon, Kylie Parvin, Caylen Taylor), 4:25.7
High Jump: Kami Casiano, Woodstown, 5-6
Long Jump: Phoebe Alward, Schalick, 14-9
Triple Jump: Kami Casiano, Woodstown, 33-8
Discus: Sarah Lodge, Woodstown, 101-5
Javelin: Navaeh Robinson, Schalick, 105-8
Shot Put: Sarah Lodge, Woodstown, 28-10.5
Pole Vault: Jillian Wriggins, Schalick
What a comeback
Salem CC rallies from big early deficit to beat Ocean, sweep Region 19 series
REGION XIX BASEBALL
Tuesday’s Games
Salem CC 14, Ocean 12
Montgomery 6-17, Delaware County 2-1
Camden 14-24, Atlantic Cape 2-6
RCSJ-Gloucester 15, Mercer 10
Raritan Valley 20, Middlesex 11
Brookdale 21, Bucks 0
Bergen 18, Westchester 10
Morris 6, Rockland 5
Sussex 5, Ulster 2
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
CARNEYS POINT – If the Salem CC baseball team makes the Region 19 playoffs this season – and the Mighty Oaks are trending in that direction – they can point to Tuesday’s incredible comeback for getting them there.
The Mighty Oaks staged one of their most memorable in-game turnarounds in coach John Holt’s tenure, rallying from two eight-run deficits with 10 runs in their final three bats to beat Ocean CC 14-12.
They got close with five in the sixth inning and then took the lead with four in the bottom of the eighth. Chase Hortiz drew them even with a two-run single and Jason LeBold gave them the lead with a two-run single with two strikes and two outs.
Logan Peters put the Vikings down in the ninth, facing the tying run at the plate, to complete a courageous 4 2/3 innings relief stint to give the Mighty Oaks the chance to come back and for him to record his first college win.
What made it important? It gave the Mighty Oaks (17-19, 12-10) a sweep of the Region 19 series and an important tiebreaker on the Vikings, who they were two games behind in the region win column entering the series, put them two games over .500 in the region standings and got them within two wins of a .500 overall record.
Teams must be .500 or better either overall or in region play to qualify for the playoffs. Right now, eight of the 13 teams in Region 19 Division II are qualified, and Ocean is not one of them. Two of the four region series the Mighty Oaks have left are against teams ahead of them in the standings, including league-leading No. 2 RCSJ-Gloucester.
“We were tied with them going into the series, last year they had a leg up on us,” LeBold said. “We knew Middlesex was an important series because they took one from them. We wanted the sweep. We were happy with a series win, but the sweep gives us that push over.
“We know if we do tie – we’re planning on beating Camden (this weekend), so we don’t want a tie – but if we do tie, we get that win, so it could be the most important game to get us into the playoffs. I’d rather have three than two.”
The Vikings led 11-3 in the fifth and 12-4 in the sixth as the Mighty Oaks got off to a dreadful start in the field and at the plate, but as LeBold said, “as long as there were still innings to play we were still in it.” The Mighty Oaks scored five runs in the sixth on Aidan Nestor’s RBI double, J.J. Pankowski’s two-run triple and sacrifice flies by Cliff Wysinger and Tyler Hacker. Pankowski singled home another run in the seventh.
“They showed a lot of resilience,” Holt said. “I think they’re starting to become who they can be. It was a pretty big team win. When you have to use your lineup card like that much, you’ve got to be proud of that, that they all contributed.
“We had the conversation last week, going into that Middlesex series, we had to go all Hernan Cortes, we had to burn the boats. They bought in, they’re believing in one another. Top to bottom guys are playing selflessly.”
Colin McLaughlin got the eighth-inning rally started when he reached on an infield throwing error. Jacob Sharrow followed with a single and then Vikings reliever Noah Cullen mishandled Nestor’s bunt to load the bases. Hortiz followed with his game-tying single.
“I was just trying to have a team at bat and get my guys in,” Hortiz said. “We didn’t play to the scoreboard. We just kept fighting. We never lost our energy and it got us all the way back.”
Cullen was on the verge of getting out of it when he retired the next two hitters and had LeBold down to his final strike. But the sophomore outfielder, a difference-maker relegated to DHing by an elbow injury he hopes won’t keep him down long, laced a single to left that easily scored Nestor with the tie-breaking run and Hortiz beat the relay to the plate for an insurance run.
“Nick Reckard came up to me (right before the at-bat) and said, man, you’re going to win the game for us here; that was important to me,” LeBold said. “I was sitting alone, by myself in the corner a little bit, kind of in my head because I hadn’t been hitting that well, and he came up to me and said you’ll be the one to do it for us. That meant a lot and gave me all the confidence.
“When I went up there I believed in what he said. I took that into the at-bat and it helped me stay in it the whole time. I was down 0-2 at a point and I was thinking about that the whole time, knowing that someone has that much confidence in me.”
The Mighty Oaks showed their ability to rally early in the game when they answered Ocean’s four in the top of the first with three in the bottom of the inning. They would have gotten even more but Ocean left fielder Matt Nuccio robbed Hacker of a homer when he leaped knee-high to the top of the fence and caught the ball going over the wall. There’s a deep divot in the warning track at the base of the fence where Nuccio planted for the leap.
Peters gave the Mighty Oaks every chance to come back with his longest outing of the season. He gave up an inherited run on a sacrifice fly when he came in behind Rocco String in the fifth and gave up a run in the sixth, but he didn’t allow a hit over his final three innings while facing two batters over the minimum.
“It was pure excitement,” he said. “To go out there knowing you can give your team a chance to win and really kind of just shock everybody that’s here. It was nothing but excitement going out there for the last three (outs). Just got out there, threw strikes and gave my team the best chance they can to win. Close it out.”
ACORNS: The bottom half of the Mighty Oaks’ lineup – Sharrow, Nestor, Hortiz and Pankowski – had two hits apiece … Hacker picked up his JUCO D3-leading 41st stolen base in the game, moving him well in range of his goal of 50 … Trevor Hernandez had a two-run single for the Mighty Oaks in the first, but was replaced by Sharrow after getting thrown out at third for the final out of the inning … The three games in the series were decided by a total of four runs … Peters’ previous longest stint was four innings against Surry CC in the last game of the team’s Myrtle Beach trip … The Vikings were playing their eighth game since last April 6.
| Ocean CC | 410 | 151 | 000- | 12 | 10 | 4 |
| Salem CC | 300 | 015 | 14x- | 14 | 13 | 7 |
Baseball leaders
With all the Salem County varsity teams out of action Tuesday, here’s a quick look at the baseball statistical leaders in the county
Baseball
| TEAM HITTING | AB | R | H | BI | 2B | 3B | HR | SB | AVG. |
| Schalick | 239 | 89 | 102 | 80 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 9 | .427 |
| Woodstown | 222 | 66 | 73 | 56 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 21 | .419 |
| Pennsville | 167 | 42 | 57 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 12 | .341 |
| Salem Tech | 124 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 35 | .323 |
| Salem | 05 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | .189 |
| Penns Grove | 94 | 21 | 15 | NA | 2 | 0 | 0 | NA | .160 |
| BATTING (min. 2 AB per games played) | H-AB | AVG. |
| Ricky Watt, Schalick | 15-19 | .789 |
| Evan Sepers, Schalick | 14-22 | .636 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 11-18 | .611 |
| Cooper Coles, Salem Tech | 6-10 | .600 |
| Drew Sutton, Woodstown | 13-23 | .565 |
| Chase Pompper, Salem Tech | 8-15 | .533 |
| Mason O’Brien, Pennsville | 9-18 | .500 |
| Bo Schalick, Schalick | 11-22 | .500 |
| Noah Williams, Woodstown | 10-24 | .417 |
| Logan Streitz, Pennsville | 7-17 | .412 |
| Gavin Spears, Pennsville | 9-22 | .409 |
| Jeff Wagner, Pennsville | 7-18 | .389 |
| Ty Coblentz, Woodstown | 10-26 | .385 |
| Talyn Priore, Woodstown | 8-22 | .364 |
| Walker Battavio, Woodstown | 9-25 | .360 |
| Lucas Clement, Salem Tech | 5-14 | .357 |
| Bryce Harris, Salem Tech | 5-14 | .357 |
| Cooper Willoughby, Schalick | 6-17 | .353 |
| Luke Fraley, Woodstown | 8-25 | .320 |
| Cole Hartley, Schalick | 8-25 | .320 |
| HITS | TOTAL |
| Ricky Watt, Schalick | 15 |
| Evan Sepers, Schalick | 14 |
| Drew Sutton, Woodstown | 13 |
| Bo Schalick, Schalick | 11 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 11 |
| Ty Coblentz, Woodstown | 10 |
| Noah Williams, Woodstown | 10 |
| Walker Battavio, Woodstown | 9 |
| Mason O’Brien, Pennsville | 9 |
| Gavin Spears, Pennsville | 9 |
| RUNS | TOTAL |
| Evan Sepers, Schalick | 14 |
| Ricky Watt, Schalick | 14 |
| Cooper Coles, Salem Tech | 12 |
| Ty Coblentz, Woodstown | 11 |
| Lucas Clement, Salem Tech | 10 |
| Chase Pompper, Salem Tech | 10 |
| Gavin Spears, Pennsville | 9 |
| Logan Streitz, Pennsville | 9 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 9 |
| HOME RUNS | TOTAL |
| Ricky Watt, Schalick | 4 |
| Jeff Wagner, Pennsville | 2 |
| RBIs | TOTAL |
| Ricky Watt, Schalick | 16 |
| Bo Schalick, Schalick | 11 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 11 |
| Logan Streitz, Pennsville | 10 |
| Noah Williams, Woodstown | 10 |
| Drew Sutton, Woodstown | 9 |
| Evan Sepers, Schalick | 8 |
DOUBLES — 5: Ricky Watt, Schalick; 4: Bo Schalick, Schalick; Evan Sepers, Schalick; Logan Streitz, Pennsville; 3: Luke Fraley, Woodstown; Mason Hollywood, Schalick; Mason O’Brien, Pennsville; Noah Williams, Woodstown
STOLEN BASES — 8: Lucas Clement, Salem Tech; Chase Pompper, Salem Tech; 7: Cooper Coles, Salem Tech; 6: Ty Coblentz, Woodstown; 4: J.T. Fleming, Schalick; Brayden McAllister, Salem Tech; Thomas Tucci, Woodstown
| TEAM PITCHING | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | ERA |
| Schalick (6-1) | 45 | 38 | 28 | 18 | 30 | 63 | 2.80 |
| Pennsville (5-1) | 38 | 30 | 23 | 16 | 18 | 52 | 2.95 |
| Woodstown (5-3) | 52.2 | 59 | 51 | 43 | 24 | 56 | 5.72 |
| Salem Tech (3-2) | 26 | 34 | 41 | 28 | 22 | 44 | 7.54 |
| Penns Grove (1-4) | 26.1 | 46 | 65 | 42 | 39 | 37 | 11.16 |
| Salem (0-5) | 26.0 | 58 | 104 | 82 | 55 | 15 | 22.08 |
| ERA (min. 5 IP) | IP | ERA |
| Walker Battavio, Woodstown | 8.0 | 0.00 |
| Mason O’Brien, Pennsville | 17.2 | 1.19 |
| Jack Beal, Salem Tech | 5.0 | 1.40 |
| Bo Schalick, Schalick | 5.0 | 1.40 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 9.2 | 1.45 |
| Talyn Priore, Woodstown | 7.1 | 1.91 |
| Drew Sutton, Woodstown | 11.0 | 1.91 |
| Cole Hartley, Schalick | 9.2 | 2.17 |
| Gavin Spears, Pennsville | 9.0 | 3.11 |
| Robert Strain, Schalick | 6.0 | 3.50 |
| Mason Hollywood, Schalick | 7.1 | 3.82 |
| Stone Hassler, Woodstown | 9.0 | 3.89 |
| Jaxson Raymond, Salem Tech | 7.0 | 4.00 |
| STRIKEOUTS | IP | TOTAL |
| Mason O’Brien, Pennsville | 17.2 | 25 |
| Jamari Whitley, Schalick | 9.2 | 20 |
| Jonathan Bower, Salem | 12.0 | 17 |
| Bryce Harris, Salem Tech | 11.2 | 17 |
| Liam Irvin, Penns Grove | 7.2 | 14 |
| Walker Battavio, Woodstown | 8.0 | 13 |
| Stone Hassler, Woodstown | 9.0 | 13 |
| Jaxson Raymond, Salem Tech | 7.0 | 13 |
| Jack Beal, Salem Tech | 5.0 | 12 |
| Gavin Spears, Pennsville | 9.0 | 11 |
| Cole Hartley, Schalick | 9.2 | 10 |
| Logan Streitz, Pennsville | 6.1 | 10 |
| Drew Sutton, Woodstown | 11.0 | 10 |
| Dylan Hyatt, Penns Grove | 8.0 | 9 |
| Bo Schalick, Schalick | 5.0 | 8 |
| Robert Strain, Schalick | 6.0 | 8 |
Salem CC on road
Mighty Oaks baseball wins two one-run games at Ocean, softball swept at Harford
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC 8-13, Ocean 7-12
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Harford 6-10, Salem CC 5-5
By Riverview Sports News
TOMS RIVER — The Salem CC baseball team began its push for a Region 19 playoff spot with a pair of one-run victories on the road at Ocean CC.
The Mighty Oaks won the first game 8-7 and took the nightcap 13-12.
No other details were available.
The doubleheader sweep left them 16-19 overall, 11-10 in Region 19. Teams must be .500 or better either overall or in region play to qualify for the playoffs.
The series with Ocean wraps with a single game Tuesday at the Carneys Point Rec Complex.
Softball
BEL AIR, Md. — The Mighty Oaks softball team fell behind early in both games of their doubleheader, fought their way back to make a game of them both, but just couldn’t put enough together to overcome the deficit and were swept at Harford 6-5 and 10-5.
They fell behind in the opener 5-0 after two innings, but closed the gap with Emme Witter’s three-run homer in the fourth. After Harford pushed across a run in the home fourth, the Mighty Oaks scored two in the fifth on Lilly Peverelle’s sacrifice fly and Savannah Palverento’s RBI single to make it 6-5, but they couldn’t get closer.
They went down in order in the sixth. They had the tying run at second in the seventh with two outs, but the game ended on an offensive interference call.
They fell behind in the nightcap 6-1 after three innings. They made it 6-3 fourth on an RBI singles by Witter and Sawyer Simmons, but Harford scored four in the fifth to stretch the lead. The big blow of the inning was Izzy Hiebler’s three-run homer..
The Mighty Oaks return to action Thursday in a home doubleheader against Mercer.
Walking it off
Streitz’ first career home run gives Pennsville walk-off win over Wildwood; includes scores and details from Monday’s Salem County sports schedule
BASEBALL
Clayton 13, Salem 3
Mastery Charter 10, Salem Tech 4
Schalick 27, Penns Grove 0
Pennsville 3, Wildwood 2
Woodstown 15, Overbrook 11
SOFTBALL
Woodstown 8, Overbrook 4
Schalick 15, Penns Grove 0
Pennsville 12, Wildwood 0
BOYS GOLF
Overbrook 184, Pennsville 202
Schalick 179, Woodstown 182
Salem Tech 199, Clayton 205
GIRLS GOLF
OLMA 210, Schalick 236
TENNIS
Woodstown 4, Highland 1
Pennsville 5, Millville 0
Clayton at Penns Grove
Wildwood at Schalick
BOYS LACROSSE
Kingsway 19, Woodstown 2
GIRLS LACROSSE
Kingsway 14, Woodstown 12
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE — Logan Streitz will remember his first high school home run for a long time. Largely for what it meant for his Pennsville baseball team Monday and partly for how long it took to determine it was a home run at all.
Streitz walked off the Eagles’ 3-2 win over Wildwood with a two-run homer with none out in the bottom of the seventh. The ball landed some 350 feet from home plate in about an 18-inch space between the chain-link outfield fence and a wooden fence on the boundary of the concrete company that lies just beyond the field.
The Wildwood outfielders who chased the fly into the gap pawed at the base of the fence for the ball thinking it might be a grounds rule double like a ball stuck in the ivy at Wrigley Field. Mason O’Brien, the Pennsville runner who started the inning with a single, was already around third base when the uncertainty set in. Eagles coach Matt Karr approached the umpires to clarify the call. It took the umps a moment, but they determined the ball had cleared the fence ending the game.
“I was kind of confused,” Streitz said. “It took me a minute to realize I’d seen it behind the fence, so then it kind of hit me if it went behind the first fence it had to be gone, right?”
“The home plate umpire said yeah I heard the wood,” Karr said. “I said, OK, well the chain link is in front of the wood, so if it hit the wood it had to go over the chain link fence. Thankfully they got the call right. It was a big spot for Logan. It was awesome.”
The blast, which came on his 151st varsity at-bat, also made Streitz a winning pitcher in one of his shortest outings on record. He came on to get the final out of the top of the seventh in the relief of starter O’Brien, who was as good as ever but reached his pitch limit. It was a five-pitch win. He worked an eight-pitch inning against Pitman as a sophomore.
O’Brien gave up six hits and struck out 10 in 97 pitches.
“That’s the first time he was really stretched out like that this year,” Karr said. “Mason’s a gamer. He did not want to come out of the game. He actually texted me last night and he said, coach, I don’t know how many I got, but I’m going to give you everything I got. I said I expect nothing less from you, buddy.”
Will Auty was equally impressive on the mound for the Warriors. The freshman gave up 10 hits, struck out four and didn’t walk a batter. He worked out of a bases-loaded no-out situation in the fifth that could have broken the game wide open, setting down the Eagles’ 4-5-6 hitters on an infield fly rule, a short fly to left that kept the runners from moving and a fly to center.
“He wasn’t throwing very hard, but he was flipping his curveball and he was throwing strikes,” Karr said. “And that’s a recipe in high school baseball for success.”
The Warriors took the opening and scored two when they came in to bat. That failure to produce would have been gut-wrenching for the Eagles had they lost the game.
“Before I went out to talk to them in the outfield I turned to (assistant coach Ryan Wood) and asked him for some wisdom,” Karr said. “I don’t want to kill the moment and steal it from two guys who earned it, but I also don’t want them to be happy and complacent and think that’s our standard, because it’s not. We shouldn’t have been here.
“We have aspirations of being a championship team, we cannot be OK with the way today shook out. We had opportunities where that moment shouldn’t have happened because we should have handled our business in the prior innings. We’ve got to find a way to just put it in play there and we didn’t.
“We come in here and talk about winning sectional championships and state championships. When you squander opportunities like we did today, in those big games down line, you’re not always going to get bailed out by a walk-off, two-run homer from a senior.”
The Eagles broke a scoreless tie in the fourth when Stevie Fatcher ripped a two-out single into left field. He stole second and eventually rode home on Logan Cowperthwait’s double that fell between two outfielders.
Trevor Troiano drew a one-out walk to get Wildwood’s go-ahead rally started. He moved to third on a run-and-hit single by Nolan Mawhinney and scored when Mawhinney beat Cooperthwait’s low throw to Streitz at second trying to get a force on Michael McWade’s grounder to third. Auty gave his team the lead by poking a single into right field.
The Eagles were in a good spot when the seventh inning began anyway, having the meat of the order coming to the plate. Mason got it started with a single and Streitz ended it.
“All day he was just throwing straight curveballs consistently,” Streitz said. “I think I had gotten five in row throughout all my at-bats. I kind of expected it. I sat there, looked for it. Mason got on for me and I just swung.
“I didn’t really feel it on the bat. I’d just kind of seen it up in the air, in the gap. I was hoping it would drop either way. I’ve hit a couple in the summer, but none of them compared to this. This is my first high school bomb. It’s pretty special being my first one.”
WOODSTOWN 15, OVERBROOK 11: The Wolverines broke away with a six-run second inning and led 14-2 after batting in the sixth, but had to hold on as the Rams put together threats in the sixth and seventh innings.
Noah Williams went 3-for-4 with three RBIs to lead the Wolverines’ 15-hit attack. Tommy Tucci had two hits and two RBIs, Talyn Prior and Drew Sutton both had a pair of hits and Stone Hassler had two RBIs.
Sutton had a bases-loaded single to center in the second inning that cleared the bases with the help of an error, then Tucci and Williams followed with RBI doubles. Hassler had a two-run double in the sixth that gave the Wolverines a 13-2 lead.
The Rams had the tying run in the on-deck circle with two outs in the seventh, but the Wolverines got out of it with no further damage.
SCHALICK 27, PENNS GROVE 0: Will Sieminski, Robert Strain and Evan Glaspey had three hits apiece for Schalick. The Cougars already had an 8-0 lead, then scored 11 in the fourth and eight in the fifth before reaching the run-rule threshold.
Jamari Whitley had two hits and two RBIs. Glaspey, Strain and Mason Sanchez drove in a pair of runs. Hot-hitting Ricky Watt had no official plate appearances in the game, but walked three times and scored a run.
MASTERY CHARTER 10, SALEM TECH 4: The Chargers scored two in the top of the first on Cole Sacks’ two-run single, but Warriors pitcher Ricardo Basilio kept them off the board until the seventh. Between the time the Chargers scored in the first and the seventh, Basilio allowed only two runners into scoring position.
Chase Pompper had two hits for the Chargers. Derwin Cabrera hit an inside the park homer for Mastery in the fourth inning.
CLAYTON 13, SALEM 3: The Rams scored two runs in the first inning but Clayton answered with six in the bottom of inning to take the lead for good. Troy Carey doubled home the first run and later scored on an error to give the Rams the early lead, but the Clippers batted around in the bottom of the inning to retake the lead.
The Rams scored their other run in the third when Austin Davis doubled and came home when the Clippers misplayed Carey’s grounder to first. Davis had two doubles in the game.
Softball
PENNSVILLE 12, WILDWOOD 0: Graillyn Weber went 3-for-4 with four RBIs and spun a three-hit shutout in the circle with 11 strikeouts. Weber retired the first nine batters she faced and got out of a bases-loaded, one-out situation in the fourth with two strikeouts.
Avery Watson also drove in four runs for the Eagles. Taylor Bass went 3-for-3.
The Eagles led 2-0 after three innings then broke it open with six runs in the fourth inning, highlighted by Gianna Evans’ two-run double and Watson’s two-run single. Watson also had a two-run single in the fifth inning.
WOODSTOWN 8, OVERBROOK 4: Madison LaPalomento went 3-for-4 and Talia Guardascione and winning pitcher Leah Clark both had two hits for the Wolverines. Clark gave up just three hits and no earned runs over the first six innings, striking out nine.
The Wolverines answered Overbrook’s two runs in the top of first with two in the bottom of the inning, then took the lead with two in the third on Clark’s RBI double and Lila Bowling’s sacrifice fly. They broke it open with four in the sixth.
Golf
SCHALICK 179, WOODSTOWN 182: Woodstown’s Logan Jones and Schalick’s Mikey Nelson shared medalist honors at the top of the leaderboard (42), but the Cougars’ Anthony Sepers (45) and Jaxon Weber (43) beat their men by 11 total shots in the fifth and sixth seed spots to make the difference in the close match at Centerton CC.
SALEM TECH 199, CLAYTON 205: Clippers sophomore Jackson Venuto birdied his second hole and shot a 4-over 40 to win medalist honors at Sakima CC, but Salem Tech put the next three scores in the 40s to win the match. Freshman Cohen Sutton led the Chargers with a 47, while freshman Daniel Atanasio and sophomore Sophia Conto carded 49s.
at Sakima cc
OVERBROOK 184, PENNSVILLE 202: The Rams posted three rounds in the 40s at Kresson GC. Jeffrey Boyd won medalist honors with a 42, playing his first five holes in 1-over. Caden Thomas shot Pennsville’s low round (45)
OLMA 210, SCHALICK GIRLS 236: OLMA freshman Eva Acerba won medalist honors with a 50 at White Oaks CC. Lena Virga posted Schalick’s low round (54).
Tennis
WOODSTOWN 4, HIGHLAND 1
Drew Stengel (WO) def. Mohammad Sheyam, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 10-5
Mason Shimp (WO) def. Andrew Whitelock, 6-3, 6-4
Marcus Lorenzana (H) def. Luke Shaw, 6-4, 3-6, 10-8
Vincent Merendino-Nick DiTeodoro (WO) def. Leonardo Vittese-Jacob Roman, 6-1, 6-0
Connor Miller-Josh King (WO) def. Sakibul Alam-Mohammad Isa, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 11-9
Records: Woodstown 6-2, Highland 3-2
PENNSVILLE 5, MILLVILLE 0
Sawyer Humphrey (P) def. Grady Young, 3-6, 6-2, 11-9
Lucas Cooksey (P) def. Nathaniel Lore, 7-5, 6-3
Ian Peacock (P) def. Brecken Sloan, 2-6, 6-4, 10-3
Coen Rinnier-Jacob Cheeseman (P) def. Jaiden Gomez-Samiel Young, 6-4, 6-2
Matthew Forino-Lucas Thomas (P) def. Christopher Wheatley-Paul DeSantis, 6-2, 6-1
Records: Pennsville 4-5, Millville 1-3
Boys lacrosse
KINGSWAY 19, WOODSTOWN 2: Patrick Civitarese and Wyatt McLaughlin both scored three goals and five of their teammates scored two goals apiece as the Dragons remained undefeated and kept the Wolverines winless.
Girls lacrosse
KINGSWAY 14, WOODSTOWN 12: The teams battled to an 11-11 tie through three quarters before the Dragons pushed home three goals in the fourth. Delaney Walker scored five goals for Woodstown to run her career total to 189, Emma Morgan had three, Angelina Lindenmuth two and Isabella Lindenmuth and Arianna Hyman one each. Phoebe O”Rourke and Cecilia Gross scored four goals apiece for Kingsway.
Keeping track
Here’s a report on former Salem County prep players playing baseball and softball on the college level; will be updated every Monday; anyone missing? send additional players to al.muskewitz@gmail.com
Baseball
| PLAYER | SCHOOL | GP | BA | H | HR | RBI |
| Elijah Crespo, Penns Grove | RCSJ-Cumb | 11 | .188 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Lucas D’Agostino, Schalick | RCSJ-Cumb | 11 | .111 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Andrew Pedrick, Woodstown | Harford CC | 20 | .387 | 24 | 2 | 26 |
| Lucas Prendergast, Woodstown | York | 30 | .409 | 45 | 2 | 18 |
| Jarrett Pokrovsky, Schalick | Penn | 27 | .279 | 29 | 1 | 11 |
| Terrell Robinson, Salem | Rosemont | 19 | .240 | 12 | 0 | 7 |
| Jackson Schalick, Schalick | Frostburg | 35 | .389 | 44 | 4 | 36 |
| Caiden Spinelli, Woodstown | Rosemont | 24 | .267 | 20 | 0 | 10 |
| Connor Starn, Pennsville | Keystone | 9 | .182 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Rocco String, Woodstown | Salem CC | 24 | .254 | 18 | 3 | 21 |
| Chase Swain, Woodstown | LaSalle | 36 | .360 | 50 | 7 | 32 |
| Mike Valente, Woodstown | Salem CC | 7 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brent Williams, Woodstown | G-Beacom | 21 | .284 | 21 | 2 | 16 |
| PITCHER | SCHOOL | GP | W-L | ERA | IP | K |
| Evan Biddle, Salem | Frostburg | 6 | 1-0 | 8.53 | 6.1 | 4 |
| Lucas D’Agostino, Schalick | RCSJ-Cumb | 7 | 2-2 | 2.90 | 31.0 | 29 |
| Ben Foote, Woodstown | Caldwell | 5 | 1-1 | 16.62 | 4.1 | 2 |
| Jack Holladay, Woodstown | Neumann | 4 | 0-2 | 10.80 | 10.0 | 5 |
| Peyton O’Brien, Pennsville | Harford CC | 6 | 0-0 | 0.90 | 10.0 | 11 |
| Luke Pokrovsky, Schalick | Penn | 10 | 0-0 | 13.50 | 12.0 | 12 |
| Terrell Robinson, Salem | Rosemont | 4 | 0-0 | 8.10 | 6.2 | 2 |
| Caiden Spinelli, Woodstown | Rosemont | 2 | 0-0 | 27.00 | 1.1 | 1 |
| Rocco String, Woodstown | Salem CC | 3 | 0-1 | 49.50 | 2.0 | 3 |
| Mike Valente, Woodstown | Salem CC | 6 | 2-1 | 6.75 | 17.1 | 10 |
| Luke Wood, Pennsville | McDaniel | 7 | 3-1 | 5.83 | 29.1 | 25 |
Softball
| PLAYER | SCHOOL | GP | BA | H | HR | RBI |
| Emily Holladay, Woodstown | Hartwick | 3 | .273 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Tulana Mingin, Woodstown | East Stroudsburg | 36 | .319 | 38 | 0 | 4 |
| Ava Ortiz, Salem | Salem CC | 10 | .286 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Savannah Palverento, Pennsville | Salem CC | 28 | .371 | 23 | 1 | 20 |
| Lilly Peverelle, Pennsville | Salem CC | 30 | .477 | 42 | 3 | 25 |
| Bella Rappa, Pennsville | Salem CC | 23 | .456 | 26 | 0 | 26 |
| Cayla Sbrana, Schalick | RCSJ-Cumb | 12 | .276 | 8 | 0 | 5 |
| Sawyer Simmons, Pennsville | Salem CC | 21 | .172 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| PITCHER | SCHOOL | GP | W-L | ERA | IP | K |
| Savannah Palverento, Pennsville | Salem CC | 10 | 0-0 | 9.45 | 13.1 | 16 |
| Cayla Sbrana, Schalick | RCSJ-Cumb | 5 | 2-3 | 8.35 | 26.0 | 11 |
| Raegan Wilson, Salem | Salem CC | 14 | 6-5 | 6.42 | 52.1 | 37 |
Top photo: Tulana Mingin (Woodstown) (4).
NOTE: Statistics as accurate as updated by the schools.
This week’s schedule
Here is the Salem County sports schedule for the week of April 13-18; games start at 4 p.m. unless noted
APRIL 13
BASEBALL
Salem at Clayton
Salem Tech at Mastery Charter
Schalick at Penns Grove
Wildwood at Pennsville
Woodstown at Overbrook
SOFTBALL
Overbrook at Woodstown
Penns Grove at Schalick
Pennsville at Wildwood
BOYS GOLF
Pennsville at Overbrook, Kresson GC, 3:30 p.m.
Schalick vs. Woodstown, Centerton CC, 3:30 p.m.
Salem Tech vs. Clayton, Sakima CC, 3:45 p.m.
GIRLS GOLF
Schalick vs. OLMA, White Oaks CC, 3:30 p.m.
TRACK
Gloucester Catholic, Wildwood at Salem
TENNIS
Highland at Woodstown, 3:45 p.m.
Pennsville at Millville
Clayton at Penns Grove
Wildwood at Schalick
BOYS LACROSSE
Kingsway at Woodstown
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Kingsway
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC at Ocean (2), 2 p.m.
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Salem CC at Harford, 1 p.m.
APRIL 14
TENNIS
Glassboro at Pennsville
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Ocean at Salem CC, 3:30 p.m.
APRIL 15
BASEBALL
Pennsville at Penns Grove
Pitman at Schalick
Salem at Woodstown
Salem Tech at Cape May Tech
SOFTBALL
Penns Grove at Pennsville
Woodstown at Salem
Schalick at Pitman
BOYS GOLF
Pennsville vs. Woodstown, Town & Country, 3:30 p.m.
Schalick vs. West Deptford, River Winds, 3:30 p.m.
Salem Tech vs. Gloucester Catholic, Westwood GC, 3:45 p.m.
GIRLS GOLF
Schalick vs. Delsea, Centerton CC, 3:30 p.m.
TENNIS
Timber Creek at Woodstown, 3:45 p.m.
Penns Grove at Pitman
Pennsville at Schalick
TRACK
Schalick at Woodstown, 3:45 p.m.
Pennsville at Glassboro
Penns Grove at Overbrook
Pitman at Salem
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Mainland
APRIL 16
BASEBALL
Bridgeton at Penns Grove
Pennsville at Millville
SOFTBALL
Sterling at Schalick
TENNIS
Cumberland at Woodstown, 3:45 p.m.
Pitman at Pennsville
TRACK
Woodstown at Lenape, 3:30 p.m.
Pennsville at Penns Grove
BOYS GOLF
Schalick vs. Pennsville, Sakima CC, 3:30 p.m.
Woodstown vs. Highland, Town & Country, 3:30 p.m.
BOYS LACROSSE
Mainland at Woodstown
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Mercer at Salem CC, 3 p.m.
APRIL 17
BASEBALL
Cumberland at Woodstown
Middle Twp. at Salem
Pennsville at Pitman
Salem Tech at Atlantic City
SOFTBALL
Cape May Tech at Salem
Pitman at Pennsville
Woodstown at Cumberland
TENNIS
Pitman at Pennsville, 3:45 p.m.
Woodstown at Delsea, 3:45 p.m.
Schalick at Penns Grove
BOYS GOLF
Salem Tech vs. Overbrook, Kresson GC, 3:30 p.m.
Schalick vs. Lower Cape May, Centerton CC, 3:30 p.m.
Pennsville vs. Audubon, Sakima CC, 4:30 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Woodstown at Millville
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Salem CC at Camden, 3 p.m.
APRIL 18
BASEBALL
Schalick at Haddon Twp., TBD
Salem at Gloucester, 10 a.m.
Sterling at Woodstown, 11 a.m.
Pennsville vs. Kingsway at Williamstown Tournament
TRACK
Woodbury Relays
Woodstown girls at Penn Wood Invitational, 9 a.m.
COLLEGE BASEBALL
Camden at Salem CC (2), noon
COLLEGE SOFTBALL
Salem CC at Sussex, noon
Salem CC baseball
Mighty Oaks split Saturday doubleheader at Middlesex, but win Region XIX series
REGION XIX BASEBALL
Saturday’s Games
Salem CC 9-7, Middlesex 3-10
Camden 12-22, Delaware County 2-0
Ocean 13-9, Atlantic Cape 1-7
RCSJ-Cumberland 15-15, Northampton 1-17
Brookdale 14-14, Bergen 5-9
Mercer 18-8, Raritan Valley 1-3
Lackawanna 11-10, Morris 3-0
RCSJ-Gloucester 14-17, Montgomery 0-4
Sussex 6-12, Delaware Tech 3-0
By Riverview Sports News
EDISON — Cliff Wysinger homered and Pat Seitzinger pitched a complete game without allowing an earned run to help Salem CC win the opening game of Saturday’s doubleheader to clinch the series , but Middlesex bounced back to win the nightcap and salvaged a split of the day.
The Mighty Oaks won Game 1, 9-3. Middlesex took the nightcap 10-7 despite SCC’s Jason LeBold hitting two home runs.
The Mighty Oaks got off to another fast start in the series, opening a 7-0 lead after two innings of the opener and then put it in Seitzinger’s hands. He gave up just four hits and struck out four.
Trevor Hernandez had three hits and two RBIs for the Mighty Oaks. Wysinger, Jay Barber and Colin McLaughlin had two hits apiece.
They led the second game 5-2 after three innings, but the Colts erupted for five in the fourth to take the lead for good. LeBold went 3-for-3 in the game for Salem and he and Roman Hernandez both drove in three runs. J.J. Pankowski had a pair of hits.
“Pleased to have taken the series, but not satisfied,” Mighty Oaks coach John Holt said. “Played OK in Game 2. Didn’t play badly, but we could’ve done a little better.”
Wysinger took over the team lead in homers (five) with his blast in the first game, but LeBold caught him with his two in the nightcap.
| Salem CC | 430 | 010 | 1- | 9 | 12 |
| Middlesex | 000 | 010 | 2- | 3 | 4 |
| Salem CC | 104 | 000 | 2- | 7 | 9 |
| Middlesex | 020 | 503 | x- | 10 | 8 |
Region XIX Standings
| DIVISION III BASEBALL | R19 | ALL | GSAC |
| RCSJ-Gloucester | 20-4 | 23-7 | 15-3 |
| Brookdale | 15-6 | 21-7-1 | 12-4 |
| Middlesex | 15-6 | 23-10 | 11-5 |
| Northampton | 12-6 | 19-12 | |
| RCSJ-Cumberland | 12-7 | 20-9-1 | 7-4 |
| Camden | 12-7 | 15-11 | 7-6 |
| Montgomery | 11-8 | 11-8 | |
| Ocean | 11-10 | 14-13 | 10-8 |
| SALEM CC | 9-10 | 14-19 | 6-6 |
| Bergen | 8-12 | 9-19 | 8-11 |
| Atlantic Cape | 3-17 | 3-17 | 2-16 |
| Union | 1-19 | 4-20 | 0-16 |
| Delaware County | 1-19 | 1-19 |
Well-armed
Schalick went looking for arms to give it a chance against Toms River South and Hollywood, Schalick provided ‘exactly what we needed.’ includes county’s baseball, softball, tennis results
FRIDAY’S SCORES
BASEBALL
Haddon Heights 14, Pennsville 3
Schalick 8, Toms River South 7
Woodstown 11, Collingswood 8
SOFTBALL
Gloucester Catholic 9, Schalick 3
Haddon Heights 7, Pennsville 6
Overbrook 23, Penns Grove 0
Salem Tech 8, Haddonfield 5
Woodstown 3, Glassboro 1
TENNIS
Kingsway 5, Pennsville 0
Woodstown 5, Deptford 0
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
PITTSGROVE — After exhausting his two best pitchers trying to win a 10-inning division marathon the day before, Schalick baseball coach Sean O’Brien wondered if he’d have enough arms to get past one of the better teams from the Shore Friday morning.
Enter Mason Hollywood and Bo Schalick.
The two junior right-handers hadn’t thrown a lot this early in the season and they certainly hadn’t faced a team like they did Friday. They had their trials, but they never lost the lead and gave the Cougars every chance to knock off Group 3 Toms River South, 8-7.
Hollywood pitched the first four innings and left in a 4-4 tie. Schalick pitched the last three innings and turned the Indians back when they threatened in the sixth and seventh.
“They did exactly what we needed them to do every time they got out and pitch,” O’Brien said. “We know teams are going to hit them, they don’t throw super hard, but they are guys who can compete, they can locate, they can throw their off speed for strikes. We just have to play defense behind them, and for the most part we did. We made some mistakes late in the game, but those guys what we needed them to do.
“We’re not super deep as we were last year in our rotation, so we need other guys to step up and those two guys did that today.”
Initially, Hollywood and Schalick were going to be used in relief behind starter Cole Harley, but that plan was scuttled when Hartley pitched the final four innings (62 pitches) against Overbrook on Thursday.
The pitchers were told that night they would be going against the Indians, who came in undefeated in four games, and they did everything they could in the run-up to be ready. For Schalick, one of the rare athletes who can play for the name on the front and the back of the jersey, it was getting a good night’s sleep, stretching out and downing an energy drink in the morning.
Hollywood had thrown only 3 1/3 innings in two previous appearances this season, but he’d made nine pitching appearances (29 total innings) the previous two years at St. Joseph Academy.
He gave up one hit over the first three innings. He HBP/walked the bases loaded in the second, but got out of it with only one run scoring. He ran into trouble in the fourth, giving up back-to-back doubles, opening the door for the Indians to score three runs to tie it.
The Cougars gave him a 4-0 lead after two innings. They scored three in the first on Jamari Whitley’s RBI single, a run-scoring error and Travis Snodgrass’ bases-loaded single, then added another run in the second on Ricky Watt’s RBI double. Watt doubled in each of his first two at-bats.
“(O’Brien) just said it was like pitching against any other team; it doesn’t matter how good they are as long as you can throw the ball in there,” Hollywood said. “There were a little bit of nerve, but in the end I have a great team behind me. In the end there aren’t really any nerves when your team can make the plays.”
Schalick had made only one previous varsity pitching appearance, a two-inning stint in a rout of Clayton earlier this week where he threw 25 pitches. He threw 62 in closing out the Indians. He breezed through his first inning in 12 pitches, but threw 37 in in the sixth as the Indians batted around to score three runs and make it 8-7.
O’Brien had another pitcher in his pocket just in case, but he never needed him. South got the tying run in scoring position with one out in the seventh, but Schalick got out of it with a fly to center and, as the Indians got to the top of the order, his fourth strikeout to end the game.
“I felt good,” Schalick said. “There were a little nerves, but I feel like the adrenaline helped me with the fastball velocity and then my curveball was working at the beginning. (The last inning) I had a little nerves in the dugout before walking out, but I made sure I was keeping my head down, throwing strikes.”
“For them to come in and do that it just shows we can rely on them against good teams, too,” O’Brien said.
Schalick set Schalick up for the win with four runs in the fifth. The back end of the lineup set the table, then Evan Sepers and Watt both drew bases-loaded walks on 3-2 pitches and Whitley drilled the first pitch from left-handed reliever Karsin Migliori into left field for a two-run single.
Sepers reached base in three of his four plate appearances and scored all three times. Watt had two doubles and a walk, and Whitley had three hits and three RBIs
“Those guys have been swinging the bat really well,” O’Brien said of the top of his lineup. “We just need to be more consistent in the back end of the lineup. There are moments when we look really good and moments when we kind of fall off a little bit. The back end guys need to see pitches, need to work pitchers and find a way to get on base so we can turn over that lineup and they did a good job.
“If we can get that going, like last year, if our top end wasn’t hitting, the back end was. Once we start doing that and then we clean up the defense and pitching becomes more consistent we’re going to be a really good team.”
WOODSTOWN 11, COLLINGSWOOD 8: Walker Battavio and Ty Coblentz each drove in two runs with consecutive two-out hits in the seventh inning to give the Wolverines the lead, which they held through the bottom of the inning.
The game was tied 7-7 going into the seventh. The Wolverines (4-2) loaded the bases on Drew Sutton’s leadoff double, a one-out intentional walk to Chase Harding (who hit his first career homer earlier in the game), and a single by Jackson Fraley.
After a strikeout got the second out, Battavio singled to second to break the tie and Coblentz followed with a double to plate two more insurance runs. Coblentz tied the game in the sixth with a two-out single.
The Panthers (1-2) got a run in the home seventh and had the tying run in the on-deck circle, but Talyn Priore induced the next two batters into ground outs to end the game.
Coblentz went 3-for-5 with three RBIs. Battavio had two hits and two RBIs and Sutton had two hits. Harding hit a two-run homer in the second inning to open the scoring.
HADDON HEIGHTS 14, PENNSVILLE 3: The Garnets scored six runs in the first inning and the Eagles could never dig out of the hole.
The visitors sent 10 batters to the plate in the first inning. Jaxon Motta had a two-run double and Collin Camarote a two-run single to highlight the big start. Ryan Govito hit a solo homer in the sixth.
Jeff Wagner hit a solo homer in the third to get the Eagles on the board. He also had an RBI single in the fifth.
Softball
WOODSTOWN 3, GLASSBORO 1: The Wolverines broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the third inning and Leah Clark made it stand by winning a pitching duel with Glassboro’s Gianna Askin.
The Wolverines took the lead on Madison LaPalomento’s RBI single and two more runs scored when the Bulldogs misplayed Grace Hitchner’s hard grounder to the right side of the infield.
Clark held the visitors in check on six hits while striking out seven. The Bulldogs scored a run in the fifth on Scarlett Saicic’s two-out RBI double, then Clark allowed only two more base runners the rest of the game.
SALEM TECH 8, HADDONFIELD 5: Shelby Drummond went 4-for-5 with two RBIs and Claire Kier went 3-for-4 with three RBIs as the first-year Chargers (7-1) won their fifth in a row. Shelby Liber drove in a pair of runs. Isabele Roberts threw a complete game in the circle, allowing seven hits, two earned runs and striking out nine.
HADDON HEIGHTS 7, PENNSVILLE 6: Ruby Caviston walked it off with a homer with one out in the bottom of the seventh.
The Eagles tied the game with two runs in the sixth on Graillyn Weber’s RBI double and Kenzie Widener’s RBI single. Weber (three doubles) and Widener both had three hits and three RBIs in the game. The Eagles outhit their hosts, 12-7.
GLOUCESTER CATHOLIC 9, SCHALICK 3: The Rams answered Schalick’s three runs in the top of the first with three in the bottom of the inning, then took the lead for good on a passed ball with two outs in the second inning with the bases loaded. The Rams added three more in the fourth, then Shaili Monaghan held the Cougars scoreless on one hit over the final three innings.
OVERBROOK 23, PENNS GROVE 0: Peyton Wood had two hits and three RBIs and Gianna Simon cleared the bases and scored on a bases-loaded triple-and-error combination in a 12-run first inning and two Overbrook pitchers held the Red Devils to two hits while striking out nine. Nyasia Numan had both of the Red Devils’ hits.
Tennis
WOODSTOWN 5, DEPTFORD 0
Drew Stengel (WO) def. David Decker, 6-1, 6-4
Mason Shimp (WO) def. Easton Davis, 6-2, 6-0
Luke Shaw (WO) def. Zane Rauner, 6-2, 6-3
Vincent Merendino-Nick DiTeodoro (WO) def. Xavier Dean-Noah Tennyson, 6-0, 6-1
Connor Miller-Josh King (WO) def. Jonathan Clark-Zayann Moosavi, 6-0, 6-1
Records: Woodstown 5-2, Deptford 2-2.
KINGSWAY 5, PENNSVILLE 0
Aidan Shoemaker (K) dec. Sawyer Humphrey, 6-0, 6-0
Nate Brandley (K) def. Lucas Cooksey, 6-1, 6-0
Jimmy Wilkes (K) def. Carter Willis, 6-3, 6-1
Nolan Steurer-Shiven Shah (K) def. Coen Rinnier-Jacob Cheeseman, 6-1, 6-0
Aiden Totten-Carter Matthews (K) def. Ian Peacock-Matthew Forino, 6-2, 6-1
Records: Kingsway 5-0, Pennsville 3-5.
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