Here is the weekly update on former Salem County high school baseball and softball players 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
13
.167
3
0
3
Lucas D’Agostino, Schalick
RCSJ-Cumb
16
.250
7
0
11
Andrew Pedrick, Woodstown
Harford CC
22
.388
26
2
26
Lucas Prendergast, Woodstown
York
34
.425
54
5
25
Jarrett Pokrovsky, Schalick
Penn
31
.287
35
1
14
Terrell Robinson, Salem
Rosemont
23
.246
15
0
9
Jackson Schalick, Schalick
Frostburg
40
.368
49
5
41
Caiden Spinelli, Woodstown
Rosemont
29
.283
26
0
11
Connor Starn, Pennsville
Keystone
10
.154
2
0
2
Rocco String, Woodstown
Salem CC
26
.263
20
3
22
Chase Swain, Woodstown
LaSalle
39
.368
56
8
33
Mike Valente, Woodstown
Salem CC
8
.000
2
0
0
Brent Williams, Woodstown
G-Beacom
26
.284
27
2
17
NOTE: Chase Swain is 10 hits shy of 250 for his college career and 1 RBI shy of 150; Lucas Prendergast is 2 hits shy of 200.
PITCHER
SCHOOL
GP
W-L
ERA
IP
K
Evan Biddle, Salem
Frostburg
7
1-0
7.56
8.1
6
Lucas D’Agostino, Schalick
RCSJ-Cumb
9
3-2
2.56
38.2
35
Ben Foote, Woodstown
Caldwell
5
1-1
16.62
4.1
2
Jack Holladay, Woodstown
Neumann
5
0-3
12.83
13.1
11
Peyton O’Brien, Pennsville
Harford CC
6
0-0
0.90
10.0
11
Luke Pokrovsky, Schalick
Penn
11
0-0
11.85
13.2
14
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
4
0-1
46.29
2.1
4
Mike Valente, Woodstown
Salem CC
7
2-1
6.05
19.1
11
Luke Wood, Pennsville
McDaniel
8
3-1
5.08
33.2
29
Softball
PLAYER
SCHOOL
GP
BA
H
HR
RBI
Emily Holladay, Woodstown
Hartwick
7
.200
3
0
1
Tulana Mingin, Woodstown
East Stroudsburg
40
.331
44
0
5
Ava Ortiz, Salem
Salem CC
12
.455
5
0
3
Savannah Palverento, Pennsville
Salem CC
34
.350
28
2
25
Lilly Peverelle, Pennsville
Salem CC
36
.472
51
4
37
Bella Rappa, Pennsville
Salem CC
28
.444
32
0
31
Cayla Sbrana, Schalick
RCSJ-Cumb
17
.286
12
0
7
Sawyer Simmons, Pennsville
Salem CC
26
.275
14
1
11
NOTE: Tulana Mingin has 33 runs and is 16-20 in stolen bases
Here is the Salem County sports calendar for the week of April 20-25; all games at 4 p.m. unless noted; senior trips reduce the high school slate
MONDAY, APRIL 20 BASEBALL Salem Tech at Pilgrim Academy SOFTBALL Buena at Salem Tech, 3:45 p.m. Schalick at Gloucester County Christian GOLF Woodstown vs. Wildwood, Town & Country Salem Tech vs. Clayton, The Birches
TUESDAY, APRIL 21 BASEBALL Penns Grove at Overbrook Salem Tech at Clayton BOYS GOLF Schalick vs. Overbrook, Centerton CC, 3:30 p.m. Salem Tech vs. Wildwood, Union League National, 3:45 p.m. GIRLS GOLF South Jersey Open, Westwood GC TENNIS Pitman at Schalick TRACK Salem at Cherokee, 3:30 p.m. Penns Grove at Schalick, 3:45 p.m. BOYS VOLLEYBALL GCIT at Salem Tech, 3:45 p.m. COLLEGE BASEBALL Bergen at Salem CC, 3:30 p.m. COLLEGE SOFTBALL Salem CC at Morris, 3:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 BASEBALL Overbrook at Penns Grove SOFTBALL Penns Grove at Overbrook TENNIS Winslow at Penns Grove COLLEGE BASEBALL Salem CC at Bergen, 3:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23 SOFTBALL LEAP at Penns Grove BOYS GOLF Salem Tech vs. Pitman, Sakima CC, 3:45 p.m. Woodstown vs. Sterling, Town & Country, 3:45 p.m. TENNIS Schalick at Haddon Heights TRACK Penn Relays COLLEGE SOFTBALL Salem CC at Brookdale, 3:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 BASEBALL Buena at Salem Cape May Tech at Salem Tech Penns Grove at Winslow SOFTBALL Lower Cape May at Salem TRACK Penn Relays COLLEGE BASEBALL Salem CC at RCSJ-Gloucester, 3:30 p.m.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25 BASEBALL Schalick at Vineland, 1 p.m. SOFTBALL Salem Tech at Highland, 10 a.m. TRACK Penn Relays COLLEGE BASEBALL RCSJ-Gloucester at Salem CC (2), noon COLLEGE SOFTBALL Raritan Valley at Salem CC, noon
Hacker gives Mighty Oaks big boost, pitching them to a Game 3 win over Camden to stay in the Region XIX playoff hunt; softball sweeps Sussex
SALEM CC BASEBALL Camden CC 10-2, Salem CC 9-12 SALEM CC SOFTBALL Salem CC 10-8, Sussex CC 1-6
By Al Muskewitz Riverview Sports News
CARNEYS POINT – In a game that suddenly had a lot of meaning for the Salem CC baseball season, Mighty Oaks coach John Holt handed Tyler Hacker the ball and told him to just go out and have fun.
For the sophomore right-hander that suggestion took him back to the days as an 8-9-10 year-old learning how to pitch by throwing the baseball against a big ol’ tree in the family’s yard in Lake Mary, Fla., next door to a future major-leaguer. Not to a catcher with tree trunks for legs or a guy named Wood or Birch or Pine, but to an honest-to-goodness oak.
When you want something bad enough, you make do, and that’s what Hacker did. It was those lessons and memories he leaned on Saturday to throw a 100-plus pitch complete-game victory, 12-2 over Camden CC, that salvaged the getaway game of the three-game series and kept the Mighty Oaks on the right side of the Region XIX playoff hunt. The Cougars won the opener 10-9 to win the series.
Hacker threw 111 pitches in the seven-inning game just one week removed from his second college start on the mound. He started last week’s Game 3 at Middlesex and one time on the team’s early-season trip to Myrtle Beach.
He had come to campus with a big bat and, a year removed from Tommy John surgery, the idea of being the Mighty Oaks’ closer. The bat – and legs – has always been a part of the plan. He’s the Mighty Oaks’ leading hitter, their top RBI producer and leads the nation in stolen bases. And now the self-taught pitcher is a Game 3 series starter due to injuries to Seth McCormick and Sean Bogan. Self-taught is the operative word.
“When I was younger I didn’t have like friends in the neighborhood so I learned to pitch to a tree,” Hacker said. “Learned to pitch to a tree. I watched baseball and I just tried to mimic what they did. I watched YouTube videos. I read – surprisingly. Everything I learned it was for myself and that’s what happens.
“I measured it out, put a mound there, and just sat in my driveway and threw at a tree. It’s almost a strike zone. I put some tape on there and threw baseballs at it all day. All day. Even now I wouldn’t consider myself a pitcher. I consider myself a thrower. I understand the game well, so I think I can get by. I think throwing at that tree has helped me with the basics and coming here I’ve learned to be a pitcher.”
Holt confirmed the tree story. He’s heard it before from the player and the coach who sent the player to him.
The Mighty Oaks didn’t need a closer Saturday, they needed a stopper. They had lost the first two games with the Cougars and let a 6-3 lead in the opener get away. They were falling farther below .500 in both their region and overall record and getting dangerously close to dropping out of the top eight to get in the playoffs.
It didn’t look good early. Hacker gave up two runs on two hits and a bad pickoff in the first inning, but things began to change when he surrendered to the idea of letting his teammates help him. He kept the Cougars off the board the rest of the game. He only gave up two hits after the first inning – and one of those was a bad hop single in the ninth – walking two, hitting two and striking out one.
Holt was going to take him out in the sixth inning when the pitcher was up to 99 pitches – there were relievers warming in the bullpen – and there was what Holt called “some conversation” but Hacker convinced his coach to let him stay.
“I wanted to beat them bad, especially after yesterday,” Hacker said. “Yesterday they owned us and we just did it back to them today. That was really what wanted me to keep going and stay in. Coach tried to pull me out, I said no, absolutely not. It’s going good for me, you’re not taking me out. He said you get one batter. As soon as I got 3-1 to that last guy I locked it in.”
There was a little more to the conversation than that. When his pitcher started looking unsteady, Holt told him just throw it at that tree. It flipped the switch and he started mowing down the Cougars like a lumberjack in the forest.
“It didn’t lock me in to throw strikes, it locked me in to have fun,” Hacker said. “In games like that when you’re trying to go for a complete game, when you’re trying to put up zeroes, you typically don’t have fun. You’re in your head a lot and if you watch me at first base, I have a lot of fun. That’s just the way I need to play and the way I need to pitch. It was a good idea for him to say throw to the tree because it absolutely snapped me in.”
The Mighty Oaks erased Camden’s two runs in the first with three when they came in to bad. Cliff Wysinger got it started with a double and scored on Hacker’s RBI single – his fifth RBI of the doubleheader. Hacker scored on Roman Hernandez’ RBI single and Rocco String scored the go-ahead run when the catcher’s throw trying to catch him stealing third sailed into left field.
Aiden Nestor’s 0-2 RBI single in the third extended the lead to 4-2. They scored four more in the fifth on back-to-back two-run singles by Wysinger and Jason LeBold, then blew it open in the sixth on Nestor’s RBI double and a two-run single by J.J. Pankowski.
What Hacker does on offense has never been questioned. He had three hits and five RBIs in the doubleheader – doing the Ohtani thing as a pitcher/designated hitter in the nightcap – and stole three more bases to extend his JUCO Division III-leading total to 49. He would have reached his goal of 50 in his next-to-last at bat of the day had String not bounced into the final out of the fourth inning with Hacker on the move.
And what of that tree? They ended up cutting it down.
He doesn’t throw at trees any more.
“I’ve gotten friends since,” he said. “And a car. I can drive places.”
The Mighty Oaks are hoping he drives them into the playoffs.
Camden
003
007
0-
10
13
3
Salem CC
002
503
0-
9
6
2
WP: Michael Manera. LP: Logan Peters. HR: Billy Bentliff (Ca).
Camden
200
000
0-
2
4
3
Salem CC
301
053
x-
12
12
1
WP: Tyler Hacker. LP: Aidan Stranahan.
Softball
NEWTON — The Salem CC softball team snapped its longest losing streak of the season by sweeping a doubleheader from Sussex, 10-1 and 8-6.
The Mighty Oaks had lost their last four games, but got back on the winning track behind a combined six-hitter from Reagan Wilson and Jordyn Busch.
Salem struck for four in the first inning and never trailed against. J.J. Aguirre, Emme Witter and Savannah Palverento had consecutive RBI singles and Jocelyn Melendez brought the fourth run home with a ground out. Witter and Lilly Peverelle both had three hits in the game.
The Skylanders got a run in the fourth inning, then the Mighty Oaks broke it open with four in the sixth
The nightcap was a bit closer, with the Mighty Oaks taking the lead for good with two in the sixth. Peverelle broke a 6-6 tie with a two-out run-scoring single and Peverelle scored an insurance run on a passed ball.
Sawyer Simmons went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Peverelle had two hits to lead the offense. Busch threw a complete game in the circle. She struck out nine.
Before take the lead for good in the sixth inning, the Mighty Oaks had leads of 1-0 and 6-5 only to see the Skylanders rally to draw even.
REGION XIX BASEBALL Camden 10-2, Salem CC 9-12 Northampton 17-3, Atlantic Cape 0-4 Ocean 10-18 Montgomery 6-12 Brookdale 12-7, Union 6-2 Bergen 7-5, Delaware County 6-0 Middlesex 6-3, RCSJ-Cumberland 4-8 Sussex 7-6, Raritan Valley 0-1 Lackawanna 4-9, Delaware Tech 3-2
REGION XIX SOFTBALL Salem CC 10-8, Sussex 1-6 Camden 11-3, Middlesex 1-1 Northampton 13-15, Bergen 4-3 Brookdale 11-13, Ocean 2-1 Mercer 4, Howard 1 Delaware Tech 4-4, Lackawanna 1-3 RCSJ-Gloucester 9-5, CC of Rhode Island 1-3
Pennsville softball rips four first-inning doubles on the way to a division-controlling win over Pitman; includes scores and highlights from Friday’s Salem County sports action
SOFTBALL Cape May Tech 16, Salem 2 Cumberland 13, Woodstown 6 Pennsville 8, Pitman 1 BASEBALL Cumberland 7, Woodstown 0 Pennsville 9, Pitman 6 Salem Tech at Atlantic City TENNIS Delsea 3, Woodstown 2 Schalick at Penns Grove GOLF Audubon 165, Pennsville 221 Lower Cape May 161, Schalick 166 Overbrook 202, Salem Tech 214 GIRLS LACROSSE Woodstown 20, Millville 3 COLLEGE BASEBALL Camden 6, Salem CC 1
By Al Muskewitz Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE — The players on the Pennsville softball team were arriving at second base so often in the first inning Friday one would have thought stopping at first base was just a suggestion.
The Eagles produced three straight RBI doubles from the heart of their batting order in the first inning and a two-run two-bagger later in the inning to set the stage for an 8-1 win over Pitman that gave them complete control of the TCC Classic Division race.
The Eagles (7-1) hit five doubles for the second game in a row. Kylie Harris, the recognized Queen of the Double, hit two. It was such a complete win, eight players got a hit and six scored. Graillyn Weber came within one out of posting their third straight shutout.
Pennsville took control of their straight win from the start. Lily Edwards started the inning with a single and stole second. After Weber flew out to deep right, the Eagles got consecutive RBI doubles from Harris (the 45th of her career), Avery Watson and Kenzie Widener.
“That was so crazy,” Harris said. “I think we just connected the ball really well and found the gaps. I’ve never seen three doubles hit in a row like that, but that was the best feeling ever, especially here on our field. Probably maybe we’ve had three doubles, but never back-to-back like that. That was awesome.”
Later in the inning, Taylor Bass hit her first career double to drive in the last two runs of the inning. Harris hit her 46th career double later in the game and scored the Eagles’ final run on an RBI single by Widener. The Eagles have hit 24 doubles this season, half of which have come on their home field.
“It’s just like a momentum thing,” Watson said. “We all see each other ripping line drives off this girl – both of them were great pitchers – and we gave each other advice coming into the dugout and saw what we saw up there.
“Taylor’s (double) was really exciting. Seeing someone new to the game ripping a double out there is really exciting and it gets everyone hyped in the dugout. We were all talking like I’ve never seen this many doubles in a row before. It was just exciting. That’s what keeps us going.”
The Eagles don’t need extra-base hits in order to score. They used aggressive baserunning and Pitman errors to score two more runs in the second inning and extend the lead to 7-0. The next inning the Panthers brought in Listella Eisenhart to pitch and the sophomore lefthander kept the Eagles off the board until the sixth.
The big early lead made it more comfortable for Weber to throw strikes. She gave up just one hit over the first four innings, facing just three batters over the minimum, and kept the Panthers off the board until she tired in the seventh. The Panthers loaded the bases and scored on Cassidy Batten’s sacrifice fly and then Weber ended the game on the next pitch. It was the first run Pennsville allowed since Haddon Heights’ walk-off homer last Friday.
She gave up five hits, struck out three and walked one (in the seventh inning).
“I threw pretty good,” Weber said. “I probably could’ve been better on a few pitches, but I did pretty good. I’m happy with my results.”
The defense kept the shutout bid alive. The biggest run-saver came in the fifth when Eisenhart led off with a triple and with Delaney Pierson showing bunt, catcher Harris threw behind Eisenhart and got her in a rundown, where she was easily tagged out. Pierson wound up singling that would’ve gotten the run home.
Harris almost turned a double play two batters later when she caught a foul pop, but threw too high to first to get a runner who strayed too far off the base. Watson turned a nifty double play going to the backhand side earlier in the game and made two diving stops to keep singles from going into the outfield for potentially extra bases. And Reagan Wariwanchik snared a rising liner at second base that looked like it was headed into the outfield.
“They helped me a lot; I really appreciate it,” Weber said. “There were a lot of good plays made today, that honestly made me happy. I’m glad that our defense got a little chance when I’m pitching to field a little bit because I know they don’t get a lot. I tried to keep my arms to myself when I was pitching today a little more.”
CUMBERLAND 13, WOODSTOWN 6: Ellie Wygand went 4-for-4 at the top of the Woodstown lineup, but the Wolverines were in catch-up mode all day after the Colts erupted for seven runs with two outs in the home first.
Woodstown pitcher Leah Clark retired the first two batters she faced, then the Colts put together a walk and seven straight hits. The Wolverines cut into their deficit with three runs in the third on Macie Moore’s RBI triple, an RBI single by Wygand, and Madison LaPalomento’s run-scoring ground out, but the Colts got them all back in the fifth.
CAPE MAY TECH 16, SALEM 2: The Hawks broke open a close game with nine runs in the third inning. and Emma Oravits held the Rams to one hit.
The big inning was highlighted by a two-run single from Addison LeSage and a two-run triple from Melissa Rivello. Madison Johnson had Salem’s only hit, a third-inning single. Oravits faced the minimum through three innings thanks to a pair of double plays.
BASEBALL
PENNSVILLE 9, PITMAN 6: The Eagles rallied from a 6-2 deficit with seven runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings and reliever Gavin Spears was sharp on the mound after a rough start to score the divisional win.
Logan Streitz started tor the Eagles and pitched into the second inning on 30 pitches to prep for Saturday’s Steal Your Base (Williamstown) Tournament start against Kingsway. Spears was tabbed for 30 pitches as well, but after he gave up five runs in the third inning the Eagles just had him eat innings.
It turned out to be a good move. After finding himself, Spears held the Panthers hitless over the last four innings, facing just two batters over the minimum, while the Eagles rallied. Spears went 5 2/3 innings and struck out 12.
The Eagles (7-1) tied the game in the fifth when the Panthers misplayed Logan Cowperthwiat’s fly to right into a pair of run. They took the lead in the sixth when Mason O’Brien scored on a wild pitch and extended it on RBI singles by Jake Layfield and Mike McClincy.
“(Spears) went to work on the mound, pitched very well, pounded the zone and challenge hitters,” Pennsville coach Matt Karr said. “The offense chipped away and kept winning innings and we found a way to win. I’m proud of their effort to dig out of the hole on the road against a division opponent.”
CUMBERLAND 7, WOODSTOWN 0: Kameron Fiorani and Peyton Brennan shut out the Wolverines on five hits and Fiorani hit a two-run homer in the sixth to put an exclamation point on the performance.
Fiorani went the first six innings, giving up five hits, walking four and striking out five. Brenner set the Wolverines down in order in the seventh.
The Wolverines mounted a few threats, getting five runners in scoring position, but Fiorani got out of them every time. His defense helped with two double plays.
GOLF LOWER CAPE MAY 161, SCHALICK 166: Schalick senior Seth Fisher birdied 4 and 5 at Centerton CC to shoot even-par 35 and win medalist honors, but Lower Cape May posted two scores in the 30s to win the match. Cole Bade shot 37 and Alex Sekela 39 to lead the Caper Tigers.
The girls teams also played and LCM’s Lina Tastevin posted the low round (49). Jasmine Hunt shot Schalick’s low score (57).
AUDUBON 165, PENNSVILLE 221: The Green Wave posted the four lowest scores of the day to win the match. Ben Cameron was Audubon’s low man (40). Trevor Hann led Pennsville with a 48.
OVERBROOK 202, SALEM TECH 214: Joseph Linane parred his last three holes to shoot 4-over 40 at Kresson GC and lead the Rams to victory. Sophia Conto shot the Chargers’ low round (46).
GIRLS LACROSSE
WOODSTOWN 20, MILLVILLE 3: Delaney Walker moved closer to 200 career goals when she scored five and Arianna Hyman pumped in four to help the Wolverines snap a three-game losing streak.
Walker now has 195 career goals. Her first chance at the milestone will be April 28 at home against West Deptford. Isabella Lindenmuth, Angelina Lindenmuth, Blair Baldi and Emma Perry scored two goals apiece for the Wolverines (5-3).
TENNIS
DELSEA 3, WOODSTOWN 2 Zeph Kell (D) def. Drew Stengel, 6-4, 6-2 Eli Croce (D) def. Mason Shimp, 6-2, 6-1 Zach Natalie (D) def. Luke Shaw, 6-2, 6-4 Vincent Merendino-Nick DiTeodoro (Wo) def. Jacob Bramble-Jude Thompson, 4-6, 7-6 (7-0), 10-8 Connor Miller-Josh King (Wo) def. Marcus Saigueiro-Seth Bui, 7-5, 6-1. Records: Delsea 7-1, Woodstown 8-3
College baseball
FRIDAY’S REGION XIX GAMES Camden 6, Salem CC 1 Brookdale 22, Union 4 Mercer 25, Morris 7 Northampton 14, Atlantic Cape 4 Middlesex 13, RCSJ-Cumberland 7 Bergen 29, Delaware County 7 Lackawanna 19, Delaware Tech 9
BLACKWOOD — Two Camden pitchers held Salem CC to two singles and off the scoreboard until the ninth inning to beat the Mighty Oaks in their series opener 6-1.
Nick Mokienko, a freshman right-hander with a sub-1.50 ERA, worked the first 7 2/3 innings and gave up one hit while striking out 11. He hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last six appearances (24 innings). Michael Manera came in behind him and gave up one hit and the Mighty Oaks’ only run.
Until the ninth, the only hit the Mighty Oaks mustered was Colin McLaughlin’s leadoff single in the fifth. Mokienko faced only one batters over the minimum through the first four innings
The Mighty Oaks finally got on the board in the ninth. Jason LeBold led off the inning by getting hit by a pitch for the 15th time this season and Tyler Hacker singled. The runners pulled off a double steal and LeBold rode home on Roman Hernandez; sacrifice fly.
The Cougars scored two runs in each of the first two innings. C Hudson delivered a two-out two-run single off Pat Seitzinger in the first and I Monteith hit a two-run double in the second.
The series concludes with a noon doubleheader Saturday at the Carneys Point Rec Complex.
Salem CC softball coaches take, share encouragement from team’s play despite being swept by current region leader Mercer
REGION XIX SOFTBALL Mercer 8-7, Salem CC 4-6 RCSJ-Gloucester 9-0, Monroe 8-12 Lackawanna 10-6, Frederick CC 1-0 Bucks 12, RCSJ-Cumberland 5 Bergen at Dutchess Brookdale at Morris Middlesex at Orange County CC Morris at Sussex
By Al Muskewitz Riverview Sports News
PENNSVILLE — The Salem CC softball team came ever so close to giving acting head coach Mackenzie Freas an early birthday present by knocking off a team they haven’t had much luck against in the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader.
The Mighty Oaks had a lead after a big inning with six outs to go, but then Mercer did what Mercer always does against the Mighty Oaks and rallied to complete a sweep of their Region 19 twin bill and regular-season series, 8-4 and 7-6.
Under any other circumstances it would have been an occasion to hang heads and put on a brave face when it came to talking about what transpired over the last four and a half hours of softball. But this time, the Mighty Oaks were encouraged by the things they saw against a team they had only beaten only once in 12 previous meetings, never in the regular season, and hadn’t score a run the last four times they played, including both games the day before Easter.
The Mighty Oaks (20-18) scored three runs in the seventh inning of the opener to make that one close and had the tying run at the plate when it ended, then they scored six in the fifth inning of the nightcap to take a 6-3 lead with six outs to go and just had to get out of the seventh to earn the win.
“Obviously we lost, but it was, I don’t want to say a good loss, but it was like a ‘we needed that,” said Freas, who remains the face of the program while head coach Angel Rodriguez awaits clearance from the college to return. “I think our girls had some doubt, not doubt in themselves because they knew they could do it, but the first time we played them we didn’t even get six walks, or six hits, we didn’t get anything.
“This game we got six runs in one inning. The game before we had three runs on two outs. I think it was almost like an eye-opener to them in like we can do this. We just said to them this is such a good team and you are realizing it now. Now that we’re going into the postseason … during the postseason you don’t want the team that’s red hot, we’re getting red hot. We’re getting so close. We’re getting right there.
“This is the best team in the region and to hold them like we did and then to almost beat them, that felt a little bit good.”
Mercer (29-3) led 3-0 in the nightcap before the Mighty Oaks flipped the game with six in the fifth. Bella Rappa single home the first run, then J.J. Aguirre gave them the lead with a three-run double. But the Mighty Oaks weren’t finished. They reloaded the bases and then Jocelyn Melendez ripped a two-run single up the middle to make it 6-3. Rappa had three hits in the game and Melendez had two.
“Oh my God, that felt great,” Freas said. “I don’t think we felt like that against them since the year (they beat them in the playoffs, 2024). The body of them was so similar and our girls were just like fueling off of it. it was their best way of (thinking) this is what post-season can feel like. That was their taste of it and they want it.”
The Mighty Oaks just had to get six outs to secure the win. Mercer scored two in the sixth, although Aguirre made a diving stop at third with the bases loaded to keep a ball from going down into the corner and really hurting the Mighty Oaks, and two more in the seventh to take the lead.
Karisa Krawiec raced home with the tying run on a wild pitch that was ball four to Isabella Cornish-Didonato. Cornish-Didonato continued around the bases on pitches that got away and finally came home with the go-ahead run when Jamie Kozarski hit a sharp grounder past third that shortstop Lilly Peverelle collected but couldn’t make a throw.
“I just think we tried to get too big in a moment, we tried to do too much in the moment,” Freas said. “When we had that six-run inning nobody was trying to do anything crazy. Everybody was just gotta get on base, gotta do my job, gotta stay patient. And then when we get to the sixth and seventh inning it’s I’ve got to do too much. Before, it was just like you’re just playing to play.
“Come playoffs you can feel this again. You’re going to feel this pressure opportunity again. You have to now get comfortable with that uncomfortable now when we’re in the regular season. Come postseason you’re going to knock it out of the park.”
The Mighty Oaks went down in order in the seventh, but not before making it interesting. Aguirre, the modern-era single-season home run record holder, led off with long fly Krawiac flagged down in right field. Megan Koski lofted a fly into shallow right that Krawiac raced in just as hard to snare and then Witter flew to center to end the game.
The Mighty Oaks hadn’t scored a run against Mercer since the third inning of an April 5, 2025 run-rule loss, but they broke that 27-inning drought in the third inning of Game One on Emme Witter’s sacrifice fly. They could have gotten a lot more early. They had bases-loaded, no-out situations in the first and third innings, but only got the one run out of them.
They finally capitalized on a bases-loaded situation in the seventh, but by then trailed 8-1. Witter delivered a two-run single to make it 8-3 and Jordyn Busch scored the final run on a wild pitch. They brought the tying run to the plate, but the game ended on a grounder back to the pitcher.
“We saw what we can be; we saw that we can play up here,” Freas said. “That’s the No. 1 team in the region and we saw we can get ahead and we can hang with the big dogs. And come playoff time we are going to beat the big dogs. It’s coming. I know it’s coming. This reminds me so much of that (2024) team. It is so similar and we’re starting to see the spurts now.”
ACORNS: The Mighty Oaks are now 1-13 in the series with Mercer since reviving their program. Their only win came in the first round of the 2024 Region 19 playoffs (6-0) … Game 2 Thursday was the closest game in the series … Aguirre is two RBIs shy of tying the modern era single-season school record (Ella Hayes, 61) … Freas continues to serve as the Mighty Oaks’ head coach while Rodriguez awaits clearance to return by college HR, although he has been medically cleared by his cardiac surgeon to return to his full-time job as a Salem CC advisor and fulfill his daily coaching responsibilities. He spoke to the team after the doubleheader … Freas’ birthday is Friday.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Frostburg’s Jackson Schalick (Schalick).
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
NOTE: Tulana Mingin has 27 runs and is 16-19 in stolen bases
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.
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
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