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Wallto-wall coverage Pond Road student raises money for lacrosse wall By Sam Sciarrotta
Lynsey Parrott lives for lacrosse. She plays for the Robbinsville Lacrosse Association and the Garden State Elite travel squad, and she’s constantly cheering for the Penn State Nittany Lions women’s team. So when the 12-year-old Pond Road Middle School student realized that Community Park was missing an important lax resource, she enlisted the help of her dad, Tommy, and got to work. Parrott decided to raise money for the construction of a lacrosse wall at the park, where the RLA girls’ program recently moved from Blakely Park. “They didn’t have a lacrosse wall, and they’re really used to improve our stick skills, catching and throwing,” Parrott said. “It helps us catch and throw, because it’s an automatic back-and-forth. Everyone uses it. It makes us better players, so we can grow the program.” Tommy started by setting up a GoFundMe page to raise money and set a goal of $15,000. It would be the first lacrosse wall on the east side of Route 130, he said, which would make it accessible to See PARROTT, Page 11
Their courage and compassion inspire us all. back on top Robbinsville softball The Robbinsville High School softball team won a state championship this year.
One morning, a message written in chalk appeared
one of three seniors on this ing that Robbinsville has that Ravens take fifth in front of an RWJBarnabas Health facility. The words year’s NJSIAA Group II state reputation it’s so good to be couldn’t have been simpler, more soul state title in 10 years champions. part of stirring, it. Because now the “But just or winor more ningaccurate. a state title and keeping
next team can look at us and that Robbinsville reputation go “OK now we can take the despite all the craziness was tournament because of them.’ so much I hope that tradition just keeps As was the case with the so great and it meant “Heroes going and going because softchampions that came before to the seniors. work here.” “As a program there’s ball is kind of our thing in it, this year’s Robbinsville High softball team was fueled always something to live up to Robbinsville and I think the for a long time we were community kind of circles by the desire and pressure Three to and words of gratitude and encouragement that compared to the girls who around our drive and passion maintain tradition. capture the courage and compassion of health won the (Little League) World for the game.” “We know this year was workers here and across share yet,your there were those Series (and two state America. titles). ToAnd extremely rough on everythanks or toso support our Fund,the glory days who thought It was nice for usEmergency to win it Response one because of the pandemic and just keep the may be over after Robbinsville and all that,” said senior secvisit ourselves rwjbh.org/heroes ond baseman Kenzie Martin, momentum going. Know- won back-to-back state titles By RicH FisHer
in 2017-18. The Ravens lost a 10-0 decision to Bordentown in the 2019 Central Jersey Group II final and, after last year’s shutdown, suddenly seemed like an afterthought. Coach Lisa Rich used that to her advantage prior to the state final against Verona. “I told them ‘Not even the newspapers were saying you were a team to watch,’” Rich said. “Literally no one talked about us, they thought we were totally done after Shea Walsh’s class graduated two See RAVENS, Page 8
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