All Shore Media 10-3-11 Volume III Issue-18

October 3, 2011 Volume-III - Issue-18 N at io na l G u ard T e a m of th e Week Pa g e 3 Neptune Football Pa g e 5 Lacey's Tyrell Smith Pa g e 6 Feature on Pt. Boro's Chuckie Krohn Pa g e 8 -9 Lakewood's Tyrice Beverette Pa g e 1 1 Boys Soccer: 5 Reasons to Watch Pa g e 1 2-13 Asbury Park Football Seeking Title Pa g e 1 4 Stumpy's Corner Pa g e 1 5

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New For This Season

In conjunction with All Shore Media, The National Guard will honor one team a week that showed the character, perseverance and hard work emblematic of The National Guard during its performance that weekend. A plaque will be presented to that team during practice that week in honor of a great showing.

WEEK-1

WEEK-2

Ocean Township

Red Bank Catholic

WEEK-3 Jackson Memorial 42-10 win over Toms River North

Sgt. John Naame of the New Jersey National Guard presents the team of the Week Football to Jackson Memorial’s Head Coach Walt Krystopik & team

WEEK-4 The National Guard Team of the Week for Week Four is Central Regional, which bounced back from its first loss of the season to hand Brick its first Class B South loss with a 35-20 victory.

The Golden Eagles were led by a recordsetting effort from senior running back Kalyph Hardy, who exploded for a schoolrecord 417 yards rushing on 37 carries and scored five touchdowns, including a 95-yard run.

Hardy's total is the second-highest

single-game performance in Shore Conference history, only three yards shy of the record of 420 set by current Denver Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno for Middletown South against Neptune in 2004.

Hardy's performance helped the Golden Eagles continue their best start in years.

One season after finishing 1-9, they are 3-1 and tied for first place in the division in the loss column with three other teams. Central is gunning for its first division title since 1994.

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Neptune Makes Homecoming for Ciccotelli, Clax a Success

By Scott Stump – Managing Editor Head coach Mark Ciccotelli and senior fullback/linebacker Jazzmar Clax may have been on their old field at Freehold where they shared plenty of championship memories, but their new team had a message for them in a meeting with the Colonials in Week Four.

You're one of us now, and we've got your back.

Senior quarterback Jaheem Woods ran for 149 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries and also threw for 149 yards and a touchdown to help Neptune roll to a 31-6 victory over Freehold (2-2, 2-1) in a Class B North game. The week leading up to the game had been filled with drama as it marked the first meeting between the two teams since Ciccotelli and Clax both came over to Neptune in the offseason after being part of a Freehold team that won last year's NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III title. The Scarlet Fliers (3-1, 2-1), ranked No. 5 in the All Shore Media Top 10, bolted out to a 25-0 lead with a dominant first half and did not look back, while the defense limited the Colonials to 94 total yards.

"We put them right here (points to heart),'' Woods said, referring to Ciccotelli and Clax. "They're with us now, so we had to come out and play as hard as we could for them.

We couldn't let them take a loss on this field, knowing that (Clax) came from there and they would've never let him live it down. I'm glad we got this win for Jazzmar and coach Ciccotelli, and now it's time to move on.''

"There was a lot of animosity, and everyone was anxious for the game,'' said Clax, who missed the season opener because Freehold challenged his transfer eligibility with the NJSIAA on the grounds of athletic advantage before the NJSIAA ruled in Clax's favor.

"To be able to come here and do what we did, it's definitely a great feeling. There was so much that was going on and so many things that Head Coach Mark Ciccotelli were said outside the lines of the football field that I'm just glad

it's come to an end, and we can move on to the next game.''

Woods said.

Senior linebacker David Gutzmore hit fullback Jahree Neptune set the tone with an Whiting for a six-yard loss to cause impressive first half in which it another three-and-out on Freehold's outgained Freehold 245 to next possession. Six plays later, minus-17 in yards and limited Woods scored from four yards out the Colonials to one first down to make it 19-0 with 11:14 left in while scoring on its first four the second quarter. The defense then possessions. The Scarlet Fliers forced another three-and-out, and took the opening kickoff and on the first play of Neptune's next drove 67 yards in five plays, Senior QB Jaheem Woods drive, Woods found Fairbanks highlighted by a 40-yard run by streaking behind the defense for a Woods, who capped the drive 39-yard touchdown pass and a commanding 25-0 lead. Fairbanks with a four-yard burst up the middle for a 6-0 lead. finished with three catches for 84 yards in the win.

Freehold answered when senior Dayshawn Perry Freehold showed signs of life when it took the opening kickoff returned the ensuing kickoff to Neptune's 22-yard line, of the second half and drove 64 yards in eight plays, scoring on a but Woods killed all the momentum when he 24-yard touchdown run up the middle by Whiting to cut the lead intercepted a pass in the end zone by Freehold quarterback Kevin Smith on the first play to snuff out to 25-6 with 7:26 left in the third quarter. Neptune quickly deflated any thoughts of a comeback when junior Myles Martin the threat. The Scarlet Fliers then embarked on an exploded up the middle for a 90-yard touchdown return on the 11-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Clax ensuing kickoff to boost the lead back to 31-6. bulldozing up the middle for a 2-yard touchdown and an eventual 13-0 lead After the game, Ciccotelli was greeted warmly by several with 3:50 left in the first quarter.

Freehold fans and parents as well as former star quarterback Nick Woods hit senior wideout Casey Beauford for a 21-yard Tyson, who is now a running back at The College of New Jersey.

While Ciccotelli tried not to make a big deal about it during the gain and junior wideout week, it certainly felt strange dressing in a different locker room Geoff Fairbanks for a 26and standing on a different sideline from the program that he took yard gain to highlight to two Central Jersey Group III titles in the last three years after the drive. the school had never won one since the inception of the playoff "They (the Freehold system in 1974. Freehold head coach Dave Ellis is his former defensive coordinator, and several members of his former staff crowd) were already are assistants under Ellis. on Jazz as soon as we came out, but we took "I downplayed that a little bit, but it wasn't easy,'' Ciccotelli their crowd out of it said. "You show up here, and there's a lot of great memories on with the first score, this field, and you see all the former players and families here. stopped them, and then This is a great community, great kids and a great coaching staff. punched it in As happy as I am for our kids today and our staff, I'm upset for again,'' those guys. I'm upset for their coaches and their kids like Dayshawn Perry, Jahree (Whiting) and the guys we won a championship with.''

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Lacey’s Tyrell Smith Makes a Transformation in 2011

By Christopher Melvin – EliteRecruits.com/All Shore Media Lacey ’s Tyr ell S mith is on e o f N ew J er s ey ' s to p Clas s o f 2 01 2 f o o tb all r ecr u its and h as p o s s ib ly tr an s f o r med hims elf into o ne o f th e n atio n ' s b es t at off en s ive an d d ef en s iv e tack le f o r co ach Lo u Vir cillo ' s Lio n s .

I n 2 0 10 , S mith w as a g o od f oo tb all p lay er w ith th e po tential to be a s tar o nce h e r ais ed th e b ar a b it.

A f ter an in tens e w o r k o ut r eg imen , S mith h as g o ne f r om 6 - f oo t- 5 , 3 15 p ou n ds to a s o lid 6 - f o o t- 5 . 5 , 2 95 p oun ds . " I ' m s tr ong er men tally an d p h ys ically, ’’ S mith s aid . “I tr immed d o w n , and I am in b etter s h ap e. I have a b etter k now led ge o f th e s p o r t o f f o o tb all and h av e mor e of a v is io n. " A s a ju nio r I w as go in g w ith th e f lo w. Th is y ear I am d ominatin g th e en tir e g ame an d w h o ev er I f ace. I co ns id er mys elf a b eas t o n the f ield . ’’ S mith , w ho cur r en tly h as s cholar s h ip off er s f r om Tulan e, M ar s h all an d U M as s , has all th e tools to be a s tand o ut o ff en s iv e or def en s iv e lineman at the colleg iate lev el.

S mith has als o gained in ter es t f r o m N C S tate, N o r th Car o lin a, Cen tr al F lor ida, Rutg er s , U Co nn , P en n S tate, Temple, Bo s to n Co lleg e, an d F lor id a.

“Tyr ell ( S mith ) h as r eally tu r n ed th e tab les an d h as become th e dominatin g p layer that I kn ew h e co u ld be,’’ Vir cillo s aid .

“A ll th e s ch o ols ar e coming in no w an d s eeking his f ilm.

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co ntacted us to day an d w ants to s ee mo r e o f h im. A ll I as k ed h im to d o w as w or k h ar d and ever yth ing w o uld w o r k o ut in h is f av or, and he b ou g ht into th at.

Th ing s ar e s tar tin g to h eat u p f or h im mo r e and mo r e. Thin g s ar e s tar tin g to r eally w or k o ut in his f avo r n ow f r om w o r king h ar d . " A s an o ff en s ive lin eman , S mith n o w s eems to h av e th e “s eek an d d es tr oy ” attitu de that is a neces s ity f o r all g r eat o ff en s iv e lin emen , s ometh ing h e lack ed a year ago .

Wh en f or mer P lain f ield H ig h S cho ol an d U n iv er s ity o f Virginia A ll- A mer ican and cu r r en t J ack s o nv ille J agu ar s off ens iv e tackle Eu gen e M o nr o e w as as k ed " H ow d o y o u f eel ab o ut S mith ?" af ter w atching th e s enio r ’s f ilm f r om Lacey’s f ir s t g ame this s eas o n on Yo uTub e, he h ad th is to s ay: " You can tell h e is a bit r ou gh . H e do min ates at this lev el b ecau s e o f h is s ize an d s tr en g th. H e mo v es w ell and s h ow s d es ir e an d ag gr es s ion , w h ich is s o meth in g y ou can' t r eally co ach – th at' s in th e h ear t. H e p lay s too h ig h r ig h t n o w. H e can d ominate a bit mo r e, bu t he h as a lo t o f talen t, s o r t of like my s elf w h en I w as back in hig h s ch o ol. " A s a d ef en d er, S mith h as s up er b q u ick n es s an d p ad lev el f o r a p lay er his s ize. H e u tilizes his ar ms an d later al s p eed w ell to h un t do w n ball car r ier s an d to g et h is hand s o n qu ar ter backs f or s ack s .

“H e is p r etty g oo d and has a lo t o f talen t,” s aid K ad e Wes ton , a f o r mer def ens ive tackle f o r Red Ban k Reg io n al, the U niv er s ity of

G eorg ia an d th e N ew Eng lan d P atr io ts .

“I thin k th at he is a go od def en s ive lineman b ut w o uld b e a better o ff ens ive lineman at the co llege level.”

S o w hat s id e o f th e ball w o u ld S mith lik e to p lay on? " I lik e d ef ens e mo r e b ecau s e I like to h it an d u tilize my han ds ," s aid S mith, w h o in th e f ir s t f ou r g ames o f th e s eas o n has alr ead y accumulated f iv e s ack s . " M y f av or ite p r o f es s io nal p layer is f or mer N ew Yo r k G ian t M ich ael S tr ah an becaus e I ' v e alw ays b een a G ian ts f an and I liked the w ay he play ed . H e is a f u n ny g uy an d s o am I . I alw ays w anted to p lay o n th e d ef ens iv e lin e lik e him. " S mith is a g o o d - n atur ed player w ho alw ays s eems to b e in a g o od moo d, un til he f aces o p po s ing teams on the gr idir o n . " I h ave a g o o d per s o nality, ’’ S mith s aid. “I s mile 24 - 7 . P eo p le do n' t u n d er s tand h ow I do it. I s ee p laying f o o tb all as a bu s in es s d ur ing the game.

Bef o r e an d af ter is s ometh in g diff er ent. ’’ A w ell- r o u n d ed athlete, S mith is als o a member o f the s ch ool’s tr ack an d bas ketb all teams . " I th r ow the s h ot p u t, b ut I ' m actually g oing to tr y an d r un th e 1 00 meter s th is y ear," he s tated jo king ly.

S mith is jus t as imp r es s ive in clas s r oo m as h e is o n the gr idir o n and h ar d w o o d, car r ying a gr ad epoin t aver age in th e r ang e of 3. 1 on a 4. 0 s cale.

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tanding and watching as his Point Boro football teammates ran through their final tune-up for the 2011 season during a scrimmage against Carteret, senior Chuckie Krohn broke down crying right on the sideline.

K r o hn h ad to r n his A CL and par t of the menis cus in late J u ne w hen h e planted w r ong and h ear d a s ick enin g p o p in his lef t k n ee d ur in g a game at a b as k etball team camp at Ru tg er s . H e had do ne ph ys ical ther ap y on it an d r eg ain ed a r eas o nab le r ang e o f mo tion , p o s tp on in g s u rger y in th e ho p e that s ome w ay h is s en ior f oo tb all s eas on cou ld be s alv ag ed . H ow ev er, w ith h is s urg er y s et f o r S ept. 14 , th e r ealization th at ever yth in g h e h ad w o r ked f o r w as not g oin g to hap p en came cr as hing do w n th e n igh t of S ep t. 1.

"When (the injury) happened, it was crushing,'' he said.

"I've been waiting for my senior year of football my whole life.

That night against Carteret, it hit me. My whole team came up to me and was hugging me.''

A s th e d ate o f his s u rg ery lo o med clo s er, K ro h n began talk in g abo u t h is p redicamen t w ith g o o d friend Carly P u rd y, a P o in t Bor o g ir ls s o ccer p lay er w h o is d ealing w ith an A C L in jur y o f h er o w n . P u rd y info rmed him th at s h e w as go ing to try an d p lay w ith a damag ed k nee w ith ou t hav ing s u rg ery b ecau s e s he

d id no t w an t to mis s h er s en ior s eas o n. " S h e s aid s he w as go ing to w ait a cou ple o f w eeks an d p lay o n it, and I w as like, ' A r e y o u cr azy ?' ' ' K r oh n s aid. " Th en I w as like, ' M y G o d , am I go in g to lo ok like a gir l n ow that I ' m n ot p laying on it?' I n th e b ack o f my h ead , I w as lik e, ' H er d octor is no t g oing to let h er do th at.' ' ' Regar dles s , P u r d y had p lan ted a s eed . Th e h ell w ith it, h e th ou gh t. H e w as n' t go in g to ev er be a s en ior in h ig h s ch o ol again. H e w as go in g to f in d a w ay to p lay.

"I t ju s t go t in my h ea d, '' h e s aid . " I t's my s en ior s eas on , a n d f oo tba ll is th e th in g I a m th e mo s t pas s io n ate abo u t in th is wo r ld .''

Bar ely tw o w eeks b ef o r e his s ch ed u led s urg er y, th e s urg eo n' s off ice called to as k if he h ad an y las t- min ute q u es tion s r egar d ing the pr ocedu r e. " I w as like, ' Yeah, ab ou t th at. . . , ' ' K r o hn s aid. " I to ld th em, ' I th in k I ' m g oin g to h old o ff o n that f o r a co u p le o f mo n th s .' ' K r o hn then h ad to mak e a s er iou s lo bb y ing eff o r t to h is d o ctor an d h is mo th er to allo w him to s tep ou t o n th e f ield th is f all. P laying w ith a to r n A CL, th er e w ou ld be mor e p r es s u r e p laced on h is medial co llater al lig amen t ( M CL) an d h is p o s ter ior cr u ciate ligamen t ( P CL) , w h ich co u ld p os s ib ly r u ptur e. A f ter playing q uar ter b ack an d r un ning b ack in P oin t Bo r o ' s o p tion o ff ens e las t y ear, K r o hn s aid h e w o uld mo v e to tigh t en d in o r d er to p lay this s eas on . " I s old my do cto r o n th e p itch th at I w as n' t g oing to b e tack led o r mak ing op en f ield cu ts ver y mu ch at tigh t end ,' ' he s aid . " I w ou ld main ly jus t b e b locking . " I f I f eel an y kin d o f cr ack, p o p or p ain , th e d octo r is pu lling the plu g .

Th e w o r s t o utcome ou t o f th is is th at w hen I ' m 4 5 year s o ld, I w ill h av e p ain and ar th r itis in my k nee. I ' m w illing to d eal w ith that becau s e I ju s t lo ve f o otb all s o much, an d yo u o n ly get a chance to be a s en io r o nce. ' '

www.allshoremedia.com H e s till h ad to co nv in ce h is mo th er, w h o d id n ' t w an t to h av e to w atch th e en tir e s eas on thr o ug h a cr ack in th e f in g er s o n th e han ds cov er ing h er f ace in w o r r y. H e s omeh o w w as ab le to p u ll it o ff . " M y mo m w as b u g ging ou t, ' ' K r oh n s aid . " I jus t told her that this is my f av or ite thin g in the w or ld, s o pleas e ju s t g ive me th e chan ce to play.' ' K r o hn anticip ated the gen er al r eactio n f r o m oth er s w hen th ey f oun d o ut th at h e w as go in g to tr y and p lay th e s eas o n w ith a to r n A CL. H e als o k no w s th at h e is jeo p ar dizin g h is chances o f latch in g on w ith a D ivis ion I I I f o otb all pr og r am an d co n tin uing his car eer. " Yo u get s o me p eo p le th at ar e ju s t lik e, ' Yo u ar e cr azy f o r w h at yo u' r e doing . Yo u hav e th e r es t o f y o ur lif e, ' ' ' K r o h n s aid. " O ther peop le co me u p to me and s ay th at th is is liv in g f o r th e mo men t, and I migh t no t play competitiv e s p o r ts ev er again , s o th er e' s n o r eas o n w hy I s ho uldn ' t go ou t and giv e it a s ho t. ' ' O n ly day s b ef o r e P o int Bor o w as s et to tak e o n M anas q u an in its s eas o n op en er, th e k id w ith th e to r n A CL w alk ed o n to the pr actice f ield to th e w o n d er of his teammates . " I h ad a big br ace o n, bu t that w as o n e o f the gr eates t f eelin g s I ' ve ever had , ' ' K r o h n s aid . " Wh en he came b ack , w e called o u t all th e other ph on ies w h o w er en ' t w o r kin g h ar d bu t s aid they lov ed f o o tb all s o mu ch , ' ' s aid s en ior q uar ter b ack J o hn D un b ar. " H ow can yo u comp lain ab o u t b u mps an d b r u is es w h en y ou s ee th at? We w er e s o f ir ed up to s ee him co me back .' ' Ev en tho u gh K r o h n w as med ically clear ed to p lay in the o p en er, h e h ad n o t par ticipated in th e minimu m of s ix pr actices r eq u ir ed b y N J S I A A r ule, s o h e cou ld n o t p lay in th e M an as q u an g ame.

That d oes n' t mean th at he w as n' t a p ar t of th e g ame in s p ir it. O n S ep t. 8 , th e nigh t bef o r e th e P an th er s w elcomed M anas qu an to A l S aner F ield , each o f th e s en io r s s too d u p at a team gath er in g and add r es s ed th eir teammates . " Chu ckie g o t u p las t,' ' s aid P o in t Bo r o head coach S ean H en r y. " By time I w en t u p to clos e th e meetin g, I w as in tear s . H e talk ed pas s io nately abo u t f ig h tin g to co me b ack . Yo u d on ' t h ear k id s b ein g clear ed w ith a to r n A CL an d co min g b ack to play. ' ' K r o h n s p o ke ab o ut w atch ing f or mer M an as q uan s tar M ik e M ele r u n th r o u g h th e P anth er s b ack w hen K r o h n w atch ed w ith h is f r ien ds as a s ix th - g r ad er, an d how th ey v ow ed th at th ing s w o uld b e diff er en t th eir s enior y ear. H e h ad w aited h is w h ole lif e f or a g ame th at h e no w had to w atch f r om the s idelines , b ut h e k n ew th e team w o u ld go ou t an d g ive ev ery th in g it had . " A lot o f k id s came u p to me after w ar d an d s aid they w ere n ear tears , ' ' K ro h n s aid .

P o in t Bo r o end ed u p lo s in g 4 6 -28 to M an as q u an, but f ou gh t b ack f ro m a 2 6- 7 h alftime d eficit to mak e it a game d ow n the s tretch . A w eek later, K ro hn r etu rn ed to th e field in a 30 - 2 0 w in o v er H olmdel, playin g at tig h t en d an d a h an d f u l o f plays o n defens e. I t w as n' t lik e las t y ear, w h en K ro h n w as o n e o f P o in t B or o' s top o ffen s iv e

A SM / 9 player s and comb in ed w ith D unb ar f or a 1 - 2 pu nch that f r equ ently f ou n d th e end zon e. P o in t Bo r o ' s f lex bon e o ption o ff ens e d oes n ' t r egu lar ly u s e a tig ht en d, bu t h as s o me s ets f eatu r in g th at p os ition , s o K r oh n w as ab le to g et r eg ular b r eaks d ur ing th e g ame. " I t' s k ind of a b u mmer, but at the s ame time, I ' m h ap py to be ou t ther e,' ' K r o hn s aid . " I w ent f r o m las t year w hen I w as r un n ing, thr o w ing , tak ing hits and s cor ing to uchd ow n s , to th is s eas o n, w h er e I hav e to accep t my r ole. I k now w hat it' s lik e to be o u t ther e at 10 0 p er cent, b ut I w ou ld r ath er b e out ther e w itho ut s h ow in g my f u ll po tential than n ot be ou t ther e at all.' ' " To be ho nes t, h e did a g r eat job, ' ' H enr y s aid . " Yo u w ou ld n' t even k no w w h at happ en ed b es ides s eeing the kn ee b r ace.' ' Bef o r e th e H o lmd el game, K r oh n w alk ed o u t to mid f ield as a captain, leavin g teammates an d f an s alter n ately mar v eling and ner v ous that it w as r eally h ap pen ing.

Reg ar d les s o f w hat tr ans pir es g oing f o r w ar d , h e can s ay th at he at leas t w as able to p lay in on e g ame as a s en io r - o ne mo r e game than anyo n e w ou ld have ever tho u gh t. " K no w in g that k id g ot that game, it mad e the en tir e nigh t w or th it, ' ' H en r y s aid. " H e w as in s o mu ch p ain at th e en d b ecaus e h e is s till g ettin g in to s hap e, b ut s eeing h im s miling an d s eein g h im w ith h is teammates mad e the entir e nig ht w or th it. ' ' I t' s clear th at it w ill take a lot. to pu ll him o ff the f ield th e r es t o f th e s eas o n. " What mor e ins pir ation cou ld y o u po s s ib ly need th an s eein g him o ut th er e?' ' H enr y s aid.

A p r es eas o n th at ended w ith K r oh n in tear s h as tr ans f o r med in to a r eg u lar s eas o n w h er e K r o hn' s g uts in es s o r mad nes s , d epend ing o n yo u r v iew, h as o ther s g ettin g ch o k ed u p .

"Other than winning, which is my favorite thing, I love being a l e a d e r, ' ' K r o h n s a i d . " I l o v e h a v i n g 5 0 g u y s l o o k a t y o u , s a y i n g , ' Yo u ' r e t h e o n e w e ' r e g o i n g t o d e p e n d o n . ' A s s o o n a s m y teammates saw me coming back, I said, 'I'm going to put it all on the field for you guys.' I just love football, and I love Friday nights under the lights.

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Lakewood’s Tyrice Beverette: Focused on Success

By Christopher Melvin – EliteRecruits.com/All Shore Media Lakewood junior quarterback Tyrice Beverette has been a standout in football for some time now.

As a youth he was a member of two Asbury Park Pop Warner teams that traveled to Florida to compete for the chance to play in the Pop Warner version of the Super Bowl.

"I went as a Pee Wee and then as a Junior Midget," said Beverette, who lined up at quarterback, running back and linebacker for the Bishops. "We won it all (the National Championship) as Pee Wees (2007) and then we lost the following year as the Junior Midgets (2008) in the finals."

Those years are all considered fond memories for Beverette.

coach after suffering a 7-0 defeat to Holmdel in the season opener.

"I feel that we should be 3-0,’’ Beverette said. “We should have beaten Holmdel. I feel we are a better team than them. We made up for it the following week when we beat Monsignor Donovan.’’

Beverette was sensational in the win over the Griffins, running for two touchdowns, throwing for two more, picking off three passes on defense and making 11 tackles.

"It felt good to get coach his first win, but my job is to make sure he gets many more,’’ he said.

The Piners’ current record stands at 1-2 following a loss to a powerful Wall Township team and a bye in Week Four.

"Those were fun years for me playing as a youth, and now it is more serious for me," said Beverette, a 6-foot-1, 185-pound junior defensive back/quarterback for Lakewood.

"Week in-and-out we go into games as the underdog,’’ Beverette said. “It feels good to prove everybody wrong, and we're going to do a lot of that this year and onward with coach Clark being the head coach."

Upon reaching high school, Beverette found himself as the starting quarterback on a young and struggling team midway through the 2009 season and has held the starting spot ever since.

Beverette hopes it adds up to a long-sought trip to the state playoffs, where Lakewood has not been since 2002.

“My goals include leading my team to the playoffs before I leave,’’ he said. “Lakewood hasn't been in the playoffs in a while, and I want to show my teammates what it feels like to get there."

"It's been hard but a blessing because I feel it has made me a strong person as a whole,’’ Beverette said. “ I've been a leader for this team from Day One and have never turned my back on the program or anyone involved in our program.’’

Beverette is a sensational athlete who not only starts at quarterback for the Piners, but also plays on all the special teams and roams the field as a free safety. He is a tough, smart and disciplined player who has an impressive arm as a passer and possesses quick and elusive moves as a runner. As a safety he breaks on the ball well and seems to have a knack for placing himself in the right position to make big plays.

Beverette carries a grade-point average in the 3.45 range (4.0 scale) and has many of the nation’s top football programs showing interest in his skills.

Junior QB Tyrice Beverette

Over the summer, the Lakewood Board of Education hired former Lakewood football and basketball player LJ Clark as the school’s new head football coach to succeed the efforts put forth by legendary coach Warren Wolf, who retired after 52 seasons as a head coach, 51 of them at Brick, following a 3-7 season with the Piners in 2010. Wolf helped Lakewood break a 33-game losing streak in the process.

As a freshman in 2009, Beverette showed promise on both sides of the ball and was even better as a sophomore in 2010, throwing for 1,000 yards along with 10 scores, two rushing touchdowns and 73 tackles on defense for the Piners.

"I learned a lot from coach Wolf during his one year here with us,’’ Beverette said. “Things like dealing with adversity and everyday life – he made us believers and gave us vision. We became a team that played through the four quarters."

In Week Two of this season, Lakewood defeated Monsignor Donovan 28-12, providing Clark with his first win as the head

"Grades are so important to me because I've learned from other people’s mistakes," Beverette said. "I've seen so much talent go to waste because of poor grades being the issue. I refuse to let that happen to me."

His favorite classes on his current schedule just happen to be his hardest classes, math and science.

"Algebra II and Chemistry are my favorite classes, and for some reason I seem to get the best grades in those classes,’’ he said. “They are my hardest classes. I just love facing challenges. I've always been that way.’’

Beverette is bound to have college recruiters scratching their heads upon them evaluating his film. Reason being, he is a superb athlete with the ball in his hands and a premier player as a defensive-back.

Which side of the ball does he prefer?

"I prefer defense over offense because I like delivering hits instead of receiving them," he said.

He has colleges such as Rutgers, UCLA, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, and others interested in his football skills - but that's not the only sport that has drawn the attention of college recruiters.

He is also a standout basketball player for the Piners as a guard,

and has yet to decide which path he will be pursuing at the collegiate level.

"I prefer playing whichever sport provides me with the best opportunity at the collegiate level,’’ he said. “Whether it's football or basketball, it doesn't really matter as long as I earn a scholarship.

My heart and desire is in both sports.’’

When asked to describe himself and what differentiates him from other athletes, he had the following to say: "I'm a serious guy in the classroom, and I'm a hard worker. I like to have fun and joke around a lot with my friends, but when it's time to be serious, then Tyrice Beverette becomes serious and focused.’’

Beverette has two coaches of who are quite aware of Tyrice Beverette the athlete, Tyrice Beverette the student and Tyrice Beverette the person. Both whom seem to have the same perception of him as a whole.

“Right off the bat, Tyrice is a natural born leader,’’ Clark said. “He is a very savvy and intelligent player and person. He does everything you ask him to. He never comes off the field and has never complained since I've known him. If I asked Tyrice to park my car during the game he would do it - that's the type of player and young man he is."

“Tyrice is a natural born leader,’’ said Piners basketball coach Randy Holmes, echoing Clark’s sentiments verbatim. “He has qualities you can't teach. I feel that Tyrice is just as good as a basketball player as he is a football player and that is extremely rare to have those qualities. He is better as a person as he is an athlete.

That speaks volumes of his character as a whole."

Beverette is currently one of the Shore Conference’s "Elite Players" for the Class of 2013 and has enough skills to be one of New Jersey's top players, if not the nation.

"I think I can be the best player in the area if I continue to work hard – there's not a question in my mind," said Beverette, whose dream schools consist of Notre Dame, Oregon, Georgia, Ohio State, and Florida.

"Those are all schools that I would love to play for at the collegiate level.’’

“I feel that Tyrice can play on any team in the state,’’ Clark said.

“That is how confident I am in him. I feel he is one of the top five players in the Shore right now.’’

"But who am I?’’ he added with a smirk. “I’m just his coach – that’s for you to decide.’’

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Boys Soccer: Five Reasons to Watch This October

By Matt Manley – Senior Staff Writer

October is upon us and that usually means that the level of play gets ratcheted up and things begin to get interesting, but this season began with such an air of inevitability that has only grown stronger now that Christian Brothers Academy has started 7-0 with a 26-1 goal differential.

The Colts are the lone unbeaten team left and the rest of the Shore Conference field seems to change its colors

every week. Even if there may not be much drama in crowning a Shore Conference Tournament champion, there is still plenty to watch during the month of October and the potential for an entertaining month-and-a-half may actually be as promising as it's ever been.

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Any number of Shore Conference teams have legitimate aspirations to win NJSIAA sectional championships, but there is particular intrigue in Central Jersey Group II. Holmdel, Rumson-Fair Haven and Shore Regional are all in the race for the No. 1 seed in the section and if that isn't enough, all three

play one another during the regular season.

Rumson-Fair Haven has a win over Holmdel, while Holmdel defeated Shore on Saturday, leaving the Bulldogs with the inside track at the top seed among Shore Conference teams and in Class A Central to boot. Holmdel, however, will get another shot at Rumson, while the Bulldogs still have to get Holmdel’s junior Zach Bond through Shore before the Shore Conference Tournament cutoff on Oct. 17.

The Hornets will attempt to win a second straight NJSIAA championship, although the defending Group III champions will attempt to do so in a lower Group. It might have seemed a long shot that Holmdel could repeat after losing so much to graduation, but the Hornets have played well early on and the move to Group II could help the cause.

In addition to the top three teams, Red Bank remains close behind and has already shown it can beat Rumson and play with Holmdel. The Bucs did lose 4-1 to Shore in their opener, but they have made progress since then and when they are on, they are dangerous.

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Since 2004, no school smaller than Group IV has reached the final and only Group II Raritan in 2009 even made it to the semifinals.

While Group IV schools Freehold Township, Howell, the three Toms River schools and Colts Neck have all emerged as potential SCT finalists, Freehold Township's there is still a group of Phil Horan smaller schools that can threaten the establishment, so to speak. Holmdel and Rumson look like they can each be a threat to a team out of A North or A South, and Freehold Boro is as talented as any team other than CBA. In the days leading up to the Shore Conference Tournament and certainly in the days during it, the bigschool-small-school dynamic is an intriguing storyline because the talent gap is smaller than it has been in the past. Now, we'll see if the scores reflect that.

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As far as the Shore Conference soccer scene goes, there is no better day than round-of-16 Saturday in the Shore Conference Tournament. When there is no standardized testing to get in the way, there is a game or two starting at 10 a.m. with the rest of them starting at different times throughout the day, including a possible night game to cap the action.

If you're doing the math, there's the potential to catch four tournament games in one day if the times fall correctly, and given that the conference is wide open beyond the No. 1 seed, this year's round-of-16 Saturday could be particularly wild.

Even if CBA disposes of the No. 16 seed, the No. 2 seed could be in for a game on Oct. 22. The No. 15 seed could be a team like Middletown South, Southern, Ocean or maybe even Wall, and a team of that caliber would not be an easy out for a team like Freehold Township, Toms River East or Toms River North. There are sure to be some landmines in the middle of the field and those eight games on that Saturday could provide some major upsets.

From there, the David-vs.-Goliath stories will begin as CBA gets closer to the championship and as some other team picks up steam by going on a tournament run. No team has yet established itself as the clear No. 2 and it seems the team that opposes CBA will be the one that gets hot, not the one that gets the best seed.

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The Colts have climbed to No. 6 in the latest ESPN Rise Top 50 and are No. 1 in the state according to the Newark Star Ledger, and while that carries with it a certain amount of burden, CBA is operating with a set of expectations all its own on a level of performance unmatched by any other team as of yet. They have outscored their opponents 26-1 through seven games and since getting off to a "slow" start with 1-0 and 2-1 wins over Delbarton and Freehold Township, they have been nothing short of dominant.

With that level of performance and a roster that features no less than four Division I recruits, anything short of an appearance in the NJSIAA Non-Public A final would be a disappointment to some degree. St. Joseph-Metuchen knocked off CBA last year and will be another tough out again in South Jersey Non-Public A, but the Colts feel they owe the Falcons for last year's shootout loss.

The dream match at this point would feature CBA against defending group champion Pingry, which is ranked one spot behind CBA in the ESPN Rise rankings. The Colts have not won a title since 2002 and while ending that drought would be a great accomplishment, their players have made it clear that they don't just want to win. They want to finish unbeaten, which has not been done at CBA since the 2000 team went 20-0-2.

And if the Colts stumble along the way...

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If CBA does not go all the way this year, then that means someone will beat them, and if any team beats them before the NJSIAA Tournament, it will go down as one of the bigger upsets in Shore Conference history.

Class A North has been too competitive over the years to expect any team to steamroll through the field, but CBA did it with a junior-loaded team last year in a field that was deeper than it is this year. The Colts still have games remaining against Freehold Township and Howell, both of which will be home games for CBA, but those appear to be the only teams capable of picking off CBA within the division.

Should CBA get to the SCT unbeaten, teams will practically be lining up for a shot at the juggernaut.

Any game that goes into the final 20 minutes with the CBA’s Bob Cartas decision in the balance will provide some of the more intense minutes of the tournament's history and if a team takes a lead into the final minutes against CBA, especially in the semifinal or final, the atmosphere is sure to be raucous.

It's possible that CBA simply cleans up and tramples the Shore Conference without a hitch, and that in itself will be impressive to watch. Still, there is nothing quite like an upset and just the possibility of catching one of the biggest upsets in the history of the conference is enough to keep watching. And if it never comes, then we'll all just have to settle for witnessing perfection.

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Asbury Park Football on the Verge of division Title

By Scott Stump – Managing Editor

The Asbury Park coaching staff had talked about it among themselves during the week, wondering how the Blue Bishops would react if they faced their first real adversity of the season in a Class B Central showdown of unbeatens against Shore Regional at Robert E. Feeney Field in Week Four.

"We got playmakers, baby, and when it's time to make a play, we'll make a play,'' Conover said. "I told my coach that we had one-on-one coverage on the outside. I told him, 'Give me a chance, and I'm going to bring this football game back to Asbury,' and that's what I did.''

That was the scenario when Asbury Park trailed by five points after three quarters in a season in which it had not even trailed in any game at the half, let alone with only one quarter to go. With 4:21 left in the game, head coach Matt Ardizzone found out what was beating in the collective chest of his team when an offense that struggled all game came up with one big play when the Blue Bishops needed it most.

Sophomore quarterback Robert Barksdale rolled out to his right and unleashed a bomb that senior Amir Conover snatched over defensive back Tyler Vivian at Shore's 40-yard line and ran the rest of the way for a 70-yard touchdown that proved to be the game-winner in a 14-13 comeback victory. The win helps Asbury Park (4-0, 3-0) take a big step toward the division title and put itself in position to make a run at the top seed in the Central Jersey Group I playoffs, where Shore is the defending champion.

The Shore Conference's No. 1 defense, which held the defending Class B Central champion Blue Devils (2-1, 2-1) to 151 total yards, was able to seal the win when senior Thomond Hammary intercepted Shore's Brendan Dula on a fourth-down pass with 1:59 remaining and Shore out of timeouts.

"We were right in there, but you can't let them hang around because they're a big-play team,'' said Shore head coach Mark Costantino.

Asbury Park had taken an 8-0 lead when senior Armond Conover, Amir's twin brother, corralled a high snap and scored from two yards out to cap a 13-play, 56-yard drive with 4:44 left in the first quarter. Barksdale then hit senior running back Islam Joshua with the two-point conversion pass.

Shore answered with 13 straight points to take a 13-8 lead into the locker room. After sophomore defensive lineman Matt Proto recovered one of Asbury Park's eight fumbles in the game at the Blue Bishops' 24-yard line, senior halfback Stefanos Koursaris scored three plays later on a 19-yard run to trim the lead to 8-7 on the first play of the second quarter.

RB Armond Conover

"They became men tonight,'' Ardizzone said. "We questioned how this team was going to react if it was losing at any point, but their eyes were wide open at halftime. There was no bickering, and they were ready to be taught and correct their mistakes. They showed a ton of character tonight.''

It also doesn't hurt to have explosive players like Conover who can change the game in an instant on a night when the Blue Bishops could not get out of their own way on offense. Asbury Park had 48 yards of total offense in the second half before Conover outdid that on one play.

Junior Luis Bernardes later blocked a punt to give Shore the ball at the Blue Bishops' 27-yard line. On third-and-six, Dula found Koursaris coming out of the backfield on a wheel route for a 23-yard touchdown pass and a 13-8 lead. However, the extra point attempt was off the mark, which proved critical later in the game.

Shore also had a missed field goal from 30 yards in the first half.

Neither team was able to really generate much offense in the second half between Asbury Park's tough front seven against Shore's Wing-T running game, and Shore doing a nice job of tackling in the open field and capitalizing on Asbury Park's miscues to put the Blue Bishops in third-andlong situations.

Asbury Park's defense made the most crucial stand of the night when Joshua sacked Dula to force a three-and-out and get the offense the ball back with 4:32 left in the game.

One play later, Barksdale found Conover for the winning play.

"I was so hyped up when we got the ball back,'' said Barksdale, who was 11-for-22 for RB/WR Amir Conover 137 yards passing. "(Conover) is a good athlete with great hands, and I don't think anybody can jump with him, so I really liked that match-up.''

That was all it took to put Asbury Park in the driver's seat for the division title, with Keyport, a team Shore already defeated, looking like the main obstacle remaining.

"This is a real big win,'' Joshua said. "This is a division championship game right here.''

Asbury Park won three straight CJ I titles before Shore took the crown last year while the Blue Bishops missed the state playoffs after suffering heavy graduation losses. There certainly is a chance that Friday night may only be the first of two meetings this season between the old rivals.

"I told them after the game, 'We'll see you again,''' Costantino said.

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approach that rushing number, but I was proven wrong in Week Four when Central Regional senior star Kalyph Hardy amassed 417 yards rushing and five touchdowns in a 35-20 win over Brick. While Hardy isn’t quite on the level of Moreno, who holds the state record for career touchdowns, just being able to put his name in the same sentence as Moreno is something Hardy won’t soon forget.

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“I can't do anything without my line,’’ he said.

“I give them so much credit.’’

“When I saw that, I didn't even know that,’’ Hardy said about being only three yards shy of Moreno’s record. “That is awesome.’’

“I was more worried about the numbers on the scoreboard, but I knew he was getting up there considering he had a 95yard run in the first half,’’ said Central head coach Vinnie Casale.

It’s not like Hardy is a stranger to the spotlight, as he finished third in the state at 160 pounds during wrestling last winter and led the Shore Conference with 1,010 yards rushing through the first four weeks of this Central senior RB Kalyph Hardy Considering the footing season. He has gotten interest was terrible and the entire from Monmouth University, Towson, Rutgers and opposing team was geared up to stop him, Hardy’s others. As a junior, he ran for a school-record accomplishment is a credit to his talent and the work of 1,620 yards, and he has had two Central’s offensive line. Brick knew what was coming, but For years, I never thought I would see a games of more than 380 yards could not stop it in any way. Kind of like Neptune against better running back in the Shore rushing in his career, including Moreno in that game in 2004, which was played in a Conference than Middletown South’s the previous school record of slight drizzle on an artificial turf field against a team with Stephen Pitts, who went on to play 387. good speed on defense. at Penn State and then was drafted However, for one night he by the San Francisco 49ers. Then Hardy’s accomplishment also puts him on pace to make was up in the realm of a New current Denver Broncos running back a serious run at the Shore Conference single-season Jersey high school football Knowshon Moreno came along and rushing record of 2,523 yards set by Pinelands graduate immortal. entered my personal pantheon as the Matt McLain just last season in only 10 games. I figured best high school back I have ever it might be 20 years or more before another running back Perhaps more impressively, seen in this area, and he did it for the even sniffed McLain’s mark, but Hardy is averaging just Hardy accomplished the feat same school, Middletown South. over 250 yards rushing per game through four games. on a grass field in the middle of a thunderstorm that ended up delaying the I covered the game in 2004 when Moreno More importantly, it has led to a 3-1 start for the Golden game twice because of lightning. He had exploded for a Shore Conference-record 420 yards Eagles, one season after they finished 1-9. It also has put 295 yards by halftime, including a 95rushing and 7 touchdowns in a 63-7 romp over them in the mix for the Class B South title. yard touchdown, but still had no idea that Neptune. That was in the midst of the Eagles’ the numbers were starting to go into the Shore Conference-record 43-game winning streak, “To be honest, this is our title,’’ Hardy said. “I’m not stratosphere late in the game. so Moreno rarely was let off the leash for a full trying to be cocky, but I'm a straightforward kid. This is game because Middletown South was often blowing Central's year. We’re coming after (divisional foes) “No, not even,’’ Hardy said about having opponents’ doors off by the third quarter and Moreno Manchester and Lacey to clinch it.’’ any clue of approaching the Shore would be removed.

Conference record. “To be honest, I was Central winning a division title? That hasn’t happened just focused. It was (Brick’s) That day is still the most incredible single-game since my senior year of high school, way back in 1994, homecoming game.

When you pick performance I have ever witnessed. On the turf at The when current Monsignor Donovan coach Dan Duddy was somebody as an opponent for your Summerfield School in Neptune, Moreno not only was at the helm. homecoming game, that's routinely tearing off runs of 70-plus yards, it was the way saying, ‘This is a game he did it. Hurdling two or three tacklers at a time, It would have sounded far-fetched when the season we're going to win.’ That spinning on a dime, exploding past defenders – it was started, but so would having a running back make an got our team mad.’’ amazing. He also had a fumble recovery, multiple sacks assault on the records set by Moreno and McLain. But and several dazzling punt returns. that’s the beauty of high school football because as Hardy A week earlier, Hardy has proven, you never know what might happen.

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