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Rumson Tops New Providence to Win NJSIAA South Group I Sectional Title
By Bob Badders – Senior Staff Writer
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addled with expectations year after year yet looked as being in rebuilding mode to start the season, Rumson-Fair Haven faced some tough times during the 2015 season
When it mattered most, however, the Bulldogs proved once again they know how to deliver.
Junior attackman Griffin Schultz scored three goals with three assists, junior attackman Robbie Garavente scored twice with three assists and senior midfielder Seamus Walsh and sophomore midfielder Bryan Hess each scored twice as the Bulldogs went on the road and defeated New Providence 12-8 to win the NJSIAA South Group I sectional title on Saturday afternoon.
and Summit and Bridgewater also won sectional titles on Saturday.
After the 0-4 start, Rumson would win 12 of its next 14 games. Along the way the young team started to find its identity, and all the while the group’s confidence continued
“Coach believed in us right from the beginning of the season and said we could get here,” Schultz said. “We didn’t have as much pressure as last year since we lost a lot of seniors, but we got here and we got the job done. We all believed we could.”
to grow. Losing by 10 goals to Southern in the Shore Conference final looked like it could be the Bulldogs’ undoing heading into the playoffs, but they were able to shake it off and move forward.
“Coming into the season not a lot of people had faith in us having just six seniors and four returning varsity players,” said senior midfielder Lucas Seckler. “We had some rough patches, but we peaked at the right point. We knew we were going to get it together, and it happened perfectly for the postseason.”
Junior goalie Kyle Knapp made 10 saves and the defensive core of seniors Cooper Cuje and Jack Moore, junior Ian Clarke and sophomore Emmet Jennings held the Pioneers to just four goals entering the fourth quarter. New Providence, which came in averaging 12.5 goals per game and having scored less than 10 in just four of its 20 games, went on a run with four goals in the final five minutes of regulation, but Hess’s goal with 1:06 to play sealed Rumson’s second sectional title in its third straight appearance.
Walsh put Rumson (17-6) up 10-4 when he scored off a pass form Garavente with 9:25 left in regulation. The Pioneers’ offense had been held in check until Jack Harvey ignited a four-goal run in the final five minutes that threatened to steal the title.
One of New Jersey’s most dangerous offensive players, Harvey entered the game with 83 goals and 65 assists and finished with four goals and two assists on Saturday. He had a hand in all four of New Providence’s fourth-quarter goals, scoring twice and assisting on goals by Quinn Killeen and Tyler Lawton. After the Pioneers’ fifth straight face-off win, Harvey’s goal with 1:18 left in the game cut Rumson’s lead to 11-8. Rumson was able to control possession off the next faceoff, however, and Hess put an end to New Providence’s comeback bid with the Bulldogs’ 12th and final goal.
As good as Rumson has been over the past decade, few outside the program figured the Bulldogs would be celebrating with a state sectional championship trophy being passed around when the season began. Rumson graduated 18 seniors from a team that won four straight Shore Conference Tournament titles and in 2013 pushed perennial juggernaut Mountain Lakes to the brink before falling 8-6 in the Group I title game.
Talent was present thanks to a fantastic feeder program, but it was going to be an uphill battle to get back to that point this season. Rumson started off 0-4 with losses to Caldwell, Summit, BridgewaterRaritan and Southern, and would fall to St. Augustine a few weeks later before losing again to Southern in the Shore Conference Tournament final. All five teams to defeat Rumson had great seasons,
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“Losing 18 seniors was tough for us, but we knew we had a group that was almost equivalent in talent,” Garavente said. “We knew we could accomplish the same goals. Even though we lost in the Shore Conference final, coming back and winning the sectional title means a lot for this program.”
Junior attactmen Griffin Schultz
Rumson will play North Group I champion Mountain Lakes on Wednesday. The sites and times of the group championships will be decided by the NJSIAA on Sunday, according to tournament regulations posted on its website. The sites are either Hopewell Valley, Livingston or Ridge, and the times are 5 or 7:30 p.m.
“It hurt for a few days, but we sat down as a team and said we have to move forward and run the table in states,” Seckler said.
“It’s a testimony to their character and development as young men,” said Rumson head coach Andy Eastwood. They’re growing as lacrosse players and young athletes, and my hat’s off to them.”
The biggest takeaway from the loss to Southern was that they had to come out with energy or risk suffering the same fate. They did exactly that from the opening draw against New Providence (17-4), and a couple of shots off the post were the only things preventing Rumson from grabbing a quick lead. The Bulldogs kept the pressure up, and got on the board when Garavente scored unassisted with 5:39 left in the first. Harvey tied the score at 3:09 off a pass from Killeen, but Garavente scored his second a minute later and Schultz netted a goal with 33 seconds left for a 3-1 lead. Schultz then set up junior attackman Henry Sillen early in the second quarter for a 4-1 advantage.
“We knew we couldn’t start flat,” Garavente said. “We had to come in and put in a couple early and then lock down on defense, and we did that. That’s what we’ve done since that Southern game.”
open Curran, who had time to step into a shot and rip it past Garrett Pope to make it 7-4. With 2:26 left Walsh took a pass from Schultz and scored for an 8-4 lead, and with 1:02 remaining in the third Hess found a rebound off a shot by Schultz and flipped it in to give Rumson a five-goal lead, its largest of the game. “We said at halftime we needed to come out and continue what we were doing on offense,” Garavente said. “To come out in the second half and put a couple in early and extend that lead was huge for us.”
While the offense was operating efficiently and taking advantage of its opportunities in going 2-for-2 with the extra man, the defense was stifling the Pioneers’ versatile attack. Walsh and fellow midfielder Lachlan Hull couldn’t be beaten one-on-one by their counterparts, and that enabled the defensemen to keep their eyes inside instead of worrying about sliding to help out.
“Coach said we could play with them one-on-one as long as we didn’t pressure out and make bad stick checks and lunge forward,” Cuje said. “As long as we kept it tight on their feet we knew we’d be okay.” “Seamus played amazing today along with our other middies,” Cuje added. “You have to give a lot of credit to them, they matched up great with their middies today.”
“Seamus and Lachlan have been great all year – they play like men,” Eastwood said. “They have so much heart and desire, and they’re smart and athletic. It gives us another element to our team, and it’s an advantage for us. The two of them have been great all year long.” Unlike last year when A.L. Johnson rallied in the final minutes to stun Rumson in the sectional final, the Bulldogs were able to hold off a late charge by the Pioneers to take home a sectional championship.
“It feels awesome,” Garavente said. “A lot of people, with that large senior class gone, were really skeptical about what we could accomplish this year. We continued to believe in ourselves and now we’re here, and not a lot of people thought we would be.” “It just shows true resilience,” Seckler said. “We’re RFH lacrosse and we’re going to come back from anything. Even if we start off rough, we’re always going to be there.”
“That was huge,” Seckler said. “We had to come out going 212 (the temperature water boils), our motto. It worked on Thursday (6-5 win over Madison in the semifinals), and it carried over to today.”
Steve Anderson’s goal at 8:01 cut Rumson’s lead to 4-2, but Seckler found the back of the net with a blast off the right side to make it 5-2. An extra-man goal by Harvey at 3:23 made it 5-3 at halftime.
Rumson took over in the third quarter with four of the five goals, including two in the final 2:30. Garavente fed Schultz for an EMO goal 14 seconds into the second half to push the lead the 6-3, but Killeen got it back less than a minute later to keep New Providence within two goals. With 6:14 left in the third, Schultz dished to a wide-
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Blake DeMeter Strikes Out a SchoolRecord 17 for Ocean
B y Matt Manley – Senior Staff Writer
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High School senior right-hander Blake DeMeter says he does not like to follow his in-game statistics, but as the swings-and-misses on overpowering fastballs and flinch-inducing sliders piled up over the course of the first six innings of the Spartans’ NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III first-round game against Jackson Liberty, he couldn’t help but check the book.
After learning that he had already eclipsed his career high after the sixth inning, DeMeter went back out to the mound in the top of the seventh inning, struck out the side one last time, and set a new Ocean single-game record with 17 strikeouts to nail down a 4-0 win for the eighth-seeded Spartans over the No. 9 Lions.
DeMeter’s strikeout frenzy surpassed his previous career-
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high of 13 and broke the previous school record of 15, set by Rick Brown in 1982, according to Ocean head coach Cip Apicelli. On top of the 17 punchouts, DeMeter also threw a two-hitter with three walks.
Hopewell Valley in the quarterfinals in 2014.
DeMeter struck out the side in four innings and struck out at least two batters in all seven innings. During a stretch spanning the third and fourth innings, DeMeter struck out seven straight batters, six of them with his slider. Eight of DeMeter’s first 12 strikeouts came on the slider, while he used the fastball to finish off his final five strikeout victims.
“I try to think as little as possible when I’m out there, but it definitely started creeping in the back of my mind,” DeMeter said. “At one point, I asked about it after, I think, the sixth inning and someone told me and it caught me by surprise a little bit.”
With its win on Monday, Ocean earned a trip west to take on topseeded Northern Burlington on Thursday after the 23-4 Greyhounds took out Red Bank on Monday, 8-0. Northern Burlington is the No. 1 seed in the section for the third straight year, and after winning their first sectional title in 2013, the Greyhounds lost to
“I lost the feel for my breaking ball a little bit, so I went to the fastball more,” DeMeter said. “I was able to keep mowing them down with the fastball so I just kept going to it and I kind of stopped throwing the breaking ball.”
Ocean senior Blake DeMeter
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Of the 26 Jackson Liberty batters that dug in Monday against DeMeter, only six of them put the ball in play. Those six balls in play included two hits, a fly out to center field, a lineout to shortstop, a groundout to first base and an error on a ground ball to third base. Only three of the 17 batters that reached a twostrike count managed to put the ball in play against DeMeter.
“This was a different level for him,” Apicelli said. “We’ve told them for days now, ‘You’ve got one left. Every game you show up to play from now on, you are playing to get one more practice and to play another game.’ He acted today like he didn’t want this to end. Seventeen strikeouts – that’s pretty good.”
Although DeMeter cruised for most of the game, his first inning and final inning presented him with his most pronounced challenge. His three walks came in those two innings and two of them came after he had already struck out the first two batters of the seventh on a total of six pitches. He jumped ahead of Brandon Pallante in the count, 1-2, but ultimately walked him and then walked designated hitter Mike Zak on five pitches, mostly missing up in the zone with fastballs.
“I tried not to think about it, but I was probably letting the moment get to me a little bit and I tried to overthrow,” DeMeter said.
“He’s a different kind of kid,” Apicelli said. “We don’t want him to think out there, and I think for that four-to-six pitch sequence, he was thinking out there. We just want him to throw the ball over the plate.”
After a visit to the mound from Apicelli, DeMeter fired two strikes over the plate to shortstop Sean Galvin. After missing with two fastballs, he blew a third by Galvin for strikeout No. 17 to clinch Ocean’s first-round win.
DeMeter walked center fielder Kyle Tavaska on the first batter of the game after falling behind 3-0 and gave up a single
to third baseman Ryan Van Wickle with two out in the first. For the third time in five batters during the first, DeMeter fell behind on the first pitch of the at-bat to second baseman Dylan Millemann, who flew out to center to strand runners on first and second base. “I was a little nervous, since this was my first time starting a state playoff game,” said DeMeter, who said he has just started to feel healthy after dealing with arm problems leading up to and early in the season. “I might have come out a little too amped up, and I just had to settle in.”
After the first inning, DeMeter threw first-pitch strikes to 17 of 21 batters the rest of the way. Seven of the nine Lions starters struck out at least twice, with No. 9 hitter Ken Pommerencke striking out once in two plate appearances and Tavaska managing to avoid striking out while going 1-for-2 with a walk and a single on an 0-2 count to lead of the third inning.
Ocean has had issues scoring at times this season, but the Spartans gave DeMeter all the offense he would need with a run in the first inning. Designated hitter Anthony Bartolomei jumped on a first-pitch offering from Jackson Liberty starter Howard Taylor – who struck out eight in a four-hitter – for a double to the right-center gap and moved to third on a passed ball. First baseman Brian Olesen knocked Bartolomei in with an RBI ground out to third base to stake DeMeter and Ocean to an early 1-0 edge. “It definitely helps to get the lead early,” DeMeter said. “I try to throw a shutout every time out anyway, so once we got that run, I was like, ‘Okay, we’ve got this.’”
Olesen also had a hand in the second Ocean run when he singled through the middle with a runner on second base in the fourth. The ball got away from Tavaska, allowing courtesy runner Bo Britton to score.
Bartolomei later added a run in the fifth on a sacrifice fly, and second baseman Frank Henry capped the scoring with an RBI single to right field in the bottom of the sixth.
Ocean will now try to do what Hopewell Valley did against Northern Burlington last season, but will have to do it without its other pitching standout on the mound. Bartolomei was the designated hitter on Monday, but has been shut down for the season with what Apicelli called a dead arm – which does not involved any structural damage. Junior Jake Talarico is the likely choice to get the ball, according to Apicelli, but among the other options is sophomore left-hander Phil Demarco. After missing the entire season up to this point with a broken jaw, Demarco was cleared to play in game action on Monday and has been throwing bullpens throughout the season, Apicelli said.
Should Ocean knock off the No. 1 seed, DeMeter will come back into play in the sectional semifinals. During his varsity career, DeMeter has seven losses on his record, but in those losses, Ocean has scored a total of one run.
“With some more support, he might go down as one of the best pitchers this program has had,” Apicelli said. “He still might, because nobody would have been able to win those games that he’s lost when the offense is literally not scoring. When the offense gives him some runs, he is very tough to beat.”
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RBC Knocks Off Top-Seeded Colts Neck to Reach SCT Semifinals
B y Matt Manley – Senior Staff Writer
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dvancing to the Shore Conference Tournament semifinals was enough motivation for the Red Bank Catholic baseball team to put its best foot forward in this year's SCT quarterfinals against top-seeded Colts Neck, but earning a semifinal game on their home field and the chance to finally beat a Cougars team that won both regular-season meetings made it feel like a make-orbreak game for the Caseys.
Chris Bender scores on one of the five Colts Neck wild pitches
Red Bank Catholic scored seven runs in the top of the seventh inning to thwart a comeback attempt by the Cougars and advance to the SCT semifinals with a 16-8 win over the Cougars. RBC will play in the SCT semifinals on May 27 against Jackson Memorial at Count Basie Park, which is the predetermined site for the semifinals.
The last three hitters in the RBC order – sophomore Anthony DeRosa, junior Mike Spinelli and sophomore Dom Caraballo – combined to go 7-for-11 on Wednesday with a walk, two doubles, a triple, two RBI and seven runs scored. DeRosa finished 3-for-5 with two runs, Spinelli was 2-for-2 with a double, triple, three runs and an RBI, and Caraballo was 2-for-4 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI.
“I think we were all really motivated to play today,” Spinelli said. “You never want to lose to any team three times in a season, especially when it’s a tournament game, and we’ve got a chance to get a game on our home field. We knew Colts Neck was tough, we knew their pitchers have been tough on us, but we
made good adjustments and put up some good at-bats against them.”
Junior Mike Spinelli
Wednesday’s performance from the bottom third of the order follows a similar effort in a round-of-16 win over Toms River South on Saturday in which the same three players went a combined 6-for-8 – 9-for-11 when factoring in sophomore Aaron Ahn out of the No. 6 spot in the order.
“All three of those guys have been hitting pretty much all year,” Red Bank Catholic coach Buddy Hausmann said. “They are not at the bottom of the lineup because they can’t hit. They are there because they are young and somebody has to hit at the bottom. It’s nice when you can have that kind of production that deep in the lineup, plus those guys get us to (leadoff hitter) Evan (Madigan) and give him a chance to do damage.” Madigan also went 2-for-3 with two walks and three runs scored, as well as an RBI in the seven-run seventh. Senior Tom Merlo also finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored.
Colts Neck scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to pull to within 9-8. Tim Cavrak hit a 2run single to headline the rally, which ended when RBC junior Jack Ipsen took over for starter John Poccia and recorded three straight outs to preserve the Caseys’ lead.
“Poccia was throwing strikes like he needed to with a lead, but the defense didn’t do him any favors,” said Hausmann, whose team allowed six unearned runs Wednesday. “Ipsen came in a tough spot and did the same thing we asked Poccia to do, which was throw strikes and try to get an out at a time to limit the damage.”
The Cougars took a 4-2 lead with a four-run second inning, keyed by a two-run double by Mike Antico. Sam Devitis also had an RBI triple to open the Colts Neck scoring and Andrew Conforti tied the game with an RBI single in the inning.
Spinelli and Caraballo hit back-to-back doubles in the top of the fourth to tie the game at 4, and Chris Bender gave Red Bank Catholic the lead for good with a sacrifice fly later in the inning. Merlo tacked on a run with an RBI single to cap the four-run inning for RBC.
Red Bank Catholic scored 13 of its 16 runs off Colts Neck’s top two pitchers – senior left-handers Mario Ferraioli and Chris Murphy – and all 13 runs were earned. The loss was the first of the season for Ferraoili, who pitched in relief in each of Colts Neck’s last two games – an SCT win over Freehold on Saturday and an NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV loss to No. 16 West Windsor-Plainsboro South on Monday.
Despite an offensive outburst that included 13 hits and pushed across 14 earned runs, the Caseys recorded only seven RBI, with the other nine runs scoring on five wild pitches, two passed balls, an error and a steal of home on a double-steal with runners on the corners.
“We felt like it was important to play aggressive on the base paths against them,” Hausmann said. “We’ve got some speed and we’re facing two tough lefties with good breaking pitches, so if we got a ball in the dirt, we want to get to the next base.”
Red Bank Catholic will be the visitor on its own home field for the second straight year in the SCT semifinals after losing a 2-1, extra-inning game to Christian Brothers Academy in last year’s semis. After losing to the Monmouth County Tournament champions last year, the Caseys will welcome this year’s Ocean County Tournament champions. “Getting that game at home with a chance to go to the finals was a big deal for us,” Spinelli said. “We lost a tough game last year, and we definitely want another shot at it.”
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n a night in which its undefeated ace struck out 12 batters, and the three batters in the middle of the batting order combined to make just one out in the entire game, the Christian Brothers Academy baseball team still found itself needing a hit in the bottom of the seventh inning to capture a seventh Monmouth County Tournament championship on May 19 at FirstEnergy Park.
Fortunately for the Colts, the red-hot middle of their order would have the final say in their last turn at bat.
Junior catcher Brandon Martorano crushed a double to the center field wall to score senior Will Morgan from first with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh and CBA walked off with a 5-4 win over Wall to win its second straight Monmouth County Tournament championship.
“It’s a complete honor to play with these guys, so whenever I’m lucky enough to get up in a spot where I’m able to contribute for the team, I’m always looking to take advantage,” Martorano said.
Martorano finished the game 3-for-3 with two doubles and two RBI to help the Colts rally for the win after trailing 4-3 heading into the bottom of the fifth inning. Morgan started the winning rally with a one-out single to right field on a 1-2 pitch and
Martorano followed with a double on a 2-2 pitch on the next at-bat.
“I was just hoping and praying it would get down,” Martorano said. “When it got down, I just kept wheeling Will around and he was able to hustle around and score that winning run.”
“The ball was hit deep enough where I knew I could go all the way to second base and feel confident that I could get back if the ball was caught,” Morgan said. “In that situation, with the game on the line and being the winning run, I want to take a chance and make sure that if that ball just gets down, I’m going to score.”
Junior right-hander Luca Dalatri survived a nine-hit attack by Wall to improve to 7-0 on the season and 18-0 over the past two years. One start after setting a CBA record with his 22nd career win on the mound, he allowed four earned runs, but also struck out 12 without walking a batter. “I felt like I was locating and hitting my spots pretty well,” Dalatri said. “Wall’s a good hitting team. Any time I caught a little too much plate, there were able to put a pretty good swing on it. Fortunately, outside of those couple of hits that scored their runs, I was able to execute a few pitches in key spots to minimize the damage a little bit.”
Dalatri also helped his cause by going 3-for-3 with two doubles and three RBI at the plate, including an RBI double to the wall in left field that tied the game at 4 in the bottom of the fifth inning.
“I take the same mindset with me to the plate that I do to the mound,” Dalatri said. “Going up in that spot, with the tying run on second, I go up thinking, ‘You’re not going to strike me out,’ just like I go to the mound thinking, ‘You’re not going to get a hit off me.’ It’s not being cocky, it’s just the attitude you have to have to be successful.” Martorano and
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Dalatri – CBA’s No. 3, 4 and 5 hitters – combined to go 8-for9 with two walks, five doubles and five RBI to carry the offense. Those eight hits were the only ones surrendered by Wall senior starter Ryan Orender, who went the distance in taking the loss.
“We just couldn’t get those guys out today,” Wall coach Todd Schmitt said. “I hear them get knocked sometimes for not being a great hitting team, and after watching them today, I don’t know where that comes from. We had to battle and make some great plays to keep them off the board. Their whole lineup is tough, but those three guys in the middle especially can do some damage.”
Wall took a 4-3 lead in the top of the fifth on a two-out, tworun single to right field by first baseman Zach Wilson, who was 2-for-3 against Dalatri on Tuesday. Wall loaded the bases with no one out on a lead-off double by shortstop Nolan Cloney and infield singles by left fielder Nick Martinez and second baseman Brendan Barcas, with Barcas reaching on a bunt single. Dalatri then struck out catcher Dan Wondrack – the Shore Conference co-leader in home runs with nine – and Orender to come within one out of escaping the jam with a 3-2 lead. He then fell behind Wilson 2-1 and Wilson punched a fastball to right field to score Cloney and Martinez with the tying and go-ahead runs.
“Like with any team, you can’t expect your pitcher to throw a 1-0 shutout every time out,” Martorano said. “He’s allowed to give up runs. He’s allowed to give up hits; he’s allowed to give up 10 hits. We have the confidence in our offense that we can get these hits in big spots. (Wall) played phenomenal defense and made it really tough, but we were able to pull it out.”
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he Jackson Memorial baseball team had not even begun its title defense when it already accomplished something last year's team did not do before its championship run
Senior right fielder Matt Crispe hit a go-ahead RBI single in a three-run bottom of the sixth inning and senior Brandon Janofsky pitched a perfect seventh inning to nail down the save as the Jaguars rallied to beat Barnegat 8-6 at Toms River East on May 14 to win their second Ocean County Tournament title in the last four years.
Jackson Memorial won its first OCT title since 2012 by rallying from three separate deficits to tie the game before ultimately taking its first lead in the bottom of the sixth on the second of Crispe’s two RBI hits and his third overall hit of the game. That’s the type of comeback the Jaguars rarely engineered last year until they made their run in Group IV. “We’ve really tried to improve our offensive approach this year,” Jackson Memorial coach Frank Malta said. “Last year, we didn’t have a lot of games like this one where we fell behind and had to come back, at least not until we made that run.
“This group is unfazed. They are a group of flat-liners. Us as coaches, we can yell and scream at them until we’re blue in the face and they just stay the same. We’ve had to change our approach because we (the coaches) are pretty intense and they (the players) are so even-keeled. It makes games like tonight manageable because we know nothing is going to get to them.”
Crispe was named the tournament MVP and finished 3-for4 with two RBI on Thursday night. Barnegat took a 6-5 lead into the bottom of the sixth, but gave it up thanks to three errors in the inning behind pitcher Seamus Brazil, who took over for starter John Corbett in the bottom of the third.
Joe DeMaio led off the sixth with a walk and Janofsky followed with a single to right field, with both DeMaio and Janofsky taking an extra base on a fielding error in the outfield. Chris Hawryluk then reached on a dropped pop-up on the infield that allowed DeMaio to score from third and Janofsky to advance to third, with Hawryluk moving to second on the throw home.
Crispe followed by slapping the second pitch from Brazil through the right side of a drawn-in infield to bring home a second run, and Crispe moved to second on another error in the outfield.
“When Joe led off the inning with the walk, I had a feeling Brandon was going to do something big because Brandon has been doing that all year,” Crispe said. “When Joe got on, I just had that feeling that we were going to tie this game. I came up in a big spot with runners on second and third, I saw the infield was in, and I just tried to hit a ball hard somewhere, and I did what I had to do.” Crispe also made a diving catch in shallow right field to
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rob Barnegat sophomore Anthony Lani for the second out of the top of the sixth, allowing reliever Matt Castronuova to work a 1-2-3 inning on seven pitches and get the Jaguars back to the plate down one run.
After scoring a run in the bottom of the sixth, Janofsky quickly warmed up and entered for his fourth appearance of the season on the mound. With a 1-2-3 inning that ended with two more strikeouts, Janofsky has now thrown 20 scoreless innings this season with eight hits and three walks allowed while striking out 29. “I didn’t come here expecting to start or anything, but I knew coach might use me late in the game if it was tight,” Janofsky said. “I got back in the dugout and (pitching coach) J.M. (Gold) told me to go get loose quick.”
Jackson Memorial rallied from deficits of 3-1, 5-3, and 6-5 to tie the game three different times, and the single by Crispe in the sixth gave the Jaguars their first lead. Hawryluk and Crispe hit back-to-back RBI singles in the fourth to tie the game at five after Kyle Johnson led off the inning with a double on a 10-pitch at-bat.
Catcher Kyle Lona nearly hit a game-tying two-run home run in the second inning, but settled for a double when the umpires ruled the ball hit the top of the wall. Castronuova came on as a courtesy runner for Lona and, along with Nick Rocco, scored later in the inning – Rocco on a ground out by DeMaio and Castronuova on a strikeout pitch that got away from catcher Nik Fraim behind the plate. Johnson was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored and Lona finished 2-for-3 with two doubles.
Castronuova earned the win on the mound with three innings of relief, during which the right-hander allowed one run on one hit and two walks. Barnegat scored the go-ahead run off Castronuova in the fifth on a wild pitch. Fraim led the inning off with a walk and courtesy runner Mimo Padilla moved to second on a wild pitch. Jared Kacso followed with a single to move Padilla to third and the Bengals then took the lead when a wild pitch allowed Padilla to speed home with none out.
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Morgan began the bottom of the fifth with a one-out smash over the head of Wall center fielder Sean Larkin for a double. After Martorano worked a walk, Morgan came home on Dalatri’s game-tying double. Martinez ran all the way to the warning track and got his glove on the ball with a backhanded stab, but the ball squirted out of his glove as he braced to hit the wall.
Although Martinez could not come up with the spectacular play to prevent the tying run, he later saved two runs with one of three diving catches by Wall’s outfield over the final three innings. Colts left fielder Shane Turk had a potential two-run single to give CBA the lead in the fifth, but his lined shot into left field landed in the glove of a diving Martinez, who snared the ball on the backhand, just above the ground.
With CBA first baseman Kenny Campbell on second base and one out in the sixth, right fielder Nick Maciejewski made a diving catch on a sinking liner by CBA center fielder Cid Porter and threw to second base to double off Campbell and end the inning. Maciejewski then made a diving catch coming in on a line drive hit by Andrew Buccellatto leading off the seventh.
“We did everything we could to stay in the game,” Schmitt said. “We made plays, we played hard, and I can’t say anything negative about my kids. They played the game as hard as we played all year.”
Porter got in on the diving catch exhibition for CBA, laying out to catch a line-drive to right-center field by Maciejewski, who later got him back with the double-play in the sixth.
Wall cut CBA’s lead to 3-2 in the top of the fourth when Morgan misplayed a potential inning-ending fly ball by Maciejewski along the right-field line into a two-out, two-run double that got the Crimson Knights back in the game.
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Wondrack started the rally with a leadoff single and Orender reached on an infield single back to the mound. Both scored on Maciejewski’s double, but not before Dalatri struck out Wilson and third baseman Regan Dombroski to move within an out of escaping trouble.
“After giving them two runs, I was pretty determined to make sure I got two back,” said Morgan, who scored all three times he reached base and went 2-for-2 in two trips to the plate after his miscue. “You never want to cost your team and your pitcher a run, but it happens sometimes and the only way to make up for it is keep playing and try come through when the opportunity presents itself.”
CBA jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second on back-to-back doubles by Martorano and Dalatri to lead off the inning. The Colts battery, both of whom are committed to North Carolina, later gave the team a 3-0 lead with consecutive two-out RBI singles in the bottom of the third.
Outside of Morgan, Martorano and Dalatri, the CBA lineup went a combined 0-for-17 against Orender and the only baserunners of the bunch came on a hit-by-pitch by Buccellatto and a walk by Campbell.
The four earned runs allowed by Dalatri were the most during his two-year unbeaten stretch, but in each case, he was one out away from escaping the inning without surrendering a run. Despite whiffing 12 Crimson Knights without issuing a walk, Wall was able to scratch out nine hits against Dalatri, five of which came with Dalatri ahead in the count. In the case of the two run-scoring hits by Maciejewski and Wilson, however, Dalatri fell behind in the count in both at-bats.
Dalatri also trailed in the bottom of the sixth inning a week earlier against Manalapan in the MCT quarterfinals. The University of North Carolina recruit also helped his own cause in that game with a solo home run and CBA rallied to tie the
game in the sixth and win it on a walk-off single by Martorano in the seventh.
“He’s so hard on himself,” Martorano said. “Working together these last couple years, I know him inside and outside, and he is one of the biggest competitors, but he’s also one of the most determined people you’ll find. He believes it’s his duty to produce a win, and he’s done it for the last 18 starts.”
Tuesday’s win is CBA’s seventh Monmouth County Tournament championship and it keeps the Colts alive in their quest for five championships this season. They have already won a share of the Class A North division title on top of the MCT championship, and will continue their quest for the Shore Conference Tournament championship when they play Manasquan in the SCT semifinals on Wednesday at Count Basie Park.
The NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public A playoffs begin on Thursday, with CBA hosting Camden Catholic. The 2004 Wall team is the only Shore Conference team to win all five titles in play – the division, county, conference, state sectional and overall group titles.
“It’s awesome winning here,” Morgan said. “Coach told us the stat that in 22 years, we’ve been to the championship 11 times, which is great to be able to get here, keep it going and put another ball on the wall. “It also gives us two of the five championships we want to win. We’re striving for five. That’s what we want to do.”
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output for the Jaguars came on RBI. Johnson singled and scored on an error by shortstop Aaron McLaughlin to open the Jaguars’ scoring in the bottom of the first.
McLaughlin was 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI and quickly atoned for the error by delivering an RBI single with two out in the second. He also flew out to deep left field leading off the seventh against Janofsky.
Lani was 1-for-2 with a two-run single in the fourth to give Barnegat a 5-3 lead.
Jackson Memorial had a chance to tie the game in the fifth inning after Lona doubled with two out to bring up Johnson, who won a 10-pitch battle with Brazil in the fourth when he doubled. Johnson again worked the count full, but Brazil blew a fastball by him for the final out of the inning.
Corbett allowed three unearned runs in two-plus innings and Brazil struck out seven in four innings of work for Barnegat. The Bengals lost in the OCT final for the second consecutive year after reaching the final for the first time in program history in 2014. Last year, Barnegat went 0-3 in
tournament championship games, losing 6-0 to Central Regional in the OCT final, 1-0 to Buena in the South Jersey Group II final and 2-0 to
Christian Brothers Academy in the Shore Conference Tournament final. Barnegat appeared to turn the tide by beating Jackson Liberty a week earlier to clinch its first outright Class B South division title. “The positive is that we scored a run,” McCoy said. “Going three championship games without a run is tough to swallow and we came out and swung the bats tonight. Unfortunately, we gave a really good team too many opportunities.”
Jackson Memorial will now turn its attention to two more tournaments and two familiar foes, beginning with the Shore Conference Round of 16 on Saturday against Howell and the start of the NJSIAA Tournament on Monday with a Central Jersey Group IV game against Class A South rival Brick Memorial.
“Coach Malta really wanted to win this Ocean County title, and after missing out on (the Class) A South (title), this was the first championship we had an opportunity to win,” Crispe said. “We didn’t take this game for granted, and we didn’t take (Barnegat) for granted. We wanted to get this championship, and now we want to get more championships.”
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Southern Dominates From Start to Finish To Beat Rumson & Win First SCT Title
By Bob Badders – Senior Staff Writer
To understand how much
winning the Shore Conference Tournament means to Southern and its program-defining senior class, all you needed to do was catch a glimpse of Dylan Jinks during the postgame ceremony.
His smile stretched ear-to-ear and his eyes were as big as the lacrosse balls he’s so adept at firing past opposing goalies when he was handed the championship plaque.
FINALLY.
Smith started the scoring with an extraman opportunity goal at 10:58 before Simonelli set up Mulrane for a goal 19 seconds later. Sophomore Will Johnson made it 3-0 off a nice feed from Jon Manzo and then pushed the lead to 4-0 off another dish from Simonelli at 7:01. Junior attackman Robbie Garavente got Rumson on the board with 3:03 to go in the first, but Southern had established the foothold it desperately needed. “It was huge coming out and taking their hearts early,” Jinks said. “We were preaching that from right off the bus.”
“Come here beautiful,” he said to the trophy, giving it a kiss before raising it high above his head as his teammates hooted and hollered. “I’m never letting you go.” The top-seeded Rams made history on May 19 at Monmouth University, and did so in emphatic fashion with a 16-6 victory over second-seeded and four-time defending champion Rumson-Fair Haven to capture the 2015 Shore Conference Tournament title on their third try. The Rams raced out to a 4-0 lead and never looked back on their way to becoming the first Ocean County team to be crowned SCT champions.
it quickly.”
The Rams finished off their most epic win yet by scoring four more goals in the final quarter to cement their historic victory. Simonelli made it 13-3 at 9:04 before Seckler took another pass from Waters and scored at 8:26, making it 13-4. Smith scored his fourth goal at 6:44 top push the lead to 14-4 before Seckler scored consecutive EMO goals just over a minute apart to cut the Bulldogs’ deficit to 14-6.
Senior midfielder Chris Smith scored a game-high three goals while junior attackman Nick Simonelli pumped in three goals with three assists. Sophomore Kyle Mulrane also scored three times and Jinks had two goals and two assists.
“I think my heart skipped a beat there as I watched the clock tick down from six seconds,” Smith said. “I can’t even explain the feeling. There’s no better feeling than beating that team in this game. We beat them the first time (1614 in April) but today we made history.” “We knew this was our last shot and we gave a 110-percent effort,” Jinks said. “I’m just thrilled right now, I can’t even describe how happy I am.”
It was the biggest game in the history of Southern’s lacrosse program, and ended up being the biggest win ever. The Rams have won division titles and even a pair of NJSIAA sectional titles, but the SCT lingered as the the missing piece to the puzzle. On the big stage they came to play – every last one of them. From senior goalie Brendan Lefanto out through his rock-solid defense to the swarming midfielders and sniping attackmen, Southern’s players refused to make the drive back to Manahawkin with their heads in their hands. This time, in their third straight SCT final versus the powerful Bulldogs, they left Kessler Field as champions.
“Once in a while as a team you have these special games where things click on all cylinders, and today was one of those games,” said Southern head coach John Pampalone. “We talked since Saturday that to beat Rumson, the four-time defending champions, it was going to take an extraordinary effort and extraordinary individual efforts. Across the board we played about as well as we could. We made a few mistakes, but we didn’t do many things wrong. Hats off to these kids. They’ve been waiting for this moment for a full year and they didn’t let it pass them by.”
“Our mentality was to leave everything on the field,” Lefanto said. “This is something we’ve been waiting for for a long time. We’ve been knocking on the door the last three years and we finally broke it down.”
To beat Rumson is one thing, but to win by 10 goals in a tournament the Bulldogs have owned the last four years is another. The first game was a 1614 win by Southern when a young Bulldogs team was still figuring out how to play with one another. Since then Rumson had found its game, and was entering off a 6-0 shutout of a red-hot Freehold Township team in the semifinals and riding an eight-game winning streak.
“It is a little surprising,” Smith said. “But we didn’t want to play another other team in the finals. This is the team we wanted to beat and show everybody what we have.”
One thing the Rams preached heading into Tuesday’s championship game was needing a fast start. They knew they couldn’t let Rumson grab early momentum and be forced to play catch-up the rest of the way. The first quarter went about as well as Southern (17-0) could have planned as the Rams opened up a 4-0 lead, including scoring twice in the game’s first 1:21, and led 4-1 heading to the second quarter.
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The Rams would finish just as they started with a pair of goals in the final four minutes. Simonelli scored unassisted with 3:44 to go and Smith put the finishing touches on an unbelievable championship performance by scoring unassisted with 2:26 left.
Senior midfielder Chris Smith
“If they started getting momentum we knew it would be really hard to stop,” said senior defenseman Mike Adragna. “We knew if we got going early we’d be fine, and we did.”
While Southern’s offense was rolling early Lefanto made a pair of big saves to keep the Bulldogs (12-6) off the board, keeping momentum on the Rams’ side. He finished with 11 stops, thwarting Rumson early on some of its best looks.
“I think he’s the most underrated player in the Shore,” Pampalone said of Lefanto. “He’s made every start for the last four years and has put up an unbelievable record. For whatever reason he’s kind of the afterthought, but Brendan Lefanto is a huge reason we’ve won all these championships.”
As well as Southern had played over the first 12 minutes, they knew the comeback capability Rumson possessed. It seemed everyone in attendance was waiting for the Bulldogs to put a couple goals in and close the gap, but it never happened. Instead Southern began to pull away with four more goals in the second quarter to take an 8-2 lead into halftime. McManus scored on a blast from the top of the box off a pass from Simonelli just 30 seconds into the quarter, and Jinks made it 6-1 when he intercepted an outlet pass from the goalie and tucked it into an open net. Jinks scored again unassisted at 5:24 to make it 7-1, and Simonelli curled his way around the net before scoring with a low shot at 4:19. Garavente cut the lead to 8-2 by scoring with 48.7 seconds left in the half.
Lucas Seckler scored the first of his four goals for Rumson – all in the second half – off a feed from Matt Waters at 7:47. Once again, however, Southern would answer to prevent the Bulldogs from getting any momentum. Mulrane scored off a pass from McManus with 43.7 seconds left and Jinks set up Smith off the ensuing draw to give the Rams a 12-3 lead after three quarters.
All the while the Rams defense was playing outstanding. They had clearly adjusted after allowing 14 goals in the first meeting, specifically taking away the rollback by Garavente and the attackmen. The long reach of Adragna and Henken and quick feet of Anthony Triola and Gordie Vonschmidt stifled the Bulldogs all game long. “I gotta give it up to Chris Smith on face-offs stopping any momentum, and we were just crisp defensively,” Adragna said. “Once we got a stop we cleared
Aside from winning the title for themselves, they also raised the banner for Ocean County as a whole. Jackson Memorial became the first Ocean County team to reach the final in 2011, and the Jaguars did it again in 2012. Both times they were thwarted by Rumson. Then Southern took its turn, losing to the Bulldogs 14-5 in 2013 and 17-10 last season before finally breaking through this year.
“It’s a great honor and we’ve talked for years that we wanted to be the team that broke down the door,” Pampalone said. “We knew Monmouth County had great lacrosse going back to CBA and Manasquan, and Rumson has taken the lead the last six years. We’ve been trying to play catch-up. We’ve been able to win our division and do some things on our own, but we’ve never been able to break through here. To be the team that finally does it, it’s awesome.”
“This group of seniors, you can’t say enough good things about them,” Pampalone said. “They have around 80 wins, three division titles, three sectional titles and hopefully one more, and now a Shore Conference title. It’s a truly remarkable group of winners that loves the big stage and never shied away from it.”
The Rams laid out four goals at the beginning of the season and have been able to cross off the first two on the list. Now comes the NJSIAA Tournament, where they are the two-time defending South Jersey Group IV champions. The final mountain to climb would be to take out one of the North Jersey powers, either Westfield or fellow unbeaten Bridgewater-Raritan, in the Group IV final.
“We’re gonna cherish this and remember it for the rest of our lives, but now we have bigger things to go after and we’re ready to take on the next challenge,” Jinks said. “Coming into the season we had four main goals: to win the division, and we checked that off; win Shore Conference and we checked that off. We’ve got two more checks to go.”
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The Shore Conference Athletic Directors Honor 93 Athletes with Sportsmanship Awards
By Scott Stump – Managing Editor
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he Shore Conference athletic directors honored a special group of 93 athletes on May 17 at Pine Belt at Pine Belt Arena, presenting their annual Sportsmanship Awards to seniors from each of the conference’s 47 schools.
It’s great to have both counties together today,” said Ocean Township athletic director Rusty Todd, who is the Shore Conference president. “It’s very prestigious to us. This is what we hope all of our kids could do. It would make all of our jobs a lot easier if all of our kids could emulate what these kids here today are doing.”
The event was proudly supported by Shore Sports Network, whose own director, Kevin Williams, served as the emcee. The programs for the ceremony were also produced by SSN’s Steve Meyer.
Athletes and administrators alike believe the award transcends the usual All-Shore accolades based on statistics and wins.
“This is probably the most prestigious award that any athlete could get,” said Raritan athletic director John DeGenito, who honored football and basketball player Dylan DeWysockie and
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s o f t b a l l , basketball and field hockey player Daniella Marino.
“We try to look for kids who do multi-sport things. In our case, three different varsity c o a c h e s nominated the same kid, so I think it speaks highly of their and integrity their character, so winning this award is probably more important than any award a school could have.”
An outstanding group of senior athletes from across the conference’s 47 schools was honored by the Shore Conference athletic directors with Sportsmanship Awards on Sunday. (Photo by Scott Stump)
Winning the award was also a proud moment for the athletes to honor their parents and the others who helped mold them into quality people as well as players. Brick Memorial football
and track standout Karl-Mark Kumm, who was the Mustangs’ recipient along with lacrosse and volleyball player Danielle Bolton, dedicated his award to his mother, Helica. Kumm emigrated to Brick with his family from the Eastern European nation of Estonia when he was six years old and
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became an American citizen this fall during the football season. Kumm, a wide receiver/defensive back who is also an outstanding student, will continue his football career at Carnegie Mellon University.
“My mom came over from Estonia so that I would have limitless opportunity in my future,” Kumm said. “Of course, America is the land of great opportunity, so she traveled over here, and everything I do is in her honor. Everything I accomplish is for her, and this is definitely an honor because it’s not just your athletic ability, it’s being a leader.”
The award also lets the players know that their coaches and athletic director are watching their athletes for more than just the numbers they put up in their sport.
“It’s really special to me that Coach Donohue (athletic director Chuck Donohue Jr.) would look to me as a leader in our school and someone who respects the officials,” said Southern soccer, swimming and lacrosse athlete Morgan Von Schmidt. “It’s good to know that someone notices our efforts.”
“This means way more to me because it’s not about how great you are in the sport you play, it’s more about the stuff you do on and off the court,” said Toms River East basketball player Amanda Kennedy. “It means so much to me knowing that they
appreciate me as a leader.”
It also was a chance for the athletes to recognize those in addition to their parents who taught them lessons along the way. Red Bank Regional football and basketball player Jimmy Ferrogine dedicated his award to the late Albert Martin, Ferrogine’s former basketball teammate who died tragically at 17 years old in December of 2012 when he collapsed during a preseason scrimmage.
“My coach said he selected me because of my leadership and how I dealt with the Albert Martin situation,” Ferrogine said. “Albert welcomed me into the program my sophomore year. We were a very young team that year, and he did everything he could to bring the team together at the beginning of the year. When we lost him, we were devastated, but we fought that season and the rest of our careers for him. I’m proud to accept this award because of him.”
Four recipients also got an added bonus because of the generosity of Pine Belt Auto Group, which donated four $1,000 scholarships, one for an athlete of each gender from each county who were chosen randomly by a drawing. The recipients were Kennedy from Toms River East and Manchester football, basketball, golf and tennis player Robert Planter Jr. from Ocean County, and Colts Neck basketball and soccer player Colton LaLima and Freehold Township basketball player Taylor Devlin in Monmouth County.
The full list of recipients is as follows:
Matawan: Matt Isaacson; Colleen Branagan
Barnegat: Kyle Morris; Sophia Beyer
Middletown North: Zachary Gazette; Annie Rozzo
Asbury Park: Sal Swain; Rizwana Khan Brick: Joe Phillips; Kristianna Kawa
Brick Memorial: Karl-Mark Kumm; Danielle Bolton Central: Joseph Firetto; Erin Trapp
Christian Brothers Academy: Derek Leohner Colts Neck: Colton LaLima; Halley Cartas
Donovan Catholic: Dale Barlet; Janina Talamayan Freehold Boro: Joseph McMerty; Rebecca Cobb Freehold Twp.: Robert Griswold; Taylor Devlin Henry Hudson: Derek Lucas; Julia DiGiorgio
Holmdel: Nicholas DeMaio; Morgan Graziano Howell: Anthony Pozsonyi; Gabby Greene
Jackson Liberty: Bryan Coger; Lindsay Corallo
Jackson Memorial: Joe DeMaio; Jenna McDonnell Keansburg: Tony Demir; Shannon Kerrigan Keyport: Jake Caverly; Gabrielle Piccini
Mater Dei Prep: Jason Mandile; Lindsey Florio
Middletown South: Wes Friberg; Madison Curtis
Monmouth: Matt Vincenti; Michelle Montefinese Neptune: Justin Pack; Taleeya Terrell
Ocean: Daniel Worthington; Samantha DaCruz Pinelands: Tom Poklikuha; Juliana White Pt. Beach: Jake Fioretti; Alexa Russell
Pt. Boro: Owen Herrington; Emily Henn Ranney: Jacob Palecki; Kristen Guyler
Raritan: Dylan DeWysockie; Daniella Marino
Red Bank Catholic: Liam Byrne; Grace Eckstein Red Bank: Jimmy Ferrogine; Mia Nelson
Rumson-FH: Charlie Volker; Janie DeVito Shore: Matt McCarthy; Megan Racioppi
Southern: Pat Ferraro; Morgan Von Schmidt
St. John Vianney: Andrew Zimms; Anne Marie Arcidiacono
Lacey: Chris Iapicco; Erika Schoeneberg
St. Rose: Alex Oleck; Jacqueline Pettit
Long Branch: John Mimes; Violet Hoagland
Toms River North: Matthew Kazanowsky; Taylor Ward
Lakewood: Tomas Uribe Tobon ; Phylice Beverette Manalapan: Gerard Hodge-Rocourt; Tracey Dantone Manasquan: Kyle McDermott; Quinn Saito
Manchester: Robert Planter Jr.; Katherine Chinery
Toms River East: Jordan Feigin; Amanda Kennedy Toms River South: Tymere Berry; Chelsea Smith Wall: Brendan Barcas; Christina Tricarico
Marlboro: Andrew Nardi; Kristi Casale
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