The Tri-Wood Lifeguard Championships scheduled for Thursday in Wildwood, were postponed due to rough ocean conditions. The competition was rescheduled for this Saturday a 6 p.m. on the Lincoln Avenue Beach. The Tri-Wood Championships is held for younger lifeguards with less than five years experience.
Wildwood Crest resident Ian Doherty and North Wildwood Beach Patrol lifeguard Riley Engel were the respective male and female winners of the Wildwood Crest 5K Beach Race held on Saturday morning. The 36 year-old Doherty, a native of Co. Donegal, Ireland, finished the race in 17 minutes, 47 seconds. More than 260 runners completed the 5K…
The Upper Township 11-12 Little League baseball team beat Randolph West 9-3 in an elimination game Sunday in the New Jersey state tournament. On Monday night Upper Township will play Freehold Township and will need to beat them twice to win the tournament.
The Avalon Beach Patrol won the Kerr Memorial Lifeguard Races for the sixth straight year on Sunday. The Avalon team won three of the five events, while second place winners Longport won the singles and doubles row. The race is in the memory of former Avalon lifeguard David J. Kerr, Jr. who succumbed to cancer…
The Cape Express U-17 boys soccer team finished in third place at the 2016 National Presidents Cup tournament in Tulsa, Okla., last weekend. The team, who won their Northeast Regional Championship, had one win, one draw and two losses in the national tournament. Tyler Mericle of Wildwood Catholic and Brendan Forrest of Middle Township scored the…
Ocean City High School graduate Sean Mooney has been selected to the All-American baseball team. Mooney was named first team, All-America by MaxPreps, for players from medium sized schools. Mooney, who set several school records at Ocean City, joins Jason Groome of Barnegat High School and the Boston Red Sox organization on the first team.
Former Wildwood High School football standout Wesley Hills has captured a major honor as a star running back at the University of Delaware. Hills received the All American Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year award from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The award recognizes athletes who excel in conditioning and also academics.
Multiple sources report that Barnegat High School graduate Jason Groome has signed a contract with the Boston Red Sox organization that includes a $3.65 million signing bonus, pending a physical. Groome was selected by Boston as the number 12 pick in the Major League Baseball draft on June 9th. In Groome’s senior year he struck…
Former Wildwood High School baseball standout Brendan Bean will continue his career at Gloucester Catholic High School. The Gazette Leader’s Brian Cunniff reports that Bean will attend the school for his senior year and play baseball. Bean had noted an alleged lack of respect from coaches and administrators at Wildwood High.
On Friday the Ocean City Beach Patrol won their 17th overall Cape May County Lifeguard Championships at the Rambler Road beach in Wildwood Crest. Ocean City won it’s fourth straight team title by one point over the Wildwood Beach Patrol, who were leading going into the final event after wins in the doubles and singles…