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This week, we have a new set of local student-athletes who shine on their respective courts and each are in the running now to take home this week’s Athlete of the Week award.

A big congratulations to St. Joe's Dana DiRenzo, who grabbed nearly 90% of the vote last week to take home 97.3 ESPN's High School Athlete of the Week honors. This week, we have a new set of local student-athletes who shine on their respective courts. Each are now in the running to take home this week’s Athlete of the Week.

South Jersey may still be feeling the last few punches of old man winter, but sports fans are hoping to turn the page into the spring high school sports season. One local athlete is as ready as anyone; Joe Gatto is hoping to write his name into the record books in 2014...

One Cape-Atlantic League Championship game went down to a final mid-court heave; the other was decided well before halftime. The Wildwood Catholic Crusaders and the Middle Township Lady Panthers are conference champions after winning on Saturday afternoon at Stockton College...

It's the calm before the storm this weekend, just days away from the start of the Cape-Atlantic League boys basketball tournament. The Atlantic City Vikings have defeated the Middle Township Panthers in each of the past two C.A.L. title games, on their way to winning consecutive state championships...

Coach Tom Feraco returns to the Middle Township bench on Saturday night, and it couldn't happen at a more fitting venue. He'll make his public return to basketball when the Panthers take on Cherry Hill West at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, the final game on the first day of the Shoot Down Cancer Classic...

The 19th edition of one of South Jersey's most prestigious high school basketball tournaments is in Absecon this weekend. Holy Spirit High School is the host site of the 97.3 ESPN Girls Shootout, featuring some of the best girls teams in the entire state...

The St. Augustine Prep boys basketball team was expecting a tough game when they went up to the Garden State Parkway to Manahawkin; but not even they knew how close their game against Southern Regional would be. It was a blistering pace in the back-and-forth game between the Hermits and Rams, as the two teams traded leads in each of the first three quarters...

On Tuesday night, Middle Township Panthers head basketball coach Tom Feraco was in the locker room congratulating his kids on their victory over one of their biggest rivals. Just hours later, Feraco was under the knife at a hospital in Philadelphia for one of the key treatments in his recent battle against prostate cancer...

South Jersey may have been hit with a nasty winter blast just days after the New Year's celebration, but it won't put a damper on high school sports in the area for very long. The storm may have thrown a wrench into Friday's action, but several teams across South Jersey say they're ready to go in the limited games already scheduled for Saturday and beyond...