Middle Township Panthers

Trish Byrne had no idea what the high school experience would be like for her youngest daughter, Chloe, when Chloe entered Middle Township High a few years ago.

Hours before the heavy rains came down, some of South Jersey's best high school football players were putting on "scary good" performances on Halloween night. St. Augustine Prep's Lamont Harris has been terrifying Cape-Atlantic League defenses for years, and did so once again Friday night with a record-breaking 337 yards on the ground...

Another Friday, another night of tremendous offensive showings from South Jersey's best high school football teams. Another four games ended with winning teams scoring 42 or more points, including Millville (49-10), St. Augustine Prep (48-7), and Bridgeton (43-0)...

It's been a long, difficult journey for one local soccer player. Ocean City's George Meyers has been a part of dozens of wins with his Red Raiders teammates, but also has experienced the personal agony that accompanies an unexpected physical setback...

He's been a member of a state championship team and an established assistant coach, but now one former player is getting his chance to take over his hometown high school football program. Kevin Stetser will be the head man on the sidelines for Egg Harbor Township in 2014, and his work has already begun in turning around a team that finished 2-8 last fall...

It was likely as shocking an upset to just about everyone, except for Eric Fierro. His Southern Regional Rams faced almost-certain elimination in the NJSIAA Group IV Playoffs: down a point in the final seconds, needing to go the length of the court for a miracle basket against the Vikings in Atlantic City (a recent house of horrors for opponents during the Vikings' last two impressive state title

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...

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...

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...