Ocean City

OCEAN CITY — Sometimes, no matter what you do, a team is just one possession better than you on a given night.

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Middle Township girls basketball coach John Leahy took a gamble in overtime of the Cape-Atlantic League Tournament championship on Saturday afternoon at Stockton University.
Ocean City senior point guard Grace Sacco made him pay for it.

OCEAN CITY — The Mainland Regional girls basketball team wanted some payback, and the Mustangs were determined to get it. And ruin not only a perfect record for Ocean City, but also the Red Raiders' Senior Night.

 
LINWOOD — As the heavyweight bout was going on Wednesday night, Mainland Regional wrestling coach Clayton Smith gathered his lower and middle weight wrestlers together behind the bench and got in there ears pretty good. With the Mustangs trailing Ocean City, 22-12, at the time, Smith said — in no u…

OCEAN CITY — The Cape-Atlantic League is hereby on notice: Ocean City is coming after ya.
The Red Raiders, not expected to be much of a contender in the league this season after graduating Conner Laverty, took down rival Mainland 58-48 on Wednesday night to move into a tie for first place with the Mu…

 
BORDENTOWN — When Britney Stein was a freshman, she watched from the bench as older sister April led the Ocean City field hockey team to a state championship as a senior in 2013. The next two years, Britney came out on the losing end, as the Red Raiders fell to Warren Hills in the title game.
Now a …

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The difference between an average team and a team that competes for championships every season is the ability to take a punch.
Ocean City took an uppercut to the jaw early in Thursday night's showdown with Moorestown in the Group 3 semifinals at Egg Harbor Township Hi…

 
OCEAN CITY — In ancient times, out-numbered Spartan warriors employed a defensive formation called a phalanx, in which a group of warriors would gather together and allow their shields to form a defensive wall.
In the South Jersey Group 3 quarterfinals, eighth-seeded Hammonton employed a similar str…

OCEAN CITY — When Ocean City plays its brand of field hockey, the Red Raiders are virtually unstoppable. Seneca held the Red Raiders in check throughout the first half on Wednesday in the South Jersey Group 3 semifinals, but once Ocean City's passing game started clicking in the second ha…

LINWOOD — The last time Ocean City beat arch-rival Mainland Regional, senior offensive lineman Eric Levai was in kindergarten, learning his A-B-Cs and hoping for chocolate chip cookies and nap time.
The 12-year losing streak came to an emphatic end on Friday night, as the visiting Red Raiders dominat…