South Jersey Sports Report

Atlantic City shortstop Gabi Hendri signed a National Letter of Intent with Rutgers University.

Holy Spirit senior wrestler, K.J Sherman was one bout away from being eliminated, and was trailing 8-1 in that bout, against St. Augustine Prep’s Trey McLeer.

First the NJSIAA basketball tournament was cancelled and now the coronavirus might take out the entire spring sports season.

Atlantic City will take on South Brunswick, a 72-71 winner over Marlboro in the Central Jersey Group 4 title game, on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Egg Harbor Township High School in the state Group 4 semifinals.

Fouth-seeded Cherry Hill East never expected to see the No. 16 Egg Harbor Township Eagles staring back at them at the start of the South Jersey Group 4 semifinals on Saturday afternoon.

Here’s a look at how Cape-Atlantic League wrestlers fared during Thursday’s action at Boardwalk Hall.

Absegami hosts No. 5 Timber Creek on Wednesday in the South Jersey Group 3 quarterfinals.

Holy Spirit senior Melody Pugliese has a well known mother. Toni Ann Gisondi was a child actress in the early 1980s and played the role of “Molly” in the motion picture “Annie”, the story of Little Orphan Annie.

The Mustangs (18-5), the 2018 tournament champion, advance to Saturday’s noon final at Stockton University against Atlantic City, a 40-33 winner over No. 2 seed Ocean City in the other semifinal.

The last time the Atlantic City girls basketball appeared in a Cape-Atlantic League championship game, the players on this year’s roster were grade-schoolers