Southern Regional Rams

Nine local high school football teams entered Friday night with hopes of winning playoff games. Only three of those teams survived into Saturday. Congratulations to Bridgeton and Buena, which join St. Joseph as the three remaining Cape-Atlantic League teams in the postseason (Hammonton still alive in the West Jersey Football League)...

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...

Less than a week after a junior pitcher threw a no-hitter in his very first varsity start, two more local athletes have recorded similarly impressive feats. Despite a tremendous pitching performance in the first game of the season, Holy Spirit's Mike Di Ianni knew there was room for improvement...

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...

So, reality's likely set in that you're not going to be the next billionaire after the first two days of the NCAA Tournament. After only 32 games, there are exactly ZERO perfect brackets left in Warren Buffett's widely-participated 'Billion Dollar Challenge'...

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...

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...

St. Augustine held off Southern Regional, 65-58 on Saturday in Manahawkin. Nelson, a sophomore, scored 24 point and Justyn Mutts, a freshman, added 10 from the Hermits. Penn State football recruit Mike Gesicki scored 22 points and blocked two shots to led Southern...