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By Sean SimmonsMIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP—After giving the WallCrimson Knights their first Shore Conference loss thisseason, the Middletown South Eagles were hoping for themomentum to carry over to a key Class ANorth showdownagainst cross-town rival Middletown North.

Senior left-hander Howie Brey pitched a complete gametwo-hitter and fanned 11 batters to help lead the Eagles toa hard fought 1-0 victory against the Lions. “This is thebest outing that Brey has had this season and he is capa-ble of going out and doing that whenever he pitches,”explained Middletown South Head Coach Ryan Spillane.

The Eagles scored the only run of the game in the bot-tom of the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly by junior infield-er/pitcher Perry Kulaga. “He (Kulaga) has been turninginto a good player for us,” Spillane said. The Eagles fol-lowed up their win against the Lions by shutting out theFreehold Township Patriots, 3-0 and their overall record

now stands at 11-3.With the win, the Eagles clinched at least a tie for the

Class A North title and it is the first divisional title forMiddletown South since 1999.

Kulaga tossed a complete game three-hitter for theEagles and senior outfielder Dan Sweeney smacked a two-run double in the top of the third inning to break a score-less tie.

The top hitters for the Eagles this season have been jun-ior third baseman Mike Grossi with an impressive .468batting average, Sweeney, who is hitting .393, senioroutfielder Stefan Poggioli, who is batting .364 with fivedoubles and senior outfielder Erik Obsteins, who is hit-ting over .300. Also having a solid season for the Eaglesis senior outfielder Brian Healy with nine stolen bases.“We want to continue to play well and improve everygame,” Spillane said. “Guys have been stepping up andgetting clutch hits for us and we are very confident late in

games. Piero Vescio has done a great job as a relief pitch-er for us and Nick McGann has also done a great job andhas started every game at catcher for us.”

By Michael RogersThe Freehold Township girls’

lacrosse team is off to a 10 - 2 recordthis season and they earned the num-ber five seed in this year’s ShoreConference Tournament (SCT) wherethey faced the number11 seeded WallLady Knights. The Patriots were vic-torious in their first round game by thescore of 16- 4. Mary Gallagher andLily Weinstein have been leading theway offensively all season for thePatriots with 43 points and 38 pointsrespectively and did so again in thefirst round game against Wall.

Gallagher and Weinstein led the wayagainst Wall with Gallagher scoringfive goals and one assist whileWeinstein scored three goals and twoassists. Taylor Hawkins also scoredthree goals in the game. Goalie JennaDeMarinis made eight saves in thegame as Freehold Township outshotWall 25 -10 in the game. The Freehold

jumped out to an 8- 2 halftime leadbefore outscoring Wall by the samescore (8 -2) in the second half for thewin.

On the season Gallagher leadsFreehold with 43 points on 32 goalsand 11 assists while Weinstien hasscored 38 points on 31 goals andseven assists. Taylor Hawkins (31points/ 24 goals/ seven assists) andKelsey Murphy (31 points/ 23 goals/eight assists) have also added to theoffense this season while goalieJenna DeMarinis has been solid allseason in net making 125 saves so farthis season. The Patriots still haveregular season games still to playagainst Marlboro, Manalapan and RedBank Catholic ( RBC) who they willalso play in the second round of theSCT. RBC (13 -1) won their first roundgame by the score of 20 -3 over Lacey.

Middletown South Baseball Team On A Roll

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIToms River South’s catcher Nick McGann gets apiece of the bal l .

TR North Advances Past Lacey Successful Season For Patriots Lacrosse B y Ted KaiserTOMS RIVER— Shaking off their secondheart breaker defeat at the hands of rivalToms River South in a regular seasongame, the Toms River North baseballteam bounced back to win in the Round of16 of the Ocean County Tournament. TheMariners, seeded fifth, toppled 12thseeded Lacey by a score of 6-2 lastSaturday. Junior Ron Marinaccio pitchedfor the win, struck out 10 batters and hadtwo RBIs at the plate. They will play inthe quarterfinals against the winner ofthe 13th seed Monsignor Donovan andfourth seed Jackson Liberty game whichwas played on Sunday.

The win was satisfying for the Marinersbecause they were coming off a bitterloss on Thursday. For the second timethis season, TR North blew a large leadagainst their rival TR South. In their firstmeeting, the Mariners held a four-run lead

after five innings, but watched as theIndians smashed their way back to an 8-7victory. Thursday’s game followed a sim-ilar script. TR North launched them-selves ahead with a five-run top of thesecond inning. The Indians clawed backwith three runs in the fourth to close towithin 5-3. Then in the bottom of thesixth inning James Burke hit a two-rundouble to give TR South a 6-5 lead. TheMariners could not tie it up in the top ofthe seventh and once again the Indianshad pulled off a stunning comeback.

But TR North did not let the defeat ruintheir weekend and the win over Lacey hasthem feeling good heading into animportant week for the Ocean CountyTournament and upcoming ShoreConference Tournament. The Marinersare now 9-5 overall and 4-5 in the highlycompetitive Class A South Division.

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Spartans Build Toward Postseason Jersey Sporting News • May 8 - May 22

B y Ted KaiserOCEAN TOWNSHIP— The postseasonsoftball tournaments are gearing up thisweek beginning with the MonmouthCounty Tournament. Ocean is doing agood job in building momentum as thestakes are set to get higher. The Spartansturned in a string of victories last weekbeginning with a 6-1 victory over divi-sional foe Neptune on Tuesday. Theoffense did all of its damage in the thirdinning against Neptune ace pitcher KatieHourihan. Freshman Michelle King scoreda run in the rally and had three hits for thegame. Meanwhile, starting pitcher GinnaKinhofer kept the Scarlet Fliers quiet onoffense. The junior held Neptune to onerun on five hits and struck out five batters.

On Friday, the Spartans dominated LongBranch by a score of 13-3 in a game mer-cied after five innings. Kinhofer pitchedfor her 11th win of the season but the storywas the offense. Ocean pounded out 13 hitsincluding extra base hits by Kinhofer,King and sophomore outfielder ElizabethScagnelli.

Then on Saturday, Ocean blasted ColtsNeck 8-1 with a six- run eruption in the topof the first inning. Kinhofer limited theCougars to one run on two hits and struckout eight batters in seven innings. Thewin pushed Ocean’s record to 12-6 overall

and 9-2 in the Class B North Division. TheSpartans are in second place overallbehind Red Bank Catholic, but are on theverge of clinching the public divisiontitle.

By Pat RalphNew to the spring season athletic lineup

this year at Christian Brothers Academy(CBA) is the addition of a rugby team andthey seem to be having a great season inLincroft. The program officially began inSeptember 2010 as an intramural sport forall students to participate in and it becamean official varsity sport this spring.

Seeing that there was an avid interest for arugby team, the Student Council movedquickly to propose a rugby team to theschool administration and the proposalwas strongly approved. The interest inhaving a rugby team at the school grewout of the fact that there is no footballteam at the school and the student bodyhas always wanted a contact sport similarto football.

The head coach of the program is PatMoroney, who has nearly thirty years ofexperience of playing and coaching rugbythroughout the world. Along with coach-ing the CBA rugby program, Moroneyalso coaches the Monmouth CountyMen’s Rugby Club team. The CBA rugbyteam plays its home games at ThompsonPark in Lincroft which is right across thestreet from the school campus.

The team opened up the 2012 season athome against St. Joseph’s Prep, an all-boys powerhouse from Philadelphia. Intheir first game ever as a program, theColts surged to an impressive 35-10 winover the defending Pennsylvania StateChampions. Leading the Colts to the winwas senior Chris Turi, who had three tries,or scores, in the game. The win showedthe Colts that they could make a seriousrun at a state championship. Due to theirlack of size compared to most teams, theColts utilized their speed and athleticismto power them to the victory.

Following their opening win, the Coltstook down Essex 58-5 and would go on tobeat the Monmouth Maulers in impressivefashion as well. In the game againstEssex, sophomore Connor Loder led thesquad with 9 out of 11 successful kickswith 18 points to lead the scoring for theColts. After a 3-0 start to the season, theColts lost a tough match to a much biggerSt. Peter’s Prep team in Jersey City by ascore of 43-17. The Colts followed thatgame up with a 25-5 loss on the roadagainst St. Augustine and a loss at hometo the Green Wave of Delbarton.

With talented junior Sal Scire as cap-tain of the squad and a strong group of sen-ior leaders and underclassmen, the Coltshave had an impressive first season as arugby program. The Colts open up NewJersey state tournament play on May 6thon the road against archrival Delbarton,in a rematch from earlier this season.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIIn the circle for Ocean is pitcherGinna Kinhofer. She got the winfor the Spartans keeping Neptuneto only one run and then did thesame to Col ts Neck.

CBA Rugby: Playing GreatIn Their First Season


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By Eric BraunWALL — Coming off last season'sshowing in the NJSIAA quarterfinalswhere they fell to Moorestown 20-1,the Wall Township girls’ lacrosse teamhas been battling to find consistencyagainst the top teams in the ShoreConference this season.

Currently the Knights hold a recordof 8-3, with their three losses comingagainst Manasquan, Freehold Townshipand Brick Memorial, all teams ranked inthe Shore Conference. The eight winscome against teams that they are sup-posed to beat. Wall has been in everycontest against the top teams just out-matched late in all three games, giving

up a combined 21 second half goals.The Knights continue to battle througheach game and should be in good posi-tion come NJSIAA tournament time.

The Knights are firing on all cylin-ders on offense with 154 goals withcontributions coming from ColleenKnier (40 / 15), Casey Zaleqwski(37/13) and Emily Savacool (23 -16).Wall's mid field leadership of LarissaNaegele, Sophie Lozowski and AshleySmith combine for a total of 28 goalsand 29 assists as well as causing havocagainst opposing offenses. WallTownship leans heavily on their juniorgoalkeeper Emma Korolik who has

posted an 8-3 record this season and .47goals against average.

The Knights drew the number 12 seedin the Shore Conference Tournamentand lost in the opening round to num-ber five seed Manasquan 16-4. TheKnights will look to rebound and makea strong case for a higher seed in theupcoming NJSIAA tournament.Remaining on their regular seasonschedule are Colts Neck, Neptune andHowell.

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How To Build Up An Athlete With A Certified Strength Coach

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PHOTO: ERIC BRAUNWa l l ’s Larissa Naegele (5)bringsthe bal l downfield .

By Michael RogersThe Colts Neck girls’ lacrosse

team is off to a 12 - 3 record thisseason and are playing verywell at the time when it meansthe most, at the end of the sea-son and in the postseason. TheLady Cougars also earned thenumber six seed in the ShoreConference Tournament ( SCT)and faced the team that hadgiven them their last loss sixgames ago (9 to 8) in the firstround against Howell. ColtsNeck avenged their last loss bydefeating Howell by the scoreof 15- 7.

The Colts Neck offense hasbeen clicking on all cylinders

during their seven game win-ning streak against Manalapan(14 to 11), Red Bank Regional(11-9), Neptune (19-7) FreeholdTownship (8-5) and it has beena total team effort with a num-ber of girls scoring goals. KylieAllmers leads all scorers on theteam with 65 points on 44 goalsand 21 assists this season whileErika Kesselman is close behindwith 60 points on 46 goals and14 assists so far this season.After their top two scorers theLady Cougars have excellentscoring balance from a numberof players. Christina Senia (42points/ 31 goals/ 11 assists),Taylor Sandin (38 points/ 26goals/ 12 assists), Kelsey Burns(37 points/ 25 goals / 12 assists)and Brittany Walko (36 points/26 goals/10 assists) have allcontributed to Colts Neck’s suc-cess this season. Colts Neckalso has two successful goaliesthis season in TaylorMcDonnell (11 – 1) making 103saves this season. KellyAckerman has also played ingoal and has a 2 - 1 loss recordwhile making 27 saves.

In their SCT first round gameagainst Howell, Colts Neckcontinued their high scoringgetting three goals each fromAllmers, Kesselman and Walkoin their 15 - 7 victory. The LadyCougars jumped out to a 7 - 1first half lead and put the gameaway early in the second halfscoring four straight goals toopen the second half. Sandin,Burns and Senia also added twogoals each for Colts Neck whilegoalie McDonnell made foursaves in the game. Colts Neckalso outshot Howell 29 -15 inthe game. The Lady Cougarswill now face the number twoseed in the second round of theSCT in Shore Regional (11 -3)as they defeated Manalapan bythe score of 18 - 8.

By Ted KaiserRED BANK— For all of the preseasonand most of the current 2012 season, itseemed a foregone conclusion that the RedBank Catholic (RBC) baseball teamwould win the Class B North Division.The Caseys have certainly lived up totheir lofty expectations with an 11-2 over-all record and an 8-1 mark in the division.The surprise has been that Colts Neckjust won’t hand over first place without afight. The Cougars (10-4 overall) havebattled to a 7-2 divisional record and theywere the first team to hand a defeat toRBC this season. Still, the Caseys hold aone-game lead and their magic number forclinching the crown dwindles with eachpassing day.

While the rain wreaked havoc on theschedule last week, RBC remained poisedto compete for all of their preseasongoals. Those goals included the covetedfour championships: Class B NorthDivision, Monmouth CountyTournament, Shore Conference Tourna-ment and the state championship. In theironly contest of the week, the Caseys out-lasted Monmouth Regional (9-6, 4-6) by

a score of 5-1. Ryan Slate pitched fivesolid innings for his fifth win of the sea-son. Junior outfielder Joe Iacobellis was aterror on the base paths. He reached basethree times and tallied three steals.

“We just have to take it one game at a

time,” said Ryan Slate before the seasonopener. “Just have to come out with thesame intensity every game if we want toaccomplish our goals.”

The Caseys’ first opponent in theMonmouth County Tournament will be

16th seeded Rumson/Fair Haven. TheBulldogs defeated 17th seed Manasquan 5-4 in the first round. If RBC advances tothe quarterfinals they will face the winnerover eighth seeded Monmouth Regionaland ninth seeded Holmdel.

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PHOTO: SEAN SIMMONSCol ts Neck’s K y l i e Allmers (3), running past her opponent, leads her team ing o a l s

Colts Neck Girls’ LacrosseHaving Winning Season

RBC, Colts Neck Battle for B North

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIRBC catcher Joe Keane tags the runner out at home base.

PHOTO: FRANCINE ATTARDIRBC’s Mike Rescigno makes a play in the infieldand gets the out at f irst .

By Ted KaiserRUMSON— Led by junior John Edler,the Rumson/Fair Haven (RFH) golfteam earned a sixth place finish in theShore Conference Tournament (SCT)last week. Edler is the top golfer on theteam after his brother, Charlie Edler,graduated last June as one of the best inschool history. The junior golferupheld the family name by shooting a

76 on the par 72 course at CharlestonSprings. His plus-four finish tied himfor 7th place individually. PatrickKeenan was the second best finisher forRFH with a 79, or plus-seven.Keenan’s outing was good for 15thoverall.

The SCT team and individual titlesbelonged to defending state champion

CBA. The Colts four-man squad shot 288, even par on the day, which waseasily good for the Shore Conferencerecord. Sophomore Vince Palazzolowon the individual crown by shootinga 69 for three-under par. He was fol-lowed by teammates Jerry Wall at evenpar, Jimmy Dengler at plus-one andEthan Wall at plus-two. Freehold

Township’s Jared Goldstein also shot a74 to round out the top five.

Goldstein’s Freehold Township squadcame in second to CBA in the teamstandings. Ocean Township followedclosely behind as Nick Lowing finished12th overall. Howell was fourth with a324 shot performance and Wall roundedout the top five at 328.

Rumson/Fair Haven Boys’ Golf Finishes Sixth In SCT

Jersey Sporting News • May 8 - May 22Red Bank Catholic Girls’ Golf Wins SCTBy Jim HintelmannRED BANK - With three of its top fivegolfers back from last year's ShoreConference and Monmouth County cham-pionship teams, Red Bank Catholic(RBC) girls’ Head Coach Bill Kusch wasexpecting another outstanding season,and thus far, the Caseys have lived up to

the pre-season hype.RBC is currently 7-1 in dual matches

with the lone setback being to its toprival, Colts Neck, which also edged theCaseys to win the Monmouth CountyTournament (MCT) on a tie breaker afterthe two teams tied at 383. RBC, though,

avenged the losses bydefeating Colts Neck bytwo strokes to win its sec-ond straight ShoreConference Tournament(SCT) Thursday with a fourplayer score of 382. They

now appear readyto make a strongrun in the statetournament afterfinishing sixthlast year. "We arecoming off anexcellent seasonand look to buildoff of that andimprove our per-formance in thestate tournament,"said Kusch. "We'redefinitely lookingto finish in theTop 5 in the statethis year. "

The team leader for RBC is jun-ior Taylor Totland, one of thestate's top golfers. Her only lossthis year was to Colts Neck'sEmily Mills in the SCT. Totlandhad won the SCT title the previ-ous two years and almost made itthree in a row, rallying fromthree strokes back with fourholes left to tie Mills going intothe par 5 ninth hole, the finalhole of the round. Mills, though,sank a birdie putt to win by astroke with a two-over par74.Totland missed a five-footputt that would have tied thematch.

Totland is still having a brilliant season,however and has already accepted a fullgolf scholarship to Furman University inSouth Carolina. "Totland has a great workethic,” said Kusch. "She lost by a strokein last year's state final, but her mind setand temperment is unflappable, She doesnot let anything bother her. If she has abad round, she just shakes it off and comesback."

The other members of the top fiveinclude sophomore newcomer TaylorClark, Molly McHugh, Clare Rochfordand Ryan Lehakinder. "We're definitelygoing in the right direction," said Kusch"This is one of my best teams and itshould be even better next year."

Members of the RBC winning golf team proudlyd i sp lay the i r 2012 SCT p laque . , a re Ry a nLehrkinder - junior, Clare Rochford - sopho-more, Taylor Totland - junior, Taylor Clark -sophmore and Molly McHugh - junior.


B y Ted KaiserHOLMDEL— The Holmdel boys’lacrosse team geared up for theShore Conference Tournament(SCT) last week. The Hornets splita pair of games before theirMonday, May 7th contest withBrick Township in the SCT. LastMonday Holmdel looked strongin a 6-2 victory over Manasquan(4-7, 3-4). They stormed out ofthe gate with three goals in theopening period and never lookedback. Sophomore attacker Joe

Tages and junior attacker DillonCort each had two goals and anassist. Junior Justin Russo scoreda goal and had an assist.Manasquan outshot the Hornets,but junior goaltender JohnTascione made 11 saves in asuperb effort.

On Wednesday, Holmdel againstarted strong with two first quar-ter goals to hold a 2-0 lead on RedBank Regional (RBR) (8-5, 4-3).But the Bucs held a 27-15 edge in

shots and rallied back with threeconsecutive goals in the secondquarter. RBR edged out a hardfought 7-6 win. Holmdel got a hattrick from Justin Russo and andtwo by Joe Tages. Russo alsoadded a pair of assists.

The Hornets opened the SCTthis Monday as the 10th seedagainst seventh seeded BrickTownship. The winner is likely toface number two seed JacksonMemorial later in the week.

PHOTO: SEAN SIMMONSHolmdel’s Joe Tages (18) scored two hat tr icks in thegame against Manasquan.

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Hornets Go 1-1 Before SCT

First Place Finish In Reach For Mater DeiBy Ted KaiserMIDDLETOWN— At 9-4 overall and 8-1 in theClass B Central Division, the Mater Dei softballteam is in excellent position for a division title. TheSeraphs have been consistently strong on the fieldunder Head Coach Jeanne Dickinson who is in her30th season. Coach Dickinson has over 400 careerwins and she has Mater Dei playing at a high levelonce again in 2012.

The Seraphs took a crucial step toward capturingfirst place when they earned a 2-1 extra innings vic-tory over second place Point Beach. The game was apitcher’s duel until the Gulls, who are one gamebehind Mater Dei, scored the game’s first run in thetop of the 10th inning. Point Beach’s AmyPiccicacco and Mater Dei’s Jackie Nash put up score-less frame after scoreless frame. Brianne Barry’s

sacrifice fly broke the scoreless tie. However, theSeraphs responded in the bottom of the 10th. JuniorAlexis Travers hit a single up the middle to score tworuns and send Mater Dei to awalkoff victory.

Junior shortstop Larissa Chiesais leading the Seraphs in battingaverage at a near .500 clip with 13RBIs, seven doubles and twotriples. She forms a strong middleinfield along with senior secondbaseman Felicia Faccas who ishitting over .400 on the season.Sophomore Emily Boman sup-plies the power and leads the teamwith two home runs.


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By Michael RogersThe Jackson Memorial boys’

lacrosse team is off to 11 -3 recordthis season and are currently rankednumber two in the Shore Conference.The Jaguars have also earned the num-ber two seed in the Shore ConferenceTournament (SCT) and they have wonseven games in a row.

In their last game JacksonMemorial defeated Southern, current-ly ranked fifth in the ShoreConference by the score of 9- 5. MikeSpect led the way with two goals andtwo assists while Evan Ferrar alsoscored two goals. ConnorCunningham added one goal and two assists andgoalie Drew Smith made eight saves in the game.The Jaguars began the game fast leading Southernby the score of 5 - 0 at the end of the first period.Southern cut into the lead with two goals in the sec-

ond period while shuttingout Jackson Memorial. Butthe Jaguars put the gameaway starting in the thirdperiod with two straightgoals. The Jaguars finishedstrong in the fourth periodand held on for the 9 - 5 win.

Leading up to the gameagainst Southern, JacksonMemorial earned strongwins against Lacey (15-3),Brick (15- 0), Manasquan(10-1), Jackson Liberty (15-4) and Freehold Township(19-5). Their last loss was

seven games ago in an 11 - 10 loss in overtime toRed Bank Catholic. Jackson Memorial will start offthe Shore Conference Tournament on May 7th as thenumber two seed and will play against Wall in thefirst round.

PHOTO: SEAN SIMMONSJackson Memor ia l ’s D a v eFurbish (23) runs the bal lagainst a Rumson/Fair Havendefender.

Jaguars Earn Number Two Ranking Petrone, Canessa And CarlsonLeading The Way For Wall

By Eric BraunWALL — After a tough loss toShore Conference foeMiddletown South in last year’sCentral Jersey Group IIIChampionship 6-1, the LadyKnights are showing no mercythis year in their quest to get-ting back to the NJSIAA finals.Their goal this year is to bringhome the title.

It looks like it will be anoth-er collision course withMiddletown South as bothteams are once again two of thetop teams in the ShoreConference. Middletown Southonce again got the best of Wall

when the two teams met earlierthis season when the Eagleswon 6-1. Since then, theKnights have improved theirrecord to an impressive 17-1and they are seeded fourth in theShore Conference Tournament.

Junior Dani Petrone pickedup where she left off last seasonfor the Lady Knights, withtimely hitting and she is cur-rently one of the top hitters inthe state. To date she leads theShore Conference with eighthome runs and 31 runs batted

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By Ted KaiserRED BANK— Teams on a regularseason winning streak often seemto carry the strong play over to thepostseason tournament. The RedBank Regional (RBR) boys’lacrosse team is hoping that willbe the case in this week’s ShoreConference Tournament (SCT).The Buccaneers ripped off threevictories last week that might pre-pare them well for the SCT. OnMonday, RBR handled ShoreRegional by a score of 8-4. Juniormidfielder Matt Lloyd scored fourgoals accounting for the margin ofvictory. Will Noglows, NickCaruso, Max Paris and ChrisManning each scored goals. Paris,a junior midfielder, also had twoassists. Senior goaltender PatQuinn made five saves in net.

Then on Wednesday, the Bucs ralliedfrom a 2-0 deficit to skirt past Holmdel

7-6. Paris recorded a hat trick andNoglows and sophomore George

Zackman each scored a pair ofgoals. They kept up the pressureon the Hornets and broke throughafter a scoreless first quarter. RBRworked hard to overcome the earlydeficit and put 27 shots on goal.

The offensive fireworks carriedover to Friday as RBR roastedRanney for a 15-6 win. The Bucsopened with eight goals in the firstquarter and five in the second toeffectively put the game out ofreach early. Josh Suboyu poured infive goals and sophomore attackerJake Smolokoff added a hat trick.Paris and Matt Sork each scoredtwo goals.

Red Bank was seeded ninth inthe SCT and set to face 8th seededBrick Memorial at 3:45 onMonday, May 7th in the openinground. The winner would likely

square off against top seed Rumson/FairHaven on Thursday.

Red Bank Regional Rolls Into SCT

PHOTO: SEAN SIMMONSRed Bank Regional’s Chris Manning (10)f ights his way pas t an aggres ive opponent .

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in. Along with Petrone, the Knights aregetting offensive production from juniorSydney Canessa who is in the top three inall offensive categories in the ShoreConference. Wall is loaded from top tobottom in the order and has been a night-mare for opposing pitchers who havegiven up a total of 200 hits and 110 RBIs.

Once again Wall Township has producedanother top pitcher and this time seniorAlexis Carlson has run her record this sea-son to 14-1. The senior has dominatedopposing hitters with 48 strike outs andan average of five hits per game. With thistype of pitching and hitting production,Wall looks poised to battle MiddletownSouth, Toms River East and St. JohnVianney (SJV) for supremacy.

The Knights wrap up their regular sea-son schedule with games againstMonsignor Donovan, Manasquan Raritan,Livingston, Bishop Ahr and a long antici-pated matchup with SJV on May 9th.

By Dr. David Bertone, PT, DPT, OCSThe statistics are staggering and there-

fore the media has started to more fre-quently discuss the problem of concus-sions in youth sports. The Center forDisease Control (CDC) reports thatthere are 38million boys and girls age 5-18 that participate in organized sportswithin the US. Surprisingly 1 in 10 or3.8million will sustain a sports or recre-ational- related concussion each year.Parents and coaches need to be moreaware of the signs and symptoms asso-ciated with concussions and what can bedone objectively to determine if yourchild is ready for return to play.

Concussions are basically a TraumaticBrain Injury caused by a traumatic forceby a direct or indirect blow to the bodyor head. The brain gets jolted within theskull which can affect the person's brainfunction including motor functionand/or thinking capabilities. Every per-son responds differently to head traumaand the rate of recovery is even moreunique per individual. The commulativeeffects of a traumatic brain injury can bedevastating demonstrated by the earlyretirement of some prominent profes-sional athletes like Troy Aikman andhockey player Eric Lindross. SecondImpact Syndrome is the most dangerousconsequence of returning to play tooearly before the athlete has healed fromtheir concussion. The second impactcan cause brain swelling and bleedingwhich can result in death. Those athighest risk for this syndrome are ath-letes under the age of twenty.

The symptoms of a concussion arequite variable and do not always requirea loss of consciousness. In fact, onlyabout 10% of concussions demonstrate aloss of consciousness. If it does happen,a more serious injury may have occuredrequiring immediate emergency medicalattention. Most of the signs and symp-toms can be divided into four categoriesincluding physical, cognitive, emotion-al, and sleep changes. The physicalchanges can be things like headaches,vomitting, nausea, visual and balanceproblems. The cognitive signs are feel-ing foggy, difficulty concentrating, lossof memory, and slow speed in answeringquestions. The emotional changes canbe demonstrated by irritability, sadness,emotional, or nervousness. Lastly theinjured athlete can demonstrate difficultyfalling asleep or sleeping too much.

In 2010, NJ Governor Chris Christiesigned one of the most comprehensiveconcussion prevention laws in the coun-try by mandating school districts to havea concussion management program inplace for the 2011-12 school year. Italso requires that athletic trainers receive24 hours of continuing education dedi-cated to concussion management. Thiswill help at the high school sports levelbut has no impact on youth sports orclub/travel teams. This is where coach-es and parents play a vital role in deter-mining the status of an injured athlete.After an injury occurs, where there is noloss of consciousness, a sideline cogni-tive and functional assessment can be

critical in determining a return to play.But the most prudent thing to do whenin doubt, is to sit them out!

The Biodex Medical Systems, Inc.developed a Play it S.A.F.E.Concussion management Program tohelp with the decision making process.Sideline testing should include cognitivetesting like being oriented to person,place and time; being able to recallwords and recent events in the game anddemonstrating the ability to concentrateby repeating days and numbers back-wards. Functional testing includes bal-ance, eye movement testing, visual ocu-ity and physical activity to see if itimpacts their symptoms. These testsare then repeated 15minutes after injury.If the player is asymptomatic, and theypass the sideline assessment, return toplay can be considered. But it remainsprudent to hold the adolescent athlete outof further play until cleared by medicalpersonel. These guidelines can be foundat www.dborthopt.com/concussion.

Research has demonstrated that one ofthe best practices for concussion man-agement is to perfom baseline cognitiveand balance testing before an injuryoccurs. This allows for an objectivecomparison of function to a level priorto injury. A few of the cognitive testingtools are ImPACT, SCAT/SCAT-2 andAxon Sports Computerized CognitiveAssessment Tool (CCAT). These arequick and cost-effective baseline testingof cogntive skills by documenting speedof processing, memory, reaction time

and attention span. The balance compo-nent of functional testing can be evenmore critical. Baseline, pre-injury bal-ance testing can objectively measure thebody's sway/balance control which isoften impacted by head trauma. Afterinjury, these tests are readministered andresults are compared.. This will be uti-lized by your physician in determiningreadiness for return to play. Many pro-fessional and college teams have alreadybeen utilizing baseline testing. But nowhigh school and youth sports leagues arestarting to require it. If not required, par-ents should take the prevention route andtake their athlete to a qualified profes-sional to administer these tests and beavailable to readminister them if aninjury does occur.

Dr. Bertone is a Doctor of PhysicalTherapy and a Board CertifiedOrthopedic Clinical Specialist by theAmerican Board of Physical TherapySpecialties. He is currently offeringbaseline concussion testing for youthsports, high school and college athletes.His solo practice, db OrthopedicPhysical Therapy, PC is located inLincroft, New Jersey. Dr. Bertone canbe reached at 732-747-1262 or via e-mailat [email protected]. For moreinformation, check out his website atwww.dborthopt.com.


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