By TOM WILLIAMS A dozen girls have been selected as finalists for the Billy Schoppy Award, presented to the athlete from the Cape-Atlantic League Class of 2023 who had the most outstanding high school sports career. The awards originated in … Continue reading Female finalists for Class of 2023
By TOM WILLIAMS Charlie Baker became a three-sport athlete after he transferred to Ocean City from Florida as a pre-teen. His biggest impact was in basketball where he graduated with the fifth highest career point total in school history. As … Continue reading Remembering Charlie Baker
By TOM WILLIAMS One of the pioneers of the current Cape-Atlantic League died last week. Nuncie Sacco was the first boys basketball coach at Mainland Regional High School when it opened. He later became the school’s athletics director and played … Continue reading Remembering Nuncie Sacco
By TOM WILLIAMS Two more men who were important parts of the Ocean City sports community died within the past month. Charlie Bowman, that rare four-sport athlete at OCHS, and Bob Hoffman, an Ocean City graduate who went on to … Continue reading Remembering Charlie Bowman & Bob Hoffman
By TOM WILLIAMS It was a pretty good year for basketball in the Cape-Atlantic League. Generally, most years are pretty good because it is a good basketball league. You can read about the top performers in 2022-23 HERE. It is … Continue reading COLUMN: Can high school basketball scheduling be better?
By TOM WILLIAMS Work has begun on the curveballs, the baton exchanges, the serves and the tee shots. Ocean City baseball players are even dancing on the Florida dugout with The Phillie Phanatic. Spring sports in the Cape-Atlantic League are … Continue reading COLUMN: Reviewing CAL basketball in 2022-23
Since 2002 at Wildwood High School (except for the COVID years 2020 and 2021) Prime Events has conducted all star basketball games between the top seniors from the Cape-Atlantic League. The event actually started in 1989 by the CAL but … Continue reading All you need to know about the 20th All Star Saturday
By TOM WILLIAMS There were lots of historical moments in the 2022-23 Ocean City High School basketball seasons and the rest of the Cape-Atlantic League – including playing 27-30 games in 76 days. But four OCHS players created there own … Continue reading COLUMN: Segich, Chevere, Schlatter & Sakers made history
By TOM WILLIAMS Chris Ford was the face of Cape-Atlantic League basketball. When great players would come along – Reggie Miller, Alan Shaw, Walt Montford, Rick Harmon, Lou Roe, LaMarr Greer – they would be compared to Chris. But very … Continue reading Remembering Chris Ford
By TOM WILLIAMS When Fran St. John first became a basketball head coach at Wildwood Catholic, Richard Nixon had just been elected President of the United States. Earlier that year, both Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy … Continue reading COLUMN: CAL Sportsperson of the Year – Fran St. John
By TOM WILLIAMS Basketball was a passion for Bob Hutchings. (Only his mother called him Bob, to everyone else he was Hutch.) He played on one of the greatest Cape-Atlantic League teams of all-time – the 1968-69 Millville team that … Continue reading Remembering Bob Hutchings
By TOM WILLIAMS Back in the 1960s and 1970s high school sports play-by-play was presented on live radio. There was Jim Quinn at WMVB in Millville, Ray Martin at WCMC in Wildwood, Gene Hart (later one of the top announcers … Continue reading COLUMN: OC Sportspersons of the Year – Matt Ulmer & Bill Shallcross
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