By TOM WILLIAMS The 2nd Decade of the 21st Century began with great success for the Ocean City High School boys tennis team. George McNally’s Raiders won 19 of 20 matches that spring. It was the most wins in a … Continue reading Dan Barrus is OCHS Boys Tennis Player of the Decade — Again!
By TOM WILLIAMS Ocean City High School has had a string of impressive pitchers over the past decade and the string doesn’t figure to run out any time soon. It started 10 seasons ago with Connor Ortolf and Kolya Stephenson. … Continue reading COLUMN: Ocean City’s great decade of pitchers
Don Tarves, Ken Leary, Bruce Presti and Orville Mathis were playing at the start of the decade. And John Huff, Tom Bond, Terry Howell and Gene Davis were among those who were there at the end. The varsity sports were … Continue reading Relive OCHS Sports 1960-69
By TOM WILLIAMS The fourth All-Decade team in the list of 23 is the crew team. Unlike the other sports, the all-decade crew team recognizes the top boats, not the top individuals, of the 10 seasons. Because crew is the … Continue reading Recent boats were Best of Decade for OCHS Crew
By TOM WILLIAMS Alyssa-Rae Morrison and Joe LaTorre were hired by Ocean City High School athletics director Chris Lentz at the same time, almost seven years ago. Like LaTorre with the boys, Morrison has built the girls lacrosse program into … Continue reading Danielle Donoghue is OCHS Girls Lacrosse Player of Decade
By TOM WILLIAMS This is the first Ocean City High School All-Decade Team in boys lacrosse since the sport only started at OCHS in 2007. And a player who just graduated a little over a month ago clearly put his … Continue reading Marty Cattie is OCHS Boys Lacrosse Player of Decade
By TOM WILLIAMS If the Atlantic City Surf was still playing in the Atlantic League fans would be listening to Tony Blum and John Leon doing the play-by-play and John Kiphorn and Jo Carroll would be working behind the scenes … Continue reading COLUMN: Let’s change some rules in sports
By TOM WILLIAMS When you look at the best single-season averages by an Ocean City High School golfer you immediately notice that one guy has the top two. Dom DiGiacomo averaged 37.10 strokes per nine holes as a junior in … Continue reading Dom DiGiacomo was the decade’s top golfer
By TOM WILLIAMS Many parents and young athletes are still looking for sports camps for the summer of 2019. We earlier published a list of camps that began in June and July. Here is a list of the camps that … Continue reading COLUMN: More summer sports camps
By TOM WILLIAMS Not that much was expected of the Ocean City Youth Athletic Association’s all star team when the Little League Baseball District 16 Tournament began a little over two weeks ago. After all, only two teams of Ocean … Continue reading OCYAA Little League run ends in district finals
By TOM WILLIAMS The Ocean City Youth Athletic Association’s baseball all stars stayed alive tonight in the District 16 Little League Tournament when Cole Laursen delivered a two-out RBI single in the 10th inning that produced a 6-5 victory over … Continue reading OCYAA wins on Laursen’s walk-off hit
By TOM WILLIAMS Both the OCYAA and Upper Township lost in District 16 Little League action tonight. Ocean City lost to Northfield, 6-2, and Upper was beaten by Hammonton, 9-2. That loss was Upper Township’s second in the double elimination … Continue reading OCYAA hosts Hammonton Saturday in Little League elimination game
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