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COLUMN: New Year’s wishes for the sports community - By TOM WILLIAMS For decades we offered this column in the form of Christmas gifts for area people in sports. It was not done in 2024 – Christmas and the weeks around it have become even busier. So, this year, …
Dave Tatum needs your help - By TOM WILLIAMS It was more than four decades ago that Dave Tatum was a successful athlete at Mainland Regional High School. He was a fullback in football and a sprinter on the track team, competing on the same field …
10 CAL teams in the NJSIAA Tournament picture with one week left - By TOM WILLIAMS This is the final weekend for public school football teams to qualify for the NJSIAA Tournament. And, right now, seven Cape-Atlantic League teams (plus three Non-Public teams) are in the picture. It keeps getting more difficult to …
11 Cape-Atlantic football teams are in the NJSIAA Tournament picture - By TOM WILLIAMS With three weekends left in the regular season, there are 11 football teams at Cape-Atlantic League schools who are in the NJSIAA tournament picture. Some are sure of a place in the tournament, others may need wins …
Remembering Earl Tarves - By TOM WILLIAMS Earl Tarves, one of the principal members of one of the most prominent sports families in Ocean City history, died last week. He was an outstanding football player, a successful swimmer and, in the spring, ran and …
Roseborough, Day are 2025 winners - In a competitive field of accomplished athletes, two have emerged. The Billy Schoppy Award winners from the Cape-Atlantic League Class of 2025 are Khajuan Roseborough, a two-sport all star from Atlantic City High School, and Sofia Day, the highly successful …
Ocean City wins Ed Byrnes Award 21st time - Ocean City High School has won the Ed Byrnes Memorial for the fifth time in the last seven years and the 21st time since Prime Events and Schoppy Inc. created it in 1990. The all-sports award was renamed in memory …
OLMA’s Gabby Eaise wins Frank Campo Award - When Gabby Eaise’s brother, Kevin, was diagnosed with cancer, she and her family went into action. They created The Eaise Family Foundation to raise money for cancer research and Gabby was an active part of that effort. Kevin recovered, became …
Remembering Walt Murphy - By TOM WILLIAMS Walt Murphy died earlier this month. A public relations specialist in his latter years, I first knew him when we worked together at WOND Radio in the 1960s and 1970s. I hosted the nighttime show and he …
Male Finalists for Class of 2025 - A dozen boys have been selected as finalists for the Billy Schoppy Award, presented to the athlete from the Cape-Atlantic League Class of 2025 who had the most outstanding high school sports career. The awards originated in 2001 with Jason …
Female Finalists for Class of 2025 - Top 12 from Cape-Atlantic League …. A dozen girls have been selected as finalists for the Billy Schoppy Award, presented to the athlete from the Cape-Atlantic League Class of 2025 who had the most outstanding high school sports career. The awards originated in 2001 with Jason Kaye of The Flagship Resort in Atlantic City sponsoring them. In 2012, Dave Talarico and Schoppy’s, the area’s finest trophy and award creator, became the sponsor. And in 2017 the award was changed to The Billy Schoppy Award as a memorial to the son of William Schoppy, who created the business in 1921. This …
Father’s Day Salute to Brian Cunniff - Note: June is always a big month around high schools. There is graduation and the end of scholastic sports careers for seniors – plus Father’s Day, which is Sunday. During previous Junes, Tom Williams has turned over his column to Ocean City athletes Nicholl and Abbey Fenton, Danielle and Andrew Donoghue, Evan Taylor, Stephanie Gaitley, Matt Woolley, Jeff Boyd, Allison Rinck, Erik Geisinger, Owen Ritti, Doug Colman, Allie Moreland, Tracey LeFever, the Degenhardt sisters, Chelsea Bruno, Danielle McNally, Dave & Casey Beyel, the Mensinger brothers, the Donahue sisters, the Impagliazzos, the Baruffis and Shaune McLaughlin, among others, to write about …
Mother’s Day Salute for Trish Henry - NOTE: May and June are always big months around high schools. The games are more important and there is graduation day, and the prom. Plus, Father‘s Day comes around in June and Mother’s Day in May, which is actually Sunday. During previous Mays and Junes, Tom Williams has turned over his column to CAL athletes for special wishes. Last year it was the Cappelletti sisters from Middle Township and OCHS baseball star Evan Taylor. in 2003. Before that, Nicholl and Abbey Fenton, Danielle and Andrew Donoghue, Stephanie Gaitley, Matt Woolley, Jeff Boyd, Allison Rinck, Erik Geisinger, Owen Ritti, Doug Colman, …
Matt Purdue & Tim Cook – OC Sportspersons of the Year - By TOM WILLIAMS Prior to last year, in the 60-plus years that a Sportsperson of the Year has been saluted, nobody had ever been selected twice. But Mike Pellegrino, who was chosen In 2001 as a highly-successful boys soccer coach, …
Pat & Maeve – OCHS 2024 Athletes of the Year - By TOM WILLIAMS 2024 was another pretty good year and Ocean City High School’s sports teams made the best of it. The coaches play a big role in this success, especially because the strength of the programs continues even after …
Cross Country Teams did it again - By TOM WILLIAMS This is a week or two late this year because of our technical problems that made it difficult to post online. But the calendar year 2024 ended three weeks ago and Ocean City High School sports continued …
Bruno’s Big Weekend - By TOM WILLIAMS John Bruno had a good weekend. On Friday night, his Raiders defeated St. Joseph of Hammonton in a very important game that left OCHS in second place, just a game behind Middle Township, in the Cape-Atlantic League’s …
COLUMN: The six-decade play-by-play list - By TOM WILLIAMS Prime Events begins its live video streaming of basketball on Saturday when Tim Whitworth brings his Clearview boys team (3-3) to the Dixie Howell Gymnasium to face John Bruno’s Raiders (5-1). Harry Sachs will join me on …
COLUMN: Wrapping up the 2024 CAL football season - By TOM WILLIAMS 2024 was another exciting season for high school football. It all started in August at Ocean City’s Carey Stadium (and at Egg Harbor Township) with The Battle at the Beach and ended earlier this month for 14 …
OCHS Sports Hall of Fame induction is tomorrow - It will have a family feel when 10 new members of the Ocean City High School Sports Hall of Fame are inducted tomorrow (Dec. 7). One new member joins his father and uncle in the Hall of Fame. There is …