By TOM WILLIAMS There were more than a few times during the 2019-20 girls basketball season when Ocean City could have just packed it in and gone through the motions of finishing the season. At the start of the season … Continue reading South Jersey champs played like they didn’t want season to end
By TOM WILLIAMS The second decade of the 21st century was a good one for Ocean City High School wrestling. Coach Dave Castellini guided the Raiders to seven winning seasons in nine years, the most wins in a single season … Continue reading Cooper Gallagher is top OCHS wrestler of the 2nd Decade
By TOM WILLIAMS The Cape-Atlantic League basketball community should be preparing for the 19th annual All Star Saturday in three days in the Dixie Howell Memorial Gym at OCHS. The CAL established its first all star games in 1989 as … Continue reading The All Star Saturday that could have been
By TOM WILLIAMS The Cape-Atlantic League has changed its alignments for winter sports starting in December. Now using a ranking system that lists the teams from No. 1 through No. 21 in three-conference sports and through No. 18 in two-conference … Continue reading CAL re-aligns winter sports for 2020-21
By TOM WILLIAMS If somebody were to refer to the 2019-20 Ocean City High School boys basketball team as The Brady Bunch it would be understandable. Junior guard Gannon Brady led all players in the Cape-Atlantic League with 21.9 points … Continue reading This season could be just a warm-up for Brady & company
By TOM WILLIAMS It was 21 years ago this month when Ocean City High School’s boys basketball team stunned Middle Township, 76-73, in overtime to win the NJSIAA South Jersey Group 3 championship. John Bruno’s Raiders had lost to Tom … Continue reading Video Flashback: 1999 SJ Group 3 Final, OCHS 76 Middle 73
By TOM WILLIAMS Swimming first became a part of the Ocean City High School sports program nearly 90 years ago. There was a gap from the early 1940s until Fenton Carey restored it in the mid-1950s, using the small pool … Continue reading Nate Hays is OCHS Boys Swimmer of the Decade
By TOM WILLIAMS The ongoing 2nd Decade all star teams at Ocean City High School have fallen behind and they will now be concluded with the balance of the winter sports over the next 10 days. Girls swimming has become … Continue reading Amanda Nunan is OCHS Girls Swimmer of the Decade
By TOM WILLIAMS It was more than three decades ago when Paul Baruffi journeyed down Route 49 from Vineland. He had been an undersized corner back and point guard for the Fighting Clan and he wanted to be a coach. … Continue reading COLUMN: No. 8 for Paul Baruffi
By TOM WILLIAMS Chris Rackley, one of the best basketball players in Ocean City High School history, suffered a major heart attack earlier this week in California and died. Rackley played for OCHS for four years through 1982 and scored … Continue reading COLUMN: Chris Rackley dies suddenly
By TOM WILLIAMS Both Ocean City High School basketball teams will be playing in the Cape-Atlantic League Tournament starting Monday according to seedings announced today by the league. Paul Baruffi’s girls (17-6), the defending tournament champions, are seeded No. 2 … Continue reading OCHS boys at top seed, girls host OLMA in CAL Tournament
By TOM WILLIAMS Indoor track is not a Cape-Atlantic League sport (though it easily could be). There are few available sites that can handle the state’s larger meets, forcing the NJSIAA to hold its Meet of Champions in New York. … Continue reading Bridget Flynn & Miles Schoedler are OCHS Indoor Track Athletes of the Decade
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