By Lyle Fulton

Clermont, FL… The College of New Jersey softball team saw its winning streak come to an end at five games as the Lions dropped a pair of games on Friday in Florida. TCNJ lost its opening game of the day falling to Penn State Behrend by the score of 5-4 and fell to Westfield State College in the second game, 2-1.

The Lions are now an even 5-5 on the season. TCNJ closes out its spring trip on Saturday facing Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham in a doubleheader at 9:30 a.m.

Penn State Behrend 5, TCNJ 4
The Lions saw their five-game winning streak come to a halt against the Behrend Lions as they scored the deciding run in the bottom of the sixth inning.

The teams traded runs throughout with PSU Behrend getting two runs in the first, but TCNJ got them back in the third as sophomore Rachel Greeby (Yardley, PA/Pennsbury) came through with a key two-out single scoring Colleen Cawley (Riverton, NJ/Holy Cross) and Christina Lizzi (Wyckoff, NJ/Ramapo).

The Lions took their first lead of the game in the top of the fifth as Greeby again delivered the key hit, this time scoring Ellen Seavers (Ridgewood, NJ/Ridgewood) and Danielle Hagel (Egg Harbor City, NJ/Oakcrest).

That lead was short lived as PSU Behrend got the runs right back in the bottom of the inning and then scoring the winning run in the sixth.

Greeby had a big game for TCNJ going 2-for-3 with four RBI, while Seavers and Lizzi also recorded two hits apiece.

Sophomore Ashley Minervini (Cliffside Park, NJ/Cliffside Park) and freshman Jamie Moir (Mount Laurel, NJ/Lenape) each pitched for the Lions with Minervini getting the start and going into the fifth inning. Moir allowed only one run, but was credited with the loss.

Westfield State College 2, TCNJ 1
Moir suffered her second loss of the day despite turning in a solid effort on the mound. She went the distance and allowed only a pair of hits in the seven innings with six strikeouts.

TCNJ opened the scoring in the last of the second as Hagel raced home on a ground out by Lauren Musacchia (Westfield, NJ/Westfield).

Westfield State plated both of its runs in the top of the third to account for all of the scoring in the game.

Lizzi and freshman Kathy Sikora (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) each finished with two hits for the Lions, while Seavers went 1-for-3 extending her hitting streak to seven straight.

GLASSBORO, NJ – Midfielders Kerry O\’Donnell and Kelly Angstadt, attack Caitlin Meseroll and defender Sarah Pierce were named captains of the 2008 Rowan University women\’s lacrosse team.

All four players are serving their first year as team captain. At the end of last season, the team was asked who they felt fit their idea of leadership. Taking those opinions into consideration, head coach Lindsay Hanson made her decision.

\”It was really a no-brainer selecting this year\’s captains,\” said Hanson. \”I knew they would mesh well together and be respected by the rest of the team.\”

O\’Donnell (sr. Toms River, NJ/Toms River E.) is a defensive leader for the Profs. In three games, she leads the team in caused turnovers with five. O\’Donnell is tied for first on the team with eight ground balls and ranks third in draw controls (five). She has 60 ground balls, 45 draw controls and 29 caused turnovers in 50 career games.

\”Kerry is very consistent, and that\’s why she\’s so strong,\” Hanson commented. \”You always know what you\’re going to get from her. On the field, we know her decision-making style and how she\’s going to run. Off the field, she\’s going to talk to people and be relied upon to answer questions from the rest of the team. There are no surprises from Kerry.\”

Angstadt (jr. Sewell, NJ/Washington Twp.) is the lone junior captain. Last season, she led the team in goals (37) and draw controls (36) and was selected to the Intercollegiate Women\’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Boardwalk All-Region first team.

\”Kelly is a fierce competitor,\” remarked Hanson. \”She doesn\’t do a lot of talking. She leads by example and has a \’let\’s get it done\’ attitude. Kelly really wants the team to work hard in fixing any problems that may arise right away.\”

This season, Angstadt is first on the team in draw controls (10) and is third in ground balls (seven). She also has four goals, three of which came against top ranked Franklin & Marshall College (Mar. 4) and three caused turnovers. In 34 career games, Angstadt has posted 74 points and 62 goals, along with 73 ground balls, 81 draw controls and 35 caused turnovers.

Meseroll (sr. Oakhurst, NJ/Ocean Twp.) is the Profs\’ second leading scorer with eight points and six goals. She tied a career best with a five goal game against Widener University in Rowan\’s season opener (Feb. 28).

Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal and says to the first man he meets, \”Do you want to go to heaven?\”

The man said, \”I do, Father.\” 

The priest said, \”Then stand over there against the wall.\” 

Then the priest asked the second man, \”Do you want to go to heaven?\” 

\”Certainly, Father,\” was the man\’s reply.

\”Then stand over there against the wall,\” said the priest. 

Then Father Murphy walked up to O\’Toole and said, \”Do you want to go to heaven?\” 

O\’Toole said, \”No, I don\’t, Father.\”

The priest said, \”I don\’t believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don\’t want to go to heaven?\” 

O\’Toole said, \”Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now.\”

submitted by Gloucester City Firefighter Dan McGlinsey

The Camden County School Boards Association held its annual \”8^th Grade Dialogue\” program on Wednesday, March 5^th at the Eastern Camden County Regional Intermediate High School in Voorhees.

Eighth grade student Kaitlyn Alibrando represented the Raymond W. Kershaw School in Mt. Ephraim. Kaitlyn had the opportunity to share her middle school experiences and recommendations to improve education, with students from various middle schools throughout South Jersey.

Some topics of discussion during this dialogue were state testing, science labs, technology, school safety and critical issues facing young students today.

Major concerns that the middle schoolers discussed were: stress in schools, time management, self-esteem and fear of failing. Kaitlyn will share her experience with the Board of Education members at their March 19^th meeting.

Related: Mt. Ephraim News

By Lyle Fulton

Ewing, NJ… On the eve of the NCAA Division III Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championships, The College of New Jersey’s Stephanie Herrick (Wayne, NJ/Wayne Valley) PHOTO was named as the 2008 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Track Athlete of the Year. She is the first Lion to earn the award since the USTFCCCA started presenting it.

Herrick was announced as the recipient of the award at the annual banquet leading up to the championship event. The two-day NCAA Championship is being held March 14-15 and hosted by Ohio Northern University.

Herrick has had a banner season for the Lions and is competing in three events this weekend. The Lion junior is a returning All-American in the 800 meters and qualified for that event last month breaking her own school record with a clocking of 2:11.78. She is also a two-time All-American in the event during the outdoor season. Her other individual event is the mile and she holds that school record as well. She qualified for the mile with a time of 4:56.25 at the New York University FasTrack Invitational.

Her final event is being part of TCNJ’s distance medley relay.

Herrick has earned various honors this season including being named USTFCCCA Division III Atlantic Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year. She was previously selected Gerrity Award recipient as the most outstanding female athlete as the Lions won their 11th consecutive New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships. Herrick was a four-time honoree as the NJAC Track Athlete of the Week and was tabbed the ECAC Division III Track Athlete on two occasions.

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\’ By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 11, 2008 – Six New Hampshire volunteers committed to making sure deployed troops get the sendoffs and homecomings yesterday found themselves on the receiving end of the thanks they regularly extend — from the commander in chief himself and others on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon. Representatives of the Pease Greeters group that greets deploying and redeploying units as they pass through Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, in New Hampshire, visited the Pentagon briefing studio yesterday after meetings with President Bush and New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu. The greeters, from left, are Bill Hopper, air terminal manager; Charlie Nichols, a World War II veteran; Edmund Johnson, group co-chair and Korean War veteran; Chuck Cove, co-chair and Vietnam War veteran; Alan Weston, air terminal maintenance manager; and Hank Page, group chaplain and Korean War veteran. Defense Dept. photo by Donna Miles (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Six \”Pease Greeters\” are spending their second day in the nation\’s capital after getting honored for their work yesterday by President Bush in the White House Oval Office, New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu on Capitol Hill, and defense officials at the Pentagon. The president offered personal thanks to the Pease Greeters, who shower deploying and redeploying soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines with applause, handshakes and snacks as their aircraft refuel at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease, in New Hampshire. \”He thanked us for what we are doing and told us that it\’s important for Americans like us to show appreciation to and support the troops,\” said Edmund Johnson, a Korean War veteran who co-chairs the group. \”It was a tremendous honor for all of us!\” The greeters started almost three years ago as a band of veterans from the Marine Corps League of New Hampshire who met incoming flights from overseas. Since then, their numbers have swelled into the hundreds, and the Pease Greeters haven\’t missed a single inbound or outbound flight, Johnson said. As many as 200 greeters gather to provide boisterous heroes\’ welcomes to returning troops and encouragement to those headed overseas. The greeters range from young schoolchildren to feisty, 87-year-old Anna Labrie, many driving as much as 100 miles to greet flights any hour of the day or night, Johnson said. They assemble within an hour\’s notice, hoisting banners, snapping photos and offering hugs along with coffee, pizza or treats baked by the group\’s \”cookie lady,\” Kelly Eaton. Just before the troops reboard their aircraft, group chaplain Hank Page offers a prayer for their protection. \”I feel I have to do this. It\’s a duty,\” said Page, a Korean War veteran. At 73, Page said he\’s too old to fight himself, but young enough to offer any support he can to those going off to war. \”Being able to say a prayer for these guys is so humbling,\” he said. \”It\’s a very emotional experience.\” Page bristles when he thinks back to the reception troops received when they returned home from Vietnam. \”While there\’s breath in my body, that\’s not going to happen — not at Pease, anyway,\” he said. Al Weston, maintenance manager at the airport, said he \”got hooked\” on greeting troops the first time he volunteered to help. \”You get caught up in it all, seeing (the Pease Greeters) in their bright, red suits clapping and cheering,\” he said. \”When (troops) walk away from here, they know that people care.\” Just before troops leave, the Peace Greeters render a sharp salute, recognizing those they say are continuing the tradition of military service. \”We talk about warriors as a brotherhood,\” Johnson said. \”We tell them that we\’re the old warriors, supporting them, the new warriors, and offer them our salute in recognition of what they\’re doing for our country.\”

Related Sites: America Supports You Pease Greeters

ADA, OH – Rowan University\’s Kyle Hayes (photo) finished 10th in the long jump at the NCAA Division III

Indoor Track Championships on Friday.

Hayes (fr. Pt. Pleasant, NJ/Pt. Pleasant Boro) recorded a jump of 22\’ 5\” (6.83 meters). He just missing

the finals by 0.75\” (0.02 meters). The top nine competitors from the preliminaries advanced to the finals.

Beresford Brown of Moravian College won the event with a distance of 23\’ 11.75\” (7.31 meters).

Hayes was 10th overall among the 14 athletes heading into the national championship. This season,

Hayes had his best performance at the Collegeville Classic (Jan. 18). He took first place with a jump of

23\’ 3.5\” (7.10 meters). The NCAA provisional for the long jump is 6.96 meters and the automatic

qualifier is 7.24 meters.

Hayes also recorded a NCAA provisional at the John Covert Classic (Jan. 26). He finished second with

22\’ 11.75\” (7.0 meters). This season, Hayes won the long jump at the New Jersey Athletic Conference

(NJAC) Championships (Feb. 25) for All-Conference first team honors. He had a winning leap of 22\’ 9\”

(6.93 meters).

In addition, Hayes took first in the long jump at the Frank Colden Invitational (Feb. 2) and the Collegiate

Track Conference (CTC) Championships (Feb. 10). At the Frank Colden Invitational, he had a winning

distance of 22\’ 7.75\” (6.90 meters). Hayes captured the CTC title with 22\’ 8.5\” (6.92 meters). At the

Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, he came in third with a leap of 22\’ 4.5\” (6.82

meters).

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By Ann King

. Box Score

Chandler, AZ – The College of New Jersey’s baseball team picked up a 9-4 win over Suffolk University on Friday afternoon at the Snedigar Field Complex. TCNJ, ranked No. 8 in Division III now stands at a perfect 8-0 under the guidance of rookie coach Dean Glus.

Photo: Dan Anderson picked up his second win on the season

Suffolk drops to 0-1 on the year. With Friday’s victory, the Lions have extended their regular-season win streak to 19 games as TCNJ’s last regular-season loss came on April 14, 2007 to Montclair State University (3-1).

TCNJ’s right handed junior pitcher Dan Anderson (Lincroft, NJ/Middletown South) picked up his second win in as many trips to the mound. Anderson allowed one unearned run off four hits and fanned four on the day. Anderson is now 2-0. He got three innings of relief from sophomore Greg Spatz (Oakhurst, NJ/Ocean Township) picked up his second save after allowing three earned runs off four hits with three strikeouts and a pair of walks.

TCNJ’s senior catcher Rich Gawlak (Plainsboro, NJ/West Windsor-Plainsboro South) drove in four runs for the Lions and was 2-5 on the day. He got additional offensive support from senior outfielder Dave Mebs (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) who was 3-4 with two RBIs, two runs scored and added a triple and a stolen base.

TCNJ returns to action on Saturday, facing Keene State College in a double header starting at 11:00 a.m. (PST).

3/14/2008 4:40:52 PM Media Release

DALLAS, Texas – The Rutgers men\’s lacrosse team, coming off two straight defeats, will look to get back on track Saturday as the Scarlet Knights will take on No. 15/18 Army as part of the 2008 Patriot Cup. The game, which is RU\’s fourth straight against a top-20 opponent, will be held in Texas Stadium in Dallas at 3 p.m. central time.

The 2008 Patriot Cup, a four-game lacrosse showcase featuring some of the nation\’s premier collegiate and high school programs, will include a college doubleheader of Rutgers vs. Army and Holy Cross vs. Navy with a pair of high school match-ups sandwiching the collegiate slate of games.

Rutgers (1-2) has dropped two consecutive decisions, including a 10-7 loss to No. 20 Fairfield on Saturday, March 8. Sophomore Gerhard Buehning (Essex Falls, N.J.) and freshman Kory Kelly (Princeton, N.J.) each netted two goals in the loss.

Army (2-2) is coming off a narrow 9-8 defeat to Cornell last Saturday. Junior attackman Brooks Korvin tallied three goals in the loss. The Black Knights also lost by only one goal to Syracuse earlier in the year.

The Black Knights lead the all-time series 49-20-1, but the Scarlet Knights topped Army last year, 10-9, in Piscataway. Rutgers outshot the Black Knights 37-29 in the win and junior Mike Dugan (Summit, N.J.) tallied two scores.

Proceeds from the 2008 Patriot Cup will benefit Wounded Warrior, a non-profit organization which seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world.

The event will showcase the first lacrosse games played in Texas Stadium, which is home to the Dallas Cowboys.

&copy2008 Rutgers Athletics.

 

I am a forty year old lifelong resident of Mt. Ephraim and I am very displeased in the state of our town. In recent days I have heard of tax increases, employee layoffs and unnecessary money spending being conducted by our leaders. There are a few issues that concern me and I feel need to be addressed and have not. I feel that thru this forum bringing these issues to light, maybe the people in charge will be able to provide the answers that I ( along with the rest of the residents) want and deserve.

 

The first issue that I would like to address is an issue that was first brought to the town\’s attention in the December 2007 borough meeting. At that meeting, borough commissioners stood in front of the residents who were in attendance and stated that due to the retirement of two borough police officers that two new officers were going to be hired to replace them. Not only were they going to hire two officers, but due to the rising workload and the overall need for more officers, that a third officer was going to be hired to help supplement the police departments\’ workload. It was brought to my attention that this third officer did not have what it takes to be a police officer and quit after one day. Also to my knowledge, that officer was never replaced, why is that? If the need for a third officer was so great in December, what has happened in the past three months to make that not true? Crime has not been eradicated as far as I know. If that position was so needed in December then why wasn\’t it filled when the person hired to fill that spot quit? Was that third position really needed or was it just a position for the family member of a political supporter? If the latter was true, then why tell the residents that the position is to help assist in preventing crime. I hope that half truths and lies are not the way the commissioners do business in our town.

 

Another issue that has come to light from Gov. Corzine\’s budget proposal is that the town is in dire straits financially. The money crunch is so dire that one police officer has been laid off and from what I hear one court clerk, one borough clerk and at least one public works employee will also be laid off. The one police officer that was laid off being one of the two hired to replace the retiring officers. Now to my count the police department is down two officers to combat all that crime that was portrayed to us in the December meeting! Town safety doesn\’t seem to be a forefront concern of these commissioners.

 

To add to the problem, not only is the borough laying off four people who depend on these jobs as their main source of income and benefits, but they are floating a three million dollar bond so the fire department came build a new station. A three million dollar loan for a volunteer fire department that will only be occupied fifty percent of the time! The reason for the building: Because the fire department can\’t fit all three of their fire trucks in the same building. I don\’t feel that a town that has to lay off four borough employees to save money should be loaning a volunteer fire department three million dollars for a new building. Here is a better solution, sell one of the fire trucks and the spare building to offset the financial burden that the taxpayers have to assume. Seriously, when was the last time you saw all three fire trucks on the scene at the same time anyway? If the building was to encompass the fire department, the police department and the ambulance squad, then I can see the town spending the money. This way the town would receive a state of the art building to house all of its emergency services. If anyone has been to the police department lately, they would know the out dated conditions that the police work in everyday. I went there to pick up a police report recently and found that they don\’t even have any exterior windows for fresh air. My cell phone didn\’t even work because the police station is located in the basement of the borough hall.

 

I have lived in this town for over forty years, and I have to say that I am very disappointed in the state affairs that have transpired and the priority use of funds by our commissioners. I hope this letter receives serious discussion and consideration for change, and hopefully opens the eyes of people who don\’t know what\’s going on here.

 

To the commissioners I say please don\’t tell us residents what you think we want to hear and tell us the truth. The residents and employees of Mt. Ephraim deserve the truth and deserve responsible spending of our money!

 

Sincerely,

One Concerned Resident