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High School Football:
Willingboro Hangs On To Defeat Camden Catholic

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Art Redd
SJSports Staff Writer

The beginning of the 1999 South Jersey Football season is filled with every team's anticipation of having a great start and winning every game. This afternoon at Camden Catholic High School, the Willingboro Chimeras were hoping for another easy game and start off the season on a winning note. Last year, the Chimeras had little problems defeating the fighting Irish. This time, Camden Catholic played a competitive game to put a scare into Willingboro's opener. The Chimeras held off the charging and determined Irish team 20-14 to hang on and start the season on the right foot.
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South Jersey Soccer:
BTAA Pee Wee Soccer Week Two

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Brian Law
SJSports Special Correspondent

Week two brought more excitement to the midget program. The first game saw team Xerox score three goals from C. Steiner, D. Law, A. Marone, and also great play by P. Dawson. The AEF played a great game. Their star players were A. Parisi, M. Wozny and A. Silva.
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High School Football:
Edgewood Eagles Pound Woodrow Wilson Tigers

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Chris Chambers
SJSports Special Correspondent

In the season opener, Eagles new Head Coach Derryk Sellers began his tenure at Edgewood Regional with an impressive 38-6 win over the highly ranked Woodrow Wilson Tigers. The Eagles Junior running back Brandon Osborne scored his first of two touchdowns on an explosive 32 yard run. Eagles tailback Jason Sapp added a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Edgewood Eagles an early first quarter lead of 14-0. On the Tigers' first possession, the Edgewood Eagles defense held the Woodrow Wilson Tigers. On the Eagles first possession running back Brandon Osborne led the Eagles scoring attack with a 15-yard run and a 32-yard touchdown run.
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High School Football:
Mustangs Outlast Holy Cross In Opener

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Greg Alvord
SJSports Staff Writer

Here at Lancer Field, Holy Cross hosting Mainland squared off in a slugfest that would rival Oscar Delahoya versus Felix Trinadad. In an intensely played, wild affair, it was the Mustangs of Mainland edging the Lancers of Holy Cross 44-41. On a beautiful day that was made for football, the packed house was treated to the kind of football that would make Papa Bear George Halas smile.
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High School Football:
Pennsauken Wins On The Road Against East

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Vincent Lewis
SJSports Staff Writer

Now that the remnants of Hurricane Floyd have gone north, the season of South Jersey High School Football can get underway. With most practices limited during the week because of heavy rain and wind, it was time to finally hit someone other than a practice squad. Well, it was time for the Pennsauken Indians to travel to Jonas C. Morris Stadium to face the Cougars of Cherry Hill East. The Indians were the team to get their offense on track first to post a 20-7 victory on the road.
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High School Soccer:
Kravitz Sisters Get Two Goals As Cherry Hill East Blanks Washington Twp.

Saturday, September 18, 1999

By Forrest Robleto
SJSports Staff Writer

Viktor Dombrowsky's Cherry Hill East Girls were 1-0 with a 2-1 win over Pennsauken and Tony Procopio's Washington Township Girls were 1-0 with a 2-1 win over Bishop Eustace. They looked like evenly matched opponents, but the game wasn't even as close as the 4-0 score as the only time Washington Township was really in the game was at the end when, with the score at 4-0, Cherry Hill substituted nearly their entire bench into the game.
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High School Football:
Vikings' Defense Keys Victory Over Triton

Friday, September 17, 1999

By Greg Alvord
SJSports Staff Writer

On a crisp September night at Triton High School, two Olympic Conference foes battled in a hard fought football game. The highly anticipated Eastern Vikings traveled to Triton Field in a season opener on Friday evening. The Vikings of Eastern topped the Mustangs of Triton by a score of 27-14.
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High School Tennis:
Edgewood Girls Tennis Week In Review

Friday, September 17, 1999

By Andrea Johnson
SJSports Student Correspondent

Edgewood opened the season on September 13th with a 5-0 win over Pennsauken. Strong performances were posted by both singles and doubles players. With three more matches on the schedule for the week, bad weather blew through and canceled our matches against both Paul VI and Cinnaminson. After a couple of days off, the Lady Eagles returned to play Bishop Eustace.
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High School Soccer:
Pennsauken Holds On To Defeat Edgewood

Friday, September 17, 1999

By Emily Green
SJSports Student Correspondent

The Pennsauken girl's soccer team traveled to Edgewood in an Olympic Conference game. Pennsauken jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Edgewood scored on a direct kick by Chelsea Sass. Chelsea bent the ball over the wall with her left foot. Chelsea Sass scored again and Corey Smith also scored.
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Athlete Spotlight:
Spirited Sarah

Wednesday, September 15, 1999

By Joanne Costantino
SJSports Staff Writer

Sarah Goldberg has had a very busy year. This past summer she traveled to Israel with a large group of family members to get a first hand look at her cultural roots and, not the least, to meet her 101-year-old aunt. Soon after the trip, she was busy playing basketball as part of the 1999 Maccabi Games held here in South Jersey at Cherry Hill locations, sponsored by the Betty and Milton Katz Jewish Community Center.
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