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 High School Football:Edgewood Takes Advantage of Turnovers and Wins Big Saturday, September 16, 2000 By Dennis Davis Saturday was a great day to play football. The sun was shinning, not too hot and no wind. Camden versus Edgewood was expected to be a great battle between two speedy teams in their season opener. The Camden Panthers were expected to defeat the Edgewood Eagles but the Edgewood team didn't intend to go down easily. In fact, they didn't go down at all. |
 High School Football:Osborne Has His Way Against Camden Saturday, September 16, 2000 By Vincent Lewis Going into this game, Edgewood's head coach Derryk Sellers felt his Eagles would make a strong case for conference title for 'The Last Time'. With 8 starters returning on both offense and defense, the race for conference champs was in their hands for the Y2K season. "This year's team would be considered one of my favorites and will be very competitive", mentioned Sellers. Both sides of the ball for Edgewood were having their way through the entire game. The visiting Camden Panthers were no match against the Eagles defense as Edgewood rolled to a 46-0 victory behind the running of Brandon Osborne. |
 South Jersey Soccer:Linwood wins close one Against Berlin Township in U-9 Girl's Soccer Saturday, September 16, 2000 By Bob Stuart The U-9 girls from Berlin Township Hurricanes had there home opener on September 16 at the new Edgewood Avenue Soccer Complex against the Linwood White Lightening. The White Lightening jumped out to a 2-0 lead as they controlled the play. S. Martin, J. Holtzman, and R. Taylor played good for the White Lightening. The Goalkeepers for the Berlin Township Hurricanes keep the team in the game with some great saves. |
 High School Football:Washington Township Rolls All Over East Saturday, September 16, 2000 By Vincent Lewis High expectations have been placed on the Minutemen from Washington Township this season. With most of their starting players returning this season, they were eager to start their 2000 football season. The highly anticipated meeting between the Lenape Indians would have to wait until next week. Today, Township had a meeting against Cherry Hill East in Cougar territory. They were not looking past this game to get to the Indians as they put away East easily 35-0 in an opening game for both teams. |
 High School Football:Shawnee Marches To Road Victory Saturday, September 16, 2000 By Art Redd The meeting between the Shawnee Renegades visiting the Fighting Irish of Camden Catholic was the first game of the season for both teams. The opening day ceremonies was highlighted with the Fighting Irish being led onto the field by an Irish Bagpipe marching band. That excitement would be carried onto the field as the Irish jumped out to the early lead. Shawnee would stick to their game plan. The Renegades' ground game pounded out the victory as they scored twenty-seven unanswered points to capture the victory. |
| High School Football: Cherokee Crushes Cherry Hill West Under the Lights Friday, September 15, 2000 By Greg Alvord Here in Evesham, a bit of history unfolded on Friday night. A momentous occasion as big as man's so-called landing on the moon, the discovery of America, or the invention of the remote control. The Cherokee Chiefs football team took the field against Cherry Hill West in the ever night time football game at the famous Cherokee Bowl. The gathering of Chief alumni were not disappointed as Cherokee put on a display of football that was reminiscent to the style of play of their powerhouse clubs of the early eighties. The Chiefs beat Cherry Hill West by a 61-7 score. |
| High School Ice Hockey: Township Honors Harrington on Opening Night Friday, September 15, 2000 By Mike Costantino Washington Township opened its 2000-2001 season honoring former coach Chris Harrington who stepped aside after 4 seasons. In his four years as head coach, Harrington amassed an impressive winning percentage of over 90% and leaves new coach Steve Brown in good shape as Township returns 10 players from last years team that fell one game short of the championship. |
| High School Football: Triton Loses Opener in Freshmen Football Friday, September 15, 2000 By Bob Wankel The Triton freshmen football team opened up the 2000 campaign at home on Friday. What were high hopes heading into the game were quickly faded as Eastern marched into the end zone methodically on their first possesion taking an early 8-0 lead. Things only got worse for the home team as they were forced to punt four times on their first six possesions. The other two resulted in fumbles. At the half Triton was stunned as they trailed 34-0 as Eastern crossed the goal line every time they had the ball in the first half. |
 High School Soccer:Lady Cougars Wins Easily in the End Thursday, September 14, 2000 By Forrest Robleto The Lenape soccer team was fresh off of a win against Moorestown and Cherry Hill East were fresh off a win in a bruising contest against Washington Township. They both looked terrific in the first half. About half way through the second half, the Lady Cougars got on the board and a few minutes later did it again. Lenape, who had the edge through the entire first half and a good part of the second, lost a lot of their enthusiasm and the third goal for East came very easily. |
 High School Football:Minutemen Hoping For A Happier Finish Thursday, September 14, 2000 By Ed Benkin When the Washington Township Minutemen concluded their 1999 season, there were plenty of accomplishments to look back on. The Minutemen returned to the playoffs after a two year absence, and remained in the hunt for the Olympic American Division title until the final week of the season. However, Washington Township was left with a feeling of unfinished business. A blocked extra point knocked the Minutemen out of the playoffs as they fell to Jackson, 10-9. One week later, the Minutemen were eight yards away from upsetting Eastern and capturing the Olympic American crown. But the Vikings kept Washington Township out of the end zone and took home the championship. |
 High School Soccer:Edgewood Girl's Soccer Looks to Improve Wednesday, September 13, 2000 By Boog Williams The Edgewood Girl's soccer team is looking to improve with a new head coach. His name is Bill Pesda. The Lady Eagles will have eight returning players from last year's squad and one returning after two years from an injury. Coach Pesda believes that Kori Goerlitz, a senior, will be returning after knee surgery last year and should resume her All Conference forward form from 1998. Kori will be one of the tri-captains this year. |
 Event Spotlight:Flyers Sign Maxie Ouellet Wednesday, September 13, 2000 The Philadelphia Flyers today signed 6-2, 195-pound goaltender Maxime Ouellet (pronounced wuh-LET) to a three-year contract, announced President and General Manager Bob Clarke. As per club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. |
 High School Tennis:Edgewood Ladies Tennis Preview Tuesday, September 12, 2000 By Andrea Johnson The Edgewood Ladies Tennis team is looking forward to an exciting season. The starting line-up has been gaining experience and picking up wins for four years now (with the exception of an outstanding junior player, Alexis Switenko). The ladies are trying to make this, the last year of Edgewood tennis most memorable. The team started out the season with a difficult match against Shawnee but hopes to rebound with a week full of play ahead. On Tuesday the ladies face Absagami at home. The match should be interesting and the Eagles hope to come out on top with a "W". |
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