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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jason Brown This year’s Olympic-Cape Challenge in its fifth year was held at Vineland High School. Now does that put a bit of pressure of the team that hosts the tournament? Not at all because the true winners are all of the teams participating in a cause that raises money for the Shoot Down Cancer Foundation that benefits the Oncology Division of the Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. The two day event started out with seven games on Saturday and the last game of the day was the Fighting Clan taking on Seneca. Vineland would pick up a win for the Cape-Atlantic Conference by defeating Seneca 66-54. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jason Brown This tournament was a chance to play a team they wouldn’t have competed with during the regular season. The Olympic-Cape Atlantic Challenge is a refreshing way to competing against a somewhat unfamiliar opponent. So when a Pennsauken team travels to Vineland High School to take on the other Lions from Sacred Heart, it would be another test to prove which team would add the victory for their conference. Sacred Heart held on to their momentum and the game during the final minutes to pull out the 62-56 victory. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jerome Michaels It's always special to win a game for your team and it's even nicer to celebrate a milestone during that victory. Cherry Hill East's Brian Young not only helped the Cougars pick up the twelve point victory, he also was honored with scoring his 1,000th point of his career during the game. With some of the East faithful showing up at the game, Young was honored briefly during their game against Oakcrest. After that, Cherry Hill East established a lead that was never jeopardized and picked up the 64-52 win. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jerome Michaels Two evenly matched teams met on the basketball court during the Olympic-Cape Atlantic Challenge to see which boy’s basketball team would come away with the victory. The Irish from Camden Catholic and the Spartans from Holy Spirit was another match-up between teams from the Olympic Conference and the Cape Atlantic Conference. The Olympic Conference teams lead the overall record and Camden Catholic would add one more to the total. After the two teams ended the first half tie, the Irish began to pull away during the final quarter to post a 45-32 win at Vineland. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jerome Michaels The Olympic-Cape Challenge is back for another year of competition between the Cape-Atlantic League boy’s basketball teams against the Olympic Conference. One of those teams taking part of the challenge were the undefeated Renegades from Shawnee. This time held at Vineland High School, the fourth Olympic-Cape Challenge watched Ocean City and Shawnee open up their game tied after one quarter. From that point on, it was all Shawnee as they rolled on for the 66-49 victory during the fourth game of this challenge that benefits the Shoot Down Cancer Foundation. |
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Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Anthony Phillips With the seedings already established for the upcoming wrestling tournament, two teams finishing out the regular season was Eastern and Cherry Hill West. Both of these squads were leading their division in the Olympic Conference but only one of those teams qualifying for the post season. The Vikings from Eastern were seeded fifth in the Group 4 bracket, but in today’s matchup against Lions showed how focused they were against the leaders in the Patriot Division. Winning their first 5 matches, four of them on pins, Eastern established a lead they never relinquished. The Cougars would make the score respectable at the end as Eastern walked off the mat with a 45-30 marginal victory. |
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Basketball Spotlight: Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Bob Heller Solid second half play helped the USP women's basketball team snap a two-game losing streak this afternoon as the came from behind to defeat the Dominican College Chargers, 70-61 at the Hennessy Center. Shelby Rance led three Devils in double figures with a game high 22 points. Leah Shumoski added 20 points and Lori Wernik chipped in 10. Jackie Tracy led four Dominican players in double figures with 15 points followed by Ashley Rossi’s 13. |
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Basketball Spotlight: Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Bob Heller The USP men's basketball team held host Dominican College to 24% shooting in the first half building a 28-15 halftime lead en route to a 58-48 win this afternoon. Eric Cangelosi led the Devils with 11 points and 10 rebounds, recording his first double-double of the season. Collin Harrington added 10 points while Chris Brattelli, Chris Dougherty and Keith Dundas chipped in eight to the Devils well balanced scoring attack. |
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Ice Hockey Spotlight: Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Al Cohen The Philadelphia Phantoms scored twice in the opening three minutes of the game and then held on for a 2-1 victory over the Norfolk Admirals tonight at the Norfolk Scope. Goals by Eric Meloche and Patrick Sharp gave Philadelphia a 2-0 lead 2:27 into the game before goaltender Antero Niittymaki took over and held Norfolk to just one late score. Making his 10th consecutive start for Philadelphia, the Finnish netminder stopped 34-of-35 shots to earn the win. |
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Lacrosse Spotlight: Saturday, February 12, 2005 By Jennifer Stefani The Philadelphia Wings were defeated the Rochester Knighthawks by a score of 16-15 at Blue Cross Arena in. The Wings meet the Knighthawks again in their next game on Friday, February 12 at the Wachovia Center at 7:30 p.m. "It was a close fought game and we really fought to the end," said Wings' General Manager and Head Coach Lindsay Sanderson. "We'll be ready to face them again on Friday night in our own building." |
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Friday, February 11, 2005 By Mike Costantino The Williamstown Braves struggled early with Highland but scored four goals in the second period on the way to a 7-1 victory at Hollydell on Friday night in the final regular season game for both teams. Justin Osterdahl and Tyler Dornewass scored twice for the Braves and Mike Zelaskey scored the lone goal for Highland. After a scoreless first period in which both teams had nine shots on goal, Dornewass and Osterdahl scored goals in the opening two minutes of the second period. Dornewass started the scoring right after the face-off and with Highland on the power play Osterdahl anticipated a cross-ice pass and intercepted the puck and his breakaway goal put the Braves up 2-0. |
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Friday, February 11, 2005 By Mike Costantino Clearview scored three goals in a span of two minutes to break open a close game and went on to defeat West Deptford 7-2 in the last regular season game for both teams. Clearview will meet Williamstown and West Deptford will open with Eastern. Mike Sullivan and Shaun Stamm each tallied twice to lead the Clearview attack. Cory Jackmuff put West Deptford up 1-0 as Clearview started out slowly. Sullivan tied the score at 1-1 as he scored short-handed using the defenseman as a screen. |
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Ice Hockey Spotlight: Friday, February 11, 2005 By Al Cohen Cam Ward stopped all 28 shots he faced as the visiting Lowell Lock Monsters posted a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phantoms tonight at the Wachovia Spectrum. Ward made eight saves in the first period and 10 in the second and third to notch his fifth shutout of the season. Mike Zigomanis provided the only goal as Lowell won for the fourth time in its last six games. Antero Niittymaki made 22 saves in the loss for Philadelphia, which was shut out for the first time in 2004-05. |
  Winning Ways (FYI):Weight Training: Steps to Success Thursday, February 10, 2005 By Gregory "Graig" White Working as a weight training instructor, I get opportunities to read different textbooks that are sent with the hopes of being used by my classes. When it comes to a textbook that I would totally throw my support behind, this would be one of them. This publication takes weight training and breaks it down to its most basic form. |
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Football Spotlight: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 By Mike Costantino This season with the Eagles was a special one and an enjoyable ride, from sweeping our division opponents to exacting revenge on the Panthers, to finally winning the NFC Championship game. I was fortunate enough to make the trip to Jacksonville to see the Birds in the Super Bowl and outside of winning the game it was a memorable trip. This was my second Super Bowl. Last year I was awed by the camaraderie of the New England fans and the celebrities. Although Philadelphia fans absolutely outnumbered New England fans, they are still a class act, just like the Pats. |
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Ice Hockey Spotlight: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 By Kevin Kurz Mark Murphy broke a 1-1 tie late in the third period and Tony Voce added an insurance goal on the power play as the Phantoms broke a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Norfolk Admirals. Murphy took a feed from Patrick Sharp and one-timed it past goaltender Mike Leighton with just 3:15 left for the game-winning goal. |
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Lacrosse Spotlight: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 By Jennifer Stefani Philadelphia Wings goaltender Dallas Eliuk was named the NLL's Defensive Player of the Week for his 42 saves against the San Jose Stealth on February 5. This is the second time this season that Eliuk has received this honor, the first coming for his 55 save performance in the Wings' season opener against the Arizona Sting on January 7. |
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Tuesday, February 8, 2005 By Jerome Michaels Two teams from two different division chasing two different leaders met on a basketball court in Marlton looking to add one more game to their win column. The Fighting Irish from Camden Catholic were looking to extend another winning streak to three games after losing to the division leading Camden. In their inter-conference battle against the Chiefs from Cherokee, the Irish jumped out early establishing a twenty point lead in the first half. Cherokee would battle back in the second half only to see Camden Catholic break the game open in the final quarter. The Irish cruised to their 69-54 victory to keep pace in the Olympic Conference National Division. |
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Lacrosse Spotlight: Tuesday, February 8, 2005 By Jennifer Stefani The Philadelphia Wings indoor lacrosse team has acquired veteran defenseman Shawn Nadelen and a first round draft pick in the 2005 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft from the Minnesota Swarm. In exchange, the Swarm received the Wings 2003 first round draft pick, Ryan Ward, and the Wings' fourth pick in the 2005 NLL Entry Draft. |
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Monday, February 7, 2005 By Mike Ballard Junior center Megan Rulon passed a couple of career milestones during the week for the Rutgers-Camden women’s basketball team while scoring 41 points (13.7 ppg) and collecting 20 rebounds (6.7 rpg) and 11 blocked shots (3.7 bpg) in three games. Rulon went over 800 points for her career, lifting her total to 837, and also became the second player ever to reach 200 blocked shots in program history. Rulon, who leads all Division III players nationally in blocked shots (4.6 bpg) has 205 for her career, second in program history to Kamilah Byrd’s 291. It was the second Raptor of the Week honor this season for Rulon, who also captured the award Nov. 22. |
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