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on the mark . by Mark Mattern

sports

Herald & Unlem 1* lanuary '84

Gape Mat Teams Poor; Basketball Gets the Ink

A loj, of space is taken up with- news about high school basketball but not much on wrestling The reason*’ Teams -in Cape May County are'so poor The only time one of the local teams get a victory, it seems to be against another C M C school Now I am not saying that there are not any good wrestlers here. One of the best is John Porter of Lower Cape May Porter ran his undefeated reconi to 8 and 0 with a third period fall against Delran, but the Capers lost 36-12. Basking Porter were Todd Randle at 134 pounds and , Sean Brennan at 157. Both

Bandit and Brennan boost 7 and l slates. Wildwopd Catholic forfeited two weight classes early, in the match against Atlantic City, then went on to lose 34-21 The Crusaders were tied at 15-all before folding to-the Vikings. MIDDLE TOWNSHIP took advantage ,of Wildwood Catholic in a 42-22 victory last week Heavyweight Steve Jones ands}45 pound teammate Chip Camp each ran' records to 5 and 0 in the Middle win. Jones recorded a first-period pin ^gainst Bob Swfeeter and Camp was extended into the third

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.period before recording a fall. Middle ran its record to 3-‘2 with the win. Absegami took Wildwood High to the cleaners in a 56-6 victory. Wildwood re: mains winless on the year, falling to 0 and 3. Absegami won the first seven matches, five by pin in the rout Two Warriors were pinned - in less than one minute: Ron Marker fell in 47 seconds aad Dan Can* in just 54 ticks. Ocean City fell ’behind 30-2 in its match against St. Augustine only to com eback late in a 34-31 loss Kevin Clarke sparked the rally with a pin at 140 pounds. Clarke holds a 10-0' record on the year. Heavyweight Trip Snyder decked his man in just 11 seconds to mark the third time t^is year Snyder gained a^pin in less than 15

.seconds.

IN LAST WEEK’S top basketball game. Mary Gavin was in early, foul trouble against rival Middle Township.' but came .back to lead Wildwood Catholic to a 64-58 victory. -&avin finished with 2! points but was not the game’s top scorer. That honor went ,to Jennifer Snyder who canned 26 for the Panthers. Stand-out Shelly Ridgeway was effectively shut down by the Crusaders zone-defense. _Ridgeway managed just 10

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Javin picked up her third u early in the contest and vent-to'the bench, but the other Crusader players picked up the slack to keep - 'the game clos^TMichelle Bacino and Kely Caruso controlled the boards in the - fourth quarter as W.C. took

charge.

In Wildwood Catholic’s other contest last week, Jackie Cowan scored 1'4 points in a 60-46 victory over Sacred Heart. The Crusader defense controlled the pace as only four Sacred Heart players scored^ Gavin led all scorerS”with 24 points. Middle Township got .a combined effort of 72 points out of Debby Leone, Snyder and Ridgeway in a 87-39 win over St. Joseph Middle

upped its record to 7-2 with

the victory.

IN OTHER ACTION, Wildwood High evened the slate at 3 and 3 on the year after downing Buena 68-22. Audra Coleman scored . 25 in the romp. Doris Baldy picked in 13 and Anne Turner added 10 for the

Warriors.

The Valentine sisters were at it again in leading Lower Cape May past Absegami. In the 55-38 win, Lydia and Myra combined for 43 points. Lower’s record stood at 2-3 ( -with the victory. . , - Ocean City jumped out to a 61-4 first quarter lead against Bridgfeton then cruised to a 49-31 win. Lisa Compton had a great allaround game vfith 14 ‘ points, six steals and nine

. rebounds.

Larry Fields felt no pressure. In overtime against Wildwood Catholic, the Middle Township center canned ^bf-7 free throws to lead the Panthers to a 65-62 win. Fields and Mark Adams both finished ; with 14 points With Robert. Jones,the ,top scorer at 19 Joe Aita finished with 18 for the Crusaders and Alex Mairone, who, was held down in the second half; finished with 14 markero. ; WILDWOOD CATHOLIC: lost another close ball game last week, this time a 53-51 verdict to Sacred Heart. Aita and Jim ' Barnes both scored 14 points in the loss that s$w the Crusaders lead only briefly in the final period.’ Balanced scoring was the key ig Middle Township’s 76-59 defeat of St. Joseph. Adams Fields and Jones • led the way for the Panthers who upped their record to 6-5 on the season. Potter Drops 3, Advances «

Middle held a 40-18 halftime advantage in the contest against St. Joe.*’ At the beginning of the season, Wildwood High looked like the team to.beat in the CAL II. It still might be, but going into tonight's clash with Catholic at Convention Hall, the Warriors are having problems with balance am! bolding leads. Against Buena, Wildwood trailed by nine at the half, but came back to dump the Chiefs 62-58 Center Mike Shafer 16 of his 22 points in the second half to lead the comeback surge. Bill Osborne chipped in 18 for

the winners.

PAT HOLDEN scored a season high 30 points for Lower Cape May, but the Capers still^lost to Pleasantville 72-67. Holden then scored itfin a 78-53 win over Absegami. The Caper slate read 5-4 with the Absegami.victory Ocean City’s record fell to 5 and 4 on the year as the Raiders could not hold its first half lead against Bridgeton. The Bulldogs used a full court press to rattle O.C. in the second half. Gene Watts scored 20 points to lead the Raiders. Ocean City lost the final event of the day and the meet to Mainland in swim-. . ming 88-82. Mainland captured the 400-meter relay to seal the contest which was tied at 78 going into the last race. O.C. won first-place honors in seven of 11 events. Tom Diprizito won the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:35. Cammy Care remained unbeaten in diving with 160 points.

REMARKSc

If you were going to fix this week’s Super Bowl,

Id vou p . quarterback 0 The Coach? No, the referee. Think. about it. Who keeps an eye oh those guys anyway? They did d-ecide Washington would win against San Francisco. Without the one bad call at the end, The *9ers might be playing the Raiders this Sunday. The .U.S.F.L. is. a big joke. The Mike Rozier bit takes the cake. He denied he signed with Pittsburgh because be forgot about the time difference * between the U^. and Japan. And if .Walter Payton decided be will go the Chicago Sting. He will get a raise from $600,000 to $2 million. Will he be three times the player next year?

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CAPE MAY - It’s not often that a team loses three out of four games and climbs from third to second place. However, the Potter foanaged to do just that, thanks to a. four-game •swifep by the Whipporwill Spikers ov€r. Library III in Men's Power Volleyball action recently. The Potter dropped those three games to the league- . leading Lighting Dimensions Killerwatts, who continue to play the consistent brand of volleyball that has since become their, trademark. Outstanding performances were turned in by the Killerwatts’ Roy Hartle, Rich Ferrante and John Wilsey throughout the match. Game one saw Hartle and Wilsey take full advantage of the crisp setting of Ferrante as they went on to post an easy 15-4 victory. However, the Potter came back strong in the second game due largely to the spiking of Stu Cohen, Scott Hiller, and Bud Bowman. They evened the match at one game apiece with a hard fought- fS-12 win. Lighting Dimensions went on to win the final two games by 15-13 and 15-9

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