November 25, 2009

Hornback Named to AVCA Division II All-East Region Team

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Holy Family University outside hitter Katie Hornback (so. Indianapolis, Ind./Heritage Christian) was named to the 2009 American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division II All-East Region team on Tuesday.

Hornback is the on the team for the second time in her career. Last season, she was tabbed as an honorable mention selection. She is the only player to make the team from the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC).

Earlier this year, she was named to the All-CACC second team and to the CACC All-Tournament team.

Hornback led the Tigers in kills (340) and service aces (55). She finished third in the CACC in service aces and seventh in service aces per set (0.43). At Holy Family, She is fourth on the single season kills list and tied for seventh on the single season service aces list. After two years, Hornback second in school history in kills (652) and tied for eighth in career service aces (90).
Holy Family ended its season with an overall record of 14-22. The Tigers qualified for the CACC Championship Tournament for the third season in a row.

Frank leads TCNJ to 93-85 win over Muhlenbery

Allentown, PA… If Jay Frank (Brick, NJ/Brick) wasn’t draining shots from the perimeter, Steve Syversten (Midland Park, NJ/Midland Park) was knocking down three-point shots as the sharpshooting seniors led The College of New Jersey men’s basketball team to a 93-85 victory over Muhlenberg College.

With the Holiday season approaching The Gloucester City Police Department wants to remind everyone to please be careful and to use your head especially when it comes to consuming alcoholic beverages. We are going to step up enforcement this season with DUI patrols and undercover officers going into the local establishments to see that the rules are being followed by the consumers as well as the owners of the establishment.

Those individuals under the age of 21 will be arrested and charged if they enter any licensed establishment to consume or attempt to consume alcoholic beverages. There is a mandatory loss of driving privileges that will be applied to those charged and convicted of entering for the purpose of purchasing alcoholic beverages, using a false identification card, or consuming in a licensed establishment.

 

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that hunters started the 2009 black bear season by taking a preliminary harvest of 1,897 black bears in 50 counties on the first day of the three-day statewide bear season.

The 2009 first-day preliminary harvest compares with 1,725 in 2008; 1,005 in 2007; 1,461 in 2006; 2,026 in 2005; 1,573 in 2004; 1,454 in 2003;1,348 2002; 1,812 in 2001; and 1,691 in 2000.

The top 10 bears processed at check stations on Monday all had estimated live weights that exceeded 550 pounds. Terence J. Burkhardt, of Jim Thorpe, harvested the largest bear, which was a male that weighed in at 654 pounds (actual live weight). The bear was taken in Penn Forest Township, Carbon County, at 4:35 p.m.

Note: This article was first published November 2006. And each year prior to the annual Thanksgiving contest I run it again since it is timeless. Who wrote it? I don’t know anyone by the name of Lea Koros. It was sent via E-mail to me prior to the November 2006 game. Thank you Lea for the great article. If you are at the game this Thanksgiving please come forward and introduce yourself. Does anyone have a prediction on who will win this year? ~Bill Cleary

By LEA KOROS

Special to ClearysNotebook

With the Lions / Rams game less then a week away the talk has begun. The \”ELECTION\” is over and the residents and alumni have started the annual rite only a local GHS or GCHS graduate can appreciate. This talk is for the locals not the wannabes, the talk is not held on the bus ride from Deptford or Washington Twp, but held at the Memorial A.A. church. I’ve heard the sermons at the bright orange church about mixed marriages. Lately the sermon preached why can’t we forgive and accept these marriages. How can a Lion marry a Ram? How can they send their children to that place on Cumberland St?

Artist drawing by Todd Whitten

Yes, it has begun. Wednesday night the hardworking, church going, people of Gloucester will head to a local establishment and dissect the upcoming Turkey Day game. They will argue that no game on Turkey Day was better then the 1971 Delsea game. Or the Froggy Rebstock catch a few years later against Delsea. Anyway they look at it some old-timer will say it was the \”Shot heard round the world\”, forgetting they are talking about football and not the 1971 boys basketball.

By Albert Countryman Jr.

Members of the Church of The Ascension on Sussex Street in Gloucester City have welcomed their new pastor, Father Nathan Ferrell.

\”We need to grow in outreach to the community,\” Rev. Ferrell said. \”Most of our parishioners are outside of Gloucester City.\”

In a unique arrangement between the Church of the Holy Spirit, Bellmawr, and St. Luke’s Church, Westville, the three parishes will share Rev. Ferrell as their pastor, and each will pay one-third of his salary.