Funeral Services were held for Beatrice C. \”Betty\” Grasmick, 81, of Millsboro, DE, formerly of Mount Ephraim, who died April 7, 2008.

 

 Beloved wife of Louis F., Sr. Devoted mother of Louis F., Jr. (Dee) and Bette Brandt (Jack). Dear sister of Gertrude \”Toots\” Francis. Loving grandmother of Ron, Frank (Jessica), Louis F., III (Linda) and Barbara (Mark). Great-grandmother of Melissa, Nicholas, Gabrielle, Molly, Timothy and Joshua. Great-great-grandmother of Kayden.

 

 Interment in Lakeview Memorial Park, Cinnaminson.

 

Media Release April 18

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Down, 6-1, entering the seventh, the Rutgers baseball team rallied with a four-run seventh frame but fell just short in a 7-5 loss to USF Friday in the series opener at Bainton Field.

The Scarlet Knights put the tying run in scoring position in the seventh and ninth frames but could not produce the equalizier.

USF plated its first run on a RBI single up the middle from Brian Hobbs with two outs in the first inning. Hobbs then gave the Bulls a 3-0 lead with an RBI double down the right field line in the third to score USF\’s second run of the frame.

Meanwhile, USF starter Daniel Thomas didn\’t surrender his first hit until the third when Dan Betteridge (Sewell, N.J.) slapped a single through the left side. Thomas induced a double play to the next batter and later finished his third scoreless inning.

NOTE – Sunday\’s Rutgers baseball game against USF at Bainton Field, originally scheduled to begin at noon, has been changed to an 11:00 a.m. first pitch.

Junior righty Jason Downey (Ballston Lake, N.Y.) will be on the mound for the Scarlet Knights against freshman righty Derrick Stultz for the Bulls.

 

Collegeville, PA… Second-ranked The College of New Jersey women’s lacrosse team dealt sixth-ranked Washington & Lee University its first loss in more than a month as the Lions slipped past the Generals by the score of 12-8 on Saturday. The win by the Lions also brought an end to Washington & Lee’s 11-game winning streak.

The game was played at Ursinus College.

The win put the Lions at 11-1 on the season, while the Generals fell to 15-2. Washington & Lee’s last lost was on March 8 against Franklin & Marshall.

The Lions got off to a good start scoring four of the game’s first five goals with senior Karen Doane (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Raritan) scoring three and junior Rachel Gordon (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill West) the other.

After TCNJ’s lead grew to 6-2, the Generals scored netted five of the next six goals sending the teams into the half deadlocked at 7-7.

In the second half, the Lions opened the scoring to retake the lead as freshman Alison Jaeger (Hampton, NJ/North Hunterdon) scored 4:18 into the new period and senior Diane Haddeland (Mahopac, NY/Mahopac) made it a two-game four minutes later.

After the Generals trimmed the deficit back to one, TCNJ kept them off of the board the rest of the way while Doane, Toni-Anne Cavallo (Cedar Grove, NJ/West Essex) and Haddeland added insurance goals down the stretch.

Doane finished with five goals giving her 50 goals on the season.

Senior Caitlin Gregory (Winslow, NJ/Eastern) collected four saves to earn the win.

In goal for the Generals, senior Sarah Tilbor (West Simsbury, CT/Simsbury) made a game-high 12 saves.

The Lions remain on the road on Tuesday, April 22 heading to Montclair State University for a 7 p.m. contest with the Red Hawks. Next up for Washington & Lee is the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Tournament.

Lacrosse Game Summary (Final)
TCNJ Women\’s Lacrosse
#6 Washington & Lee vs #2 The College of NJ (Apr 19, 2008 at Collegeville, Pa.)

Washington & Lee (15-2) vs. The College of NJ (11-1)
Date: Apr 19, 2008 Location: Collegeville, Pa. Stadium: Eleanor Frost Snell
Attendance:100 Start time:4:00 pm End time:5:41 pm Total time:1:41

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

April 19, 2008

 

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD COMPETES AT THE CTC CHAMPIONSHIPS

CENTER VALLEY, PA – The men’s outdoor track and field team competed at the first day of the Collegiate Track Conference (CTC) Championships on Saturday. The meet concludes on Sunday, April 20.

 

Sean Corey (so. Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill E.) won the javelin with a career-best throw of 215’ 4.5\” (65.65 meters). Corey’s throw is the best in Division III this year. It was also better than his previous NCAA automatic qualifier of 214’ 6.5\” (65.39 meters) at the Wake Forest Open (Mar. 21). Sean Biehn (so. Edgewater Park, NJ/Burlington City) came in eigth place with a distance of 177’ 1.5\” (53.99 meters).

Right fielder John McMullin

JOSEPH M. SYKES

 A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Saint Mary’s Catholic Church, Gloucester City, for Joseph M. Sykes, 79, of Amherst, VA, formerly of Gloucester City, who died April 7, 2008

 

 Mr. Sykes was a graduate of Gloucester High School (Class of 1946), the Philadelphia School of Floral Design and was a US Marine Corps Veteran. He was the former owner of Sykes Florist in Gloucester City and had been a charter member of the Gloucester Mustangs Athletic Assoc. After moving to Virginia, Mr. Sykes was a Public Address Announcer for horse shows. He was a member of the Marine Corps League Detachment #759 of Lynchburg, the Professional Horsemen’s Assoc., Village Garden Club of Amherst, and was a charter member of the Lynchburg Chapter of the Military Order of the Devil Dogs. Mr. Sykes was also an active volunteer at Salem Veterans Memorial Hospital where he volunteered over 1000 service hours.

 

 He is the beloved husband of Elizabeth A., loving father of Susan Ivins and her husband Charles, and the dear brother of the late William and Patricia Sykes. His loving grandchildren Stephen J. Pierson, Charles, Curtis and Tamara Ivins, great grandchildren Christopher, Katelyn, and Jacob, brother and sisters-in-law James O’Donald, Nancy Landisio, Claire Sykes, Lillian O’Donald, close life long friends Edward and Joanne Dennery and family, many loving nieces and nephews also survive him.

 

 Funeral Services were held at Etherington-Creran Funeral Home, 700 Powell Street, Gloucester City. Interment of Ashes to follow in the Camden Co. Veterans Cemetery at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden.

 

Note: Susan Kehoe, was one of five animal rights members, who harass Bill Devine, (a former resident of Gloucester City NJ)c and son- in- law, Jon White back in December 2005. She was never charged because she ran away when law enforcement, came into the woods. Bill and Jon were bear and deer hunting at the time.

source www.nj.com

A former member of Bear Education and Resource, an anti-hunting organization that blames people and their unsecured garbage for New Jersey\’s bruin troubles, was charged yesterday with deliberately feeding the animals.

Susan Kehoe, 57, was videotaped providing bags of sunflower seeds to bears in the backyard of her Vernon Township home, the state Department of Environmental Protection said. Charging her with creating a public nuisance, a disorderly persons offense, the DEP contends conservation officers watched her repeatedly feed bears since March 28 in the Lake Wanda area.

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The 1976 Gloucester Catholic cross country team did not have had state of the art training facilities. They didn\’t have a school bus– the 9 team members traveled to meets in their coaches volkswagen van. They didn\’t even have a conference to call their own, but that freed the team up to travel throughout south jersey running against the best teams in the southern half of the state as they won 19 meets becoming the most successful boys cross country team in the schools history (See 1976 Cross Country Team Part 1 post). One thing the team surely had was a world class coach in Browning Ross and a strong desire to have fun and to achieve despite the obstacles. The team and the coach were a perfect fit. The desire to succeed and overcome obstacles is still evident in the lives of the team members today. The members of the \”Bicentenial\” \’GCHS \’76 team have gone on to success in their personal and family lives and are scattered far and wide. Here is a look at what the team members are doing today:
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Bill Kropp had a banner day at the plate in the Lions\’ sweep.

Game # 1 Box Score

Game # 2 Box Score
WAYNE, N.J. – Down to its last strike and trailing by one, No. 7 The College of New Jersey (25-6, 11-4 NJAC) was able to score two runs during the ninth inning of the doubleheader night cap, securing a twin bill sweep with a 6-4 victory at William Paterson (21-13, 9-6 NJAC) April 19. The Lions won the opener at Pioneer Baseball Field, 14-4.

Trailing by a single score with base runners at first and second and two outs, Adam Tussey (Brooklawn, N.J./Gloucester High School) had a 0-2 count at the plate when Pioneer reliever Steve Schlitzer (West New York, N.J./Memorial) threw what appeared to be strike three. The home plate umpire did not see it that way, and two pitches later, Tussey laced a single up the middle to tie the score at 4-4. Jeff Toth (Parlin, N.J./Sayreville) later hit a two-run double to center field, giving TCNJ the 6-4 lead.

William Paterson put its first two runners on base in the bottom of the ninth after Vin Ganz (Waterbury, Conn./Holy Cross) singled and Dan Limone (Teaneck, N.J./Teaneck) walked. Ganz was lifted for pinch runner Derek Koppinger (Columbia, N.J./North Warren Regional), but TCNJ reliever Eric Gertie (Cinnaminson, N.J./Cinnaminson) entered the game and promptly picked Koppinger off second, giving WP one out with a runner on first. Andrue Laguerre’s (Jersey City, N.J./St. Benedict’s Prep) fielder’s choice resulted in an out at second, and Mike Guadango\’s (Upper Saddle River, N.J./Northern Highlands) bouncer to shortstop ended the Pioneers’ comeback hopes.

The Pioneers crossed the plate three times during the bottom of the first inning of Game Two, a rally started by a Limone lead-off walk and Laguerre single. After Limone stole third and Laguerre moved up to second after a ground out, senior Anthony Perrone (Midland Park, N.J./Bergen Catholic) hit a sacrifice fly to left field, plating Limone for a 1-0 edge. Three consecutive singles by Vince Joyce (Franklin, N.J./Wallkill Valley), John Elia (Emerson, N.J./Pascack Valley) and James Gregory (Ramsey, N.J./Ramsey) pushed two more runners across, giving WP the early 3-0 advantage.

With runners on second and third with zero outs in the top of the fourth, Vince Mazzaccaro (Gloucester, N.J./Gloucester Catholic) grounded into the unusual 5-3-5 double play, but Tussey was able to score from third to cut the lead to 3-1. William Paterson had a chance to extend the lead in the fifth when Perrone attempted to score from third after a groundout to the pitcher was thrown to first, but the home plate umpire ruled that both Perrone missed the plate on his slide and Lion catcher Bill Kropp (Pottstown, Pa./Owen J. Roberts) missed the tag, but Kropp was able to touch-out Perrone after WP’s third baseman attempted to go back and safely step on home.

A Dave Mebs (Cinnaminson, N.J./Cinnaminson) double and Tussey RBI-single helped pull the Lions within a run at 3-2 in the sixth, and Kropp blasted his first home run of the year, a solo shot over the left-field fence during the seventh inning, to deadlock the score at 3-3.

William Paterson manufactured a run in the bottom of the seventh to regain the lead, as Limone roped a single to right-center to lead off, was sacrificed to second by Laguerre, and Guadango hit a hard shot up the middle, making it a 4-3 game.

Tussey was 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs, while Toth was 2-for-5 with a two-run double to lead TCNJ. Laguerre, Joyce and Gregory each had two hits for William Paterson.

Senior Bob Buskett (Trenton, N.J./Notre Dame) took the win (5-1), allowing 10 hits and four earned runs in 8.0 innings. Gertie picked up his sixth save of the year with 1.0 inning of scoreless relief. Sophomore Scott Zirul (Cedar Grove, N.J./Cedar Grove) started for the Pioneers and gave up five hits and three runs (two earned) in 6.1 innings, while Schlitzer took the hard-luck loss (3-3) in 2.2 innings of relief.

During the opener, the Lions pushed four runs across during their first at-bat and never looked back, taking advantage of three first-inning hits and two Pioneer errors. Kropp’s sacrifice fly nudged TCNJ ahead 5-0 in the third, and the Lions broke the game wide open with five scores in the fourth, as Matt Barrett’s (Pennington, N.J./Hopewell Valley) two-run single helped make it a 10-0 game.

TCNJ extended its lead to 12-0 with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth before the Pioneers were able to break through and post two scores during the home-half of the inning after Perrone knocked in Ganz and Scott Fischer (Woodcliff Lake, N.J./Pascack Hills) with a base hit up the middle. WP plated two more runners after a throwing error in the sixth, and TCNJ finished the first game’s scoring with a Kropp RBI-triple and a Tyler Hall (Stockton, N.J./Immaculata) run-scoring single.

Tussey was 3-for-6 and scored two runs, Mazzaccaro was 2-for-3 with three runs and two RBI, and Kropp was 2-for-4 with four RBI, a triple and two runs.

Junior Will Courter (Roseland, N.J./West Essex) was 2-for-3 at the plate to pace the Pioneers. Laguerre added a 2-for-4 effort with a double.

Senior Mike Oliver (Crosswicks, N.J./Hamilton West) improved to 5-0 with 8.0 innings of seven-hit ball, allowing four runs (three earned) with seven strikeouts and six walks. Freshman Chris Mongelli (Riverdale, N.J./Pompton Lakes) fell to 2-3 after allowing 10 runs (five earned) over 3.1 innings.

Prior to the doubleheader, William Paterson honored former head coach Jeff Albies, who retired last summer after winning 862 games during his 33 seasons, including 11 NJAC titles, seven regional crowns and the 1992 and 1996 NCAA Division III national championships.

William Paterson will return to action Tuesday, April 22, at RPI at 4:00 p.m. TCNJ will play at Johns Hopkins April 21 at 3:30 p.m.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers baseball team mounted a two-out rally for the second-straight day but fell just short as USF escaped with a series-clinching, 6-4, victory Saturday afternoon in front of a season-high 673 fans at Bainton Field.

Rutgers cut USF\’s lead to a pair of runs and loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, but could not produce another score as the Bulls (20-18, 8-9 BIG EAST) won their second-straight, tight game to take the series from the Scarlet Knights (13-21-1, 5-9 BIG EAST).

USF\’s Trey Manz led off the third with a ground-rule double and came around to score the Bulls\’ first run later in the inning.

A one-out single back up the middle from Bulls\’ DH Stephen Hunt brought in two runs in the fourth to give USF a 3-0 lead.

Back-to-back doubles to the gap in left center field from Jarred Jimenez (Monroe, N.J.) and Pat Biserta (Point Pleasant, N.J.) gave the Scarlet Knights\’ their first run of the game, trimming USF\’s lead to 3-1.

However, the Bulls used five hits in the fifth inning, including a pair of run-scoring doubles from Addison Maruszak and Joey Angelberger, to score three runs in the frame and build a 6-1 lead.

Rutgers capitalized on a USF error in the sixth to bring home two runs and make it 6-3. Freshman Jaren Matthews (Teaneck, N.J.) stepped to the plate with one out and Jimenez (single) on second, and Tom Edwards (West Caldwell, N.J.) (walk) on third, and hit a ground ball to the shortstop. Matthews, who had beaten the throw to first as Edwards crossed home plate, raced to second when the throw bounced in front of the first baseman and came to a rest in foul territory, allowing Jimenez to come around and score on the play.

With the three-run lead, USF went to its closer, Shawn Sanford for the second-straight day and Rutgers mounted a comeback against the Bulls\’ hurler for the second-straight day. Sophomore Jayson Hernandez (Belmar, N.J.) began the two-out rally with a single to center field and Vic Cegles (Phoenix, Ariz.) followed with a double to the gap in right-center field. Senior Donny Callahan (Sparta, N.J.) then hit a grounder up the middle and beat the throw to first for an infield single as Hernandez crossed home. Sanford then walked Betteridge on four pitches to load the bases for Edwards. The Bulls yanked Sanford in favor of lefty David Torcise against the lefty Edwards. Edwards worked the count to 3-1 before popping up to the shortstop, allowing the Bulls to escape with the victory.

USF\’s Randy Fontanez (3-3) got the win with four strikeouts and three runs (two earned) on six hits seven innings of work, while Rutgers\’ Kyle Bradley (Howell, N.J.) (0-2) took the loss with six runs on 10 hits in 4.1 innings. Senior Matt Patterson (Passaic, N.J.) worked four scoreless innings of relief for RU.

Cegles\’ double extended his hitting streak to 10 games, while Biserta posted his third, three-hit game in the last five contests.

The Scarlet Knights and Bulls will conclude their series with Sunday\’s series finale. First pitch has been changed to 11:00 a.m. where Rutgers righty Jason Downey (Ballston Lake. N.Y.) will get the ball against USF righty Derrick Stultz.