Jackson Memorial is the team to beat this year in the Shore Conference Tournament. The Jags are seeded #1 in the tournament and will have a bye in today’s round 1 action. Tomorrow, the Jags will play Brick Memorial at First Energy Park in Lakewood in the championship final of the Ocean County Tournament. [...]
Jackson Memorial clinched a tie for the Class A South title on Monday when they defeated Brick Memorial 3-0 in Brick. Anthony Rocco got the start for Jackson and threw 6 plus shutout innings. Brian Johnston, Ed Guippone and Brian Kenny each drove in a run in the Jags’ win. Toms River [...]
As a result of voting conducted online by volunteer District Administrators around the world, the Little League International Board of Directors on Saturday approved a measure to create a new division of Little League Baseball. The vote took place at the annual Spring Meeting, held at the Little League Western Region Headquarters in San Bernardino, [...]
Today, Jackson Memorial will play Brick Memorial in baseball. A win for the Jaguars will secure a tie Class A South championship title. If the Jaguars win and Toms River South loses their game to Southern Regional, they will be the outright Class A South champions. If both teams lose, they will in a [...]
Alex Daniele pitched 5 innings up shutout baseball against the Toms River North Mariners, just one day after the Mariners eliminated Jackson Liberty and exactly one year after the death of teammate James Volpe one year ago. Memorial scored 4 runs in the bottom of the first inning on three walks and a hit batter [...]
The Lions’ hopes of an Ocean County Tournament title came to a disappointing end with a tough 3-2 loss to the Mariners. John Holland pitched valiantly in defeat, going 6.2 innings, striking out 4, scattering 8 hits and walking only 1. Toms River North with strike first in the top of the 3rd inning when [...]
On Friday, all eyes were on Barnegat High School pitcher Mark McCoy as the Bengals came to Jackson Memorial High School to play the Jaguars in the Ocean County Tournament quarterfinals. That’s because McCoy brought a lot of new visitors to Jackson, Major League Baseball scouts from several different teams. They all came to see [...]
In 2011, the Jackson Memorial Lacrosse team did something no other high school from Ocean County has ever done. They made it to the Shore Conference Tournament lacrosse finals. They faced off against Rumson Fair Haven who had reached and lost the SCT finals three consecutive years prior. Rumson would go on [...]
New Egypt, NJ (May 5, 2012) – Ron John Koczon of New Egypt, NJ won his first feature in two years at New Egypt Speedway Saturday night winning the 30 lap main event sponsored by Downs Ford. Koczon passed race long leader Tim Tanner Jr. with just 8 laps remaining to score the popular win. [...]
Senior second baseman Ryan Guarino has been named East Stroudsburg University’s Championship Award Guys Athlete of the Week after earning a spot on the All-PSAC East baseball second team earlier this week. Guarino (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Memorial), a four-year starter, finished his career with an 18-game hitting streak by hitting safely in both games of a [...]
The Jackson Jaguars Pee Wee football team defeated Howell 30-6 on Sunday in the first ever Jersey Shore AYF spring football championships. Howell’s team was a hybrid of players from Howell, Long Branch and Asbury Park. After coming up as a club empty handed in the fall season, the Jaguars have won their [...]
Both Jackson Memorial and Jackson Liberty survived round one of the Ocean County Tournament. The Jaguars are the #1 seed and Liberty #4. Memorial defeated #16 Point Boro 9-3 on Saturday and will host #9 Barnegat on Thursday at home. Liberty started off by defeating #13 Monsignor Donovan 13-0 and will host #5 [...]
On Monday, Taylor Reynolds picked up his first career varsity win in relief. He threw the final 3 1/3 innings scattering 3 hits. Nick Petrizzo was 2-3 with a run scored and an RBI. Ed Guippone was 3-3 with a huge 2 run single in the bottom of the 6th. Matt Thaiss was 1-3 with [...]
Jackson Liberty bounced back from a tough week with a 13-0 trouncing of the Monsignor Donovan Griffins in a first round Ocean County Tournament game. Vin Sica, John Holland and Tyler Pallante combined on a 5-inning 1-hitter, striking out 8 Griffins in the process. The Lions struck early, putting up 4 runs in the bottom [...]
Keith Jennings picked up the win in relief of starter Jake Harlinski today as Jackson Memorial eliminated Point Boro in the Ocean County Tournament. Jennings threw the final four innings scattering 2 hits and striking out 3 while walking 1. Brian Kenny was 1 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI. Matt Thaiss [...]
(view a gallery of photos of John Pangborn on Photobucket!) High Jumper John Pangborn commits to University of Rhode Island John Pangborn is a senior at Jackson Liberty High School, co-captain of the Lions Track & Field team, and a veteran high jumper. Last week he fully committed to a NCAA Division I college, University of Rhode [...]
April 24th, 2012 Both the Liberty boys’ and girls’ track & field teams went into Point Boro and came out victorious. The girls team dominated in nearly all events, Pt. Boro could hardly score a point. The boys team, however, came in pumped, but knew they must not slip up in any events, as [...]
Rain showers that were forecasted for late night on Saturday moved into the New Egypt area with just one lap remaining in the Modified consolation event, forcing the postponement of all of the scheduled feature events. With Twin 20 lap Modified features on the schedule, along with features for the Sportsman and Outlaw Stocks still [...]
Defending World Champion Maximum Destruction came away with a combined sweep in all events this weekend at Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam in Moline, Illinois at the i Wireless Center. By Scott Douglass Friday night Ten-time World Champion Tom Meents dominated an incredible night of Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam in Moline, Maximum Destruction winning three [...]
Last season, the Jackson Liberty Lions stunned the Jackson Memorial Jaguars at First Energy Park when they defeated their crosstown rivals for the first time in school history. This year, the Jags were intent on not letting history repeat itself. In the bottom of the first inning, Memorial starting pitcher, Brian Kenny started things [...]
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