Sports Shorts

Lori Kwiatkowski of Manalapan has been appointed the assistant director of athletics, NCAA compliance officer and assistant softball coach by Felician College. Lodi.

Kwiatkowski comes to Felician after two years as the head softball coach and instructor of exercise and sports sciences at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif. She coached eight National Fastpitch Coaches Association scholar-athletes and one All-American during her two years at Azusa. The Cougars had a 41-45 record.

Prior to Azusa, Kwiatkowski was the graduate assistant women’s basketball and softball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison (now FDU-Florham). The basketball team tied the school record for victories during her years at the school and was the ECAC Division III Metro runnerup. Kwiatkowski is a native of Allendale.

Freehold’s Keri Little is starting at midfield for the Rowan University women’s soccer team. In the Profs’ recent 5-2 win over Rutgers-Camden, Little, a senior, had an assist.

Rowan is 7-1 overall and 2-0 in New Jersey Athletic Conference play.

Genuwine was just that, setting a New Jersey Sire Stakes record of 1:54.1 for 2-year-old pacing colts and geldings in the $85,000 NJSS final at Freehold Raceway. Driven for the first time by Daniel Dube, the Cam’s Card Shark colt took the lead out of the gate, controlling the race from the front and winning by 2 1/2 lengths.

It was the second straight win and sixth in eight starts.

The stakes record that Genuwine broke was 1:54.4, shared by McArdle and Squaw’s Fellow.

In the second round of the NJSS for 3- year-old gelded pacers, another stakes division record fell. Jack Baggitt Jr. scored a 1:52.2 victory with Tiber Hanover. That broke the old mark for 3-year-old pacing geldings, which was 1:53 set by John Adams and matched by All Over The Place.

In the first division for 3-year-old pacers, Artzina won in 1:53.2 for Cat Manzi. Artzina was the Dan Patch Award winner in 2006 as the 2-year-old Pacer of the Year.

Monmouth Park and NJ Transit have combined forces in an effort to encourage fans to use public transportation to the racetrack during Breeders’ Cup Week, Oct. 24-27.

NJ Transit has scheduled expanded service to the racetrack for Breeders’ Cup Week. The special service on the North Jersey Coast Line includes hourly departures and arrivals at the Monmouth Park train station all four days. On Saturday, Oct. 27, NJ Transit will operate two additional trains during the morning from New York to Monmouth Park, and two additional trains after the races from Monmouth to New York.

There are five passes available. The four-day pass, which is valid on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Breeders’ Cup Week, is priced at $50. The three-day pass, good Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, is $40, and the two-day pass for Friday and Saturday, is $30.

Also available is a one-day pass for Friday, and a one-day pass for Saturday, each priced at $20.

Racing fans from outside the United States must email Sophia Mangalee in the Monmouth Park Marketing Department to purchase NJ Transit passes. The email address is [email protected].

The Monmouth Park station on NJ Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line is located on Port Au Peck Avenue. A new gate into the racetrack will be available across the street from the train station.