Category: Brick Bulletin Sports

Kyle Marino pinned both opponents at 72 pounds, while Dan Rackliffe at 78 pounds, Brian Matthews at 107 and heavyweight Nick Zbranak raised their records to 60 as the unbeaten Brick Recreation Mat Rats I swept both matches in the Jersey Shore Junior Wrestling League at Stafford. The double-dual meet was rescheduled from last month…

BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer BRICK TOWNSHIP — It’s early for Brick Memorial High School girls basketball coach Rayna Post to get a reliable reading, especially with the havoc of postponements from the snowy weather during the first two weeks of the basketball season. But Post is encouraged with what she has seen so far,…

Dan Rackliffe at 77 pounds and Nick Zbranak at 171 pounds pinned their respective opponents in the championship finals while Dean Sherry, at 97 pounds, Brian Matthews, at 112, and seventh-grader Dom Spampanato, at 134, also were weight-class champions as Lake Riviera Middle School finished second in the Brawl at the Beach Tournament in Point…

BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer The challenges Patrick Dowling faced going into the Brick Township High School football season were as much in his own backyard as in the team’s challenging schedule in the Shore Conference Constitution Division. Brick’s Nick Lantieri, 15, retrieves a pair of skates for someone at the Ocean Ice Palace, Brick,…

Mustangs will lose number of key players to graduation this June BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Brick Memorial High School’s football team will commemorate a great 7-5 season that ended in the NJSIAA Group IV championship game during a season-ending surge of five wins in the last six games. But coach Walt Currie also wants…

BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer It was a holiday break for some but former Brick Township High School baseball star Joe Testa is still hard at work preparing for the start of spring training for the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers, Fla. The left-handed relief pitcher, who now lives in Jackson, said he is scheduled…

2009 Women’s Professional Soccer Champions Sky Blue FC is hosting its final open tryouts on Jan. 5 and 6 at Robbinsville Field House, 153 Manor Way in Robbinsville. The deadline to register is Jan. 3. The Sky Blue FC open tryouts are intended for college seniors or players who have completed their college eligibility, and…

BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Lindsay Poplaski is looking forward to a big year for herself and the Towson University, Maryland, gymnastics team. The former balance beam state champion at Brick Township High School is ready and eager for the season that goes into full throttle in a few days. She’ll compete in the all-around…

BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Staff Writer Lake Riviera Middle School’s threetime Ocean County Blue Division championship wrestling team has the makings of another fine season, despite seeing its 27-match unbeaten streak halted by Southern. Just how good the team is will be realized on Jan. 30 in the Ocean County Middle Schools Blue Division tournament, followed…