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BRICK TWP. - During Ken Frank's four decades as the head coach at Toms River South, any player that entered as a freshman is all but assured to be part of a program that wins a championship at the varsity level. The Indians players from the Class of 2016 have made it to this point in their careers without one of those "balls on the wall" as Frank calls them - referring to the baseball pl

LAKEWOOD - An injury of any kind coupled with only three days of rest between starts might have prevented most pitchers from pitching under the circumstances that Christian Brothers Academy senior Luca Dalatri performed under Wednesday night at FirstEnergy Park in the Monmouth County Tournament final...

MANASQUAN - It took well-placed ground ball to the left side of the infield Tuesday afternoon to shift Manasquan junior left-hander Tommy Sheehan from focusing on one of the greatest individual feats a pitcher can achieve to simply winning the biggest game of his Manasquan baseball team's season...

RED BANK - Red Bank Catholic head baseball coach Buddy Hausmann believes one of the reasons his team has lost only one game this season and entered Saturday on an 11-game winning streak is because the Caseys have nine players in the batter order and even a handful of additional players on the bench who have come up with multiple big hits this season...

By Ella Brockway SSN Correspondent MIDDLETOWN - In his first appearance back on the mound after spending the past two-and-a-half weeks sidelined with a hamstring injury, CBA senior pitcher Luca Dalatri opened the No. 1 seed Colts’ Monmouth County Tournament semifinal matchup against No...

FARMINGDALE - A walk-off loss toward the end of its divisional scheduled doomed St. Rose in its chase for the 2015 Shore Conference Class B Central championship and Monday's loss had the potential to do the same this year. The Purple Roses, however, had an immediate chance at redemption Thursday afternoon and, fittingly enough, it came against the Mater Dei Prep team that beat St...

BARNEGAT - Barnegat head baseball coach Dan McCoy used the term "rusty" to describe senior ace Jason Groome's performance Saturday, his first since the NJSIAA ruled him ineligible to pitch for 19 days due to a violation of the state's transfer rules...

RED BANK – Over the past several days, the NJSIAA has faced a significant amount of public backlash for enforcing the letter of the law in a case that adversely affected the highest-profile amateur baseball player in the country, who made a seemingly noble decision to leave a national power to play with his childhood friends for his hometown school...

BRICK TWP. - It's often said of young, inexperienced teams like the one the Jackson Memorial baseball program has this season that they take their cues from the few members of the team that have experience. According to Jaguars coach Frank Malta, however, his new starters have energized returning seniors Kyle Johnson and Chris Hawryluk and ignited one of the Shore's best starts to the season... Re

MIDDLETOWN - When Christian Brothers Academy senior catcher Brandon Martorano crushed a go-ahead home run in the top of the eighth inning Wednesday against Shore Conference Class A North rival Middletown South, senior teammate Luca Dalatri fell in line to win his 23rd straight decision as a varsity pitcher...

HOWELL - The current crop of Howell baseball seniors began to make an impact four years ago when current senior Troy Miller played as a freshman infielder, primarily at shortstop. After marking the beginning of the Class of 2016, Miller is now making his mark at the end, both of his career and of games...

With a potential multi-million-dollar payday from a Major League organization in his near future, the safest thing for Barnegat senior left-hander Jason Groome to do was to follow the usage plan mapped out by his coaches a representation and give up the ball after the sixth inning Monday against Central Regional...