Craig Larsen

With less time on the mound and more time at shortstop, Craig Larsen was a force on both offense and defense for Toms River North in 2018.

Jon Giordano homered and Brendan Mullins, Jared Bellissimo and Craig Larsen added to their winning resume by leading Toms River North past Toms River East for its third straight Ocean County Tournament title.

Craig Larsen delivered a clutch go-ahead double to make a winner out of Jared Bellissimo as Toms River North avenged two regular-season losses to Jackson Memorial and reach the OCT final for the third straight year.

Jon Giordano pitched and hit his Toms River North squad past previously-undefeated Toms River East Tuesday.

CBA's Nick Hohenstein and Pinelands junior duo Joey Ventresca and Noah Dean committed this past week to close out a busy August of Shore Conference baseball players committing to Division I programs.

PHILADELPHIA - The first Carpenter Cup semifinal Friday at Citizens Bank Park looked early on like it would be another low-scoring, pitcher-friendly game involving the Jersey Shore. Once the second wave of players entered the game in the fifth inning, however, an full-on slugfest erupted and the Shore squad had enough firepower to advance to the championship game with a 12-7 win over Olympic-Colon

LAKEWOOD - For four innings of the Shore Conference Tournament championship game against Red Bank Catholic on Sunday night at FirstEnergy Park, Toms River North junior right-hander Craig Larsen was on course to reach the ultimate individual accomplishment for a pitcher...

TOMS RIVER - For the second straight year, the Toms River North baseball team entered the Ocean County Tournament disappointed about coming up short of a Shore Conference Class A South championship. And for the second straight year, the Mariners took out their frustrations on the rest of Ocean County by winning a tournament championship...

TOMS RIVER - Toms River North senior Mike Nyisztor led the Shore Conference in hits as a junior in 2016 and is hitting .452 as a senior this year, so it is not hard to figure out why, with a base open in the top of the fifth inning and the Ocean County Tournament semifinal game hanging in the balance, Toms River South chose to intentionally walk the Mariners shortstop...

Toms River North junior Craig Larsen is technically a returning starter for the Mariners this season, but there were times during his sophomore season in which he played second base but gave way to a designated hitter on offense. In Toms River North's Strike Out Autism Awareness game on Saturday, Larsen slotted into the No...