Brandon Mology

WALL TWP. - St. Rose junior Will Gannon's first swing of Saturday's Monmouth County Tournament round-of-16 game against Marlboro was more than just a leadoff double to deep left field: it was a message. With his team facing its first deficit of the season and Marlboro left fielder Mark Ventre playing shallow, Gannon let the Mustangs it would take a lot more than one run to beat the Purple Roses an

Most high school teams in any sport would take pleasure in dominating the competition the way the St. Rose baseball team has this year, but these Purple Roses find themselves in an all-too familiar position heading into this weekend's Monmouth County Tournament play...

WALL TOWNSHIP - First-year St. Rose baseball coach Rich Lanko doesn't want to get too ahead of himself in the early going, but he has to admit that the group he inherited reminds him an awful lot of some other special Purple Roses teams. Lanko was an assistant under former coach Jim Agnello when St...

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...