Cliff Ruggiero

Shore Sports Network is proud to unveil its 2015 All-Shore teams and season-ending award winners featuring the top performers from the 2014-2015 Shore Conference wrestling season. The teams were selected by SSN's Bob Badders after careful analysis of this season's results, with a heavier emphasis on head-to-head wins and postseason performance...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for updates of the state tournament. Semifinals Results Brackets ATLANTIC CITY — For a program as storied as Brick Memorial, it’s not every day the Mustangs do something unprecedented. Yet on Saturday at Boardwalk Hall, four Brick Memorial wrestlers combined to turn in a day for the ages and move within one victory of being crowned a state champion...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for updates from the state tournament.    Tweets by @Bob_Badders   NJSIAA Tournament At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City CLICK HERE FOR BRACKETS Semifinals   106 Pat Glory (Delbarton) d. Rich Koehler ...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for updates from the state tournament. CLICK HERE FOR BRACKETS  ATLANTIC CITY — When Matt Wilhelm was getting ready for the state tournament this time last season, he saw his seed and let it psych him out...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore. Click here for video highlights TOMS RIVER — Since the start of the NJSIAA Team Tournament, Brick Memorial’s Cliff Ruggiero has been wrestling on a different level...

TOMS RIVER - The NJSIAA Region VI Tournament is already a cutthroat affair, so things can get complicated when the wrestler standing across from you is a good friend. That was the case on Saturday afternoon in front of a capacity crowd at Pine Belt Arena when Brick Memorial senior Alec Donovan and Pinelands senior Tom Poklikuha took the mat in the 145-pound championship bout...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore.  VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS BRICK TOWNSHIP — The best-case scenario according to Matt Wardlaw was to somehow make it through the NJSIAA District 23 Tournament, which was not exactly a given for a wrestler who entered the individual postseason as the No...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore.   2015 NJSIAA District 23 Tournament Saturday Feb. 21 at Brick Memorial  Click here for brackets Prelims and quarterfinals, 10 a.m. Semifinals, 1 p.m. ...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS BRICK TOWNSHIP — The mantra all year for Brick Memorial has been 14 wrestlers simply “doing their jobs.” Senior Connor Owen says he was just doing his part Friday night, but his latest task was no simple request...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore. *Click here for video highlights* *Click here for a photo gallery by B51 Photography*   BRICK TOWNSHIP — The black, red and white of Jackson Memorial, and the green, gold and black of Brick Memorial. The...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore. *Click here for video highlights*   BRICK TOWNSHIP — When Brick and Brick Memorial get together - in any sport - it’s an event the fan base salivates over, and when both wrestling teams in one of New Jersey’s best grappling towns are at a high level, the hype only grows. ...