Joe Mazza

After sharing the 2023 division title, Point Beach and St. Rose will battle it out for the Class B Central championship again in 2024.

A strong rotation and a balanced lineup is par for the course at Manalapan and the Braves have the right mix to make a lot of noise again in 2021.

Even in a 24-win, championship season in 2019, Manalapan found out how unfair life can be. That reality check continues in 2020 for one of the Shore's perennial contenders.

Manalapan scored three times with two outs in the sixth inning and senior Ben Levine gutted out seven innings on the mound to lead the Braves to their first Central Group IV title in seven years.

After knocking off Hunterdon Central Wednesday to reach the Central Jersey Group IV final, Manalapan earned its first trip to the Shore Conference final Thursday with a win over Wall.