Carchidi's most recent book is Bill Campbell: The Voice of Philadelphia Sports, published by Middle Atlantic Press. In 2001, he co-authored Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story, about a Penn State player's remarkable recovery from a paralyzing spinal injury.
Carchidi's column appears in the Inquirer's South Jersey section on Tuesday, Thursday and Sundays.
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After more than three decades of covering S. Jersey high schools, it's time to move on.
South Jersey sports have always been close to my heart, and as I've always said, covering high school athletics is the most rewarding and inspiring job in the newspaper business.
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Reviewing the 2008 scholastic baseball season, ABC style.
A is for addition.
Junior shortstop Steve Bruno transferred from Philadelphia's St. Joseph's Prep to Gloucester Catholic during the season and promptly hit .541 with 12 extra-base hits and 15 RBIs in 11 games, helping the Rams make a late-season charge. Gloucester Catholic went 10-1 with Bruno - who has made an oral commitment to Virginia - and reached the NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public A final.
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Bouncing around the scholastic sports trail . . . And then there were none. In a shocking development, South Jersey - which rarely takes a backseat in the NJSIAA baseball tournament - has zero teams in Saturday's six state finals.
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WEST WINDSOR - Throughout the game, the animated baseball players in the Gloucester Catholic dugout, with Mike "Eli" Eliasen as the ringleader, shouted goofy, difficult-to-understand chants that sounded a little like when the Mass was said in Latin.
- One of three baseball teams will land at No. 1. Which one? There's no predicting.With the NJSIAA baseball tournament almost finished, we have learned that South Jersey's premier team is . . . Beats me.
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In Journalism 101, you are taught to accentuate the winners, not the losers, when covering a sporting event. Well, duh.
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When the NJSIAA baseball tournament rolls around, Audubon High seems to rise to another level. It's happening again this year as the fifth-seeded Green Wave have reached another sectional final.
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Shawnee's Quinton Miller and Mainland's Charlie Law are hard-throwing, senior righthanders who could be selected in the early rounds of Major League Baseball's first-year players' draft June 5.
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The championship game of the 35th annual Joe Hartmann Diamond Classic will be played Saturday at Deptford, where top-ranked Sacred Heart will face No. 2 Shawnee in the best baseball matchup of the season.
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If it's the NJSIAA baseball playoffs, it's time for Gloucester Catholic High to make a lasting impression. That's what history tells us, anyway.
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As the NJSIAA baseball tournament gets under way tomorrow, there are questions, questions, questions. Will Maple Shade, which is the top seed in the South Jersey Group 1 field, win its first sectional title since 1982, or will six-time defending champion Pennsville continue its tournament magic?
- Wilson's boys' basketball coach is stepping down. Camden's Turner is still in limbo.Bouncing around the South Jersey scholastic sports trail. For many seasons in the last three decades - particularly in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s - Camden and Woodrow Wilson have been among the elite in South Jersey boys' basketball.
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