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.
- Along the scholastic sports beat, there are always questions, questions, questions. . . . Which South Jersey teams have the best chance to bring home NJSIAA state wrestling championships?
- Indianapolis Colts middle linebacker Gary Brackett, the pride of Glassboro High and a man who has more inner strength than most of us, will be the only South Jersey representative in next Sunday's Super Bowl against the Chicago Bears.
- There are rumblings that, once again, a proposal for statewide football playoffs is in the works. The rumblings are true, and the plan being discussed makes a lot of sense.
- The loudest, rowdiest boys' basketball fans in South Jersey are the ones who chant (sometimes in bad taste) and cheer for St. Augustine Prep, a tiny all-boys school nestled in the woods of Atlantic County.
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