SEACAUCUS -- Millville centerfielder Mike Trout is the only player who has been spotted so far at Major League Baseball's First-Year Player Draft, but there won't be a shortage of baseball celebrities.

The draft, televised at the MLB Network studios, is filled with baseball royalty.

It's an impressive list of people who have been recruited by the Major League teams to represent them at the draft. Each club is required to have at least one representative.

For instance, representing the Phillies is the manager of the 1980 champion Dallas Green.

Hall of Famerer Al Kaline is representing the Detroit Tigers. Fellow Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski can be seen sitting at the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Unlike the NFL, NBA and NHL draft, there aren't expected to be many potential draft choices in attendance, but the ex-players have created a buzz in Studio 42.

Trout is projected as a first round pick. The draft begins at 6 p.m. and each team has four minutes to make a pick in the first round and one minute afterwards.

There will be 111 selections tonight, covering the first three rounds and compensation picks.

SEACAUCUS, NJ -- About an hour and a half before tonight's Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, one of the stars of the show arrived.

Millville centerfielder Mike Trout, a projected first-round pick is attending the draft, which is being televised from Studio 42 at the MLB Network.

Trout came with his family and he's being shown around the studio, given the star treatment.

No other projected draft choices have been spotted and it's possible that Trout could be the only one here.

"I'm a little nervous," he said before being given the studio tour.

Trout is hoping to become South Jersey's first first-rounder since Bishop Eustace shortstop was taken with the ninth overall pick in the 2006 draft by Baltimore.

The draft begins at 6 p.m. and teams have four minutes between picks in the first round. For Trout, the wait could feel like an eternity.

The South Jersey Coaches Association has named Williamstown's Katie Trotter as Player of the Year and Gloucester's Taylor Chain as Pitcher of the Year.

BILL IEZZI

Cherokee softball coach Nicole Lum tonight was named Coach of the Year by the South Jersey Coaches Association.

Cherokee caught the experts by surprise this season when the Chiefs won the Olympic Conference American Division with an 8-0 record and made it to a South Jersey Group 4 semifinal, where they lost to Toms River East, 8-0.

The only other loss on their 21-2 record was to Gloucester Catholic, 2-1.

BILL IEZZI

Add Williamstown, circa 2008-2009, to the list of the best softball teams in South Jersey history.

Not convinced? Consider that the Braves became the first South Jersey team to ever win consecutive state titles in either Group 4 or Group 3.

They won their second straight Group 4 crown with a 3-0 win over Union today at Toms River East.

Most impressive: Williamstown won two titles in two different ways. Last year, they followed dominating pitcher Rachael Matreale. This year, it was defense, clutch hitting and knack for the dramatic that produced another title.

"Pretty awesome," Williamstown pitcher Katie Trotter said today.

-- Phil Anastasia

Taylor Chain and her Gloucester City teammates beat Saddle Brook, 3-0, for the Group 1 state softball title because they refused to lose this afternoon at Toms River North.

The determinaton started in the circle with Chain, who said that in the seventh and final inning she was not going to allow a run. And she didn't.

Chain struckout the first batter. The second hitter got on base on an error. But Chain got the next two out on a fly ball and a strikeout, her 18th of the game.

BILL IEZZI

The Camden girls' track team was conspicuous by its near absence in the results Thursday.   

The Panthers, who ran away with sectional and state Group 2 titles, placed third in the MOC 4x4 relays. And that quartet wasn't the usual one.

Injuries prevented Camden from realizing its potential, according to Camden coach Avis Satterfield.

BILL IEZZI