Katrina Martinelli had four goals and three assists as Moorestown beat Mountain Lakes, 11-8 in Saturday's girls' lacrosse Tournament of Champions final at Rutgers.
It was the 10th consecutive TOC championship for Moorestown and the 210th striaght win agaisnt a New Jersey team.
Ranked No. 1 in The Inquirer's South Jersey Super Six and No. 1 in the state by Laxpower.com, Moorestown finished its season 25-1.
Bob Cabnet was at the game and will have a report in The Inquirer.
Saturday's New Jersey state finals in baseball and softball have been postponed until Sunday.
There are four teams from the seven-county South Jersey area who are involved. Here are their rescheduled games.
Baseball
Group 3 state final: Shawnee vs. JFK Iselin, Sunday 1 p.m. at Toms River East.
Softball
Non-Public B final: St. Joseph vs. Montclair Kimberly, Sunday 10 a.m. at Toms River North.
State Group 4 final: Williamstown vs. Union, Sunday 3 p.m. at Toms River East.
State Group 1 final: Gloucester vs. Saddle Brook, Sunday 3 p.m. at Toms River North.
I've been covering South Jersey softball for The Inquirer for three years, but Tuesday was the first time that I saw a triple play.
Gloucester Catholic's Brianna Rodriguez started it with a shoestring catch at third base with Bishop Ahr runners on first and second. Rodriguez fired the ball to first-baseman Shayla Giosa for the second out. Giosa threw to second-baseman Christina Matranga for the third out.
Unfortunately for the Rams, they lost, 2-1, and Bishop Ahr captured the Non-Public South Jersey A championship.
BILL IEZZI
It was a mixed bag for the 2 area baseball teams (out of 7) that played in the PIAA state baseball playoffs today. Both at the AAA level, District 12 champ Neumann-Goretti knocked off Twin Valley, 1-0, and District 1 titlist Upper Merion fell to Abington Heights, 6-1. Here are tomorrow’s rescheduled games:
Class AAAA
North Penn vs. Council Rock North, at Spring-Ford High, 3 p.m.
St. Joseph’s Prep vs. West Chester East, at Glen Mills Schools, 4 p.m.
Class AA
New Hope-Solebury vs. Brandywine Heights, Sammy Balliet Stadium in Coplay, 2:30 p.m.
Neumann-Goretti needed only two hits to knock off Twin Valley. The Saints were blessed to have Mark Donato, a 6-foot, 205-pound junior southpaw, on the hill. He struck out 11 and yielded only two hits in a complete-game effort. He threw 95 pitches, 58 for strikes. On this overcast day, that was enough to earn his team a semifinal meeting with Abington Heights on Monday at a site and time to be determined.
N-G’s two hits, both singles, were provided by CF Dom Riverso (second inning) and LF Reno Regalbuto (third). It scored an unearned run in the third. The sequence: SS Marty Venafro led off and reached base on a fielding error by TV’s 3B. DH Nicky Nardini grounded out to first base, moving Venafro to second. Regalbuto dropped down a bunt that died to the right of pitcher Eric Greedy, who slipped while making the scoop. It would have been a tough out anyway. Venafro to third. With 3B Al Baur batting, Regalbuto successfully stole second. On the throw from the catcher, which was well off the bag, Venafro hurried home. The Raiders argued that SS Jesse May had made the tag, but a conference between the 2B and 1B umpire resulted in no change. NG 1, TV 0. That’s how it ended.
Here is N-G’s box:
AB R H RBI
Regalbuto, LF 2 0 1 0
Baur, 3B 3 0 0 0
Donato, P 3 0 0 0
Rodriguez, PR 0 0 0 0
Armata, C 3 0 0 0
M. Riverso, 1B 1 0 0 0
D. Riverso, CF 2 0 1 0
Fulginiti, 2B 2 0 0 0
Venafro, SS 2 1 0 0
Nardini, DH 2 0 0 0
Snyder, RF 0 0 0 0
IP H R ER BB SO
Twin Valley
Geedey (L) 6 2 1 0 1 3
Neumann-Gor.
Donato (W) 7 2 0 0 2 11
-- Rick O'Brien
Glassboro senior Ryan Chance won the triple jump at the Meet of Champions tonight at South Plainfield.
Chance went 47-7 to capture an event that was dominated by South Jersey athletes. Haddon Height's Chris Roundtree took second, Penns Grove's Steve Brown took fourth and Timber Creek's Eric Smith took fifth.
Haddonfield junior Colin Baker set a school record by running 4:09.30 to take second in the 1600 meters. The old record was 4:15.5 by Chris Platt set in 2002.
Washington Township's Tim Carey was the top seed in the 400 meters hurdles but fell twice. He crashed over the 2nd hurdle, got up and fell again over the 8th hurdle.
Carey finished the race.
-- Phil Anastasia
The NJSIAA said that Thursday's Meet of Champions in track at South Plainfield would go on as scheduled.
The meet was postponed Wednesday due to the inclement weather.
Field events begin at 3:30 p.m. and the running events start at 4:30.
I was impressed by Gloucester Catholic catcher Colleen O'Donnell, who faced reporters almost immediately after she was involved in a play that lost the sectional championship game for the Rams Tuesday.
An umpire said O'Donnell didn't have control of the ball when she tagged a Bishop Ahr runner at the plate. As a result, Ahr won, 2-1, in extra innings.
Fighting back tears, O'Donnell said that in her opinion she had the ball and made the tag but it's the umpire's opinion that counts.
Then she congratulated the winners.
BILL IEZZI