Sorry for so much time between posts. Anyone who's been trying to put in or get out information from nj.com the last few days probably has a good guess as to what took so long. My hat's off to any coaches who managed to get match information into the system. Lots of teams that normally report full results only put in team scores... I get it. So I'm probably missing more honor scores than usual.
Anyway, starting with the boys. #9 Ocean Township wrapped up a great first half with a 2-1 win over St. Rose, with a set of 3265 in which all five bowlers were between 617 & 697 (Brian Davis). St. Rose looked pretty good too, finishing at 3037. In the Shore-South, #6 Toms River South continued their hot week with a 2-1 win over #7 Brick Township and a 3083 set.
Montville continues to dominate the NJAC South, shooting a 3100 (Erik Katterman's 733 led the way) against Delbarton and sitting at 49-0 after seven matches. Hudson Catholic and St. Peter's had a high-level, tightly contested match on Thursday, with St. Peter's winning 4-3 but HC outscoring them 3004-2986.
#16 Indian Hills put up a nice 4-man 2505 to pace the Big North on Thursday. GMC contender #8 South Brunswick put up 3096 & 3113 on back-to-back days.
#11 Cherry Hill East continues to look great, firing 3137 behind Emerson Levy's 747 in a 3-1 win over Eastern, but it was their Olympic Conference rival, Shawnee, that made big headlines on Wednesday.
#4 Shawnee shot the moon with a true 5-man set of 3404. Andrew Abbonizio (766), Chris Pagliuso (761) and Evan McNally (740) all went big, and along with teammates Tyler Gates and Nick Simonetti, the Renegades set a school series record, and put up the highest series in New Jersey this season.
That mark lasted about 24 hours.
On Thursday afternoon, GMC rivals #1 Woodbridge and #3 East Brunswick put on a perfomance for the ages. East Brunswick won game 1 1270 to 1211, which is amazing all by itself. Woodbridge came back to win games 2 & 3, carding games of 1140 & 1185 (which included a James Stoveken 300). When the dust settled, the Barrons had earned a 3-1 victory and posted a set of 3536, while East Brunswick couldn't have asked for more from their kids, who put up a season best 3376 in defeat.
Just from this match alone:
James Stoveken (W) 786
Jason Bilawsky (W) 709
Gabriel Navedo (W) 684
Kyle Bilawsky (W) 750
James Reitano (E) 696
Daniel Lenk (E) 689
Ethan Shamim (E) 639
Sam Bortnick (E) 673
Individual scores other than those listed above start with a fantastic 764 by Paramus Catholic freshman Louis Ferrante. Others:
Cameron LaPlant, JP Stevens 751
Gerard Chidichimo, Old Bridge 712
David Mac Gillivray, Barnegat 720
Jordan Malizia, Brick Township 739
On the girls' side, #1 Brick Memorial (2938, 3-0 over #7 TRN) and #2 Brick Township (2804, 3-0 over #5 TRS) continue to do what they do - and what they're doing is distancing themselves further from the rest of the contenders, as Brick Township's game average is seven pins clear of third place Manchester Township.
#11 Eastern continues to climb, shooting 2493 in a 4-0 win over Cherry Hill East. #14 Manasquan used big sets from Anna Foo (609) and Sarah Smith (634) in their win over Wall. #13 Lacey may be capable of making a run at Shore-South-B leaders #4 Manchester; Lacey's 2642 on Thursday was 8 pins better than Manchester's very solid total (of course, they were against different opponents).
The top 3 Big North squads all looked good this week: #9 Teaneck put up 2122 in a win over Old Tappan on Wednesday, and #10 Wayne Valley and #12 Holy Angels had a great duel on Thursday: Angels took the points (with help from Tiffany Sucero's 623) 4-3, Valley had the better score, 2081-2054, . (All Big North team totals are for 4 bowlers)
The GMC was starting look like it might be a two-team battle between #8 Edison (8-0, 31-1), who posted 2571 in a win over JP Stevens, and #19 South Plainfield (8-1-1, 33-7) who rode Lanasia Neal's 660 to a 2482 set. But Carteret, who just missed the rankings last week, may have something to say about it. The Ramblers moved to 10-1, 40-4 with a big 2581 set, which is the highest regular-season series by any GMC team this season (though Edison scored higher in the James tournament).
Maybe the biggest story on the girls side is that we've officially run out of superlatives to describe the performance by Toms River North freshman Kamerin Peters, who capped off the first half of her first season with a 258-268-237=763, bringing her average up to 218. "Wow" is all I've got.
Other 600s
Sarah Orensky, Freehold Township 622
Julianna Forbes, Brick Township 610
Victoria Gray, Brick Township 614
Amanda Shelters, Brick Memorial 634
Jillian Stuart, Brick Memorial 633
Sarah Pitcher, Brick Memorial 638
Kristen Benavente, Westwood 618
Shyann Hester, Franklin 617
Ok, that's it for the first half of 2016-17. We'll have mid-season rankings at some point during the break. Happy holidays to everyone, thanks for reading.
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