Seaside Board…Walk to D’Feet ALS

Over 750 people are expected to stroll the Seaside Heights boardwalk on Saturday, May 19th to raise money and awareness for ALS, which is commonly known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” The 2007 “ Seaside Board…Walk to D’Feet ALS” begins at 10am at Heiring Avenue, the northern end of the boardwalk and will once again feature cast members of “The Sopranos”, who will sign autographs for a donation. Last year the event raised over $144,000 and organizers hope to surpass that total. Registration is now being accepted and for information you can visit www.alsphiladelphia.org or call 1-877-GEHRIG-1.

The ALS Association is the official charity of the Philadelphia Phillies and their Lakewood affiliate will once again be doing their part. The BlueClaws will hold their 7th Annual ALS Fundraiser at Finnigan’s in Lakewood on Wednesday, May 23rd after their day game against Hagerstown. Players will wait tables and the coaches will tend bar with all tips as well as a percentage of the day’s revenues going to ALS. There will also be quite a few BlueClaws game-used and autographed items up for bid and players will be signing autographs. More than $50,000 has been raised through this event in the past and individuals and groups can call Finnigan’s to make reservations.

The Ocean County Baseball Tournament opens this Saturday with the 17 teams split in two groups by school size. Brick will host Division A were Toms River North is the top seed with Lakewood the site of Division B with Manchester seeded first. Two rounds will be completed Saturday leaving four teams with the semifinals to be played Monday and the championship game tentatively set for May 17th at First Energy Park.

In keeping with a pre-season promise let me offer my congratulations to the Toms River South Boys & Girls Golf teams for sweeping rival Toms River East for the first time ever. The girls completed that sweep earlier this week with solid efforts from Jordan Potter, Jen Russell, Carly Himmelman, Jillian McLeer & Sandy Ganter. Brian Wilkinson is the Girls Head Coach while Jim Francis coaches the boy’s team.

Meanwhile the Toms River North Girls won the Shore Conference Tournament yesterday for the second straight year and the Toms River North Boys Golf team is 18-1, won the Class “A South” championship and the Challenge Cup in which they beat the other Toms River schools.