Sports Friday

A few sports notes heading into the first weekend without Pro Football, unless you count the Pro Bowl which nobody does.

Congratulations to Brick Memorial for clinching the Class A South boys basketball championship with a 72-68 win over Southern last night behind Matt O’Brien’s 25 points. The division title is the first for third year coach Ed Sarluca Jr, whose Mustangs are 15-4 overall. A big win last night as well for Monsignor Donovan as the Griffins edged Point Boro 43-41 in a game we broadcast on the Shore Sports Network. Sophomore Sean Grennan scored 19 points and was named our Ocean Trophies Player-of-the-Game. Donovan can claim the Class B South title with wins at home next week over Lakewood and Pinelands.

On the girls side Manchester is within one victory of finishing a perfect Class B South schedule. The Lady Hawks got 22 points from Camille Valmon last night in a win over Central and are 13-0 in division play and
16-2 overall.

Recently retired Brick Township High School football coach Warren Wolf will be honored tonight at a dinner at the Tropicana in Atlantic City hosted by the Shore Coaches Foundation. The event will take place during the Nike Coaches Clinic run by Lacey coach Lou Vircillo and I will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Among those expected to attend are Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, former Tennessee and Pittsburgh coach Johnny Majors and Arizona’s Mike Stoops. Assistant coaches Dick Anderson of Penn State and Joe Susan of Rutgers are scheduled speakers at the dinner honoring Wolf, who won more games than any other coach in New Jersey history. A replacement has not yet been named.

On the subject of success there has never been anyone like Tennessee’s Pat Summit who last night became the first Division 1 coach, man or woman, to win 1,000 games when the Lady Vols crushed Georgia in Knoxville. Summit has coached at Tennessee since 1974 and her overall record is 1000-187, including 8 National Championships.