Thursday Mixed Bag

A little of this and a little of that this morning:

Congratulations to the Berkeley Little League for being selected by the Positive Coaching Alliance as a winner of the Honoring the Game Award.
They were one of three organizations from around the country chosen for the award with the others being from Illinois & Hawaii. Under President Bob Everett the Berkeley Little League has taken the lead in stressing the importance of knowing what the priorities should be when it comes to the youth sports experience. They and the other winners will be honored at Stanford University on April 24th during the 8th annual National Youth Sports Awards dinner hosted by Positive Coaching Alliance.

Meanwhile the little league will hold a Texas Hold’em Charity Poker Tournament this Saturday at the Bayville Elks Lodge which they hope will be the final fundraiser to complete the new Volunteer Community Center at their Moorage Avenue baseball complex. Their will be a $2500 grand prize plus many other prizes. For information you can visit their web site at www.berkeleylittleleague.org.

The Brick Memorial Girls Basketball team won back-to-back NJISIAA Tournament games the last two nights which in itself is noteworthy. The Mustangs had never won a state playoff game before Tuesday’s win over Sayreville and they came back last night to beat Class A South co-champion Jackson Memorial. That victory puts them in the Central Jersey Group 4 semifinals against Montgomery Friday evening. Coach Rayna Post’s team also does good things off the court as last month they raised almost $1000 for the American Cancer Society in a game against the Jaguars. The team wore pink “Teaming Up to Defeat Cancer” shirts that were donated by Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick, a former Lakewood BlueClaw.

The Jackson Memorial High School Athletic Department will hold their Winter Sports Awards Night on Monday, March 23rd in the Fine Arts Auditorium during which Scott Goodale will be inducted into the high school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. He is the head wrestling coach at Rutgers University and before that was the Jaguars highly successful wrestling coach and an assistant football coach. A 1990 Jackson graduate, Goodale earned 10 varsity letters in football, wrestling and golf during his high school days.