Welcome April

First of all no April Fool’s pranks this year…I promise.

One of the truly great football rivalries in the shore is the one between Neptune and Asbury Park. The two Monmouth County schools have been playing on Thanksgiving Day for 82 years with Neptune holding a slight advantage in the series. There’s now an interesting twist to the rivalry in that Don Sofilkanich is leaving Asbury Park to take the head coaching position at Neptune. Sofilkanich turned the Blue Bishop program around in his three years, winning three consecutive Central Jersey Group 1 Championships and piling up an impressive 33-3 record. He leaves the Blue Bishops for a Scarlet Fliers team that has been in the state playoffs the last two years and returns highly-regarded running back Charles Davis.
Sofilkanich replaces John Fiore, who might not have been re-hired but resigned before a final decision was made. Fiore was recently named the head coach at Montclair High School. There are still two schools that don’t have coaches in place for next season….Freehold Township and now Asbury Park.

It should be a magnificent Easter Sunday and once again Seaside Heights will hold its annual contest to find the best Easter outfits. There will be cash prizes in several categories and registration begins at 11am outside the information booth on the boardwalk at Webster Avenue. The contest itself will be held on the Franklin Avenue stage at 1pm and the MC’s will be Joe Giglio and Mike Krenek, co-hosts of Millennium Radio’s “Shore Sports Report.” Easter Sunday in Seaside Heights will also feature bike raffles and flowers being given away by the Mayor and Borough Council.

Couldn’t help but notice that when the Jackson Township School District introduced their budget it included a plan to charge students $25 to participate in activities and $50 to play sports. This has been done in other states for years and I am sure it will be commonplace around here before too long.