The 10th anniversary season of the Lakewood BlueClaws has been a very good one and tonight they begin the playoffs which the team hopes will produce a second straight South Atlantic League Championship. The BlueClaws are in Hickory, North Carolina to open a best-of-3 series with the Crawdads. The series moves to FirstEnergy Park Friday night and if necessary the teams will play a third and deciding game in the first round series on Saturday night. All games start at 7:05 and can be heard on WOBM AM 1160 & 1310, the flagship radio station of the Phillies’ Class-A team. Should Lakewood prevail in the first round they would meet either Greenville or Savannah in the championship series.
The BlueClaws not only posted a franchise-record best 84-55 record but they led the South Atlantic League in attendance for the tenth consecutive season with nearly 432,000 fans coming through the turnstiles at FirstEnergy Park.
Two members of the team’s front office staff have earned post-season awards from the league. Jim DeAngelis was named South Atlantic League Community Relations Director of the Year for the third time while Director of Inside Sales Lisa Carone was named the league’s Female Executive of the Year. DeAngelis is an original member of the BlueClaws front office staff while Carone joined the team in 2006.
If you watched Penn State’s season-opening 44-14 win over Youngstown State Saturday you might have noticed that Glenn Carson made his Nittany Lions debut. The 2008 Southern Regional High School graduate played on special teams and also saw 4th quarter action at the fullback position. That was a surprise to me because as recently as last week Carson was listed as the 3rd team middle linebacker on the team’s depth chart. However reportedly he was shifted to fullback later in the week and #40 made a crushing block shortly after entering the game. Carson and the Nittany Lions travel to Tuscaloosa later this week for a nationally televised matchup Saturday night against Alabama, the nation’s top-ranked team.
The high school football season opens this weekend with our Shore Sports Network broadcasting Friday’s Toms River East at Toms River South contest on 105.7FM. More on that later in the week.
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