Congratulations Patrick Kearns

A little of this and little of that as the first heat wave of the summer comes to an end….wait a second, its still spring. Anyway…you know what I mean:

Next week Patrick Kearns will graduate from Brick Township High School and despite being an honor roll student he is not heading right to college. Kearns is one of New Jersey’s premier ice hockey players so his immediate plans have him playing some junior hockey before heading to a four-year college or university.

He is planning on taking some courses while pursuing his hockey dreams and he’ll have an extra $1000 to help with those classes. Kearns was randomly selected from a group of 36 weekly winners as this year’s recipient of the WOBM/Gateway Toyota-Scion Student of the Week scholarship. The soon-to-be Green Dragon graduate is a shining example of what a student-athlete should be. He ranked in the top 10% of his senior class, is a Bloustein Distinguished Scholar, Boys State delegate recipient of the Art of Leadership award and a member of the National Honor Society and Interact Club. Kearns earned just about every hockey honor you can, including the Star Ledger’s Shore Conference Player of the Year. He also had the thrill of playing for his grandfather, legendary Brick coach Bob Auriemma while his teammates included a few cousins and his younger brother. Kearns plans on majoring in Education and of course playing hockey in the future. Congratulations to all our Student of the Week winners and we’re looking forward to partnering with Gateway Toyota-Scion again and bringing this program back for a 16th year in the fall.

Another frustrating night, or should I say morning for the Yankees as the Red Sox continue to beat up on them. Boston completed a second straight series sweep in the Bronx with an 8-3 victory and has won 8 of 9 meetings between the teams this season. Last night’s game was delayed nearly 3 ½ hours by rain and storms and did not end until 1:43 this morning. But then Yankee Stadium was pretty much empty and almost morgue-like.

So the first and unfortunately probably not last swimmer of the season is missing and presumed drowned. Searchers will be out again this morning looking for a 15-year old Neptune boy who was last seen swimming with friends Thursday in Bradley Beach. We say it time and time again but nobody should be swimming in the ocean when lifeguards are not on duty but unfortunately these tragedies keep occurring.