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Jan 4 NJSIAA Group III Track & Field
Nottingham's Larry Pittman ran a strong heat but ended up eighth in the finals of today's 110 high hurdles (Photo by Wes "Media Mogul" Kirkpatrick.
’Stars don’t win a title, but still have a terrific day
By Rich Fisher
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      June 4:
Call it a case of frustrated happiness.
     Nottingham High’s boys track & field team was happy with all it did at the NJSIAA Group III Championship this weekend, but frustrated that it couldn’t do just a little bit more.
     The Northstars advanced six athletes in a total of six events to Thursday night’s Meet of Champions at Old Bridge. In today’s portion of the Group III meet, they had a high jump champion in Bill Kiernan and two second-place finishers in Robert Wiggs (long jump) and Jahvar Edwards (high jump).
      They also got a fourth from Jermaine Griffith in the 200, a fourth from Edwards in the long jump, and a fifth by the four-by-400 relay team of Dameon Haynes, Ayoub Kamara, Griffith and Wiggs. 
      There was indeed, a lot of good that was got.
     It’s what they didn’t get that was frustrating.
     The relay team was top-seeded coming in, and even a second-place finish would have given Nottingham the six extra points it needed to win a title. It didn’t help that Griffith got inadvertently blocked off trying to hand the baton to Wiggs for the anchor lap.
      Kamara, whose best event is the 200, was taking SATs in the morning and it wasn’t even certain if he would make it in time. As it was, he bolted from coach Jon Adams car and zipped up to the starting blocks just as the race was starting. Without a warm-up he finished a disappointing 11th.
Larry Pittman finished eighth in the 110 hurdles in a time of 16.69 after running a 15.11 in his preliminary heat.
      And then there was the absence of Wiggs in the triple jump and Griffith in the 100 due to their foul out and false start in last week’s sectionals, which prevented them from advancing to the Groups.
      “Five points, so close,” coach Jason “The Rock” Marasco said. “We beat ourselves, that’s what’s disappointing.
     “But I don’t want to overshadow all the unbelievable things the kids did today. We have a handful of guys moving on and that’s great.”
       Leading the way is Kiernan, who broke his own school record of 6-6 with a jump of 6-9. He did it despite a sore shin and on an ankle that has been bothering him since injuring it during basketball season.
         “I wanted to break the record again, I just didn’t know when,” he said. “My ankle is still bummed out, my shin was still hurting today. But, I just have to keep going on.”
         Joking threats by Marasco to “punch me in the face” if he didn’t continue, have also spurred Kiernan on.
         “Yeah, if that happened, then that would be another (painful) thing I’d have to deal with while I was jumping,” he said with a laugh.
                                           * * *
          While Kiernan was winning the event, Edwards was second with a jump of 6-6. That was in addition to his fourth-place long jump of 21-10.5.
           Not bad for a senior who is in his first year of track.
         “I’m pretty happy, it was my first time going 6-6,” Edwards said. “I’m very surprised. I didn’t think I would make it this far my first year. I wish I started track a little earlier.”
         And why didn’t he?
         “I just didn’t really feel like doing it,” he said. “But after I’ve seen all the winning they’ve done the past few years it made me want to do it.”
        And he probably got worn down by all the pestering from the coaches.
        “Every year we’d ask him and he’d say he was coming out, but he never came out,” Marasco said. “We saw him doing windmill dunks in basketball in 10th grade, we knew he could get up. Finally (former coach Leroy Peterson) said ‘What’s the deal Jahvar, are you afraid of heights?’
        “Obviously he’s a kid we had in our back pocket all along. It just goes to show you, a kid can be walking around in your hallways and you could have one of the best athletes in the state and not even know it.” 
         Edwards has improved consistently all season and despite his inexperience, could be a dark horse to medal on Thursday.
          “He jumps with no technique,” Marasco said. “I asked him today ‘Do you have a mark?’ He said ‘Coach I don’t have a mark, I just jump.’ I said ‘OK then.’
        “But he’s gotten better. He did 6-8 on the way down all three times. If he would just get in the arch and kick his knees to his chest, he would clear it.”
                                                * * *
       Wiggs’ day didn’t start until late afternoon, but once it did, he was one busy dude.
       The CJ III champ began doing the long jump around 2:30 or so. A bit later, the 4x400 relay was ready to start. Since he was anchor, it was kind of important to be there.
      So he excused himself from the long jump, went over to run the relay, then came back to finish the long jump.
      Despite all that, he managed a jump of 21-11 to finish seven inches off the pace.
       “It’s very hard,” Wiggs said of the hectic pace. “Being that the long jump and the finish line are at the two opposite sides of the field, I didn’t know what heat I was in, when we were running. I had the coaches try to communicate to me what’s going on.”
       Wiggs said the schedule was more difficult for long jump than the relay.
       “Coming back from the 400 it’s hard to keep focus,” he said. “But running doesn’t have focus for me. I just do it. You just run.”
Wiggs’ personal record in long jump is 22-3, which he will go after full throttle at the MOC.
        “It’s my last meet,” he said. “I’m going all out to try and give it everything I have. And we’ll be competing hard in the relay. That’s what we do here. We don’t come here to just do it. Hopefully we’ll shock the world.” 
                                          * * *
       On Friday night, Griffith said his only role in the 200 was to be a strong back-up to Kamara.
       But when Ayoub got thrown into the race with no preparation at all, Griffith stepped to the forefront and took fourth in 22.24
       “I’m happy,” he said. “I don’t really have any expectations for the two because it’s not really my race. But Ayoub had just arrived when we were about to run. He didn’t even have time to stretch or anything. So I’m happy I could advance.”
        It gave Griffith his second medal of the weekend along with his 400 effort Friday night. The sophomore will compete in three events at the Meet of Champs as he is also part of the relay team.
         He was disappointed in that effort today, as Nottingham ran a 3:22.73. Getting cut off during the exchange didn’t help.
        “We could have shaved off some seconds on that,” he said. “I had to make myself more narrow just to make it through to hand it to Wiggs. I know we’re going to train hard and make sure something like this doesn’t happen at Meet of Champs.”


Steinert senior Christa Strycharz, shown here running the 1600 on Friday, ran her best time of the season in the 3200 today and while it didn't get her a medal, it got her a wild card berth into the Meet of Champions (Photo by John Blaine/purchase photos by e-mailing jbsportsphoto@aol.com). 
Strycharz is just ‘wild’ about making it to MOC 
            June 4: Christa Strycharz cruised through the 3200 in today’s Group III girls meet in 11:08, a season best and a cool 25 seconds faster than her seeded time.
            And then she had to wait.
            Despite the nice time, the Steinert senior finished seventh in the race. Only the top six qualify automatically for the Meet of Champions. After that, the top six times from non-automatic qualifiers throughout the state are given a wild card into the MOC.
            When the dust cleared, Strycharz had the second best time amongst that group, earning her a trip to Old Bridge Thursday.
            “It’s my best time all season,” she said. “I haven’t been running the two mile much because I’ve been focusing on the mile, but I didn’t run the mile too well last night so I tried to come back in the two-mile.”
            In fact, she began conserving energy last night.
            “When I knew I didn’t have a chance by the second lap I kind of settled in and figured (today) I’ll work harder,” she said. “It would have been nice to have the sixth today, just so I knew for sure.”
            But her worries are over for now, as Strycharz continues to peak at the perfect time.
            “I feel like this is better than all my other years so I’m going out my senior year with a good year,” she said. “I did a lot more tempo-ing in the mile and two mile and focused on that this year.
            “My junior and sophomore year I focused more on the 800. Then I turned into a distance runner so I had to make the adjustment.”
            She’s made it quite well.
Kleinmann breaks Hamilton pole vault record 
            And finally, good news from the Hamilton West front.
            Although she did not advance, junior Amanda Kleinmann finished tied for 10th in the Group III pole vault with a school record pole vault of 9-6. Kleinmann broke the mark on her final attempt today, which surpassed the former standard of 9-3.
            “She has a year left to improve upon her efforts and is sure to do so in the future,” coach Gerry Van Slooten said. “This record was hard earned as Amanda has put in a tremendous amount of work with her coaches during the season and beyond.
            “It is a testament to her determination that she was able to improve by two feet from her best jump of her sophomore year and bounce back after breaking her pole in practice last Friday. She still placed in the Central Jersey championships the following day.”
            Not to mention she’s one heck of a trumpet player, and is now blowing successful notes in track & field as well.

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Jun 14, 2013
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    June 14: OK, I’ve learned how to be a good man with a good heart through a series of repetitive days in Punxsutawney, Pa. I was purchased at an auction and got to spend the night with Andie McDowell. When I woke up this morning, “I Got You Babe” was no longer on the radio.

 

     Yes folks, Groundhog Day is over. And if you didn’t see the movie, you have no idea what I just wrote about. Anyway, in laymen’s terms, the blog is back and ready to roll.

 

      And just so you know, since Feb. 2, I predicted Louisville would win the NCAA Tournament and Florida Gulf Coast would reach the Sweet 16. I predicted the Pacers would beat the Knicks in the playoffs, I predicted the Ravens would win the Super Bowl and there would be a power outage at the game; I predicted Nicole Kasian would win the Inaugural Fish Bowl; I predicted Orb would win the Kentucky Derby but not the Preakness or Belmont; I predicted Argo would win Best Picture and I predicted Brian “The Chef” Giallella would get his own show on the Food Network.

      I just never wrote it down. But I definitely predicted it. And I still hold out hope for the Chef!

      One thing I couldn’t predict, however, is the following item.

             * * *

     Does anyone besides me find this Athletic Director swap between Hamilton West and Steinert quite perplexing?

     OK, let me put it another way. Is there anyone not perplexed by it except for the six school board members who voted for it and the superintendent who defended it?

      No one who really cares about this can give comments to the papers or me, or they will be looking for work so quick you’ll see a line of Kool-Aid Stands lined up from Five Points to the Whitehorse Circle with former educators all pouring the beverages. It’s called the “I want to say what I think but I have a family to feed” syndrome.

       No one who voted for this gave any comment to the papers that I saw. Only Patty Del Guidice, one of the two who voted against it, gave her opinion as to why it was completely wrong that John Costantino was sent to Hamilton West and Steve Gazdek was sent to Steinert. And she made some darn good points.

      Superintendent James Parla said he couldn’t comment, and would only say that sometimes a transfer can lead to a fresh perspective.

      A fresh perspective!

    Costantino has been at Steinert for less than two years! That’s about enough time to learn where all the lavatories are. I guess after two years he’s burned out and needs to go back to the school where he worked for 15 years.

      If you’re gonna make a move and hide behind spin talk, at least make it something believable.

      Tweets from students ran rampant once the announcement was tweeted by Fish4scores.  
They weren’t happy tweets either. More like stunned tweets. And these are just from the kids, who were wondering what was going on.

      Another tid-bit in Mike Macagnone’s interesting Trentonian story about this situation, is that Costantino was never given a reason for this puzzling move. He wanted to stay, they wanted him to go. If a guy is being forced to go somewhere against his wishes, shouldn’t he at least be given a reason?

       Maybe there is no reason at all.

       At least none that makes any sense.

                * * *

      I am proud to say I have not watched one hockey game all year, but I watched the equivalent of one the other night when I watched the start of the third period of the Hawks-Bruins Stanley Cup final opening game. I ended up watching a full game plus the third OT and it was awesome.

     I really can’t hang with hockey during the season but every year the NHL proves that there really is nothing better than playoff hockey. That’s what happens when referees actually let them play. It gives the drama the chance to gain momentum with non-stop action.

             * * *

       Here’s a question. How good is Nottingham’s boys track & field team going to be with winter track back in Hamilton Township starting next winter? The Northstars have only gone 27-0 in dual meets without it.

           * * *

       Speaking of Nottingham, was there a school in the CVC who had a better 1-2 freshman punch in spring sports than the Northstars? 
      Kristin Hallam was downright awesome as a freshman softball hitter and pitcher, while Grace Dwyer has become quite visible on the New Jersey track & field radar.

     When I was at the Group III meet in South Plainfield, writers from papers all over the state were asking me about the standout distance runner.

                * * *

      For those wondering, the road to Williamsport begins on June 29 when the District 12 Little League gets underway.

              * * *

      Don’t forget next weekend when the Mercer County American Legion League holds its college showcase at Mercer Park. It’s really a good idea for kids to get seen by college coaches and lets hope it’s successful.

              * * *            
      Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! Now go cut the grass. Lol!

Feb 2, 2013
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blogging loophole
    Feb. 2:
Well, today is Groundhog Day.
     And you know what that means? It means I have found a blogging loophole.
     For all you people out there -- like Whalen and Costantino and the Baroness -- who insist on telling me I need a new blog just because they don't want to read the old one for 19 straight weeks, I have discovered the answer to my problem.

       Again, I reiterate, it is Groundhog Day. And if you saw the Bill Murray movie, you know that Groundhog Day is the same day, over and over and over again.
      Therefor, because I am writing this blog today, it gives me carte blanche to leave it up here over and over and over and over again. Moreso than usual. Like. . .forever! 
       You think you got tired of seeing Phil Alu and Jon Adams at the top of this blog?
        You are REALLY gonna hate The Groundhog!

    
      * * * *
        Just want to pass along good luck wishes to Nottingham junior Josh Lajeunesse, one of the many class acts and key contributors on the Nottingham state champion football team. r        Josh recently discovered he needs serious shoulder surgery, which will keep him out of action for four months and unfortunately cause him to miss track season.
      "Yeah, but I gotta get ready for football," he said.
       Yeah ya do buddy, so good luck on the surgery No. 2 and hope all goes well!

               * * * *
      Speaking of Nottingham football, seems they are taking Fish Bowl 1 quite serious.
     "It was nice to win a state football title
," said one administrator. "But to say we won both the state title and the Fish Bowl, now that would be something!
     We are keeping the administrator anonymous lest he incur the wrath of Coach Adams for linking the two together . .but we know that secretly, the Big Dawg feels the same way! lol
              * * * *
      Speaking of Fish Bowl, I just want to thank everyone for participating. I had hoped to get about 20-30 responses and just run them straight down in a list. But with the great feedback from everyone we got 88 responses (89 counting Donna Brihn's dog) and rand allowed us to turn it into the Fish Bowl.
      What's amazing is as a collective group we couldn't pick a winner! 44-44. Wow, a township divided!
      Anyway, thanks for taking part in the fun folks, and good luck to you and your team!
             * * * *
      Oh, one other thing. We heard back from Phil Alu (there's that name again!) about his selection of Kyle Kaepernick as Super Bowl MVP.
        "
Holy crap! Now I know why my Fantasy Football team sucked all year. I was playing Kyle Kaepernck out of West Oak High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan all season and not Colin Kaepernick from the 49ers."       
     The sad think here is, Kyle Kaepernick even sucked for West Oak High School. And Kalamazoo football is weak!
             * * * *

      I love my mother, but I'll never play her Super Bowl pool again. She asked me to buy five blocks, which I did. She said she would fill them in and mail it to me, which she did.
      But rather than scatter my name in different blocks all over the sheet, she wrote it straight down in five blocks.
    The result? In all five of my boxes I have Baltimore and nine. Nine! Are you freakin kidding me?  So much for having a lot of different chances to win this baby, which of course, is the reason for multiple blocks.
      Love ya mom!
      Hate your pool!

               * * * *
    OK, that's it. I hope you like this blog, cuz you're gonna see it over and over and over and over and over. All that's missing is a picture of Ned Ryerson and the soundtrack to I Got You Babe!
             * * * *
      Oh, and one more thing. Does anyone out there actually watch all 8 hours of pre-game Super Bowl shows that are available? If so, then you could actually read this blog over and over and over and never get bored. Because you reeeallly need a life!   


Jan 27, 2013
Happy New Year!
   
Yeah yeah, I know, it's an old year by now. But hey, I haven't written anything since the new year so it's a New Year for Fish Tales.
      Hope everybody had a great holiday, hope everybody enjoyed the NFL playoffs, hope everybody has returned all their gifts that sucked and I just hope everbody is doin' great dogawnnit!
      I don't really have a heck of a lot on my mind, but I'm getting yelled at again by people saying to put up a new blog. They don't neccessarily care what I have to say, they just get tired of seeing the same thing at the top of this spot for so long. Sorry Big Dawg, all the love is gone now, they all hate you now due to over-exposure. You have joined Phil Alu as a "stayed at the top of the blog too long" poster boy. lol.
              * * * *
     OK, let's start with the Super Bowl.
      I mean, you never really hear much about it (insert *rolls eyes* here) so we'll talk about it!

      You know what's interesting. And this, like so many other things, speaks to the popularity of the NFL. The Supe is the one championship in sports that the TV Networks don't fret about.
       In baseball they would moan if the World Series match-up is the Kansas City Royals vs. the Milwaukee Brewers. "Oh God, those aren't big TV markets!"
      It wasn't always like that for the Series. It was the big thing, everyone cared. Kids rushed home from school as fast as possible to catch the end of the games. But not anymore. Games that last til 12:30 a.m. don't help the cause these days, but that's only part of it.
      But I digress.
      Take the NBA. If they don't have the Lakers and/or the Celtics/Miami in the finals, its like a mad dash for a bridge to jump off of.
      "No one will watch this. Ohhhhh noooo!"
     And if it's the NHL's Stanley Cup Playoffs.... . .um, what's like, the big match-up for the NHL? OK, forget that one.

      
But football has no such worries. This game could be the Jacksonville Jaguars vs. the Seattle Seahawks and it wouldn't matter. 999 gazillion people would tune in anyway, just because it's like an unofficial national law.
     "Gonna watch the Super Bowl?"
     "Oh yeah!"
    "How come, you don't like football?"
     "I know, but it's the Super Bowl?"
      I mean, that's basically the answer people give, and it's just understood. Oh yeah, it's the Super Bowl.
      And by the way,  when is the NFL gonna give folks a break and make this game on a Saturday so people at all the parties can recover on Sunday? . They can't be clinging to tradition or the game would still start at 1 o'clock, the halftime show would still be the Hokey-Fanokie high school marching band and the tickets could still be purchased by folks outside the 1 percent of the people with all the money in the world.
      I'm sure someone did some research and concluded  "Can't move it to Saturday, too costly."
     Oh well, it's still the Super Bowl and we'll all watch it. Cuz hey, it's the Super Bowl!

                * * * *
    Speaking of the Super Bowl, I don't know who's going to win and I don't care. But if I have to make a pick, I'd pick the Ravens.
     How come?
    I dunno. But I had to make a pick so I picked the Ravens.
                * * * *
      Here's a classic basketball official story. I will not reveal the names to protect the innocent (and guilty) but it was pretty good stuff.
      Three refs walked into a CVC girls game earlier this year. As they entered the gym, one of the head coaches says "Oh here they come, the three blind mice."
     To which one of them -- who I am proud to say lives in Hamilton -- promptly responded by going "Yeah, but one of us can hear," and slammed the coach with a techncial foul before the game even started.
      Now that's style!
              * * * *

      I kind of lost a kindred spirit when Stan Musial passed away last week.
      First off, Stan the Man was from Donora, Pa., and I had a roomate in college who hailed from Donora. His parents knew Musial and said he was the greatest guy ever.
      Secondly, Musial got his 3,000th career hit on the day I was born.
      Just think. . .two monumental occurrances on the same day!
      Uh, OK. . one.
               * * * *
     So I have seen three of the movies nominated for the Oscars so far: Lincoln, Argo and Silver Linings Playbook. All good flicks, but, man, Daniel Day Lewis blew me away as Lincoln. Good stuff!
        I find Lincoln to be so fascinating. The more I learn about him, the more I want to know about what made him tick.
        As opposed to somone like, say, Kim Kardashian, who I don't know anything about and yet I want to know even less.
              * * * *
      
I would much rather see Amber Dietrich and Courtney Adams playing basketball this winter instead of texting me updates to tweet of Steinert and Hamilton girls' basketball games.
     But they are injured and can't play and that stinks. But thanks girls, for contributing to the cause. You're the best!
     And  while Amber has been promoted to Fish4scores Director of Twitter Operations (with a 50 percent pay increase from her original salary of nothing), Courtney's work from mid-season on has promoted her to Assistant Director.
       Please don't be late for the next staff meeting girls.

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       I would also like to thank another Twitter contributor -- who I will only refer to as "Outcast of the People" -- but he can't seem to stay at the games for more tha none half -- and sometimes the decision wasn't his to leave. :)
           
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     Check back later this week when we provide Super Bowl picks from the township's athetic community.
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      OK, I leave you with this trivia question -- which I guarantee 80 percent of you won't be able to answer:

     Who won today's Pro Bowl?