Rockaway Twp.'s Suleski
awed by Top Gun FB camp
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ROCKAWAY TWP. - For the second straight summer, Christopher Suleski of Rockaway Township was invited to and participated in Football University's Top Gun Football National All-Star Camp held at the Warhilll Sports Complex in Williamsburg, Va.
Suleski, 12, was one of more than 1,200 elite youth and high school football players invited to the national camp. Suleski earned his invitation because of his outstanding performance as a wide receiver at a state-wide Football University camp held earlier in the year.
Suleski was drilled by Jim McNally, who had a 28-year NFL career as offensive line coach with the Bills, Giants, Panthers and Bengals and spending 14 years in the college ranks with Wake Forest, Boston college, Marshall and Buffalo. He also got to work with ex-Jet QB Glenn Foley and Cards' backup QB Rich Bartel.
"I got a chance to hang out with Mr. Foley," Suleski says. "He threw to me one-and-one and gave me some pointers ... it was great being instructed by an individual who had actually been there and done that in the NFL."
Suleski and the rest of the campers were kept busy throughout the day. A 6:30 a.m. breakfast was followed by stretching at 8:30, footwork and pass pattern drills at 8:45 and then an hour of 7-on-7 drills before an hour-long classroom session with films just before lunch. After lunch, the campers would repeat the morning schedule, closing the day with another hour-long session in the classroom and then dinner.
"After dinner, my dad and I would explore Williamsburg where I was able to reinforce some of the things I had learned in history class," Suleski says. "Then it would be back to the hotel where we'd go into the pool before turning in for the night."
Suleski, who will be entering seventh grade in September, feels the competition against some of the better youth defensive backs in the country will be a big help to his game as he prepares for midget football and eventually high school football.
"I also learned how to be more precise in my receiver routes and how important repetition is to improving my techniques and skills," Suleski adds. "The entire camp was an awesome experience and I feel honored to have been selected to attend."
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Christoper Suleski of Rockaway Twp.
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Wetzel survives as 'walk-on'
to make college baseball team
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DENVILLE - Zak Wetzel, one of the mainstays of the Denville American Legion senior baseball team during its 2010 season, has made the West Chester University baseball team as a walk-on pitcher.
Wetzel's attempt to make the roster started with a one-day tryout for 16 walk-on candidates where he was one of the four who survived the cut.
These four joined the 21 returning players, 17 recruits (including JUCO transfers) and five redshirts to form a roster of 47 players who then played four weeks of intrasquad games to determine which of the players would be invited back to form the 28-man spring roster.
Wetzel made the final cut, the only walk-on to survive the month-long tryout session that eliminated 19 hopefuls.
Some of Wetzel's Denville American Legion teammates will also be playing college ball this spring. They include:
Brian MacDonald, Jim Graziano and Geoff Cox at the County College of Morris; Ethan Steible at the University of North Carolina at Ashville; Pat Golden at Clarion (Pa.) College; and Andrew Manello at the University of Hartford.
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Morris Hills 2010 grad Mundt
kicks winning FG for WPU
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Posted Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010: Freshman Cory Mundt, a 2010 Morris Hills High School graduate and a resident of Rockaway Township, kicked the game-winning field goal with 12.9 seconds left when William Paterson University beat Morrisville State, 31-28, in a college football game played at the WPU campus in Wayne on Saturday, Oct. 9.
WPU's winning drive came after Morrisville State had tied the score at 28 with 1:28 remaining. WPU took the ensuing kickoff and moved to the Morrisville 3-yard line where the Pioneers called for a timeout and Mundt came in and kicked the winning field goal.
Mundt's field goal was his first in four attempts for the Pioneers, who are now 4-1 overall and 3-1 in the New Jersey Athletic Conference. Mundt was 4-for-4 in extra-point conversions for the game and is 10-for-11 on the season, giving him 13 points.
Junior Doug Dudek, another Morris Hills (2008) football grad, led the Pioneer defense in tackles with 10, three of them solo.
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Jonathan Coleman pitches against Denville this past summer.
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Wharton's Coleman named
Pitcher of Year in Legion ball
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WHARTON - Jonathan Coleman, who was 7-0 with an ERA of 0.45 for Wharton Post #91 during the regular season, has been named 2010 Pitcher of the Year in the Morris-Sussex American Legion Senior Baseball League.
Coleman, a 2009 graduate of Morris Hills High School, received 19 of the 20 votes cast for the award (coaches were not allowed to vote for their own players).
The righthander allowed only four runs (three earned) and 22 hits in 46.2 innings of work. He struck out 68 and walked only 16. He started seven games, relieved in one, and had four complete games.
He threw three shutouts and was part of a fourth. He beat league champ Randolph, 1-0, on three hits; stopped Denville, 3-0, on four hits with 11 strikeouts; and three-hit Musconetcong, 11-0, with nine strikeouts.
Wharton (15-3-1) finished in second place in the 20-team league.
Chris Rampone of Randolph was voted the league's MVP and also won the batting title with an average of .596.
This is the fourth straight season Wharton has won a post-season award. Chris McGlynn was the Pitcher of the Year in 2007; Dawris Gonzalez was the batting champ in 2008; and Luke Mirabella was league MVP in 2009.
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Jan Rosenberg (in green) jogs out to the mat to warm up for one of his state bouts this past March.
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MK's Rosenberg gains
All-America mat status
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DENVILLE - Those were some of the words spoken by Morris Knolls High School wrestling coach Larry Rizzo about Jan Rosenberg after Rosenberg closed out a 35-6 sophomore season at 103 by splitting four matches at the NJSIAA State Wrestling Championship held in Atlantic City this past March.
Rosenberg's "work ethic" included wrestling at The Eclipse School of Wrestling out of Dover this past summer. Rosenberg started working at Eclipse under former Parsippany Hills High School coach Matt Ciampa shortly after he concluded his high school season and topped off the summer by achieving All-America status in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling at a national tournament held in Fargo, North Dakota, in July.
Rosenberg finished third in the junior division of his weight class in Greco-Roman and fifth in the freestyle competion.
"Jan's goal in high school wrestling is to win a state title," Rizzo said. "He knows he cannot achieve this wrestling November-to-March and has been wrestling through the summer now for the past several years."
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Matias Pellegrino got a chance to hang out with former 100-meter world record holder Maurice Green at the 2010 USATF Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships
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Denville's Pellegrino
runs in national meet
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DENVILLE (Saturday, August 14, 2010) - After only two years of participating in track and field, 10-year-old Matias Pellegrino has already experienced what it is like to compete with the best in his age group.
Pellegrino, who will be attending fifth grade at Riverview Elementary School here in September, returned recently from Sacramento, California, where he competed in the 100- and 200-meter sprints in the Bantam Division of the 44th USATF National Junior Olympic Track & Field Championships held on Thursday-Saturday, July 29-31, at Hughes Stadium on the campus of Sacramento City College.
Pellegrino was timed in 14.13 in the 100 and finished 14th in a field of 29. He ran a 30.43 in the 200 and finished 22nd out of 30 runners.
Pellegrino qualifed for the national competition by finishing third in the 100 in 14.10 and second in the 200 in 28.50 in a regional qualifier for New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York held July 10-11 at Stockton College.
He ran with the Denville Striders of the Lakeland Junior Track Conference this past spring season and was unbeaten in the 100, 200, long jump and also ran on the team's unbeaten 4x100 relay team. He holds the conference record in both the 100 (14.36) and 200 (29.13).
"There were more than 5,000 youngsters between the ages of 8-18 at the national meet," said Matias' father Horatio. "Matias worked very hard for more than a year to get there and, as it turned out, it was a very good experience for him because there was a lot of tough competition out there."
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