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www.thedailyjournal.com/sports Tuesday, March 17, 2009
DOWN
THE LINE Here are 32 reasons to watch the NCAA tourney
ere come 32 first- Dakota State wasn’t even a tanooga. Could be worse,
COACH H round NCAA Tour-
nament games.
Maybe you need 32 reasons
Mike
Lopresti
Division I school.
Boston College vs. USC.
This stat always amazes.
Chattanooga. You could be
playing the UConn women.
BYU vs. Texas A&M.
OF THE YEAR: to watch.
Louisville vs. Alabama
USC, within two hours of a
gazillion high school
Right out of the movie
“Groundhog Day.” They
State-Morehead State win- prospects, has not been to played the same first-
ner. Last time the Cardi- selection committee gave the Final Four since 1954. round game last year.
nals were No. 1 during the you. Michigan State vs. Texas A&M won 67-62.
season? Never. Wake Forest vs. Cleve- West Virginia vs. Day- Robert Morris. Spartans Purdue vs. Northern
Ohio State vs. Siena. So land State. When last seen, ton. Dayton’s Chris Wright can’t lose to a guy who Iowa. One opinion: Purdue
Siena, how do you like Cleveland State was in the is the best dunker you’ve signed the Declaration of will be the last Big Ten
drawing the Buckeyes in 1986 Sweet 16. Four years never seen. Independence on the 30th team standing.
Dayton? later, the coach gets arrest- Kansas vs. North Dako- anniversary of Magic Washington vs. Missis-
Utah vs. Arizona. You’re ed driving away from a ta State. When Kansas Johnson beating Larry sippi State. Mississippi
Rich on, Arizona. Prove you
deserved the big kiss the
crack house. Long road
back.
won the national champi-
onship last spring, North
Bird, can they?
Connecticut vs. Chat- Please see LOPRESTI on B3
Husted
Cumberland Reg.
Boys’ swimming
8th season (82-32)
Husted was behind
the resurgence of the
Cumberland Regional
boys’ swimming pro-
gram this season,
leading the Colts to an
11-4 record and their
first playoff win in
school history, a vic-
tory over Woodstown.
Husted also helped
his relay team of
Philip Quick, Jeff Rit-
ter, Brad Hawkins and
Billy Freitag advance
to states, the first time
a Colts relay team has
made it that far since
the 1992-93 season.
Stockton men
head to Final Four
Five players scored in
double figures a Stock-
ton College beat Farm-
ingdale State, 103-60, as
the Ospreys advanced to
the Division III Final
Four in men’s basket-
ball.
No. 6 Stockton won
its 17th straight game
while reaching its first
Final Four since 1987.
Forward Chad Davis, a
Millville native and
Sacred Heart High
School graduate, scored
11 points in the victory. Staff graphic/Joe Moore; staff photos/Craig Matthews
The Ospreys face
Franklin & Marshall at 7
p.m. Friday in Salem, Va.
Pittsgrove Twp. to
take on Eagles
B &B Poultry and
Oliva realized his potential
the Schalick Track
Booster Club will be Vineland senior INSIDE, page B3 Year.
“It sounds like a crutch word,”
sponsoring a basket-
ball game featuring
the staff of Pittsgrove
came of age during
➤ Check out all the boys’ swimming all-stars,
and what made them the best of the best.
➤ The Daily Journal announces its boys’ WINTER Oliva said of potential. “People
always tell me about my potential
and stuff. I try not to let people
Twp. schools against
the Eagles.
The game will be
his final season swimming team of the year.
■ The schedule
Monday: Boys’ and girls’ indoor track;
2008-09 look at me like that. I want to show
them what I have and what I have
the ability to do. I think I finished
By JOSH FRIEDMAN TODAY: Boys’ swimming; Wednesday:
played on April 3 at 7 Staff Writer of the my season with the word ability.”
Girls’ swimming; Thursday: Wrestling; Oliva took fourth in the 50 at
p.m. Contact Mark
Boyle at (856) 358-8529. jfriedman@thedailyjournal.com Friday: Girls’ basketball; Saturday: Boys’ YEAR last year’s MofC, but his time was
basketball. hampered by poor fundamentals.
— From staff reports
For two seasons, Mike Oliva was This year, he dedicated himself to
MARCH
plagued by “potential.” improving his training as well as
The Vineland High School sen- show he had ability and maturity, ming career bests in both. Add that
his starts and turns.
ior swimmer showed an extraordi- and not just pure speed. to his trio of Cape-Atlantic League
“Going into winter break I real-
MADNESS
nary raw ability to fly from one He succeeded by taking third in Championships in the 50- and 100-
ly tried to become a different train-
end of the pool to the other during at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions meter freestyles and 200 free relay,
er,” he said. “(My teammates and
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his sophomore and junior years. in the 50-yard freestyle (21.37) and and you have the 2008-09 Daily
But this season, Oliva wanted to 10th in the 100 free (48.05), swim- Journal Boys’ Swimmer of the
Please see OLIVA on B3
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — World important for Dr. Ciccotti to Monday to have
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to Philadelphia to have his left think it is.”
elbow examined by Phillies team The 25-year-old left-hander AP photo
Comments or questions? physician Dr. Michael Ciccotti. made his first Grapefruit
Call Sports Editor Tom McGurk “He’s had a little bit of a per- League start Wednesday. He
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