Two South Jersey coaches near marks for longevity and success

With the South Jersey football season beginning Friday, two coaches are on the verge of accomplishing a rare feat this season.

According to South Jersey statistical expert Chuck Langerman, Kingsway's Tony Barchuk and Florence's Joe Frappolli are close to becoming the third and fourth coaches in South Jersey to win a game in five decades. This includes only coaches who have guided teams in the seven-county South Jersey area.

Frappolli is the winningest coach in South Jersey history with a record of 248-109-5. He started at Florence in 1974.

Barchuk (167-130-5) began at Kingsway in 1979. He went 1-8 that season to begin the streak.

The other two coaches to accomplish the feat, according to Langerman, are John Boyd, who coached Atlantic City from 1936 to '72, and Jim Horner, who began coaching at Haddon Heights in 1969 and also coached at Cherokee in the '70s and '80s and at Haddonfield from 1996 through 2001.

Horner won 174 games, and Boyd won 173.

Kingsway and Florence will have difficult openers on Friday. Kingsway will visit two-time defending South Jersey Group 2 champion Delsea, and Florence will host Holy Cross.

Singer to Stony Brook. Over the summer, Cherokee senior Ashley Singer accepted a lacrosse scholarship to Division I Stony Brook.

"Coach [Allison] Comito came to our Shawnee game in April and contacted Ashley the next day," Cherokee coach Kate Maloney said. "Over the next couple of months, Ashley fell in love with the school and the lacrosse program."

As a junior, Singer had 32 goals, 29 assists, and 55 ground-ball pickups. Cherokee teammate Melissa Arthur earlier committed to Rutgers.

New coach. The new boys' soccer coach at Holy Spirit is a familiar name - former Inquirer two-time South Jersey player of the year Chad Severs.

The Ocean City graduate, who later starred at Penn State, welcomes back six letter-winners from a 9-9-1 team.

Severs scored 159 career goals for Ocean City.

Hall of Fame inductees. Coaches Barry Davis and Mike Lamb, who between them won nine national championships, highlight a class of 11 that will be inducted into the Gloucester County College Sports Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be Sept. 24 at Adelphia's Restaurant in Deptford.

Davis, current baseball coach at Rider, won four national baseball championships as coach at GCC. Lamb, a graduate of Highland, helped GCC to five wrestling national titles as an assistant and head coach and earned all-American honors in 1988 at GCC as a wrestler.

The other inductees are John Broome (baseball), John Flannery (baseball), John Garriques (wrestling), Mary Holden Madgey (softball), Chrissy DeMarco McGovern (basketball), Kelly Radcliffe (tennis, basketball), Duane Sanders (track and field), Carie VanArtsdalen Kretschmer (softball), and Steve Wells (baseball).