Camden Catholic

Brittany Snow was walking to the bench in Thursday's win over Cherry Hill West when she noticed some unusual stares coming from her coaches and teammates. "They looked at me and said, 'What happened? It looks like you have a third eye,' " Snow said. "I didn't even know. I had no idea my eye was that swollen. I honestly didn't know I had a black eye. " That about sums up the 6-foot center of the Seneca girls' basketball team. Snow also broke the school's scoring record of 1,075 career points on Thursday.

Last week was a battle of big plays on a dry, fast track. This week was mud wrestling. The conditions couldn't have been more different, but the result was the same for the Camden Catholic football team. The Irish overcame the elements as well as a serious challenge from Moorestown en route to a 21-10 victory Saturday in a West Jersey Football League Constitution Division game. Senior Pete Galiano threw two touchdown passes to senior tight end Andrew Racobaldo, and junior Jarred Alwan ran for another score for Camden Catholic (7-0, 3-0)

From Paulsboro snapping Absegami's 103-match unbeaten streak to the state-championship celebration of Washington Township's John Price, there was nothing boring about South Jersey wrestling this season. South Jersey boasted five NJSIAA state champions, five silver medalists and two third-place finishers in last weekend's individual tournament. At February's team championships, Camden Catholic (Parochial A) and Paulsboro (Group 2) won state titles and Holy Cross (Parochial B)

Friday, 7 p.m., the College of New Jersey. At stake: Non-Public 2 state title. Coaches: Chalie Roman, Holy Spirit (34-9); Gil Brooks, Camden Catholic (10-0 at Camden Cath., 4-13-1 at Paul VI, 162-57-2 at St. Joseph's Prep). State titles: Holy Spirit, two; Camden Catholic, none. Fast fact: Camden Catholic is making its first appearance in a state-title game since 2003. - Phil Anastasia

Former Germantown Friends School coach Rob Bergholtz has been named the new baseball coach at Camden Catholic, the school announced Monday. Bergholtz, a 1995 Camden Catholic graduate, was the coach at Germantown Friends for five years. His teams won four Friends League titles, and his 2010 squad featured pitcher Jesse Biddle, who was the Phillies' No. 1 draft pick. Bergholtz replaces Bob Moffett, who resigned after 23 seasons as Camden Catholic's baseball coach. "Mr. Bergholtz is a well-proven coach who had great success at Germantown," Camden Catholic athletic director Marlene Grimes said in a statement.

Clint Tabb looks at Camden Catholic and sees the green in those uniforms. He also sees blue and orange. "They remind me of an old Shawnee or Cherokee," said Tabb, whose Pennsauken team will visit Camden Catholic on Friday night for a West Jersey Football League showdown. "They are coming to run the ball, and they are strong up front on both sides of the football. " Both teams are 5-0. Pennsauken is No. 2 in The Inquirer's South Jersey rankings. Camden Catholic is No. 9. The game looks like a classic matchup between Pennsauken's high-powered offense and Camden Catholic's sturdy defense.

For one of the few times, Mike Blandon didn't see any running room. So he made some of his own. Blandon reversed field, cut back again, and raced through the secondary and into the clear on his way to a 79-yard touchdown run that highlighted Camden Catholic's 40-0 victory over Seneca on Thursday night in a WJFL Constitution Division football game. "The hole was clogged up," Blandon said. "So I went the other way. " It was a spectacular play and also an unusual one. For most of the game, Camden Catholic backs had plenty of running room thanks to the work of the offensive line.

Highlights of Friday's contests can be found at: www.philly.com/rally Baseball BURLINGTON COUNTY LEAGUE TOURNAMENT Moorestown 2, Holy Cross 0 WARRIOR CLASSIC Wildwood 7, Cape May Tech 0 Lower Cape May 7, Wildwood Catholic 2 BURLINGTON COUNTY FREEDOM Burlington City 3, Florence 2 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE AMERICAN Millville 2, Absegami 1 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE...

Camden Catholic baseball coach Bob Bergholtz was trying to give his offense a jolt, so he moved senior centerfielder Pete Galiano from the cleanup spot to leadoff. Instead of a spark, the move created an all-out explosion. Galiano hit three home runs as the Irish beat Gloucester, 18-4, last week in the Ralph Shaw Tournament at Audubon. In Camden Catholic's next game, an 11-3 loss to Cherokee, Galiano went 4 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs. Galiano said he had never hit more than two home runs in a game at any level.

Linda Cimino's heart sank, and so did her mood, but it was only momentarily. The Caldwell College women's basketball coach had been recruiting Camden Catholic senior point guard Nicole Angelo since her sophomore year and had offered her a full scholarship to the Division II school in North Jersey. When Angelo called to reveal her decision, she decided to have a little fun with the coach. "When she called, she played a prank," Cimino recalled, laughing. Angelo told Cimino that she had bad news for her. The coach's initial reaction?

Woodbury's Matt Atkinson rapped a one-out single to right field in the seventh inning, breaking up a no-hit bid by Overbrook's Zack Cooper, but Cooper finished the host Rams' 8-0, one-hit win Wednesday. Cooper struck out seven and walked three in the Colonial Conference matchup to boost his record to 3-0. Josh McCouch drove in three runs with a single and a double. Also in the Colonial, Audubon's Andrew Schorr pitched a five-inning no-hitter with a dozen strikeouts, stopping visiting Collingswood, 12-0.

LAWRENCE, Kan. - Notre Dame tight end Mike Ragone has signed a grant-in-aid form to complete his transfer to Kansas, where he will be reunited with former coach Charlie Weis. Ragone, who was a star at Camden Catholic and a top recruit, has completed his undergraduate degree and will be eligible to play for the Jayhawks immediately. He joins quarterback Dayne Crist and linebacker Anthony McDonald as former Irish players who will finish their college careers in Lawrence. Weis recruited all three players to Notre Dame while he was the head coach in South Bend.

PITCHING WINS 3 - Andrew Fisher, Cherry Hill West; Ridge Herman, Pennsville; Jon Mackie, Holy Cross HOME RUNS 4 – Paschal Petrongolo, Paul VI 3 – Joe Hummell, Holy Cross 2 – Manny Lopez, Buena; Anthony Lopez, Buena; John Adryan, Holy Cross; Chris Burns, Holy Cross; Chris Scarlett, Holy Spirit; Frank Cermani, Rancocas Valley; Isaiah Hall, Burlington Township; Doug Young, Audubon; Joey Craig, Camden...

The Temple men's rowing team took a pair of gold medals Sunday in the Knecht Cup on Camden County's Cooper River. The Owls won the varsity 8 plus coxswain and the frosh/novice four-plus. The varsity boat won in 5 minutes, 48 seconds, beating Drexel, St. Joseph's, and La Salle. The crew was coxswain Donald Norris (Father Judge High), stroke Jimmy Barr, Aaron Heyde, Michael Mirabella (Absegami), Brian Reehill (Holy Spirit), Djordje Vilimanovic, Perry Cox, Kevin Nally (Upper Merion)

Chris Jones ripped a bases-loaded, two-out triple in the top of the seventh inning, capping a late-game outburst that gave Bishop Eustace an 8-2 win at Camden Catholic on Wednesday in Olympic Conference baseball. Winning pitcher Keith Wallace also tripled in batting 3 for 4 for the Crusaders, who broke open a scoreless duel in the sixth. Also in the Olympic, Jordan Glover's two-run single ignited a five-run, sixth-inning rally, and Paul LaRosa pitched two scoreless innings of relief to send host Cherokee past Timber Creek, 7-3. Cape-Atlantic.