Glassboro

Saturday, 10 a.m., Rowan University. At stake: South Jersey Group 1 championship. Coaches: Glassboro, Mark Maccarone (9-2); Pennsville, Ryan Wood (26-6) South Jersey titles: Glassboro, eight (2010, 2008, 2007, 1999, 1987, 1983, 1981, 1975); Pennsville, one (1981, Group 2). Fast fact: Glassboro is aiming to become the seventh straight team from Gloucester County to win the South Jersey Group 1 crown. - Marc Narducci

That Williamstown vs. Glassboro football game won't happen next season after all. Williamstown will instead play at Paramus Catholic, a Non-Public 4 program in Bergen County, Braves athletic director Paul Deal confirmed earlier this week. The game is scheduled for Oct. 10 at 2 p.m. "We'll probably do an overnight trip," Deal said. "It should be a good game. " In place of a matchup with Group 4 Williamstown, Glassboro will play Group 3 Kingsway. That game will be Friday, Nov. 6, according to Kingsway athletic director Joe Galleria.

Paulsboro will visit Glassboro at 1 p.m. Saturday for the South Jersey Group 1 championship. The game not only will feature two evenly matched teams with explosive speed, but also two teams whose playoff histories are among the richest in the area. BACKGROUND. Between them, these two schools have won eight of the 12 Group 1 titles contested since the advent of full-scale playoffs in 1975. Paulsboro has won five South Jersey Group 1 titles. Only one other school, Delsea, has won as many sectional titles, and Delsea didn't qualify this year.

Breathing new life into an aging downtown and reducing street crime and drug sales was the common thread linking mayoral and council candidates during last night's election debate. "I think we can clean up the community," said Mayor Alvin G. Shpeen, 68, a Democrat who has served as mayor since David Dougherty vacated the post in February. "Clean up your yard. Clean up your curbside, and we'll help you do that with grants," Shpeen said. The town has received two grants for a total of $450,000 this year, Shpeen said, which will be used to restore dilapidated storefronts, as well as install lighting and new sidewalks.

Glassboro's six-member council retains a 4-2 Democratic majority following the success of incumbent Councilmen Leroy F. May Jr. and Timothy D. Scaffidi Tuesday night. Republican challengers Sam Flamma and Leonard E. Rambo lost their bids to unseat the incumbents. Scaffidi, appointed to an unexpired post last year, and May, a 15-year council veteran, won 3-year terms with 2,706 and 2,441 votes, respectively. Flamma had 2,207 votes and Rambo 2,003. Rambo, an unsuccessful freeholder candidate in 1984, and Flamma, a volunteer Little League coach and football instructor, had predicted victory for themselves.

Glassboro police arrested the victim of a stabbing at the Elsmere housing projects after discovering that he was wanted on charges there and in Winslow Township. Responding to a call at 2 a.m. July 14, they found Markeith Jennings, 19, sitting in the playground area, bleeding from a stab wound in his left side. Police said Jennings had told them, "The fat man did it," and identified Lester Hinton, 35, who was arrested at the scene. Hinton, of the 200 block of Higgins Drive, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and possession of a deadly weapon.

The ground game ran on all cylinders in the second half. And the defense played with a purpose, not allowing a first down in the second half. Yet the highlight of Glassboro's season-opening 18-0 victory over Salem yesterday was the presentation of the game ball. Coach Bob Cleary gathered the team and gave the ball to Patricia Morris, whose son Nick died last month, an innocent bystander in the Deptford Mall shooting. Nick's sister Nicole, who is serving as a water girl for the Bulldogs this season, also was there for the presentation.

Bob Cleary looked part relieved, mostly exhausted, as he plopped down on the bench after yesterday's Tri-County Classic game with visiting Pitman. "You can only enjoy these games for about a half-hour," the Glassboro coach sighed. "There's always something to worry about. " Cleary's afternoon should have been anxiety-free. Glassboro scored 20 points in the third quarter to pummel Pitman, 33-0. "I'm pleased, but we have a lot of things to work on," said Cleary. "It's all over now. We're 0-0 for next week.

Glassboro's bid for a second straight state Group 1 boys' basketball championship ended yesterday on its home court. The top-seeded Bulldogs surrendered an 11-point first-quarter lead and fell to fourth-seeded Burlington City, 82-69, in a South Jersey semifinal. The Blue Devils (21-6) - who will face Pitman, a 72-53 winner over Paulsboro last night, in the South Jersey final on Monday - were led by guard Darnell Williams. The 5-foot-9 senior scored 16 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter.

Baseball BURLINGTON COUNTY TOURNAMENT QUARTERFINALS Rancocas Valley 6, Bordentown 5 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE NATIONAL Ocean City 5, Lower Cape May 0 COLONIAL CONFERENCE Audubon 4, Haddonfield 3 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE DIAMOND Deptford 5, Glassboro 4 TRI-COUNTY CONFERENCE ROYAL Highland 5, Clearview 0 NONLEAGUE Maple Shade 11, Westampton Tech 1 Shawnee 11, Cherokee 8 New Egypt 11, Medford Tech 0 ...

The suicide squeeze is one of the riskiest plays in baseball, fraught with downside if the batter can't lay down an adequate bunt. For Woodstown, it was a reliable offensive strategy Wednesday, bringing in both of its runs in a 10-inning, 2-1 victory over visiting Glassboro in a Tri-County Conference Diamond Division matchup. After the Bulldogs opened the scoring in the top of the fifth inning, Woodstown's Bailey Gibson sprinted home from third on a squeeze, with Kenny Blocksom putting down a clean bunt.

Through seven innings of scoreless baseball Wednesday, neither Glassboro nor host Gloucester cobbled together a rally. In the eighth, however, the visitors' luck turned, with timely hitting and a Gloucester miscue leading to a 2-0 win for the Bulldogs in a Tri-County Conference interdivisional game. Glassboro starting pitcher Rocco Mazzeo, pulled off the hill and into the field after six strong innings, led off the eighth with a single and came around to score on Logan Greer's base hit. Greer reached home on a throwing error.

Glassboro police looking for two vandals responsible for a weekend tire slashing spree in the college town are studying surveillance video showing two men in one parking lot were several vehicles were targeted. During a three-day spree Easter weekend, the Glassboro Police Department took about 16 reports of tires slashed at different locations, many of them belonging to Rowan University students. "The reports stem from off campus," said Rowan spokesman Joe Cardona. Initially, all of the victims were affiliated with Rowan either as a student or as a guest, police said.

A judge ruled Tuesday that a Glassboro zoning ordinance that required a parking space be available for each tenant in rental property was invalid. But Superior Court Judge Georgia M. Curio said the ordinance will still carry the force of law pending an appeal within 45 days, according to the attorneys present for her oral ruling Tuesday. The plaintiffs - Glassboro Guardians, a nonprofit group of rental property owners - hailed the decision as a victory for Rowan University students who they say will now have more off-campus housing options.

The gravel lot tucked into a remote area of Gloucester County once housed a fleet of 100 yellow school buses that would rumble back and forth on weekdays. But when Hurricane Sandy hit in the fall - soon after the bus company moved out - the empty lot in Glassboro was assigned a new purpose: More than 300 vehicles that were damaged by raging rivers of saltwater were hauled to the five-acre property, Glassboro officials said. In New Jersey, lots like these have been tapped to temporarily hold an estimated 72,000 devastated cars, trucks, boats, and jet skis while they are processed for resale or salvaged parts.

Behind Jake Heminway's 29 points and 13 rebounds, Cape May Tech held on for a 60-58 win against Gateway in a nonleague boys' basketball game Friday. Cape May Tech trailed, 32-28, at halftime before rallying to take a 41-40 lead into the fourth quarter. Conor Mulville finished with 13 points and eight steals, and Alinzo Love had 11 points, 9 rebounds, and 5 steals for Cape May Tech. In other nonleague play: Marcus Reed scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half, and Woodstown earned a 60-52 win at Camden Academy Charter.

Robert Hess leaves two trash bins outside his house: one for his family and another for Rowan University students who live nearby. A few years ago, his son, then 5, was playing barefoot in the front yard when he stepped on a broken bottle, presumably left by an inconsiderate student. "I remember pulling glass out of his feet," Hess, 38, said Tuesday. His situation reflects the relatively new reality Glassboro residents face. While the borough trumpets redevelopment efforts and new attractions downtown, students are increasingly living in the town's residential areas - partly as a result of the construction.