Jersey Shore

10 p.m. MTV The plan was to set half the reality show's second season in Miami's South Beach, but the cameras got enough footage for an entire Miami season. See how the Sunshine State is handling Snooki (right) and company.

The Chester County all-stars advanced to the semifinals of the Carpenter Cup Classic yesterday by beating the Catholic League, 10-5, at Penn's Meiklejohn Stadium. Chester County will face the Jersey Shore all-stars, who advanced by winning yesterday's second game, 6-2, against Suburban One National/Bicentennial. Chester scored five runs in the seventh inning, which was highlighted by a two-run double by Spring-Ford's Rick Gehman. Jersey Shore used sound pitching to win its game.

Sure, the city's great when the temperature hits 80 degrees. The most eclectic vendors are out. The worst-dressed homeless are in full bloom. The river drives are greening. The fruit looks fresher in the Italian Market. Occasionally, someone will smile. But this also is the season that tempts the soul toward the cool breezes that blow in off the surf. The time to discover the seashells left from a cold winter. Imagine the promise of a Friday night at one of those deliciously decadent and financially ravenous casinos by the beach.

It was the perfect summer, Lt. John McShane of the Ocean City Beach Patrol said, until the very end. As it pounded Florida, Hurricane Frances did not spare the Jersey Shore yesterday. Thousands trying to make a beach day of it found themselves in the middle of whipping winds, blowing sand and rough seas. But Frances was only partly responsible for the Shore's rough weather. The conditions were mostly due to a high-pressure system moving in from Canada, according to the National Weather Service.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection helicopter was approaching Cape May Point yesterday morning, whizzing about 100 feet above the surf at 90 miles an hour. "You want to start at the lighthouse?" asked the pilot, Paul Cohler. "Unless you want to start at the nude beach," said David Rosenblatt, a DEP supervising environmental specialist. "No, it's too cold out," said the pilot, checking the temperature outside the helicopter. It was 58 degrees. They decided to limit their search to garbage.

VENTNOR - Locals who stayed at the shore barrier islands for Hurricane Irene found themselves in a funny position this morning: They ended up in better shape than many of the people who evacuated. Even Atlantic County Executive Dennis Levinson, whose office was part of the decision to order mandatory evacuations, acknowledged as much. "The irony is, many of the areas we told people to go to got hammered," he said, standing on the Ventnor boardwalk this morning, while waves crashed majestically - but politely - under the Ventnor Pier.

Jersey Shore won the 2010 Carpenter Cup baseball tournament yesterday, defeating Suburban One League National/Bicentennial, 7-3, at Citizens Bank Park. Jersey Shore last won the title in 2002. The victory completed a Jersey Shore sweep of the Carpenter Cup, as the softball team won the championship on Tuesday.

After five years of declining values exceeding those of Philadelphia and its suburban counties, most Jersey Shore towns experienced flat or positive price changes in this year's first quarter, economist Kevin Gillen of Econsult Inc. said Thursday. In an analysis for Prudential Fox & Roach, Gillen found that the typical Shore home declined in value by a scant 0.1 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in the quarter. Prices fell 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 and 6.2 percent in the third quarter.