Ocean City

Tess Solazzo started playing lacrosse in fourth grade. Her best friend, Kate Weeks, was an avid lacrosse player. Weeks taught Solazzo the game, and from that point forward, their dedication and passion for the sport grew together. "So it's just really weird how it's all worked out," Solazzo said. Only seven high school girls' lacrosse players in state history have netted 300 career goals. Weeks, a Boston College recruit and senior at the Hun School in Princeton, became the seventh on Tuesday.

Baseball BURLINGTON COUNTY FREEDOM Burlington City 3, Florence 1 BURLINGTON COUNTY LIBERTY Northern Burlington 4, Burlington Township 2 BURLINGTON COUNTY PATRIOT Delran 9, Cinnaminson 8 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE AMERICAN Egg Harbor Township 3, Absegami 2 Millville 6, Hammonton 5 Oakcrest 2, Vineland 1 CAPE-ATLANTIC LEAGUE NATIONAL Ocean City 14, Middle Township 1 Wildwood Catholic 8, Pleasantville 1 ...

A body found washed ashore Wednesday morning on the beach in Ocean City, N.J., has been identified as a sea tow operator missing since his boat sank last week, authorities said. A spokesman for the New Jersey state police said the deceased had been identified as David McAuliffe, of Egg Harbor Township, whose boat went down off Ocean City on April 23. The body was discovered by Ocean City employees working on the beach about 6 a.m. near 25th Street, about two miles from where the tow boat was recovered Thursday.

COULD THE GIANT inflatable rat, a common prop at organized-labor protests, go extinct, replaced by a louder, more mobile rodent? Let's test-drive the Rat-Mobile, a new model from that old school of labor protests, Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Currently being test-driven around the city and soon to be deployed to protests, the Rat-Mobile is a converted minivan. John Dougherty, the union's business manager, said the conversion cost $14,000 and took three months.

How has the recovery process from Superstorm Sandy gone for you and your family? Share your story with the Daily News at ph.ly/SandyStories . BRIGANTINE, N.J. - In her little shop at North Point Marina, Donna Vanzant stocks clam rakes and boat anchors, tide charts and neon fishing lures, and an assortment of bug sprays that probably don't keep this island community's infamous greenhead flies at bay. But the one thing you'd expect...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - A tow boat that recently sank off the southern New Jersey coast has been raised, but the man who was piloting the boat remains missing. The Press of Atlantic City reports the 49-foot-long Cape Hatteras was raised yesterday, five days after it sank off Ocean City. The vessel was discovered upside down and partially buried in sand Thursday night. The boat's captain, David McAuliffe, was making a short trip from Atlantic City to Somers Point when the vessel sank Tuesday.

Cherry Hill East freshman Ian Sheeky scored five goals Friday, and the Cougars held on for a 9-8 nonleague win against visiting Ocean City for their first victory of the boys' lacrosse season. Brandon Stern added three goals for Cherry Hill East, which had lost its first eight games of the season. Dan Spatol led Ocean City with four goals. Baseball Ben Acero's two-run double for Camden Catholic proved to be too much for host Paul VI, and the Irish picked up a 12-9 win. Acero finished 3 for 4 with two doubles and three RBIs.

Judging by the score, you wouldn't think one of the pitchers worked a complete game. But Timber Creek softball coach Marci Logan let Brianna Fisher work through her struggles, and it paid off. Fisher pitched all seven innings and contributed an RBI double as the hosts won the Charger Classic championship game over Woodstown, 9-7, Saturday. "She's my No. 1 pitcher," Logan said. "Where she goes, we go. I give her a lot of trust out there. When we need her, she usually shows up. " Woodstown entered the seventh inning down by four runs and closed the gap to two. Fisher withstood the late rally by getting a fly ball to right field with a runner on base to end it. "She was very pumped," Logan said.

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - In this beach vacation haven, home to the largest number of Jersey Shore summer rentals, they really thought they would be cleaning up this season - and not just from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Ocean City, along with most other Cape May County barrier-island towns, sustained far less damage than many northern beach communities. Recovery of public spaces and rental properties has been swift in a place that counts on the lucrative summer tourism season. Other places, such as Seaside Heights in Ocean County, where Sandy pulled amusement rides into the surf and destroyed miles of boardwalk and hundreds of homes, were not as lucky.