Five Things You Need to Know

It was a pretty successful winter season for teams from the two high schools that call Gloucester Township home. We highlight two of the top teams in the area with the first two of "Five Things You Need to Know."

1. Despite a disappointing loss to end its playoff run, 's girls' hoops team did win the Olympic Conference Patriot Division title and advanced to the South Jersey Group III semifinals. Also, star guard Jasmine Martin broke the school's basketball scoring record on Feb. 24 when she dropped in her 1,689th point versus Lenape.

's boys' hoops team won a playoff game, beating Cherry Hill West on March 1 before bowing out to eventual South Jersey Group III champ Kingsway, and the Lady Tartans stepped up their game dramatically this year, improving from 0-22 in 2009-10 to 10-15 this winter.

2. Timber Creek's wrestlers did not achieve their team goal of winning a Group III state championship, falling in heartbreaking fashion to South Plainfield in the state semis, but they did take the Olympic Patriot and sectional titles, and had seven District 30 champs—Alan Nguyen (103), Ricky Carter (112), Brandon Keller (125), Kevin Birmingham (135), Bryce Shade (140), Robert Shade (152) and Salvatore DeSilvio (heavyweight)—and four Region 8 champs—Carter, Keller, Birmingham and Bryce Shade.

Carter went on to a third-place finish at 112 in the state championships in Atlantic City this weekend.

3. The GloucesterTownship.Patch.com Athlete of the Winter Season will be profiled this Saturday. Be sure to stop by to see our selection.

4. The "Hit Doctor" sports complex project is scheduled to go before the planning board on April 12.

Four all-purpose baseball fields, as well as a concession stand and other amenities, are slated to be built on the former Nike missile radar base on Williamstown Chews Landing Road. South Jersey baseball legend Joe "The Hit Doctor" Barth and Cal Ripken Jr.'s design team are heading the $7 million project.

5. The and ' board elections will both be uncontested races.

Incumbents Kevin Bucceroni, Joyce Ellis and Ben Zanghi will run unopposed for the high-school district's board, while incumbent Andrew Lalli and newcomers Marianne Coyle and Joseph Gunn will run without opposition for the K-8 district's board.

Check back this weekend for a Letter to the Editor—GloucesterTownship.Patch.com's first!—from a township resident who is none too happy with the lack of competition in the races.