Year in Review: Gloucester Twp. Sports

With its students going to three high schools, Gloucester Township always has sports news going on. Add that to Erial Little League’s magical run and you have a very busy year in sports for 2011.

Let’s start with the Erial sluggers. The boys batted their way to the Joe Graziano Little League Baseball State Tournament after winning the . The team had the throughout the run, which ended with a . Relive the team’s season that was—and the players that made it possible—with Gloucester Township Patch’s coverage.

On the high-school level, Timber Creek's teams logged quite an impressive year. The girls’ basketball team and the wrestling team captured a and produced . Damiere Byrd  to a state title, the Chargers boys' soccer team won a thriller over Ocean City to take the South Jersey Group 3 championship, and the Chargers football team routed Hammonton to take the .

Over at Highland, now-former wrestling coach DJ Gore notched his 100th career win at the school in January and Tyler Hinchliffe, now at Boston College, recorded a for the Tartans baseball team in April.

Triton’s girls’ soccer coach Holly O’Donnell took home a this year, while the , and boys’ and girls’ soccer teams made playoff appearances, and three wrestlers took in the Tri-County Conference Wrestling Tournament.

Away from the high school fields, this year marked the 10th anniversary of the Runnemede flag football team’s , Highland Junior Wrestling for breast cancer research and a township resident was inducted into Temple University’s .

Number of sports stories in 2011 on Gloucester Township Patch: 320. Follow Gloucester Township sports news all year long on Patch’s sports topic page.