Year in Review: Ocean City Sports

Ocean City High School started the year in style with a great run in winter sports. The Ocean City Beach Patrol brought home a South Jersey title. And the Red Raiders continued their successes through the fall.

Miles Schoedler dashed his way to  in indoor track and his team won its first indoor track . The girls' basketball team made it to the after a upset of Moorestown to . The boys' basketball team made a run into the South Jersey , and Dan Pettit at Atlantic City.

The spring baseball and softball teams made it to the , while pitcher Kolya Stephenson was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the final round. And golf coach Skip Angelo logged his .

The Ocean City Beach Patrol brought the back to familiar ground and earned the right to host the event this summer.  The Ocean City Beach Patrol women did equally well in winning a . 

After making it all the way to the finals, the field hockey team saw its championship hopes .

A senior-heavy boys' soccer team turned an early losing streak into a month of and reached the . The girls’ tennis team also reached the sectional finals, but . The cross-country teams both notched wins in the .  

A young football team played well in a season of tough losses and final got the dominant victory they'd been waiting for on .

In a town like Ocean City, though, sporting feats happen outside the confines of high school athletics. Ocean City paddler in a 6-mile bay row, youth sailors triumphed in the ’s rankings, runners crowded the streets for , a local took the top prize in the on Cape Hatteras and storm waters provided . Ocean City captured its 18th straight .

But all of this sports news clearly pales in comparison to the biggest sports story to hit Ocean City this year: the .

Number of sports stories published on Ocean City Patch in 2011: 252. Follow sports coverage year-round at Ocean City Patch’s sports topic page.