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Local Girls Get Their Games On at Mount St. Dominic

Verona and Cedar Grove athletes participate in youth softball and basketball camps.

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The Mount Saint Dominic Academy has been hosting Lady Lions Summer Camp since 2000. Young ladies entering grades 4 through 9 can sign up for Volleyball, Softball, Basketball and Soccer camps, each lasting five days.

This year, 22 young Cedar Grove and Verona softballers made up the largest local contingent at the prestigious Lady Lions Softball Camp earlier in July. Cedar Grove head Coach Rob Stern and Mount Saint Dominic Academy head coach Lorenzo Sozio were the instructors at the camp.

More than two-dozen youngsters from Verona and Cedar Grove attended the Lady Lions Basketball Camp last week. Ed Furman, an assistant coach at Stevens Institute of Technology and Verona graduate, was the director of the basketball camp. 

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Basketball camp photo front from left, 11-year-olds Holly Lake and Maddie Leonard, Melanie Naeris, 10, and Megan Meehan, 9, all of Verona, and five Cedar Grove dwellers: Sophia Glebas, 11, Nicole Kelly, 10, Jessica Kelly, 8, Stephanie Peters, 9, and Madeline Bochis, 10, with Allison Naeris, 13, Jamie Holmark, 11, and Julia Rigney, 13, of Verona and Bethany Peterson, 12, Ashley Brombauer, 10, Aria Myers, 11, Brittany Taylor, 11, and Jade Larkin, 9, all of CG, in the middle and six Veronans: Julianna Spina, 13, Olivia Fisher, 11, Kylee Gallagher, 11, Amelia Lake, 13, Alice Lake, 13, and Dylan Munjack, 10, along with two 12-year-old CG dwellers:  Danielle Dabroski and Lauren Lay, in the back. The hoops camp's director was former MSDA head coach Ed Furman, back left.

Softball camp photo, front from left, 10-year-olds Olivia Garcia, Katina Sqwilanti and Melanie Naeris, Megan Meehan, 9, Kayla Bachan, 10, Kayla Oh, 10, and Lia Tortoriello, 9, all of Verona, with Mary Wallace, 10, and Adrianna Fierro, 13, of Verona, 11-year-old Cedar Grove dweller Lauren Cap, Jamie Holmark, 11, Dylan Munjack, 10, and Melanie Matarazzo, 12, of Verona, Danielle DiPietro, 13, of CG and Allison Naeris, 12, of Verona in the middle and 11-year-old Veronan Olivia Fisher, Mary Ellen Nealy, 12, Lauren Lay, 12, Sarah Taffet, 13, and Danielle Dabroski, 12, of Cedar Grove, Renata Primmer, 13, and Julia Rigney, 13, of Verona in the back. Among the instructors at the super softball camp were two decade veteran MSDA head coach Lorenzo Sozio and former longtime CGHS head coach Rob Stern, who is now the associate head coach at the Mount.

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