GSB Winter Sports
We had a busy week photographing some of the Winter Sports at Gill St Bernard’s School. Basketball was completed December 2009 and we should have indoor track done next week. The photo of the fencers lunging with their blades is my personal favorite. The swimming and fencing group photo was taken with the use of two Dynalite Uni400s: direct in the case of swimming and bounced of a white ceiling for the group shot of the fencers lunging.
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Watchung Hills @ Ridge Ice Hockey
December 12, 2008: Ridge defeated Watchung Hills 4-1 during an ice hockey game held at the Bridgewater Sports Arena.
Here are the video highlights:
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Ice Hockey Cup Finals @ South Mountain Arena
West Orange, NJ – Richard Codey South Mountain Arena is the host to seven ice hockey cup finals and four were held on February 23, 2008, including:
- CLICK HERE for Watchung Hills 6, Cranford 1: Van Cott Cup Final
- CLICK HERE for Paramus Catholic 4, Glen Rock 0: Hoerner Cup Final
- CLICK HERE for Ridge 5, St Joseph’s Metuchen 0: McInnis Cup Final
- CLICK HERE for Delbarton 5, St Augustine 3: Gordon Cup Final
- CLICK HERE for Awards & Trophy Ceremonies
Photos by Alan Maglaque
Championship Weekend in Morris County
Big Weekend in Morris as County Champions were crowned in Boys & Girls Basketball as well as four Ice Hockey Champions. Saturday saw Delbarton take home the Gordon Cup with a 5-3 win over St. Augustine. Mendham took down Delbarton at CCM with a 62-47 victory.
Many Morris County Wrestlers gained District crowns. It was Hanover Park (District 9) and Roxbury (District 2) taking home team titles.
- 103 – Steve Godine (Whippany Pk) dec Nick Giordano (Hanover Pk) 4-2
- 112 – MOW – Eric Fajardo (Boonton) pinned Dave Standridge (Parsippany) 2:23
- 119 – Jordan Toma (Hanover Pk) dec Erik Gobbo (Delbarton) 11-10
- 125 – Anthony Mariano (Parsippany) dec Ben McNeil (Par Hills) 5-4
- 130 – Kyle Hussey (Parsippany) pinned Andrew Regan (Boonton) 5:16
- 135 – Aaron Velasquez (Morristown) dec Daniel Reuben (Mtn Lk) 3-1
- 140 – Nick Bach (Parsippany) pinned Ryan Colwell (Madison) 3:42
- 145 – Rob Hernandez (Whippany Pk) dec Chris Tracy (Hanover Pk) 7-6
- 152 – Jake Gruebert (Hanover Pk) dec Dean Sullivan (Delbarton) 11-1
- 160 – Dustin Brooks (Boonton) pinned Mike Lomio (Hanover Pk) 5:00
- 171 – Kyle Kaufmann (Madison) pinned Alex Anest (Boonton) 2:49
- 189 – Chris Lloyd (Morristown) pinned Yuriy Mayoski (Par Hills) 2:33
- 215 – Casey Flynn (Morristown) dec Bob Grogan (Delbarton) 2-1
- HWT – Michael Hall (Madison) pinned Spencer Williams (Par Hills) 2:39
Sunday began with Morris Catholic holding off a seasoned Hanover Park squad. The Hornets broke the relentless Morris Catholic press easily for almost all of the first half, but the Crusaders changed things up a bit with 3 minutes and increased a 2 point led to 24-19 half time advantage. Morris Catholic won its second straight MCT with a 52-38 victory. MVP Kathleen Schuckers led all scorers with 18. Let’s move from FDU-Florham to Mennen Arena for two great hockey games. Roxbury won the Haas Cup as the Gael broke a 1-1 tie with Park Regional en route to a 4-1 victory. Chris Sannipoli scored the eventual game winning goal for the Gaels, still undefeated at 21-0-1. Roxbury was led by four different goal scorers, as goal keeper Joe Streko stopped 18 out of 19 shots on net. Pequannock pulled the upset of the year in Morris County Hockey as the Golden Panthes, now 10-12-1, knocked off the, then, 19-1-2 Kinnleon Colts. Kinelon could not mount more than a one goal advantage as Steve Ondrof scored a power play goal to tie the game at 2 in the second period. The Panthers, who did not qualify for the state tournament who jump to a 3-2 lead when Steve Ondrof recorded the natural hat trick with just about 5 minutes left in the second period. Justin Lacorte added then insurance empty netter. Keeper Joe Fede was superman for the Panthers as the star goalie turned away 44 shots, and more importantly, limited the rebounds to near zero. On Monday, Randolph won the coveted Mennen Cup with a 4-1 victory over Moristown-Beard. Randolph, who controlled the pace of the entire game and rarely allowed Beard into the offensive zone, none-the-less, even set up their offense. John Beatrice, Chris Tamminga, Matt Fullam and Chris Maloney all scored for the Rams, now 13-4-5.
Photos by Vinny Carchietta for njsi.net
2008 State Tournament Brackets
2008 Ice Hockey Tournament
Non-Public | Public A | Public B
2008 Girls Basketball
Tournament of Champions
Non-Public Finals | Public Semis/Finals
North I, Group I | North I, Group II | North I, Group III | North I, Group IV
North II, Group I | North II, Group II | North II, Group III | North II, Group IV
Central, Group I | Central, Group II | Central, Group III | Central, Group IV
South, Group I | South, Group II | South, Group III | South, Group IV
North A | North B | South A | South
2008 Boys Basketball
Tournament of Champions
Non-Public Finals | Public Semis/Finals
North I, Group I | North I, Group II | North I, Group III | North I, Group IV
North II, Group I | North II, Group II | North II, Group III | North II, Group IV
Central, Group I | Central, Group II | Central, Group III | Central, Group IV
South, Group I | South, Group II | South, Group III | South, Group IV
North A | North B | South A | South B
2008 Fencing Team Tournament
Boys Fencing | Girls Fencing
2008 Boys Team Swimming
Non-Public Finals | Public Semis/Finals
Non-Public North – A | Non-Public North – B | Non-Public South – A | Non-Public South – B
Pubic North I – B | Public North I – A
Pubic North II – A | Public North II – B
Public Central – A | Public Central – B
Public South – A | Public South – B
2008 Girls Team Swimming
Non-Public Finals | Public Semis/Finals
Non-Public North – A | Non-Public North – B | Non-Public South – A | Non-Public South – B
Public North I – A
Public North II – B
Public Central – A | Public Central – B
Public North I – B | Public North II – A
Public South – A | Public South – B
Ice Hockey: Morristown-Beard v. Morris Knolls
Morristown, NJ - On Saturday, the Crimson took down Morris Knolls after a tough faught battle between two of NJ’s best. It was Dan DePoalo tallying all goals for the Crimson, as he complete the natural hat trick with an empty-netter with only seconds to play. Morristown-Beard, now ranked #12 by The Star-Ledger, improved to 15-4-1. Doug Taylor recorded the win in net with 16 saves. Kyle Edwards scored for the Eagles who are now 11-7-1. Tyler Rideout was sharp in net for Knolls and help keep the Golden Eagles within striking range. Morris Knolls will face Chatham in the opening round of the Mennen Cup next Tuesday at 8:00 pm.
1 2 3 - F Morris Knolls 0 1 0 - 1 Morristown-Beard 0 2 1 - 3
2nd Period: MB – Dan DePoalo (Matt Willows, Bobby Yannotta). MK – Kyle Edwards (Dylan Garrity, Don Nicholos). MB - DePoalo (Andrew Koslov)
Third Period: MB - DePoalo (Ryan Paradis)
Jonathan Dayton @ Gill St Bernard’s Ice Hockey
Randolph, NJ - Jonathan Dayton defeated the Knights of Gill St Bernard’s 8-5 in a junior varsity ice hockey game played at Aspen Ice Ice on February 2, 2008.
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Photo by Alex Cena
Par Hills 10-0 Parsippany – Ice Hockey
Morris Township, NJ – The margin of victory this year will do nothing to dampen the rivalry between the two Parsippany Schools, in fact, you can expect it to simply add more fuel to the fire. In a bitter and high energy game, the Vikings of Parsippany Hills put a back yard beating on their neighbors from Parsippany. In a heated match when penalties, checks and fan fun was abundant, Brandon Lopez and Patrick Lynch stole the show with two goals each. Parsippany Hills is now unbeaten in their last 4 games – three wins and a tie – improving to 4-6-2 over-all. Parsippany falls to 1-13-1 and were out shot 24-8 over the two periods.
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Photos by The Coach at MCHSS.net
Randolph 5-1 over Morris Knolls (Ice Hockey)
Morris Township, NJ – Randolph snapped a 3-game win-less streak (0-2-1) with an impressive 5-1 victory over Morris County rical Morris Knolls January 18, 2008 at Mennen Sports Arena. Chris Tamminga had two goals. His first opened the scoring just 3:33 into the game. Anthony Matrisciano and John Beatrice also added first period goals giving the Rams a quick 3-0 lead. Kyle Edwards sent Knolls to the locker down two, as his power play goal with only 2 seconds on the clock closed the scoring for the 1st Period.
Chris Maloney gave Randolph a 4-1 lead and Tamminga closed the scoring late in the second period. Randolph improved to 7-2-4 as Morris Knolls dropped their 5th game of the year, now 7-5-1. Knolls and Randolph tied 3-3 on opening day.
Summit @ Watchung Hills Ice Hockey
Union, NJ – While the Summit Hilltoppers struck first when Jason Bell and Jack Mulcahy assisted Brendan Lindner’s goal with 01:09 minutes left in the first period, the rest of the scoring was done by the Watchung Hills Warriors on their way to a 5-1 victory during a varsity ice hockey game played on January 6, 2008 at Union Sports Arena. In the second period Matt Gunther helped Paul Kim score with 13:40 left in the period. This was followed later with less than a minute of play left in the period by a Bryan Kong goal with an assist from Brandon Lipke. During the third period, Mike Lunelberg scored twice while Paul Kim had another goal as well.
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Photo by Tim McDonald for NJSI.net
Seton Hall Prep @ Delbarton Ice Hockey
Morris Township, NJ – The Delbarton Green Wave defeated the Seton Hall Pirates 6-2 during a varsity ice hockey game played on January 4, 2008 at Mennen Sports Arena.
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You can also watch Coach Vinnie’s video below
Mountain Lakes @ West Morris Ice Hockey
Morris Township, NJ – Lakers’ #12 Liam Delap knocked in two goals, while #9 James Putney and Zach Cohen scored one a piece during Mountain Lakes 4-2 victory over West Morris at Mennen Sports Arena. For West Morris, #15 Justin Roscigno and #6 John Williams scored one goal each.
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A special shout out to Mountain Lake’s #14 Chris Glander, who was seriously injured during another ice hockey game. His entire team wishes him well. In fact, in honor of their team mate every player on the team wears Chris’ number on their helmets and hang Chris’ jersey above the team bench during every game.
Chatham @ Mendham Ice Hockey
Morris Township, NJ – #19 center Paul Ughetta assited #18 left wing Jeff Keating who scored the game winning goal early in the third period during the Chatham Cougars 2-1 victory over the Mendham Minutemen, 2-1 at Mennen Sports Arena.
Chatham’s Ughetta, who was assisted by Keating and right defenseman #4 Alex Wirt, scored first giving Chatham a 1-0 lead with 12:55 left in the first period. Mendham came back with 1:35 left in the second quarter with a power-play goal by #3 center Henry Borda. Chatham’s goalie #27 Charlie Boles stopped 14 shots while Mendham’s #71 Troy Herman blocked 26 shots.
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Don Bosco @ Seton Hall Ice Hockey
West Orange, NJ - Don Bosco played Seton Hall Prep to a 3-3 tie during a boys varsity ice hockey game played on December 8, 2007 at the Richard Codey South Mountain Sports Arena.
Seton Hall Prep’s Chris Preziosi with an assist from Marcelo DeAngelis and Justin Kleinwaks were first to score with 14:45 remaining in the first period. However, Don Bosco Prep’s Conner Leen assisted by Tyler Stephanik came back a few minutes later at 11:13 remaining to tie things up. The Ironmen of Don Bosco came out strong during the second period. In fact, Conner Leen once again helped by Tyler Stephanik as well as Joe Wesolowski helped Don Bosco take a 2-1 lead with 12:39 on the clock. A short while later with 10:45 on the clock Don Bosco’s Tyler Stephanik scored for the Ironmen with help from Dan Fredeman and Conner Leen, placing the Pirates behind by two. The Pirates were down but not out. Seton Hall Prep’s Chris Preziosi assisted by Marcelo DeAngelis and David Rose closed the gap at 07:35 remaining in the second period. Then with only 1:44 left in the second period Seton Hall Prep’s Jeff Emmerling with some help from Chris Preziosi tied things up at 3-3 and that is how the score remained for the balance of the game.
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Photos by Tim McDonald for NSI.net
Chatham @ Pingry Ice Hockey
Bridgewater, NJ – Despite a game that ended in a tie, the Chatham at Pingry Boys High School Ice Hockey game played at the Bridgewater Sports Arena on December 5, 2007 was a great game to watch. Pingry dominated most of the game. In fact, the Big Blue of Pingry at one point was ahead 2-o, but the Cougars came fighting back and near the end of the third period tied the
game 3-3 during a power play.
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Photos by Alex Cena and video by the Coach at www.mchss.net
Shooting Sports Indoors
As the indoor sports season approaches, I thought I would opine on how to simulate arena lighting inside typically dark high school venues. Many people take their fancy DSLR cameras to basketball and ice hockey games thinking they will get great images of their favorite athlete, but all they get are blurry images full of digital noise similar to grain we used to get when we were shooting mostly film. You can spend a lot of money on the fastest lenses and the fanciest camera bodies, but your images still will not come close to rivalling those shot with some artifical light. Save your money. You do not need that 200/2.0 lens. What you need are some strobes.
My suggestions are applicable to basketball, wrestling, track, ice hockey, swimming and other indoor events in dark locations. I will talk about my strategy using Dynalite strobes and packs, but they are certainly applicable if you plan to use monolights from White Lightning, Dynalite, Speedotron, Elinchrom, Profoto and others as well as camera flash units with sync such as the QFlash, SB-800 or 580-EXII. Done right, you can capture images like those below.
If you want to know how it’s done, continue to the rest of the article:
2007 NJSIAA Ice Hockey State Finals at Mennen
We were at the NJSIAA Ice Hockey State Finals held at William G. Mennen Ice Arena on March 23, 2007 and got to watch two excellent and very close games. Photos taken during the NJSIAA State Ice Hockey Tournament of Champions Finals held at William G. Mennen Sports Arena in Morristown New Jersey may now be viewed on-line. The game between the two public and the non-public high school galleries have about 300 images taken during the warm-ups, the game itself as well as some of the images taken after the game.
In addition to the photos in the galleries above, you can also view images taken by Rich Graessle of NY Greenpics and video footage taken by Phil McRimmon of NJHotshots. If I find galleries created by other photographers who also strobed the event, I will post them here as well. I am not trying to promote or endorse the quality of the competition. You are going to find their site anyway so you may as well learn about them from here. There were a dozen or more professional photographers at the event though there were only about six of us who were using professional strobes similar to those you would find at Continental Arena or other professional sports venues. Strobed action photos will look great small and still look spectacular (i.e. sharp and no noise & grain) blown up to a 20×30.
The fans were really there for their favorite sports teams and a special thanks to all the game officials! Enjoy the photographs!
Click to the links below if want to view all the photos.
A BIG shout out to all the photographers that were present at the game and using strobes. Everyone was real cooperative in coordinating Pocket Wizard frequencies and agreeing to bounce their lights off the ceiling as opposed to hitting the players with a powerful flash directly. I prefer direct light myself for that high-contrast Sports-Illustrated look but opted to bounce. I was afraid with so many of us strobing the place like the northern lights we could’ve been disruptive. I’m just happy indoor sports are over so I do not have to lug lights around everywhere anymore.
Randolph vs Watchung Hills @ South Mountain Arena
We recently were at the Randolph versus Watchung Hills High School NJSIAA Ice Hockey Public Quarterfinals held at Richard Codey Ice Arena at South Mountain. You can view photos from the game in on our hockey gallery and read more about it from Coach Vinnie’s Blog. Randolph advances to to the semi-finals against Morris Knolls to be held at Continental Arena March 16th.
Photo by Alex Cena
NJSIAA non-Public Ice Hockey Quarterfinals @ Mennen Ice Arena
We have photos from the Notre Dame vs Christian Brothers Academy as well as the Bergen Catholic vs St. Peter’s Prep games during the non-public quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA Ice Hockey Tournament held at at William G Mennen arena. CBA and St Peter’s will compete against each other in the semi-finals to be held at Continental Arena on March 16th to determine who will go against the winner of the Delbarton vs St Augustine game that same day.
Photos by Alan Maglaque
