OCEAN CITY- While it may lack the glamour and high payouts of the White Marlin Open, the Ocean City Marlin Club’s 49th Annual Labor Day White Marlin Tournament, which got underway this morning, does not lack the history or prestige.Called the “granddaddy” of the resort area fishing tournaments, the Marlin Club’s annual Labor Day tournament… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department is looking for volunteer coaches for its upcoming boys’ indoor box lacrosse league, which gets underway next week.The league is open to male players of all abilities in grades 1-8 and is broken down into three divisions based on age. Practices and games will be held… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- After nearly a week of dreary weather and less than stellar fishing action, the 2007 Mid-Atlantic $500,000 tournament, hosted jointly by Cape May, N.J. and Ocean City, finished with a flourish with a whopping 92-pound white marlin weighed at Sunset Marina taking the event’s top prize on the last day.The tournament began last… Read more »

BERLIN- Stephen Decatur’s men’s and women’s varsity soccer teams have new head coaches at the helm with new seasons ready to open up next week, but the familiar faces have the programs headed in the right direction.Gone are longtime men’s and women’s varsity soccer coaches Steve Berquist and Amy Fenzel-Mergott, who both resigned their positions… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The 14th Annual Ocean City Lacrosse Classic, held in the resort area over four days last weekend, was one of the best ever with 63 total teams competing including some of the best lacrosse players in the country.The event has grown by leaps and bounds since inception in 1993 when just a handful… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The Greene Turtle captured the Ocean City Recreation and Parks Department’s adult summer soccer league title earlier this month, routing regular season champion Rommel’s Ace Hardware in the championship game.The Turtle, which finished the regular season in second place with a 7-2-2 record, took care of business in the title game against Rommel’s,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- Rough seas and cloudy, dreary weather conspired to keep the action at the Mid-Atlantic $500,000, a big regional tournament based in both Cape May, N.J. and Ocean City, fairly calm for the first three days of the event, but with the conditions expected to take a turn for the better yesterday and today,… Read more »

Scenes like this one on the docks at Sunset Marina in West Ocean City were common during the first three days of the Mid-Atlantic $500,000 with a handful of near-misses in the white marlin category brought to the scales. With the weather expected to take a turn for the better today, the action in the… Read more »

Shawn J. SoperSports EditorOCEAN CITY- The threat of less than perfect weather and unpredictable seas kept the number of boats participating in the 14th Annual Captain Steve Harman Poor Girls Open down somewhat last weekend, but the event was another huge success with over $62,000 in prize money doled out and over $38,000 raised for… Read more »

OCEAN CITY- The resort area’s collective hangover from last week’s White Marlin Open has just about worn off in time for the next big event on the summer sportfishing calendar- the Mid-Atlantic $500,000, a Cape May, N.J.-based tournament that will again have a strong presence in Ocean City again this year.Now in its 16th year,… Read more »