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MANASQUAN, NJ — This Sunday, Oct. 8 Eze Fit Transformation Center (Eze Fit) — which has locations in Howell, Brick and Neptune — is partnering with six Jersey Shore gyms to host "Circuits for Babies."

The fitness event is open to the public to participate in and will go from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (rain or shine)

Location: The Atlantic Club, 1904 Atlantic Ave., ManasquanRegistration/More Info - https://ezefitnj.com/circuits

This will be a seven-circuit charity workout benefitting Michael’s Feat, a non-profit dedicated to providing comfort and easing the burden for parents of seriously ill newborns in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

The fundraiser has a personal significance for Jemand Ezeonwuka, founder of Eze Fit Transformation:

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"In 2014, my wife Kiko and I discovered Michael’s Feat after our son, Kai, was born seven weeks premature. Their support significantly eased the challenges of Kai’s treatment and care,” he shares. “Creating 'Circuits for Babies' allows my family and our fitness community to pay it forward and truly impact the lives of newborns and their families in our area.”

Additional area gyms participating are SETS Hybrid Training, Alpha Fit Club, CKO of Freehold, AMP’d Fitness and Shore Kickboxing

How “Circuits for Babies” works:

Individuals register for a $20 donation.

Each gym will have an eight-minute circuit station. There will be a two-minute break in-between stations. Total workout time will be one hour followed by a 15-minute recovery group yoga.

In addition to the fitness fundraiser, attendees can anticipate a day filled with entertainment and music by AJH Entertainment, and opportunities to win raffle baskets donated by local businesses.

For more info. or sponsorship opportunities, visit https://ezefitnj.com/circuits or email ezefitnessevents@gmail.com

MANASQUAN, N.J. -- Tropical Storm Ophelia triggered coastal flooding in parts of New Jersey on Saturday.

Even approaching low tide, the water in Manasquan Inlet nipped at the edge of the boardwalk. At high tide, water spilled over bulkheads and filled streets down the the Jersey Shore.

Waves blasted against the sea wall and spilled over into Ocean Drive in Avalon.

In Beach Haven, the force of the wind spawned by Ophelia howled into the microphone as rain pelted the lens, and the angry ocean ate away at the sand.

The roadway proved impassable for a Volkswagen stuck sitting in flood waters. The fate of a car with flashers was uncertain. Either the driver blared flashers for safety or their car stalled out, too.

Folks strolled through the ankle-, knee-, even thigh-deep water. Carli Peters and Jonathan Kelly braved the elements to drop coins at the arcade.

"I think it's crazy, but honestly, if you're wearing shorts, it's kind of fun to walk through the water," Peters said.

"I've seen it flooded like this a little bit, but it's pretty bad out today," Kelly said.

Melissa Juliano visited Beach Haven for a bridal shower that was still on, despite the deluge.

"Not the weekend that I had planned. It's also my 60th birthday weekend," she said. "I think this is cuckoo, cuckoo."

Beth DeMartin was celebrating her birthday, too, with big plans for dinner washed out.

She declares this is coastal living.

"It's happened before. I just wasn't here at the time," she said.

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PISCATAWAY – As the clock wound down, the final outcome assured, a roar a century in the making rose up inside Jersey Mike’s Arena Saturday night.

Manasquan, one of the Shore Conference’s great basketball programs over the decades, captured its first state championship in dominating fashion, rolling over Caldwell, 62-29, in the Group 2 final.

Manasquan (28-4), which reached the Group 3 semifinals with this team a year ago, was led by sophomore guard Darius Adams’ double-double, pouring in 22 points and grabbing 12 rebounds, while junior point guard Ryan Frauenheim added 13 points.

'Crazy to be a part of this team'

“It means everything,” Adams said. “First time in history, so it’s crazy to be part of this team and I’m glad I got to do it with this team.”

“It’s great. It’s something we’ve worked for all year, just a great thing,” Frauenheim said.

How good was Manasquan’s season?

Of the four teams they lost to, two won state championships, with Roselle Catholic beating St. Rose, who Manasquan split two games with, in the Non-Public B final, and Union Catholic winning the Non-Public A title.

It’s the first state championship for a Shore Conference public school program since Point Beach won the 2013 Group 1 title. It’s the first by a Shore team since Ranney captured the 2019 Non-Public B title.

“The goal is not that,’ Manasquan coach Andrew Bilodeau said. “The goal is to have a great experience, to get better every day, be a man 20 years from now, have a great time, have warm, fuzzy kind of Kodak moments about your experience in high school. That’s what we stress. Championships are a byproduct of all those other things.”

And when the team returned to Manasquan Saturday night, the plan was for everyone to head to the beach to do a celebratory polar plunge, coaches included.

“We’re going in,” Bilodeau said. “They’ve been polar plunging every day. I’ve seen some video. It doesn’t look fun. I promised them we would go in if we won.”

Dominating third quarter

After taking a 25-13 halftime lead, Manasquan used an 19-3 run to open the second half to put the game away, with the lead swelling to 44-16 on a Frauenheim tiple late in the third quarter, as Adams poured in eight points in the third quarter.

“I feel like we were shooting too many threes in the first half, so get to the rim and keep battling on the rebounds,” Adams said.

“People like to talk about (Adams’) scoring, I think his rebounding has been outstanding,” Bilodeau said. “He was on the floor a couple times tonight. That’s why he’s a big-time player. That’s why we win, because we just have those guys that are blood and guts.”

Manasquan then turned on the afterburners, continually getting to the basket as the pace increased dramatically, with the lead swelling to 56-22 at one point.

In the first half, Manasquan raced out to an 11-2 lead and was really never challenged once it extended to the lead to double digits in the second quarter.

Manasquan’s only other appearance in the state final was a 2004 loss to Raritan.

And with a young lineup that includes starting lineup that includes two sophomores and two juniors, this team’s run of success is a long way from being over.

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Can Manasquan basketball win first state championship? 3 keys vs. Caldwell in Group 2 final

PISCATAWAY – Given all the success Manasquan basketball has had over the years, from the six Shore Conference titles the program won through 1957, to its place as one of the area’s top programs over the past two decades, it’s hard to believe the program has never won a state championship.

That’s how tough it is to accomplish. Point Beach’s victory in the 2013 Group 1 final still ranks as the Shore’s last public school to win one.

But now a young Manasquan team is poised to make history when it faces Caldwell (24-5) in the Group 2 final Saturday (7 p.m.) at Jersey Mike’s Arena in Piscataway.

It’s Caldwell’s first appearance in a state final since 1932, while Manasquan made its lone trip in 2004, losing to Raritan in the Group 3 final.

More:Manasquan basketball reaches state final, topping Middle Twp. behind 20 from Darius Adams

Manasquan (27-4) comes off a 46-43 victory over Middle Township, the 22nd win in 23 games for the Shore Conference champion, with the only loss coming in a regular-season ending game at Union Catholic, which defeated St. Peter's Prep for the Non-Public A title Friday night. Manasquan’s three other losses were against Non-Public B champion Roselle Catholic and finalist St. Rose; and Linden, which lost in the Group 4 semifinals Thursday.

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Caldwell got here by knocking off Ramsey, 47-38, at the Dunn Center in Elizabeth. The Chiefs, who opened the season with 13 straight wins, come in having won six straight.

1. Experience matters

The Chiefs have a senior-heavy lineup that knows how to win. Several key players were members of the Chiefs’ football team, which owns the state’s longest winning streak at 28, having gone 13-0 in the fall, beating Rumson-Fair Haven for the first-ever Group 2 championship.

They’ve been building for this moment on the hardwood, having gone 24-4 a year ago before losing in a sectional final.

Senior Ryan Zamloot is their leading scorer at 17.6 points-per-game, while senior Rocco Checchetto led the way with 14 points against Ramsey, and senior Ryan Lawrence, who had a career-high 16 points in the section final, added 13 points. Senior Lorenzo Sozio is the Chiefs’ defensive stopper.

2. Star power

Sophomore guard Darius Adams and junior point guard Ryan Frauenheim have taken turns carrying the team. Adams had 20 points against Middle Township, while Frauenheim hit for 20 in the Central Group 2 final against South River.

But it’s the way the duo have been able to individually take games over at critical points that has been the difference.

In addition, the solid play of Manasquan’s frontcourt, at both the offensive and defensive ends, has been critical. Senior forward Jack Dettlinger had 10 points and five rebounds against Middle Township, and sophomore Griffin Linstra had four rebounds and hit a big 3-pointer to help jumpstart a first-half rally.

3. Rising to the top

This is the moment Manasquan has been building towards. The program has now gone 95-11 since the start of the 2019-20 season, and is 52-10 over the past two seasons, with six of those losses against the state’s elite-level non-publics.

While Manasquan doesn’t have a lineup of upperclassmen, this group has played in a lot of big games, for a program that has a great recent history, and that means something on this kind of stage.

A whale floating in the ocean off Manasquan Inlet Monday washed ashore late in the afternoon and reignited the debate over why it's happening and whether or not work related to wind turbines is to blame.

Necropsy teams from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center and Atlantic Marine Conservation Society were on Manasquan Beach Tuesday morning. They identified the whale as a 35-foot juvenile female that was first seen along the Jersey Shore on Jan. 7, according to NOAA Fisheries.

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The whale is being moved to the Monmouth County landfill in Tinton Falls where the whale will be examined, tissue samples taken and a necropsy will be performed.

It is the ninth whale to wash up on a New Jersey or New York beach since December. NOAA Fisheries didn't offer a reason for any of the washings but pointed out that whales are not strangers to the Jersey Shore.

"Humpback whales are frequent visitors to New Jersey waters, where schools of small bait fish are a good food source," NOAA said in a statement.

Since the whales began washing up environmentalists are pitted again over the cause.

"This alarming number of deaths is unprecedented in the last half-century. The only unique factor from previous years remains to be the excessive scope, scale, and magnitude of offshore wind powerplant activity in the region," Clean Ocean Action wrote on its Facebook page.

Whale off Manasquan Inlet

Whale off Manasquan Inlet 2/13/23 (Paul Kanitra)

Point Pleasant Beach Mayor Paul Kanitra who was on the beach in Manasquan Monday is one of a dozen Jersey Shore mayors from Deal to North Wildwood who signed a letter to President Joe Biden seeking an “immediate moratorium” on offshore energy development

"We're past the point of coincidence now and we need to actually figure out what's happening. And I'm just wondering how many more it's going to take before the state does what they need to and looks into it more deeply," Kanitra told New Jersey 101.5.

Standing on the beach Kanitra is skeptical about whether or not a boat strike is responsible.

“I don't see a single boat in sight. And I know that in a couple of days somebody's gonna tell us 'this was a boat strike.' And that's infuriating," Kanitra said.

Rep. Chris Smith said Tuesday in a statement the Biden Administration has not responded to the letter.

“The Biden Administration and Governor Murphy continue to ignore the resounding calls for an investigation to address the historic surge of dead whales while offshore wind development ramps up off our beaches," Smith said. "How many more whales have to die before there is a serious and thorough investigation into the cause of these deaths?”

Gov. Phil Murphy and the Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissions say suggestions that the Garden State’s plan to construct a huge wind farm out in the ocean have anything to do with the whale tragedies are misguided.

Greenpeace's ocean director, John Hocevar, told USA Today that it's a "cynical disinformation campaign" not based on scientific evidence.

The Ocean Advocacy group Oceana said groups that are opposed to wind power have found a "convenient line of opposition to development."

The American Clean Power Association in a statement Tuesday said there is no evidence wind power has anything to do with the beached whales and accused opponents of running a misinformation campaign.

"The recent whale strandings are tragic and it’s disheartening to see this tragedy being used as an excuse by clean energy detractors trying to stop the growth of a new energy source for Americans," spokesman Jason Ryan said in a statement.

Ryan said proposed offshore projects are being designed in a way that promotes the conservation of marine mammals and other protected species.

No matter the argument Point Pleasant Beach photojournalist Ryan Mack, 27, said he's never seen more whales close to shore.

"I've been in these waters since I was a kid surfing and this past summer I have seen more whales than I've ever seen in recent years. In the last four months I've seen the most wash up in a short span," Mack said.

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BRIELLE, N.J. – The New Jersey State Golf Association is headed down the Jersey Shore for the 2023 Amateur Championship presented by Provident Bank, which will be contested at Manasquan River Golf Club in Brielle from July 10-12.

In 2022, Manasquan River celebrated its centennial anniversary. A club with longstanding, rich history, Manasquan River was built by golf course architect Robert White in 1922, beginning with its opening nine holes, which was placed on the inland side of the golf course. The concluding nine holes were laid down closer to the coast, providing a contrasting set of holes.

Manasquan River last hosted an Amateur Championship in 1993, when Robert Housen, of Manasquan River and an NJSGA Hall of Fame inductee claimed the Edwin M. Wild Trophy for the sixth time in his career.

The club is well known for its farmland and rolling hills that is highlighted by 1800 feet of waterfront property along the Manasquan River.

Head golf professional Chris Dymek, who is in his tenth year at the club alluded to the clubs tough conditions.

“Every single day it’s different,” Dymek said of the course. “Whether it's the wind conditions, whether it's the topography on the front nine, or the uneven lies, each day you come out here and tee it up, you're probably going to get a different experience. It's challenging on both sides in different ways. You have to plot yourself around the front nine and then you can kind of let it go on the back nine, but if the wind picks up, it certainly is a challenge.”

Having hosted the 95th New Jersey PGA Professional Championship in 2022, Manasquan River is no stranger to high level golf on its own soil.

“Manasquan River will be ready for the test,” expressed Dymek. “We have so many talented golfers in the state of New Jersey, but I feel if we have the firm and fast conditions that usually we like to pride ourselves on, it will be a great challenge and anyone shooting under par will be successful.”

Overall, Manasquan River has hosted 12 NJSGA championships and most notably, six NJSGA major championships and most recently, the 2020 New Jersey Four-Ball Championship, won by Chuck Anttonen and Morten Gotterup of Rumson Country Club.

Last year, following a 3-hole aggregate playoff against William Huang, Will Celiberti of Arcola Country Club won the 121st edition of the event. On the heels of a record-tying third round of 8-under par 64, Celiberti played flawlessly throughout the playoff, carding a birdie on the second playoff hole and a par on the third, and final playoff hole.

Entry & Qualifying Details Four qualifying sites for the Amateur are set and will be played at Jumping Brook Country Club (May 30), Quail Brook Golf Course (June 3), Burlington Country Club (June 8), Galloping Hill Golf Course (June 13) and Basking Ridge Country Club (June 15). Entries are now open and can be found HERE.

NJSGA Social Media For the latest updates and news, visit njgsa.org or follow New Jersey State Golf Association on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @NJSGA1900.