Page 10 Thursday, January 1, 2015 The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains – Fanwood TIMES A WATCHUNG COMMUNICATIONS, INC. PUBLICATION Devil’s Den Frega Family is Doing Well in Cazenovia, N.Y.

By BRUCE JOHNSON Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times Kevin Frega won four varsity let- been on the receiving end of many the third straight year. In his three ters in his first two years at WHS. standout newcomers via the May- years at NA, one of the nation’s oldest Undoubtedly he would have been a flower route. Bob Hoffman was a secondary schools (it was chartered big help again this year and next to state champion in the discus; Dave in 1728), he has turned around the the football, wrestling and lacrosse Perkowski, Gregg Smolenski, Glenn Bulldogs’ struggling fortunes. Steve teams. Imagine a linebacker group of Gruber, Steve and Gordon Clark were is the son of Bill Monninger, a long- Jack Simcox, Luke Prybylski, Frega all great swimmers; Keith Davis was time coach in the Boys Baseball and and Owen Colwell or Mike O’Conner, a great halfback and state hurdles Boys Football leagues, and also a along with Steve Barmakian. champion; Jim Catron provided a former president of the Booster Club. But things worked out for WHS needed quality linebacker in the fall + Paul Healy (’78) was inducted quite well. The same goes for Frega, of 1974, then was gone by the spring; into the Westfield Athletic Hall of the 6-foot, 220-pound muscleman, football/track stars Frank Kelly and Fame last month. The four-time state whose family relocated to upstate New Butch Woolfolk both moved into town champion swimmer was surprised to York following the death of his father just prior to high school; Mike and learn that three of his times – 200 IM, Mark (WHS ’79) last March. The Kevin Lasher, and those are just off 100 free, 500 free – were still in the younger Frega has adjusted quite the top of my head. top 10 on the team’s Top 15 List. nicely as a junior at Cazenovia High A ‘BIG’ PART OF FUTURE After the Dec. 22 dual meet with School, on the shores of Cazenovia Bryan Felter, a seventh-grader at Scotch Plains, he now only has one Lake, near Syracuse. Edison Intermediate School, has been top 10 performance. As a sophomore inside linebacker playing PAL football for the past five Senior co-captain Kevin Clauss David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times at WHS Frega was in on 55 tackles in years. The last three he played a ma- went 1:59.4 to bump Healy to No. 11 FAMILIAR FOES...Blue Devil John Fuller, right, and Boonton’s Anthony Fijardo square off in the 126-lb title bout at the the eight games he started. This fall jor role as the D, C and this fall’s B in the 200 individual medley. Then Roselle Park Tournament. Fuller nipped Fijardo, 1-0, last year in the Region 3 semis. This time Fijardo won, 4-3. he was named second team All-Cen- team went a collective 32-1 and won sophomore Aedan Collins went tral New York as a linebacker by the three straight Super Bowl titles. 4:49.02 to knock Healy to 11th in the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper. For his dominating play as an of- 500 free. Healy remains No. 8 in the Cazenovia was 9-1, but its two-year fensive and defensive tackle, the 6- 100 free (48.11), but Collins, class- Spurlock Grabs 220-lb Crown at R. Park Tourney reign as state champs ended in a 38- foot, 240-pound Felter got to live out mate Griff Morgan and junior Ryan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 24 loss to Homer in the Class B final a dream last Saturday when he was Daniel could be taking aim on him at the Carrier Dome. Delaware Valley. [on the takedown] and I am trying to escape to defeat Panther Joe DeVito, selected for and played in the Eastbay soon. Frega earned two wrestling letters Youth All-American Bowl in Naples, “Records are made to be broken,” Spurlock’s aggressiveness as a de- keep controlling the kid on top,” 5-2, in the 160-lb semis. In the cham- at WHS, going 25-25, at 171 as a fensive lineman in football definitely Miller said. pionship bout, Gozdieski became the Fla. Healy said. “It’s great to see that the freshman (11-15) and 195 last winter He was among 70 of the country’s Westfield continues reaching for the seemed to carry over on the mat with Last year, Miller competed at 132- victim of a barrage of takedowns be- (14-10), when he was third at dis- his opponents, especially with his lbs but shot up and muscled up since fore adding two third-period finest players in his age group, and stars. There’s plenty of blue sky tricts. This winter he’ll bring an 8-0 played offensive left tackle the entire ahead.” victory over Maldanaldo. that time and seems to have adjusted takedowns of his own in a 14-9 set- record as the Lakers’ 220-pounder “We all worked on tackling and I very well to his increase in weight back to Christian Dalcais (West game as the East rolled to a 42-0 IN PASSING into the new year. victory over the West. Consider that Terry Brady (’77), a three-sport guess it kind of transfers over with and showed it at the Delaware Valley Milford). And since he was a starting de- my double [leg takedown]. I worked even at Felter’s size, he wasn’t close captain of some of WHS’s best cross- fender much of last year on WHS’s to being the biggest guy on the field country and track teams, passed away a nice arm bar. We work it every day state Group 4 champion lacrosse team, in practice.” Saturday – that would have been the on Dec. 18 at the age of 55 after a long Frega should prove a nice addition 6-8, 300-pound defensive tackle on battle with cancer. Brady was co- In the title bout with Villegis, for Cazenovia, which was 22-1 last Spurlock scored a first-period the other side of the line. captain of the ’76 cross-country team spring. The Lakers lost in the state Felter, whose brother Jeff was the that won the Group 4 and Meet of takedown with a lateral drop then final. added an escape and a double-leg starting center for the WHS football Champions titles, and co-captained Frega’s older siblings Katerine team this season, showed those in the ’77 track team that won the state takedown in the second period. (’11) and Mark played varsity sports Villegis recorded three escapes in the attendance and an ESPN3 audience Group 4 title. His father Terry (’48) at WHS and are still playing in col- that he belongs in that company. played football, basketball and golf loss. lege, while Jennifer played field Blue Devil senior John Fuller, top The Eastbay All-American Bowl at WHS, while brother Dan (’81) was hockey at WHS before the move. was the culmination of several all- co-captain of the ’80 football team. seeded at 126-lbs, received a bye then Katherine is a junior at Syracuse recorded a 9-0, majority decision over star games that consisted of 64 teams Bill Odenkirk passed away on Dec. University, where parents Mark and from across the country. Three other 18 at age 81. After graduating from Panther Sean Daly in the semifinals. Christina met and later graduated. Fuller began with a single-to-double members of the Westfield PAL B team Penn State, “Odie” spent over 30 years She is a cancer survivor, having had – Sean Link, Declan McCauley and as a physical education teacher, coach- leg trip takedown then added an es- surgery in 2012, with an assist from cape, a side-single leg takedown and Hank Shapiro – joined Felter on a ing football, basketball and wrestling her little sister’s bone marrow. She North Jersey All-Star team. at Roosevelt Junior High/Intermedi- a two-point arm bar pry nearfall in the later gamely survived a second bout second period. In the third period, And if you were wondering, ate School. with the disease. Currently Katherine Bryan’s father Todd, an ’82 graduate Joe Cocker passed away on Dec. Fuller added another takedown. is a biochemistry major on the pre- In the championship bout, Fuller’s of A.L. Johnson Regional in Clark, 22 at age 70. Cocker sang on one of med track with a near-perfect GPA. said he doesn’t think his family is the great albums of the era – 1970’s opponent was a familiar foe with She is also on the school’s club sail- Boonton’s Anthony Fijardo, who he related to the Felters – Charlie (’61), Mad Dogs and Englishmen. One of ing and club lacrosse teams. She wears Bob (’65) and Dennis (’67) – who comedian John Belushi’s best roles defeated, 1-0, in the 113-lb semifi- No. 22 in lacrosse, a number that’s nals at the Region 3 Tournament last were pretty fair athletes back in the on Saturday Night Life was doing a traditionally worn by the best player ’60s. Joe Cocker imitation. year to assure himself a berth in the at Syracuse. NJSIAA Tournament at Atlantic City. THIS AND THAT Art Rooney passed away on Dec. David B. Corbin for The Westfield Leader and The Times Mark played on the football, wres- Fijardo recorded a first-period + Former WHS standout Steve 22 at age 73. Rooney was the man- STUCK IN A SITOUT...Blue Devil Jarek Gozdieski, front, tries to figure out how tling and lacrosse teams at WHS be- Monninger (‘94) and current Norfolk ager of the Point Pleasant Merchants takedown and Fuller escaped. In the to escape Christian Dalcais (West Milford) in the 160-lb title bout. fore transferring to and graduating second period, Fuller escaped to knot (Va.) Academy coach was named his of the Jersey Shore Semipro Baseball from Millbrook (N.Y.) School near conference’s Coach of the Year for League for almost 40 years. the score then in the neutral third Tournament. Blue Devil Phil Ricca advanced to Poughkeepsie. He is currently a fresh- period, Fijardo recorded another “The kids there were tough, but I the 195-lb championship bout with a man midfielder and faceoff specialist takedown and Fuller escaped but was have been working out a lot to sustain 1:20 fall over Steve Simon on the varsity lacrosse team at on the short end of a 4-3 decision. their attacks and I keep trying to (Morristown). Fernan Arcila (Madi- Bellarmine University in Louisville, Blue Devil sophomore Jack Miller, improve my position. We are work- son) seized the crown when he caught Ky. While at Millbrook, which didn’t who placed second at the Delaware ing on breaking the kids mentally. Ricca in a lateral drop in 0:41. have a football or wrestling team, he Valley Tournament last week, earned The kids are bigger, but we have been According to Blue Devil Head played two years of varsity basket- his way to the 152-lb title bout with a lifting since last season and four days Coach Glen Kurz, “We have a lot of ball in addition to lacrosse. 3-0 decision over Jordan Cooke a week in the weight room,” he said. things to work on all over, physically * * * (Piscataway), using a low-single leg Miller ended up placing second and mentally.” A similar move in the late 1950s lift takedown and an escape then con- when he was clamped in a cradle by TEAM SCORES: saw Jim Leitz, the heir apparent to trolling him throughout the third pe- Davin Tranfield (Morristown) in 1:51. 1.Roselle Park (RP) 233, 2. Morristown (Mo) 205, 3. Westfield (W) 144, 4. Dan Pearce as tailback in WHS’s riod from the top position. Blue Devil junior Jarek Gozdieski single wing offense, move prior to his “I kind of went like submarinish recorded a pair of takedowns and an Boonton (B) 109, 5. West Millford (WM) 96, 6. Madison (Md) 89, 7. Piscataway junior year (the 1959 season) to Or- FOR SALE (P) 80 chard Park, N.Y., current home of the BOUT SEQUENCE: Buffalo Bills. Leitz became a Parade 106: — Sebastian Cornejo (Mo) md Magazine All-American, two-time 44 ELM STREET Mejia (RP), 16-3 113: — Gural (RP) p Jake Tappen (Mo), All-Western New York selection and 2:53 had his uniform (No. 79 – “the only WESTFIELD, NJ 120: — Dylan Allison (Mo) p Nick Lami one they had when I moved up there,” (Md), 3:07 he said) retired. Later he earned Little 126: — Fijardo (B) d Fuller (W), 4-3 >K"@;*"Q>KY>QZ"[QYY@=K$\@;9@Z] 132: — Figuerdo (RP) md Matt Hesse All-American honors at Williams (B), 14-6 College. 138: — Santamaria (RP) p Evan Bob Wolfgang (a then school- Fasardo (B), 1:28 record 251 yards in one game) and 145: — Gergich (RP) md Mike Yeboah (P), 12-2 Dave Reitze (then school-records of 152: — Tranfield (Mo) p Miller (W), 1:51 249 carries and 1,275 yards in nine 160: — Dalcais (WM) d Gozdieski (W), games) handled the job quite well in 14-9 what would’ve been Leitz’s junior 170: — Eric Fiorino (B) d Chris Quincero (Mo), 8-2 and senior years, respectively. 182: — Etlini Udott (P) p Will While there have been other major Ferninando (RP), 0:53 losses to moves, Westfield has also 195: — Arcila (Md) - Ricca (W), 0:41 Bryan Felter, a seventh grader at Edison Intermediate School and member of the 220: — Spurlock (W) d Villegis (Mo), 5-3 Westfield PAL football program, played offensive left tackle in a national all-star Hwt: — Steve Hankin (WM) p Tyler Probitas Verus Honos football game last Saturday in Florida. 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