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Asbury Pari PrtMMoodjy. December I 1989 B9 Gardi ushers in new era for Lacey with victory JOE ZEDAL1S LACTV TOWNSHIP The December tua was Kttin oa an era that this town, if not the en tire Shore, will not tooa fortet The Lacey Township High School football team was minute and a couple of ticks away from history, a minute and change away from an 1 1-0 season and a second straight New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association South Jersey Group III title. In the huddle, on third dowa and two yards to go from a championship-clinching first down, quarterback Garrett Gardi pve a preface to the play call. "Hey," he said to the senior-dominated offense. This is your last play.

I love you uyv" If they didn't, tbey should have said "I love you" back. On the day the Keith Bias era ended gloriously at Lacey, the Garrett Gardi en began. Gardi's two touchdown passes the second one with 9:02 left sparked Lacey to a 28-24 win over Woodrow Wilson of Camden. the man who stuck the ball ia Keith Ehas' belly. But Lacey doesat win a SJ III title ia 1989 without him.

For that matter, it doesn't win ia 1 988 without him, either. "Garrett's a winner," said Lacey assistant coach Jim HabeL Nothing more need be said. In the post-game jubilation, the team hoisted Elias on their shoulders. They hoisted head coach Lou Vircillo. They even lifted senior receiver Jason Beneciuk, who caught his first touchdown pass ever.

But they didn't bother with Gardi. He slipped away from the crowd and hugged his dad, John, Lacey's athletic director. "A team effort, a total team effort," Garrett Gardi said unassumingly. "I cant say I did anything more than anyone else." But it can also be said no one did any more than Gardi. Elias played every down on offense and defense.

So did Gardi "People don't realize how hard it is to be oa the field all the time," Habel said. "We had to play Garrett oa defense this year. It's not easy to keep your head clear and do all the things a quarterback has to do whea you play defense. And Garrett isal the kind of kid who just stands back there. He's always going after people," Most people wont realize that because Gardi made it look so easy.

Oa defense be had zone and man-to-man coverage responsibilities against a high-tech passing team. On offense, aD he was simply "dutch." With Elias clearly tired from the double duty, it was Gardi who gave Lacey a 7-0 lead. His double play fake froze the Woodrow Wilson defense and his pass down the middle hit Charlie Schoenberg in the numbers. With Lacey trailing, 8-7, Gardi hustled for a drive-sustaining first down, scrambled for 12 yards and then perfectly executed a screen pass during a monster drive that gave the Lions a 1 5-8 lead. But Gardi showed his toughness in the fourth quarter.

With the Lions again behind, 16-15, Gardi stood his ground in the bee of a torrid pass rush. Waiting until the last possible second, Gardi's wobbly pass landed ia the hands of Beneciuk for the score. "I never saw it," Gardi said. "My face was ia the grass." While Beneciuk and Lacey celebrated while Woodrow Wilson's 190-pound linebacker Troy Coleman back and 290-pound tackle Ernest Brown climbed off Gardi's flattened torso. "He got killed after throwing that." John Gardi said.

But the key word was "after" and not before. "You gotta have poise if you're the quarterback," Garrett Gardi said. "He went through this last year as a sophomore," said Lacey assistant Ken Hart "I don't think anything that happened today bothered him stall." Elias, however, shared the glory of the day. "Garrett was awesome," he said. Joe Zedalis is an Asbury Park Press staff writer.

Fittingly, Bias pinballed off Camden defenders for the back-breaking first down. Even more appropriate, however, was the fact that Gardi handled the ball on the game's, and the season's final play. The end was a beginning. Gardi was hardly spectacular. Just himself.

"Heady," "solid" say the Lacey coaches. His numbers hardly set the world on fire. Eight rushes, 43 yards. Six of 1 1 passing for 108 yards. But the key statistics are the ones you don't see zero interceptions, zero fumbles, zero mistakes.

As the 1989 season becomes the stuff of legends, Gardi may well be remembered only as Mackerel run highlights fishing at Klondike Banks Mil- RVV3? Outdoors John geiser .1 1 1 sailed to combine pleasure and harvest A solid catch of whiting, porgies or fluke would match the cost of a fare. But with the fluke gone, the government talking about a one-tuna limit 10 bluefish and one striped bass, the impact in angler interest may be felt, if times get tough. The scientific and statistical committee of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is meeting this week to study various states' plans for harvesting the resource. North Carolina could be the first state to go back to the netting of striped bass. If its plan is approved by the committee, it will be forwarded to the policy board.

It is possible that the fishery could be opened in March. Other states may be opening up from June. Meanwhile, the fisheries management officials are moving ahead with new regulatory plans. Capt Dave BramhalL, executive director of the United Boatmen, said the comment period on the bluefish management plan will open in about five days. Tom Fote, vice president of the Jersey Coast Anglers Association, said shark fishermen can comment on the proposed shark plan now.

The Fish Hawks voted at the last meeting to propose the following: I. Establish a minimum size for sharks of six feet (estimated 125 pounds). 1 Cap the commercial shark harvest at 1 .2 1 0 metric tons, the 1 986 catch. 3. Recommend a recreational catch of a maximum of three sharks per boat 4.

Make a commercial permit available to anyone if the catch does not exceed the commercial cap. 5. All sharks to be released, must be released in the water. Fote said a meeting of any interested shark fishermen will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Jersey Coast Shark Anglers' building on Herbertsville Road, Brick Township.

A Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council hearing on the shark plan will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at the South Wall Firehouse, Atlantic Wall Township. UJohn Geiser is outdoor editor of the Asbury Park Press. "Outdoors" appears Sunday through Friday.

Party boat fishermen the few who elected to fish yesterday enjoyed old-fashioned mackerel fishing offshore of the Klondike Banks. The mackerel are densely packed between the banks and the western edge of the Mud Hole, and anglers could almost let their consciences be their guide in determining a catch. Capt Bob Woardell worked on deck with Capt Willie Egerter III yesterday and, in their "spare" time they caught 300 pounds on the three-quarter-day run of the Dauntless out of Broadway Basin, Point Pleasant Beach. "It was very good mackerel fishing," Woardell said. "They were anywhere from the top down to about 35 feet and you could catch them as soon as you threw your line in the water." Woardell said the mackerel ran in size from some small fish up to Bostons weighing 2to2Vi pounds.

"It was solid fishing," he said. "You could catch them two and three at a time, and the drifts lasted from 45 minutes to an hour." Woardell was not certain if there were whiting or ling under the mackerel, because he found it almost impossible to get through the mackerel. Tbey did catch whiting and ling, however, by shifting farther offshore to the edge of the Mud Hole. "There were some nice-sized whiting there," he said. "They weighed from three-quartervof-a-pound up to lVi pounds.

Some guys had a couple of dozen." Active on the bottom, along with the whiting, were some spiny dogfish. "Probably, if we had anchored for the whiting, we would have caught more dogfish," he said, "But drifting, they weren't bad." Wardell sees the whiting and ling fisheries developing daily, and this week should see some action days and nights. Capt Dave Bogan skipper of the Paramount out of Bogan's Basin, Brielle, said yesterday's mackerel fishing on his boat was so good that they put the catch together on one long drift. "A friend of mine, Les Nagy of Lakewood, and I filled four garbage cans," Bogan said. "I used three teasers and a lure, and caught them four at a time." Bogan said the fish were big and Va I 1 A r- I tT spread over a wide area that was also alive with whales, porpoises and her-ringAfter his customers had their fill of mackerel, Bogan went out to the Mud Hole, drifting in from 150 to 200 feet of water where he caught whiting and some ling Capt Francis Bogan was out Saturday with his Atlantis from Bogan's Basin, Brielle, and be caught some fish.

Capt Dave Helbcrg had whiting and mackerel on his afternoon trip Saturday with the Norma III out of Ken's Landing, Point Pleasant Beach. Meanwhile the surf was quiet John Bushell of Betty and Nick's Bait and Tackle, Seaside Park, said hardly anyone fished last week or yesterday. "I think there are still fish around, but with only one or two guys fishing, they don't do much," he said. "If we had 500 guys on the beach, you'd see fish." Bushell detects a big difference between the surf at this point this year, as opposed to 1988. "It was 48 degrees at this time last year," he said.

"Right now it's 43 degrees." He said ling are available from the Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, but so few anglers were interested last week (six anglers) that he closed the fishing platform during the week. "Well be open on weekends Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 4 p.m. until midnight" he said. Bushell said catches ranged from one or two ling to two dozen. The economy is beginning to slow and Bushell feels the fishing business will reflect it somewhat "One thing I've noticed is that prices are going way up (tackle and lures)," he said.

"Some of the price increases for next year are up 20 to 25 percent" He feels party and charter boatmen may feel the pinch first In the old days, head boat fishermen CELESTE LA BROSSEAabufy Par. Rreea Keith Elias of Lacey breaks away from Woodrow Wilson defender Ernest Brown (66) after Donovan Washington (62) of Woodrow Wilson missed the tackle yesterday. Lacey the right flank and getting into the end zone before Lacey's secondary could react Brown also scored on a 30-yard reception that might have been Tho-len's all-time nightmare had Lacey lost Frisbey throw a hook pattern to the right sideline in the closing moments of the third quarter, Tholen dove to make the reception but tipped the ball in the air. Brown pulled it in and sprinted down the sidelines to score with 2:02 left in the period. That was a big play and so was the PAT conversion.

Frisbey faded to pass for two points but found no one open and scrambled successfully to put Wilson ahead, 16-15. But Lacey would score on two successive possessions to lock up the victory. Wide receiver Jason Beneciuk caught his first touchdown in the final game of his career. "That's fantastic!" said Bias. "He deserves it Awesome!" It's easy to see what Elias means to his teammates and what he has meant to his school and the community.

But there was a time, long ago, when there were doubts. It all came together pumping iron with a group of classmates that stayed together through thick and thin. "I remember the first day as a freshman, going into the weight room. We were scared, didn't know what was going to happen to us," Bias remembers. "But guys like Ron (Leard) and Mike (Tholen) and the other just hung together.

We've played together since Pop Warner." Even then, they went undefeated and they were awesome. The senior linebacker was one of the keys to Lacey's defensive toughness the past three years, but had to sit out his final high school game in street clothes due to the after-effects of a collision in the Central game. Leard suffered a concussion and was not given medical clearance to play. In tribute to their sidelined comrade, every Lacey player had Leard's uniform number 47 stenciled on the back of his helmet Leard's hard-hitting defensive work was picked up by Tholen, the cen-terfielder in Lacey's secondary, and sophomore Eric Jacobson, who had the unenviable task of trying to replace Leard. Wilson's passing game was averaging nearly 18 yards per completion before meeting the Lions.

The Tigers racked up 258 yards through the air but spent the day hurling the ball over Lacey's defense. Only 1 1 carries were attempted by Wilson, four of those on the first series of the game. When Norman Frisbey, a dynamic quarterback with big-time talent in his bones, went back to pass yesterday, he found at least one Lion in his face on every play. Lacey's defense, especially lineman Bill Bulger and linebacker Brian Coffee, applied constant pressure on the passing game. There aren't many high school football teams that might pitch a shutout against Wilson, but Lacey gave it a good shot Wilson's first touchdown came on a third-and-17 situation, sophomore wide receiver Jerry Brown pulling in a perfectly-timed crossing pattern from Hinck wins Bill Reilly-Todd Scully run From page Bl patiently behind the blocking of Scott Hebrew, Chris Campo and Dave Egan, the leadership of quarterback Garrett Gardi was just as important Woodrow Wilson will not be happy to learn Gardi has another year of eligibility at Lacey.

The junior quarterback threw for 108 yards and carried eight times for 43 yards, many on important downs in key situations. This performance was a mirror image of his feats last year in the SJ III championship game, when Gardi passed for 102 and rushed for 48 more yards in Lacey's thrilling 31-28 triumph last December. Defensively, there were heroes aplenty. Any defense that could shut down running back Marvin Goodwin, who is considered a player of all-state caliber has to have heroes. Goodwin carried once all afternoon for a nine-yard gain on Wilson's first possession, then went to wingback for the rest of the afternoon.

Goodwin caught two passes for 21 yards, indicative of the way Lacey's defense shut down a team that had won by as many as 76 points this season. If you are impressed by Elias' numbers and you should be the defense's accomplishments are at least as stellar, especially when you consider it was operating without linebacker Ron Leard. sponsored by Agrios Chiropractic Center, Ocean Township. "I went out easy, but was really moving the last three laps (around the lake)," said Hinck, 36, a former vanity runner at CBA and the University of Toledo. Race walkers Ray Funkhouser, Toms River, and Dorit Attias, Lakewood, made it two-for-two by winning Reilly-Scully 10K walk titles in the afternoon, two hours after they won in a five-mile morning event at Ocean County College.

Funkhouser notched clockings of 48: 1 5.5 10K) and 40:54 (five miles), Attias 59:08 and 50:34. The five-miler was the Race For Teen-age Possibilities, and leading the runners home were Louis Zimmerman of Neptune in 29:49 and Pam Carr of Manahavvlcin, Stafford Township, in 36: 15. Proceeds benefited a new organization dedicated to finding alternative methods of dealing with teen-age drug and alcohol use and abuse. By ELLIOTT DENMAN Press Staff Writer ONCE PHIL Hinck got going in the 22nd annual Bill Reilly-Todd Scully Day 10-kilometer run yesterday, there was no stopping him. The Monmouth Beach distance runner started slowly in the race at Takanassee Lake, Long Branch, then shifted gears and went on to breeze home in 33:39.1.

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