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PAGE C5 ASBURY PARK PRESS FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1998 JERSEY SHORE BASKETBALL LEAGUE 7TI Barksdale breaks loose Bernstein is CBS-bound as reporter Former Monmouth University player Mustafa Barksdale scores 24 second-half points to spark Cohen Optical to victory. 3 ond half and just kept shooting." Hodgson contributed 24 points, including 15 in the second half, to the Cohen victory while Giraldo scored 20, including 14 in the first half. Mark Brown scored 25 points and Abdul Madison 22 to pace Majesco, the defending league champions. Brown had 16 points in the first half when Majesco led by as many as 11 points (41-30), but its lead was down to two at intermission after Giraldo scored back-to-back baskets on a breakaway and layup. RKE 109, SEAVIEW 102: Marshall Grier and Rahshon Turner each scored 31 points as RKE Athletic held off Seaview Buick in the second game of last night's double-header.

RKE led by one 85-84 after three quarters, but opened up a 10-point lead in the fourth quarter. Seaview pulled to within 102-100 with 1:39 to play on three foul shots by PJ Halas, but a basket by Turner off a Josh Peters steal put RKE back on top by four. points, as Cohen wiped out a five-point deficit and opened a seven-point lead. "It was just a matter of time before I found my rhythm," said Barksdale, who is Monmouth's No. 7 all-time Division I scorer with 1,144 points.

"Our first game out, I had a horrible game (10 points). I couldn't find my rhythm. "I still have a lot of room to get better and my game is continuously elevated. As of right now, it's on the rise." Barksdale dropped in a 3-pointer to close the third quarter, slicing Majesco's lead to 63-58. Then he scored 11 of his team's 13 points to open the fourth quarter as Cohen moved ahead to stay, 73-66.

Rob Hodgson nailed a pair of three-pointers, John Giraldo (9 assists) scored a three and Alex Sturm connected on a drive to send Cohen ahead 84-71. "I try to do what I can to help the team," said Barksdale, who played for four months in Finland this year. "The first half I didn't play well, but I stayed with it in the sec By BILL EDWARDS STAFF WRITER BELMAR Mustafa Barksdale says he starting to get comfortable again playing basketball at St. Rose High School. If that's the case, it could be a sea-j son of disappointment for Cohen Optical's opponents in the Jersey Shore Summer Basketball League.

Barksdale, a former Red Bank Re- gional and Monmouth University scoring star, tallied 25 points 24 in a second-half explosion to pace Cohen to a 95-78 victory over Ma-jesco Sales last night. After a lackluster first half in which he was limited to one free JAMES J. CONNOLLYStaff Photofriphir Monmouth University standout Mustafa Barksdale of Cohen Optical drives against Rod Mitchell of Majesco Sales. throw, Barksdale came alive late in GANNETT NEWS SERVICE BONNIE BERNSTEIN, a former Howell resident who now lives in Manhattan, is joining CBS Sports as the reporter for "The NFL Today," the pregame, halftime and postgame studio show. Bernstein, 27, will also be a contributing reporter for WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in New Yorfc.

She joins CBS from ESPN, where she has been a correspondent for "SportsCenter" since 1995. While at ESPN, Bernstein covered a variety of sports, including the NBA Finals (1996 to 1998), Major League Baseball playoffs (1995 to 1997) and the NCAA women's basketball championship (1997 and 1998). In addition, she was a reporter for ESPN's "NFL Countdown" and "College GameDay." Before joining ESPN, Bernstein served as the main sports anchor at KRNV-TV Reno, Nev. and at KRNV radio. In addition, she was the weekend news anchor at WMDT-TV Salisbury, and the sports and news director for WXJN- FM radio in Lewes, Del.

Bernstein was graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland with a degree in broadcast journalism. While at Maryland she was an Academic Ail-American (gymnastics) and received the Thomas M. Fields Award for academic and athletic excellence. Sean McManus, the CBS sports president, said, "Bonnie is a promising new star. "She has reported on a wide variety of sporting events, including the NBA Finals, Major League Baseball playoffs, the NFL and college football.

Her energy, experience and journalistic sense qualify her to be an important contributor to "The NFL Today' and a valued addition to CBS sports." the third quarter. In a four-minute stretch he scored 14 of his team's 17 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE P3VDU A million attend Wings parade cident that severely injured Konstantinov, Detroit's standout defenseman, and Mnatsakanov, the team's massage therapist. The two rode side by side on a float near the front of the parade, which started in front of the Fox Theater and ended about a mile away at Hart Plaza on the Detroit River. "I almost cried, and I didn't even know him," Christy Carnell of River Rouge said after seeing Konstantinov roll past in a wheelchair. Yesterday's salute to the Red Wings' second straight Stanley Cup sweep was a party in its own right.

It also was a resumption of a celebration that halted abruptly a year ago with the limousine ac THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT It was a heartfelt tribute to the Detroit Red Wings and especially to the two comrades who inspired them. Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Mnatsakanov waved and gave thumbs-up signs to about 1.2 million flag-waving fans who swarmed a mile-long parade route and riverfront plaza. mm ftocr pedis The Edmonton Oilers decline to meet the asking price for New lorcov cprnnri-strlnn Handleman i 9 goaltender Mike Dunham. Office of county prosecutor reviewing case of ex-players The thing that made me realize I did the right thing was when I saw them the next morning. They didn't have that scared look in their eyes.

That's when I realized they didn't really think they'd done anything that wrong. From Page CI Anyway, it's past midnight now, 12:30, 1 o'clock. Calloway gets on the phone. He's the one who has to call the parents, to tell them their sons are all right, but that they're in By KISHA CIABATTARI STAFF WRITER BECAUSE DEVILS general i manager Lou Lamoriello Dave Calloway MONMOUTH BASKETBALL COACH required to provide full restitution, do community service, pay court costs and a fine, and be put on probation for a year or so," Kaye said. "Their file is already about an inqh thick." i He said items allegedly illegally obtained included sneakers, movie poster, a backpack, basketball shorts and sweatshirts and a videotape of the movie "Dumb aryi Dumber." Maryann Nagy, Monmouth's vioe president of student services, said last week the three students, now taking summer courses, would be allowed on campus only to attend class or use the library.

Heath Boice, a Nagy assistant, said yesterday the case is still going through the student judicial process. I By TONY GRAHAM STAFF WRITER THE CASE of Monmouth University basketball players charged with multiple counts of credit card fraud amounting to more than $3,200 and related counts of theft is under review by the Monmouth County prosecutor's office. Freshman forward Joe Fermino, last season's leading scorer, sophomore center Jeff Yoder, freshman guard Kevin Crawford, and former Hawk player Matt Morgan were arraigned in Eatontown Municipal Court June 11, according to Eaton-town Detective Lt. Jerome Brady. They are free on $1,000 bail each.

Fermino, Yoder and Crawford were dismissed from the team and their scholarships were revoked by coach Dave Calloway following their arrests. Morgan, a reserve forward for Monmouth from 1995 to 1997, transferred to Chaminade, Hawaii, last year. County Prosecutor John Kaye said the matter will probably be handled by the municipal court in either Eatontown or West Long Branch. Kaye said West Long Branch police charged Fermino with theft and unlawful taking, and all four with receiving stolen property. According to university and police sources, a wallet was taken from an unguarded portfolio of a campus visitor and the four then went on a shopping spree at the Monmouth Mall and other locations.

"My guess is these boys would be ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT class, no doubt about it. But they are freshmen." There may be more fresh faces to follow, since Monmouth has three more scholarships to offer. Although the pickings are pretty slim this time of year. Basically, then, it will probably be another tough season, the one coming up. They may not go 4-23 "That will never happen again as long as I am here," Calloway says but they're probably going to be hard-pressed to post double-digit victories.

With Joe Fermino and Jeff Yoder and Kevin Crawford, things might have been different; you never know. The Hawks might have won a close game here, a close game there. But that's not the point, as far as Calloway's concerned. And he's right. He had to do what he did.

Athletes have to be held to a higher standard because they are the ones getting the special treatment. Even if they are first-time offenders, which these three were. Doesn't matter. "They had the hearing on campus Tuesday," Calloway says. "I think it's finally starting to sink in." How could he tell? "They had that scared look in their eyes." Bill Handleman is an Asbury Park Press columnist.

8 EXPLANATION OF SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE REICH FARM Superfund Site Dover Township, Ocean County, New Jersey 5 couldn't get what he wanted for Mike Dunham, he may wind up nothing at all for the itackup goalie who goes up for grabs in next week's expansion draft. Lamoriello tried to secure a deadline-beating deal with Edmonton's Glen Sather before NHL rosters were frozen at midnight last night, but it's believed that Sather's refusal to include prospect Boyd Devereaux in a swap scuttled the talks, i Lamoriello managed to salvage something for veteran defense- man Doug Bodger, for whom he acquired a fourth-round pick instead of losing him outright in the expansion draft. Bodger was sent to Los Angeles yesterday in exchange for the 104th overall pick in this year's draft, one originally acquired by the Kings from Boston. Determined to come away with a young goaltender to replace Edmonton ace Curtis Joseph who becomes an unrestricted free agent on July 1 Sather sent prospect Mike Watt to the New York Islanders for Eric Fi-chaud. Watt was to be included in a trade for Dunham.

Sources confirmed that Lamoriello and Sather were involved in trade talks yesterday and that the sticking point remained Devereaux, the sixth pick overall in the 1996 draft. "If we can make the right deal we will do it," Lamoriello said yesterday about Dunham. "If we can't, we won't. Is it better to leave Mike Dunham exposed and allow him to go to Nashville (which makes the first selection)? You have to make sure you get something that is worth more than the player you are going to lose." Lamoriello still has options regarding Dunham. One would be to persuade Nashville GM David Poile to pass on Dunham in the draft and offer him the goalie in a deal.

Sources say Sather intended to deal directly with Nashville should it select Dunham and that might still happen, because Oilers GM Sather prefers Dunham to Fichaud. Rangers GM Neil Smith is also interested in Dunham, whom he Would like to re-route to New York once Dunham is moved, a very reliable source said. I Lamoriello said Bodger, a 14-year veteran, was picked up as an insurance policy in the absence of Ken Daneyko, who missed nearly four months of the 1997-98 season while undergoing treatment for substance abuse. "I knew I wouldn't be back because Lou told me before I left (for vacation) that they weren't going to protect me," said Bodger, acquired from San Jose on Dec. 7 with Dody Wood in the John MacLean trade.

trouble. He doesn mention anything about the fact that they could also be out $80,000, which is roughly what a basketball scholarship is worth at Monmouth these days. All three players Joe Fermino, Jeff Yoder and Kevin Crawford are in custody, awaiting bail. They need $1,000 apiece for bail, otherwise they spend the rest of the night in the county jail. Finally the money arrives, and they are released, at 3 a.m.

"My office, 8:30," Calloway tells them. "Be there." By the time they showed up, he had thought it over carefully, discussed it with McNeil, discussed it with his assistants, and decided there was no way he could accept these players back on the team. He felt bad about this, because he believes they are basically good kids who made a mistake. But you have to draw the line somewhere. "The thing that made me realize I did the right thing was when I saw them the next morning," Calloway says.

"They didn't have that scared look in their eyes. That's when I realized they didn't really think they'd done anything that wrong. "It was like, 'It's not that big a deal, I didn't kill They knew they had done something wrong, and they knew they were going to have to pay for it somehow, but they didn't think they were going to lose their scholarships." Fermino was the best player on the team last year as a freshman, a slashing scorer who could jump through the roof. The 6-foot-10 Yoder had been working as hard as anyone since the season ended, according to Calloway, losing 20 pounds between the end of March and the middle of May, looking like he meant business. Two starters gone from a 4-23 team.

Prominent players. Just as it looked like the program was about to take a medium-sized leap forward. Monmouth had already signed Andre Williams and Raheem Carter, blue-chip recruits by Northeast Conference standards. Steve Bridgemohan and Kevin Owens were two others who figured to get significant minutes as freshmen. And with Darren Kennedy eligible to play in December, things were looking up.

Now this. But the way Calloway sees it, he had no choice. You have to draw the line somewhere. Even if it hurts. "It's gonna be tough early in the season," he says.

"We're not only so young, we're so different. But maybe it's better having it all new faces. "This Is a very good recruiting nnn WIN Till 1 www i I SAVINGS BOND i The purpose of this Explanation of Significant Difference (ESD) is to explain the United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) changes to the groundwater remedy selected in its September 30, 1988 Record of Decision (ROD) and the subsequent 1995 ESD for the Reich Farm Superfund Site (Site or Reich Farm Site). The ROD called for extraction of contaminated ground water, treatment and reinjection of the treated ground water. The ROD also called for remediation of the contaminated soil on-site through low temperature thermal desorption.

The portion of the cleanup addressing the soil was not modified by the 1995 ESD. EPA, in recognition for the special health concerns in Dover Township, and after consultation with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), has modified the groundwater remedy as described in the September 30, 1988 ROD and previously modified in the 1995 ESD as follows: The Well Field's groundwater treatment system has been upgraded by, including an activated carbon system after air stripping to treat the groundwater plume emanating from Reich Farm property. Rather than distributing the treated water to the municipal water supply (as presented in the 1995 ESD), this ESD provides three options: recharge of the treated water to the aquifer via the recharge area; discharge of the treated water to the Toms River; or use of the treated water as a source of potable water. Prior to use as a municipal water supply, sampling must confirm that the treated water meets all state and federal drinking water standards. UCC has agreed to finance the operation and maintenance of the Well Field's treatment system pursuant to a private agreement with the UWTR.

This agreement indicates that UCC will upgrade the treatment system, as necessary, to ensure that the public water supply meets the state and federal drinking water standards specified in the ROD. EPA will provide appropriate oversight of UCC activities. SUPPORT AGENCY COMMENTS The State of New Jersey concurs with this ESD which further modifies the remedy described in the 1995 ESD and the 1988 ROD. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES This ESD and the documents that form the basis for the decision to alter the groundwater remedy will be incorporated into the Administrative Record maintained for the Site in accordance with Section 300.825(a)(2) of the NCP. The Administrative Record is available for review during business hours at the information repository in the Ocean County Library, 101 Washington Street, Toms River, New Jersey 08753.

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