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GALLO Courier-Post A Pitman By PHIL ANASTASIA Courier-Post Staff Major League Soccer is coming to South Jersey. Rowan University on Monday will announce a joint venture with MLS to build a soccer stadium at the school to serve as home for a new professional franchise in 2009, Rowan spokesman Joe Cardona said Thursday. Cardona said the new stadium will be across from the school's new technology center on Route 322 and will be part of a complex that is "unlike anything on the East Coast" The stadium also will serve as home to Rowan's soccer program and could host high school events as well as youth soccer tourna-ments, camps and showcases. "Wow" was the word of the day in the South Jersey scholastic soccer community. "Wow," Eastern High School boys' soccer coach Pete DeFeo said.

"It shows how much impact the sport has in South Jersey." Said Delran boys' coach Mike Otto: "Wow. That's exciting. This will open up all kinds of opportunities." Said Delsea boys' coach Vince Nestore: "It's a great thing for South Jersey soccer, for the young kids to see those guys." Cardona said the new franchise has not yet been identified or named. It's not clear if the team would be an expansion franchise or be relocated from another area. There are 12 teams in MLS, the highest level of professional soccer in the U.S.

New Jersey's last entry in the MLS was the New York New Jersey Metro 'Nova needs Sheridan in dDOOUD Haddonfield advances as center gets 31 (856) 486-2424 Stars, which were sold last week and renamed Red Bull New York. The Red Bull team will continue to play at Giants Stadium until Red Bull Arena is built at an undisclosed location in New York. Reach Phil Anastasia at (856) 486-2424 or center Kevin Roberts WEB EXTRA Read more Kevin Roberts columns at courierpost online.comroberts Urn tZ-r- GERRY BROOMEAssociated Press Tennessee's Chris Lofton reacts after hitting the game-winning shot against Winthrop. THURSDAY'S RESULTS By KEVIN MINNICK Courier-Post Staff DOVER TWP. Ahead by more than 20 points late in the fourth quarter, Brian Zoubek TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS THURSDAY'S BOYS' GAMES West finds himself on the floor going after a loose ball.

In the paint, the Haddonfield High School senior gets pushed in the back and elbowed in the chest Yet, his reaction is always the same. Linden Seton OF Hamilton Haddonfield TODAY'S 67 80 Hall Prep 62 43 1 i GIRLS' GAMES Like he's done icamden Catholic (2) throughout his il- vs. Fjloomfield Tech (3), lustrious career, 6 p.m. Zoubek put the Shabazz (1) vs. Haddonfield boys' Absegami (4), 8 p.m.

basketball team on his shoulders at just the right time. The 7-foot-2 Duke-bound center scored 21 of his game-high 31 points in the second half Thursday as the Bulldogs eased to an 80-67 victory over Hamilton West in the quarterfinals of the Tournament of Champions at the Ritacco Center on the campus of Toms River North High School. "We're a third-quarter team. We know See HADDONFIELD HAMILTON WEST front, PHILADELPHIA It was not by design that Villanova employed a four-guard attack that has carried them to a top seed in the NCAA tournament. When forward Curtis Sumpter who averaged 15.3 points per game and was Villanova's leading re-bounder last season went down with a knee injury, this was simply the best way to play.

These are the Wildcats' best players, and four of them Allan Ray, Randy Foye, Kyle Lowry and Mike Nardi happen to be backcourt players. "It really was a stopgap," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. And this has carried Villanova to a 25-4 record, and the Wildcats hope it can carry them to a national title. College basketball has increasingly become a guard-dominated game, for several reasons but perhaps foremost among them that a dominant big man tends to pause only briefly here before rocketing on to the NBA. But the tournament is a different animal.

Four of the last five years, the tournament's Outstanding Player award went to a forward or center (Maryland's Juan Dixon in 2002 was the only back-court player). Can a team win this thing without strong play in the front-court? "No, I don't think so," said Kentucky coach Tubby Smith, who owns the sixth-best tournament winning percentage of all-time (27-11) and won the national title in 1998. "You need good balance. A team that wins will have inside and outside presence. The game of basketball is inside-out.

You can't necessarily win off the jump shot. "You need an inside presence. You've at least got to have somebody get the ball off the glass and get it to your guards." When Villanova won in 1985, Ed Pinckney was the tournament's outstanding player. In the championship win over Georgetown, Pinckney had 16 points and a game-high six rebounds, See ROBERTS, Page 4F For live sports scores and stats, sena text message with TEAM NAME (e.g. Villanova) or LJI PLAYER NAME (e g.

9 ijne midii nay; iu wuoo (4INF0). in the Psychology of Teaching from Temple and his doctorate in Education from Widener. He now serves as the Dean of the School of Education and Human Services at Neumann College in Aston, Pa. But it was the people who entered his life through basketball that have left the greatest impact What Tournament of Champions quarterfinal Next Third-seeded Haddonfield takes on second seed and Non-Public champion St Patrick's on Saturday in a semifinal matchup at Rutgers University. Key player Brian Zoubek led the Bulldogs with 31 points and 14 rebounds despite MARCIN SZCZEPANSKICourier-Post Brian Zoubek has little trouble getting past Hamilton West's William Picatagl In quarter of Thursday's Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game.

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Sean McCann's girls' basketball blog at couriefpostonlirffi.comblogsrnccann.rrtml Wichita State 86 Seton Hall 66 Tennessee 63 Winthrop 61 Illinois 78 Air Force 69 Washington Utah State (n) George Washington 88 NC-Wilmington (0T) 85 Duke 70 Southern 54 LSU 80 iona 64 Texas 66 Syracuse 58 Florida 76 South Alabama 50 Wise-Milwaukee 82 Oklahoma 74 Boston College 88 Pacific (20T) 76 Montana 87 Nevada 79 UCLA 78 Belmont 44 Alabama 90 Marquette 85 Gonzaga 79 Xavier 75 Indiana 87 San Diego State 83 Reserve Barnes also shows he can play ZOUBEK, Page 7F 80 67 in the first half INSIDE Chuck Gormley Snorts Family Haddonfield's the third Wrestling Preview Read 6F 7F not have put up the same numbers. If Barnes wasn't his backup, Zoubek might not have enjoyed the same numbers since he might have fouled out early. Of course, neither happened in Haddonfield's 8067 win that launches the Bulldogs into the semifinals on Saturday against St. Patrick's. Instead, Barnes played 11 minutes against Hamil- See BARNES, Page 7F Haddonfield's Pete Bames goes up for two points In the second quarter of the Tournament of Champions game against Hamilton West.

Bames had five points In the game. MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI Courier-Post DOVER TWP. Pete Barnes was the second best big-man on the court. Certainly, Hamilton West High School wished they had Haddonfield's 6-foot-9 senior to guard the best big-man on the floor of the Ritacco Center in Thursday's boys' basketball Tournament of Champions quarterfinals game. The Hornets had no one over 6-2 to defend the Bulldogs incomparable 7-2 Brian Zoubek.

Despite playing just 21 minutes be- message during a morality talk to 172 seventh graders and their parents earlier this week as part of the St. Joan of Arc Religious Education program in Marlton. My wife and our son attended the talk, in which Gillespie spoke of how his experiences as a basketball coach led him to relationships that have profoundly Kevin Callahan cause of foul trouble, the Duke University-bound senior still collected game-highs in points (31), rebounds (14) and blocked shots (8). Now, this brings up two points: If Barnes was covering Zoubek, Zoubek might impacted his life. It was through his summer basketball camp in Warminster, that Gillespie met the children of the woman he would eventually marry, adopting her 10 children and inheriting 10 grandchildren.

It was on the basketball court at Mother of Sorrows parish in West Philadelphia Gillespie's message reminds us of how we should try to live Coverage: 4F Gillespie was 28 years old and coaching CYO basketball at Mother of Sorrows when he met 12-year-old Kenny Caldwell, who along with his older brother Leon, was raised by their single mother and faced the typical challenges- of inner-city youth. See MESSAGE, PagelOF that Gillespie met Kenny Caldwell and Jake Sutton, two young men whose lives would end tragically while helping to shape his. A 51-year-old native of West Philadelphia who attended St. Joseph's Prep, Gillespie earned his bachelor's degree in English Education from Mount St. Mary's, his master's degree Dr.

Joe Gillespie has always believed sports is a microcosm of life. "I believe if Jesus was alive today, he'd probably be using sports analogies as a way of teaching," Gillespie said. "Because people get sports. "They get the fact that sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. It's how we handle those wins and losses that shape who we are." Gillespie brought that LiiUi (IT.

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