Author Bio

RYAN LAWRENCE

Ryan is a veteran journalist of 20 years. He’s worked at the Courier-Post, Philadelphia Daily News, Delaware County Daily Times, primarily as a sportswriter, and is currently a sports editor at Newspaper Media Group and an adjunct journalism instructor at Rowan University.

Articles by RYAN LAWRENCE

The heart of the game: baseball community comes together after Timber Creek tragedy

  On the final Sunday night of April, a week after Easter with the high school baseball season about a month old, Timber Creek High School junior Jon Martinez was…

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Lions Pride: West rises to the top

They gathered in shallow right field and let loose as the first day of the second month of the season went just as swimmingly as the opening month. High fives…

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Golden Eagle eye for the goal

In a back-and-forth battle of two of South Jersey high school lacrosse’s most talented teams, the Seneca High School senior was in the middle of nearly every pivotal play. Cassidy…

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Hungry like the Wolfle

As a pre-teen months away from high school, Gage Wolfle played center field in baseball during the spring and summer, wrestled in the winter, and used his athletic ability to…

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Eyes on the prize

For some babies, it’s a rattle or a stuffed animal they grab when they figure out how to use their hands. For Will Oberholtzer, it was probably a tennis racket.…

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South Jersey Sports Weekly Notebook: Tropiano on top

South Jersey Sports Weekly is a new publication produced by Sun Newspapers that appears in physical copy within the Suns throughout South Jersey (in Moorestown, Medford, Cherry Hill, Washington Township,…

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The Power of Paxia

It takes a special kind of hitter to have enough power in your swing to impress Giancarlo Stanton. But that’s one of the stories Lillo Paxia, a Gloucester Catholic High…

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Best is the standard

The numbers, compiled in the last 27 years, can’t help but come off as intimidating. 580 wins and just 46 losses and four ties. 16 state championships. 15 Tournament of…

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Moorestown student’s ‘One Last Run’ a window into historical hoops season

To be a good reporter means being able to get to the story, but to also stay out of the way and never insert yourself into the story. To be…

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All in the family

It’s unknown if the stat-happy wiz kids in baseball’s new wave front offices have a metric for the rate scouts show up to high school baseball fields in April and…

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