North’s Drew Kenavan and South’s Christopher Matthews were among 30 high school students from Central Jersey who received the Scholar-Leadership-Athlete award by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame, Delaware Chapter at its 48th Annual Awards Dinner. The dinner was held at the Hyatt Regency on March 14.
Recipients were chosen for their outstanding academic performance, school leadership and citizenship, and football ability and performance.
Harvey Butler III, an eighth grader at Community Middle, was also honored as the Pop Warner Little Scholar. NJ Adjutant General Major General Glenn Reith also presented Butler with the Commander’s Coin for his remarks at the podium.
North graduate Scott Kelly had two hits and two RBIs for the baseball team at the College of New Jersey in the team’s win over Monmouth, 11-5, on March 11 in Arizona. He also had an infield single in the team’s loss to Wartburg College, 5-3, on March 10. Kelly went 2-for-3, with two runs scored and one run batted in, in his first game for the Lions, also against Monmouth, on March 8.
South graduates Stewart and Steven Fernandez won 8-5 at first doubles for the TCNJ tennis team in the team’s win, 8-1, over Carthage College on March 8. Steven Fernandez also won at first singles, 6-1, 7-5. In the team’s loss to Skidmore College on February 28, 5-4, the pair won at first doubles.
Plainsboro resident Joe Moore, a sophomore at Syracuse, recorded his first point of his career with an assist in the third quarter of men’s lacrosse team’s win over Denver, 15-9, on February 19.
South graduate Austin Witter, a freshman at North Carolina A&T, played in all 33 games for the men’s basketball team. He started in 15 of the games and finished with nine points against Morgan State.
South graduate Kate Winters, who now swims for Rowan, was named to the All-NJAC First Team in the 200-yard breaststroke and the 400-yard individual medley.
North graduate Kerry Pehnke, a member of the women’s lacrosse team at Rowan, had five saves in the team’s win over Goucher.
West Windsor resident Kelly Rowland, a student at the Killington Mountain School, won the giant slalom at the J1/J2 Finals at Gore Mountain in Vermont. Rowland also placed fifth in the Killington Vermont Cup slalom in January.
West Windsor resident Cole Howard placed 10th, with a time of 19:27.99, in the Robbinsville Interact 5K Run on March 13 at Robbinsville High School.
