Bloomfield Bengals Sports News & Schedule

The Bloomfield Bengal Track and Field team won big at the Essex County Individual Championships May 18 and 19, taking home one gold medal and seven other medals.

Junior Serhiy Kralka won first place in the shot put and fifth in the discus throw. Sophomore Tonisha Beresford continued her break out season for the Bengal track team, coming in third place with a time of :58.54 for the girls 400m run and breaking the current Bloomfield High School record. 

For a full report of the championship event, check out Bloomfield Life's coverage here.

• The previous week, Beresford won the NJSIAA Sectional Championship in the 400 meter run. Tonisha’s time of 57.01 set a meet and school record. Other place winners for Bloomfield included-Nick Perry-3^rd place long jump, 4^th place high hurdles; Steve Taste-3rd place high hurdles; Jeovan Santos-5^th place javelin; Serhiy Kralka-5^th place discus. All advance to the Group Championship next weekend at Old Bridge High School.

• The Bengal Baseball team advanced to the State Sectional Semi-finals with decisive wins over fourth seeded North Bergen and fifth seeded Roxbury. Mike Carter’s lead-off home run got things going against the Gaels. Andrew Coco was the winning pitcher. The team returns to action today traveling to the top seed Ridgewood for a 4 PM start.

• Mike Carter, Christian Ferri and James Torres were selected to represent Essex County in the Union/Essex underclassman Baseball All-Star Game.

• Baseball Head Coach Mike Policastro picked up his 100^th win as Bengal Mentor and the 150^th of his Coaching career in Bloomfield’s win over North Bergen.

• The Volleyball team bested Montclair in State Tournament play before falling to #2 seed Don Bosco Prep. The team finishes with a very commendable 17-8 record.

• The weather put the brakes on the other programs. Softball, Golf and Tennis all conclude their seasons this week.

Back by popular demand: Bengal Trivia!

Mike Policastro is the sixth Bengal Baseball Coach to reach 100 career wins.  Name the other five.

Last week's trivia answer: Steve Taste placed fifth in the Essex County long jump; who was the last Bengal to win this event?

Correct answer: Lou Barrett.

First correct answer submitted by former Bengal Track Coach Jack Higgins.

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