Sports Shorts

Freehold's Ryan Cuneo got his 2008 baseball season with Delaware University's baseball team off to a red-hot start in Charleston, S.C. The sophomore went 4-5 with two RBIs and a run scored in the Blue Hens 7-2 win over the Citadel.

Cuneo became the first Delaware player since 1997 to have at least four hits in the season-opener.

Although Delaware lost the nightcap to Citadel (12-0), Cuneo banged out two more hits giving him five on the day.

Cuneo is a graduate of Freehold Borough High School where he helped lead the Colonials to a Shore Conference Division title his senior year. He was a member of the Freehold Township Little League Senior League Team that won the Senor League World Series in 2005.

Princeton University freshman Ashley Higginson got her first taste of the Princeton-Yale-Harvard track meet and left an impression. The Colts Neck High School graduate helped the Tiger women nip Harvard, 62-58, by finishing third in the one-mile run (4:48.00) and winning the 3,000-meter run in 9:43.42.

Higginson's mile mark was an NCAA provisional qualifier and her time in the 3K was an ECAC qualifier.

Princeton's men were also victorious in the meet hosted by Yale University in New Haven, Conn. The Tiger men rolled up 92 points to runner-up Yale's 53.

Freehold Borough grad Justin Frick, now a sophomore at Princeton, won the high jump at 6-10 ¼. He also took second in the triple jump (44-5 ½). Frick had previously attained an NCAA qualifying mark in the high jump.

New Jersey Devils alumni will be facing off against former East Coast Hockey League and American Hockey League all-stars for charity on March 29 at the Protechockey Ponds in Somerset. Start time is 3 p.m. The United SpinalAssociation Woodbridge Sled Hockey and Children's Tumor Foundation are the charities involved.

Former Devil Bruce Driver and Brian Mullen of the New York Rangers are scheduled to skate.

An autograph session after the game with NHL players will be held. Cost is $25 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. For more information on the hockey vent, call (732) 868-9181 or log onto www.protecponds.com.

Former Major League slugger Cecil Fielder has been named the new field manager of the Atlantic City Surf of the Canadian-AmericanAssociation of Professional Baseball.

Fielder managed the Charlotte County Redfish of the independent South Coast League last year.

Fielder smacked 51 home runs for the Detroit Tigers in 1990 and led the majors in RBIs from 1990-92. A three-time All- Star with 319 career home runs, he was a member of the New York Yankees' 1996 World Series champions.