Umpires check the helmets of Atlantic Cape Community College with coach Rodney Velardi. The devices were discovered on April 22 during a game Atlantic Cape lost 11-4 to Rowan College Gloucester County.Įthan Dodd, a freshman pitcher on Gloucester County, wondered if he’d been tipping pitches to his opponents in a game against Atlantic Cape the day before. “After the situation with the game, he was suspended pending the outcome of the NJCAA Region 19 review, and at that time, we had asked for him to resign,” Laura Batchelor, the Chief Marketing Officer at Atlantic Cape, told the Cherry Hill Courier-Post earlier in the week. Rodney Velardi’s resignation after 13 years on the job happened last week at the behest of the college. The head baseball coach at Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey has resigned after two of his players were caught with illegal communications devices inside their batting helmets. “You can't have a resort without a beach."įollow Wayne Parry on Twitter at turn the black c–k black’: ESPN broadcaster’s all-time flubĬollege baseball player dead at 19 after dugout collapses on himĬollege baseball player ejected over wild bat tossĬollege baseball coach fired days after ‘suspicious betting activity’ “This is part of the experience,” he said. Past beach widening projects have often not lasted for the full three-year period before they qualify for renourishment by the government, and some wash away in as little as a year.Ĭallahan said if the beach needs to be rebuilt again with private money, it will be. He said the particular spot in front of the Ocean casino has historically been the most eroded spot on all of Absecon Island, on which Atlantic City sits. The sand is trucked in from a private company in Eagleswood Township, about a half-hour north of Atlantic City, said project manager Ian Jerome. Crews will then smooth the sand, which was matched for color and grain size to the existing beach sand. The work should be completed by next May 19. About half of that had been placed as of Friday. Ryan Burch, the casino's vice president of hotel operations, said the project will dump 12,810 tons of sand on the beach. Veteran Atlantic City casino executives said they can not recall a casino paying to widen its own beach using its own money. But most are content to wait for the next round of government-paid projects, in which the cost is shared by the federal, state and local governments. Army Corps of Engineers, said it is unusual but not unheard-of for private parties to carry out their own beach replenishment projects. Stephen Rochette, a spokesman for the U.S. So the casino set about securing the many state and federal permits necessary to do the work on its own. It's like, ‘Come to an unbelievable $2.5 billion resort and not have a beach.’ We just couldn't have that,” he said. “That would be a horrible guest experience. Chronic erosion near the casino has reduced the beach to just 5 to 8 feet (1.5 to 2.4 meters) wide in places.īill Callahan, the casino's general manager, said Ocean can't wait for the next government-funded beach replenishment project, which could take another year or two.Ĭallahan and several casino officials were on their daily coffee walk one day last fall when they looked out the window - and saw very little sand between the Boardwalk and the ocean.Ĭallahan feared there soon would be no beach. The Ocean Casino Resort began the work Wednesday, and plans to have a new 110-foot-wide beach open for Memorial Day weekend.
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