Sports Shorts Washington College senior catcher Mike DeBartolome (Middletown South) won two awards at the 2006-07 Washington College Department of Athletics Awards Ceremony held on May 3. DeBartolome won the Thomas Reeder Spedden Medal, which is presented to a male and female student-athlete for academic standing and achievement in athletics. He was also named the baseball team's most valuable player. It was the second time he earned team MVP honors, also being selected in 2004. He concluded his fourth and final season with the Washington College baseball team, where he served as a co-captain. He played and started in all 32 games for the Shoremen this season, earning All-Centennial Conference honorable mention. It was the second time he garnered honorable mention in his career, the first coming in 2005. DeBartolome was second on the team with a .333 batting average and led the team in hits (39), doubles (10), home runs (1), RBIs (28), slugging percentage (.444) and putouts (177). He cracked his first career home run against St. Mary's (MD) on April 29 in a 14-2 win. He was 4-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBIs against Medaille on March 12 in a 16-8 triumph. Versus Swarthmore on March 30, he was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three runs driven in as the Shoremen won 12-2. He had two other three-RBI games and four two-RBI tilts. He tallied a hit in each of the last seven games of the season. For his career, he batted .343 with 103 RBIs in 121 career games. He belted 36 doubles, stole nine bases and recorded 352 putouts. In the past 25 years, he leads Washington College in at-bats, hits and doubles and is second in RBIs. The Shoremen finished 16-16 and 8-10 in the Centennial Conference. The Battle of Monmouth Torpedoes U-15 boys soccer team, coached by George Vichniakov, competed in the New Jersey State Cup Championship finals on Sunday May 20 at Fort Dix. The New Jersey State Cup is a single elimination competition hosted by the New Jersey Youth Soccer Association. To reach the finals the BOM Torpedoes defeated the Princeton Strikers, the Hanover Avalanche, and Americas United of Elizabeth. The BOM Torpedoes took the second place position to the Cherry Hill Renegades, in a well-played game. The BOM Torpedoes team is comprised of players from Holmdel, Middletown, Ocean and Old Bridge, and currently plays in the Monmouth-Ocean Soccer Association's Premier division. The players are Patrick Strickland, Jimmy Meindl, Andres Diaz-Borda, Justin Meseroll, Mike Vastardis, Nick Pascale, Chris Wishart, CJ Tavernise, Alec Resende, Nick DeSpirito, Nick Conforti, Ashwin Kambhampati, Scott Beaty, Taylor Poli and Nick Martins. The coaches are Jim Meindl (assistant coach), K. Kambhampati (assistant coach), Mauricio Resende (assistant coach), George Vichniakov (head coach) and Gomathi Ramachandran (team administrator).