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Fran McLaughlin

Fran McLaughlin

Recurring contributor on The Locker Room with Billy Schweim (97.3 ESPN South Jersey), running the "High School Athletes in the Spotlight" segment highlighting outstanding scholastic athletes.

Oct 28, 2026

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What's happening in your truck? I am in my truck.
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So I'm going to have to do this all off the top of my head, but we have a lot going on this week.
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So I give you some scores, great things here.
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I can give you some score, Ben football.
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Luckily this week we had a Pleasantville egg, Harvard township, Holy spirit, Atlantic city, all get wins and all be in the playoffs starting next week.
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Brought to you by the Philly Pretzel Factory of Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City.
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Give
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us some scores.
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Last night we had Holy Spirit after a sluggish start.
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They're starting to find a groove with a big win over Ocean City.
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That was only Ocean City's second loss of the year.
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Mainland tops Cedar Creek.
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Pleasantville took it on a chin last night against Rancocas Valley.
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All right, now, Fran, it's time for your high school athletes in the spotlight, brought to you by the Philly Pretzel Factory of Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City.
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Clementon.
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And, uh, another team, uh, just like Oakcrest, who bounced back at a rough year a year ago, is, uh, Egg Harbor Township.
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Uh, they had their homecoming, I believe, last night, and they get the W. That's their fifth win of the year.
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So, uh, like, some nice things, uh, going on there.
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Uh, you know, we like perfection here, uh, at the Philly Pretzel Factory and the, uh, and, and the locker room.
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So, uh, before we move on to our athletes in the spotlight, we still have a few, uh, girls and boys teams in their respective sports that are undefeated.
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Uh, Egg Harbor Township girls soccer is still undefeated.
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[clears throat]
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Oh, I gotta tell you.
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Hey, uh, anyway, on the football field last night, Atlantic City.
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We talked about them a little bit last week.
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You know, they're ranked 20th in the latest NJ.com poll.
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They moved to, uh, 3-3 with a 49-13 win over Mainland last night.
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Cedar Creek gets their, uh, first win of the season, 20-13 over Cherokee.
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Uh, Pleasantville drops another close ballgame.
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[laughs]
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All right, now it's time for your High School Athletes in the Spotlight with Fran McLaughlin, brought to you by the Philly Pretzel Factory of Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City.
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And Atlantic City.
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And our Girls Athletes in the Spotlight this week is Emma Hendrickson, senior from Cedar Creek Girls Volleyball.
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After a slow start this season, the senior has come on of late and so has her team.
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Hendrickson has registered 50 of her 65 kills this season and 64 digs during the Pirates' recent five-game winning streak.
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Also during that streak, she posted a pair of 14 kill games and posted a career-high 26 digs in a win against Absagami.
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Her career best in kills is 17, and that came in a victory over Pleasantville last year.
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boys'
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the world of high school athletics
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Yeah, a lot of football going on, obviously.
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Now, I mean, all fall sports are rolling, but we had some scores locally.
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Battle of the Unbeatens last night.
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Ocrest moves to 4-0 with a 27-14 win over Egg Harbor Township.
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Holy Spirit gets their first win of the season after an 0-3 start, 35-6 over Mainland.
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AC, the game I was at, AC Washington Township, Washington Township defending state champ.
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All right, now it's time for your high school athletes in the spotlight, brought to you by the Philly Pretzel Factory of Egg Harbor Township and Atlantic City.
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All right, Fran, tell us a little bit about what's going on in high school sports.
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Yeah, believe it or not, this is our first weekend with the athletes in the spotlight segment, but we're actually three weeks into the football season already, which is unbelievable.
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It is kind of crazy.
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I was out at the Pleasantville Snack Stand last night, so I stayed for a little bit of the Pleasantville Cedar Creek game, and yeah, it's just nuts.
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I mean, it's a crazy start to the season.
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You've got some teams, uh, Oh, crest ocean city, EHT, all off the three stars.
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Oh, Chris hasn't been three and oh, in like 10 years, he went, I think one in nine last year.
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all right now it's time for your high school athletes in the spotlight brought to you by the philly pretzel factory of egg harbor township
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I ran into Elijah a couple weeks ago.
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And, yeah, nice young man, well-spoken, played locally, played at Villanova.
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At Villanova, yeah.
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Clevick, Newham.
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He did a really nice job.
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They went to the playoffs last year and lost to that eventual state champion, Cedar Creek.
Pat CroceSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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me.
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I just don't like him.
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All the circus I think he brings, and I don't think you get the benefit of him on the court to go along with that circus.
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Now, if he would come in and kind of be a role player and a role model and fill 25 minutes a night and kind of keep his mouth shut and realize where he's at in his career, yeah, he might be one of the best of all time.
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I mean, I'm going to always say Jordan because I grew up in that era, but if he can come in and do those things – Might not be bad, Billy, but I don't think that's the case.
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I still think it's all about LeBron.
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I hate these guys.
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He kind of led the foray of these guys bouncing around.
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right, Fran, you got something going on? What, do you got a job fair going on?
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Of course, you give them coupons for pretzels, and I know they really enjoy that.
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A lot of the winners will stop in, and we've been having them autograph their picture.
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They're on the wall, so we're starting to pile up some autographs.
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But kids will really appreciate it.
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It's funny.
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When we get to the girls today, their mother was actually in buying pretzels today.
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I'm like, hey, by any chance...
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And now it's time for your High School Athletes in a Spotlight, brought to you by the Philly Pretzel Factory of Egg Harbor Township.
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They do it for the love of the game.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It is, uh...
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It's great, especially this time of year.
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You know, you got conference, uh, tournaments going on.
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Uh, I'm trying to pull in here and park.
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I'm actually making a delivery, so, uh, uh, yeah.
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In the two-spot [laughs].

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