Tag: Owen Reynolds

by Mike Pavlichko

Middlesex seniors Dom Parenti, Owen Reynolds on Blue Jays’ seventh Group 1 title, CJSR Team of the Year honors for state champs

The Middlesex Blue Jays baseball program has won seven state titles in its history, all since 1990, and five of them have come since 2013. Only one team – Gloucester Catholic, with six – has won more in that span.

There are a lot of reasons for that. Besides skilled players, there’s great coaching, and a great community behind them.

Consider that the only two starting pitchers Middlesex used in their entire six-game state tournament run also had brothers who played on the 2021 team. That includes Chris Kozak and his older brother Aidan, as well as Dominic Long and his older brother Anthony.

Whose team was better? Well, we didn’t want to put anyone on the spot about that.

But we did talk to two of the team’s four seniors, two who played some pretty big roles, about this 2025 championship season, and how it all played out. One will play baseball in college, the other won’t, but both were instrumental in the Blue Jays’ success.

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Dom Parenti will be playing baseball at Kean next season. He hit .352 this season with two home runs – including one against Schalick in the group semifinals last week – and 16 runs batted in. Parenti finished his high school career as a .340 hitter with 47 RBI and 43 stolen bases.

Owen Reynolds will be going to Rutgers, and may play for the club team. He hit .341 this year with 17 RBI and one home run. He hit .292 over three seasons, with 39 RBI.

Two other seniors will graduate, including infielder Nathan Thompson and pitcher Lunden Chadwell, who sat out the year with Tommy John surgery.

Click below to hear Dom Parenti and Owen Reynolds talk about Middlesex’s 2025 Group 1 championship and Central Jersey Sports Radio Team of the Year honors:

by Mike Pavlichko

A GMC first? Middlesex’s Reynolds, Dunellen’s Hutchins join 1,000 point club in same game

We had to dig a little deep on this one.

Every year, a good number of players in the Greater Middlesex Conference – and statewide – join the 1,000 point club. It’s a big milestone for a high school basketball player. Some even top 2,000.

But what are the chances of two players hitting the 1,000-point mark in the same game? How about from opposing teams?

That’s what happened last Thursday when Dunellen and Middlesex squared off.

The Destroyers’ Ryan Hutchins was approaching the mark, and so was the Blue Jays’ Owen Reynolds. And they both got to the 1,000 mark in the same game.

Has that ever happened before?

We actually checked with longtime sportswriter John Haley, who – along with his father, the late Gene Haley – were often encyclopedic with their knowledge of local hoops history. John says he believes John Carpenter and Darrell Cross did it in the same game for Perth Amboy years ago, but they were on the same team.

So, we sat down to talk with the the Dunellen and Middlesex seniors about this unique occurrence, and how it all played out.

Who hit 1,000 first? Well, you’ll have to listen…

Click below to hear Dunellen’s Ryan Hutchins and Middlesex’s Owen Reynolds talk about scoring their 1,000th career points in the same game: