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’73 champs named to Soccer Hall of Fame By RIcH FISHer
Ludovic Andre, left, is taking over from Chris Cirkus as manager of the Trenton Farmers Market.
Managers & seasons change at Trenton Farmers Market By GeOrge POInT
If you’ve never been to the Trenton Farmers Market, you don’t know what a farmers market can be. We welcome the proliferation of the markets dotting our area that appear in parking lots, plazas, and vacant lots during the growing season and bring the bounty of the Garden State close to our doorsteps. The Trenton Farmers Market is that, and so much more. A brief look back illustrates one significant difference, a
history dating back to 1939 according to the market website, when a group of farmers who had been coming by horse and carriage to Trenton to sell their produce near the Trenton Makes bridge since the early 1900s needed to make way for the construction of Route 29. The farmers formed the Trenton Market Growers Cooperative Association and purchased property on Spruce Street. Over the next nine years, three market buildings were moved into place, and eventually what began with three
parallel buildings became the current cross shape by cutting the center building in half and affixing it to the eastern building. Outdoor market stalls evolved into an indoor facility with overhead doors that give the market its distinctive bringing-the-outdoors-indoors feel. It’s the co-op structure of the market that makes it, and the role of its manager, a bit different from other popup type markets in the area, explains Chris Cirkus, a resident of West Windsor who See TFM, Page 6
They were called the Jakeys, but why? “Who knows?” co-captain Brian Murphy said. “Why did we all have the nicknames we had back then?” They didn’t have a go-to scorer. “We never knew who was gonna come through with the next big goal,” Murphy noted. Just what did they know? How to win soccer games, of course. Winning is what the 1973 Lawrence High soccer team knew the best. After a 2-2 start, the Cardinals went 13-1-1 the rest of the way en route to claiming the NJSIAA Group 2 state championship. They did so one year after a loaded team, which included Cardinal legends Tim Murphy (Brian’s brother) and Mooch Myernick, came up short in a quest for a fourth straight state title, losing to Point Pleasant Boro in the Group 2 final. “The year in front of us, which was supposedly the dream team, came in second,” Murphy said. “That was the first time that class of seniors came in second. We were coming up and it was like ‘Well if those guys couldn’t do it, there’s no way on earth the Jakeys are gonna do it.’” They did it, all right, and on Apr. 2 they will be rewarded for it when they are one of three 1973 state champions inducted into the Mercer County Soccer Hall of Fame at the Hibernian club in Ham-
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ilton. Also going in will be Group 4 champion Steinert and Non-Public A champion St. Anthony’s (now Trenton Catholic Preparatory Academy). Tickets can be purchased by calling (609) 7315906 or emailing bruce@ mercercountysoccerhof.com. According to Murphy’s mother, Regina, by way of his sister, Gina, the Jakeys name originated from the fact that few people could see a state title in the Cards. “My mom said they were the group that no one expected to win,” Gina said. “It was kind of like the movie The Sandlot. A bunch of kids that no one really knew.” They knew them when the season ended, as Lawrence used a total team effort to achieve the goal no one thought possible. Along with Murphy and fellow co-captain John Pasela, the roster included Dan Bannister, Tom Bushar, Jim Carroll, Bob Crine, Rich Debiec, Fred Gould, David Janezcek, Jim Kelly, Greg Kowalski, Rob Lowthian, Al Martin, Gary Mellilo, Greg Molnar, Tom Myslinski, Jim Price, Ed Sabisky, Greg Sandusky, Tim Snyder, Bob Tuccillo and the twin brother tandem of Joe Zimmer and John Zimmer. There were nine seniors, eight juniors and three freshmen on the roster, along with manager Tom Converse and statisticians Julia Blatter and Terry McConnell. Lou Angebranndt, a Mercer County coaching legend, was the head man who got everyone on the same page. See CHAMPS, Page 8
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