
Honoring Athletes, Coaches and
Benefactors whose outstanding performance has earned them the right to be enshrined in the Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame!
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The Sussex County Sports Hall of Fame
2006 Inductee
BOB MELILLO

1972 graduate of West Orange Mountain
High School; 1976 graduate of Kean University; being inducted for his
accomplishments as baseball coach of Newton High School
At West Orange Mountain High School
lettered in football, wrestling and baseball; was inducted into the West
Orange Mountain Sports Hall of Fame in 1994; at Kean University, earned four
varsity letters in baseball
Was head coach at Newton High School for 23
years (1979-2002) during which time his teams compiled 353 wins and won five
SCIL Championships (1979, 1985, 1992, 1996, 2001), four Group 2 Section 1
Championships (1985, 1992, 1996, 2001) and played in three State
Championship final games (1985, 1996, 2001) and won one State Baseball
Championship in 1985 (only one in Sussex County history)
Inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic
Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2006.
Was voted The Daily Advance “Coach of the
Year” in 1979 and 1984, The Daily Record “Coach of the Year” in 2001, the NJ
Herald Coach of the Year in 1991 and the Star Ledger “New Jersey Coach of
the Year” in 1985; was inducted into the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Hall
of Fame in 1996
Since retiring from coaching, has remained
active in Sussex County sports by officiating field hockey, wrestling,
baseball and softball; has been a NJ State Wrestling Official since 1984
serving as both Vice President and President of the Northwest Chapter 2; he
has been a member of the NJ State Baseball Umpires Association since 1978
and a NJ Field Hockey Official since 2003.
Four former players (Mike Bell, Shawn
McCorkle, Jim Duffy and Josh Noviskey) went on to play professional baseball
and two former players have been inducted into the Sussex County Sports Hall
of Fame (Jim Duffy and Erik Pedersen) |