Courier-Post Library Softball is just one of the games that brings out the rivalry between Cherokee, Shawnee and Lenape schools in Lenape School District. At Lenape High School, there are big games, and then there are games against Cherokee and Shawnee. At Shawnee High School, there are big games, and then there are games against Lenape and Cherokee. When they play us, it's the same thing. It's that way, all the time.
Few things tie together towns in South Jersey as much as high school sports.
It's the same story all over South Jersey. Cross-town rivals such as Camden and Woodrow Wilson, and Gloucester City and Gloucester Catholic have created memories for players and fans for years. Glassboro and Pitman are neighborhood rivals deep in Gloucester County, and the games between the two schools often bring out many members of both tight-knit communities. It means so much in terms of unity, identity, a sense of belonging. As South Jersey's only school district with three high schools, Lenape starts at the edge of Cherry Hill and runs nearly halfway to the Atlantic Ocean, then shoots south to a notched-out section of Wharton State Forest and north to the brink of Browns Mills.