Memorial High School head coach Tony Ferrainolo has only made it to six games this season.
On Tuesday, he missed a big one, but it will certainly be remembered for a long, long time. That’s because his team earned a 6-5 win in extra innings to make the proud skipper the all-time winningest baseball coach in New Jersey scholastic history, according to the Newark Star-Ledger.
Ferrainolo is recovering from intense chemotherapy, treatment he is receiving for lymphoma, which he was diagnosed with in 2010. He was unable to make the record-setting win on Tuesday because he was too tired from his second set of a four-day, 24-hour chemotherapy treatment on Saturday.
Ferrainolo has compiled a 753-205 in 34 seasons at Memorial, where he was a three-sport star in the 1960s.
“It’s a great day,” said Ferrainolo, who passed Morristown High coach Harry Shatel. “You’re on top. You’re here. I guess right now you could say this old coach from West New York is on top.”
