City of Angels NJ

2025 Patriot Awards Gala
2025-09-13 18:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Mercer Oaks Golf Course, 725 Village Road West, Princeton Junction, NJ, 08550
On Saturday, September 13, 2025 we will present our City of Angels Patriot Awards Gala at Mercer Oaks Golf Course. It is a great venue, but Mercer Oaks it is not a big venue so tickets are limited! If you attended our 2024 Gala we want you back and we promise all the fun, food and refreshments that you enjoyed then will return. As a matter of fact, we invite you to bring a friend! If you missed last year and are contemplating attending, just speak to Kevin at 609-731-9166 and you will become a believer. We are a 501(c)(3) and tax deductible.

Chris Kline Memorial Game
2025-08-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Trenton Thunder Ballpark, One Thunder Road, Trenton, NJ, 08611
Trenton Thunder vs Frederick Keys 6:00pm at Trenton Thunder Ballpark
Addiction Awareness Night Exhibit opens at 4:30pm
Chris Kline was an accomplished pitcher, but an even better catcher when he played with City of Angels. A lifelong baseball standout, he was the starting catcher for Notre Dame High School and played on both their 2013 and 2015 Mercer County Championship teams. Chris joined the Angels for the 2016 baseball season as we built the team for its eventual 2018 Championship. Due to his youthfulness, he became known as “Baby Chris”, though he commanded the respect of the senior players because of his leadership behind the plate. Chris earned a full-ride to Lehigh University after graduating high school.
Tragically, Chris suffered from mental illness compounded by substance use disorder which eventually claimed his life on June 12, 2021. The Christopher Kline Memorial Game and Annual Addiction Awareness Night at the Trenton Thunder are held in Chris’ memory.
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Sage Ferraro Memorial Game
2025-05-24 11:00 - 14:00 | Trenton Thunder Ballpark, One Thunder Road, Trenton, NJ, 08611
(RESCHEDULED) May 24, 2025 at 11am: Sage Ferraro Memorial Game at Trenton Thunder Ballpark – COA Angels vs Hatboro Raydogs
Sage Ferraro was the starting pitcher for the Angels inaugural season in 2014. His devotion to the game of baseball began as a youth and never waned. Joining the Angels gave a purpose to Sage’s recovery from substance use disorder. #77 was planning to go to college where he hoped to pick up his baseball career on the college diamond.
Tragically, on July 14, 2014 Sage Ferraro passed from an accidental heroin overdose. This game between the Angels and the Hatboro Raydogs, played at Trenton Thunder Ballpark, is held annually in Sage Ferraro’s memory. Join us Saturday, May 24, 2025 at 11am. Gates open at 9:30am. Admission is free and concessions are open.
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COA Angels Baseball:
The COA Angels baseball team competes in the South Jersey Mens Senior Baseball League in the 21+ North Division. The Angels currently training for the 2025 season and in 2018 won the NJABL Amateur Championship having compiled an undefeated 20-0-2 record that year. The Angels are the brainchild of friends Jon Di Lisa, a Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Jon Macciocca, a high school baseball standout in his own right. The two friends, who are persons in long-term recovery, asked City of Angels to sponsor the team and to fulfill their ultimate dream to play baseball once again. The Angels inaugural season was in 2014. Today, the Angels Captains are Xavier Rodrigues and Cole McManimon. . If you take notice of the Angels team jerseys…they were presented to the team in 2014 by MLB’s Los Angeles Angels and were actual team jerseys worn in Los Angeles’ 2011, 50th Anniversary season. Overcoming adversity is a constant for the Angel’s team, as they dealt with the tragic deaths of their first pitcher Sage Ferraro, 3rd baseman Brian Low, catcher Chris Kline, former player Anthony Corso and in August 2023, volunteer Megan McNellis, from a rare infection. The Angels partner with the Trenton Thunder to present Addiction Awareness Night coming on August 23, 2025 and their Annual Sage Ferraro Memorial Game, being played Saturday, May 24, 2025 at Trenton Thunder BallPark.
