Author: Jeff Appelblatt
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Team effort expected from Colts Neck baseball team
By Jeff Appelblatt It’s been an up-and-down start for the baseball team at Colts Neck High School. Through the first few weeks of the season the team has shown it’s capable of winning, but it has also shown that it may have fewer answers to avoid losses than it did in the past. For instance,…
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Patriots’ baseball team picks up wins during break
By Jeff Appelblatt Spring break started strong for Freehold Township High School’s baseball team, which is good for a team that entered the nine-day span away from the classroom without a win. The Patriots went back to school April 17 after winning three of four games. The first win was April 8 — the day…
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Strong showings for Marlboro track team at relay events
By Jeff Appelblatt Gianna Gomez is continuing to make her name known in the world of high school jumpers. The Marlboro High School junior landed in first place in the long jump and triple jump competitions at the Rocket Relays at the start of the season and more recently notched the top spot in the…
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Barrons picking up wins for new volleyball coach
By Jeff Appelblatt By the time the girls’ volleyball season ended at Woodbridge High School, Jayson Calhoun realized it was time for him to step away from coaching. He had young children and a wife at home that he wanted to see more often. Calhoun was ready to step away and leave the boys’ volleyball…
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Pitch-count rules not stopping Barrons from thriving
By Jeff Appelblatt As a starting pitcher, Harry Rutkowski can’t throw every day. But when he has this year, Woodbridge is 2-0 and opponents have been left bent out of shape. Rutkowski was pulled when he reached 90 pitches in his most recent outing April 9 against North Brunswick Township High School. Justin Silva continued…
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Colonials bounce back from opening boys’ volleyball loss
By Jeff Appelblatt It took just one match for Ryan Walkiewicz, the boys’ volleyball coach at Freehold High School, to be assured expectations should be high this season. Although the Colonials lost their first match, 2-0 (25-22, 25-20), to Shore Conference A North Division rival Colts Neck High School, Walkiewicz always kept the Cougars on…
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Young Freehold Township softball team progressing quickly
By Jeff Appelblatt Over the course of the week, teams saw many games between April 3-9 get rained out. It was just one of those spans for some teams in which it was much easier to appreciate victories than be disappointed in losses. Freehold Township High School’s softball team was much prouder of its win…
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Freehold taking care of business on baseball field
By Jeff Appelblatt As much as Freehold High School baseball coach Jon Block doesn’t like to think about weather affecting his team, there are certain things he’ll continue doing in hopes that it won’t — starting with the group outings of cleaning off the field at the high school. “Everybody’s got to rake,” the coach…
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Braves hopeful competitive year ahead on baseball field
By Jeff Appelblatt Brian Boyce wasn’t too excited thinking of last year’s sub-.500 baseball season at Manalapan High School. “We were 12-15,” the 12-year coach said. “It might have been our only losing season. “Unfortunately last year, we never jelled as a team. We have seven kids playing in college [from that team], so we…
