Category: Atlanticville Sports
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Sandy Hook hosts its final competition of summer
CHRIS KELLY Monmouth Beach’s Matt Bogner and Fair Haven’s Gretchen Huff were among the local lifeguards to participate in the 5-Mile Row at Sandy Hook on Monday, completing the event in a time of 53:35. Sandy Hook’s Beach E was the site of the park’s final lifeguard competition of the summer on Monday, as local…
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Kenyans dominate Sheehan Classic 5-miler once again
Wet weather doesn By Warren RappleyeaStaff Writer By Warren Rappleyea Staff Writer PHOTOS BY VERONICA YANKOWSKI A group of local kids show off their wheels during the Kids’ Race on Friday night in Red Bank. The Kids’ Race helps kick off the annual Sheehan Classic, the second largest road race in the state, behind only…
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Matchmaker Handicap next on tap at Monmouth Park
Bravo closing inon ninth riding title Bravo closing in on ninth riding title Sunday’s Matchmaker Handicap appears to be shaping up as one of the top turf contests for fillies and mares all summer long at Monmouth. With a purse of $100,000 on the line, many trainers have their eye on the mile-and-an-eighth test for…
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Faced with the demand, RFH board supplies lax program
It may have seemed like a long time coming, but Rumson-Fair Haven High School will field a boys’ lacrosse team next spring. Once known as "the little brother of war" by Native Americans and first played at the intercollegiate level in the 1870s, lacrosse has enjoyed rapid growth in the two decades since the first…
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Sport Shorts
Sport Shorts The Saturday in the Park Women’s 5K Run and Walk, "Women Taking Steps to Help Women," will take place on Aug. 30 at Holmdel Park at 9 a.m. This year marks the Jersey Shore Running Club’s 10th anniversary event, which will benefit women’s shelters and charities in Monmouth and Ocean counties. The event…
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Nothing funny about Peace Rules’ win at the Haskell
By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY Peace Rules (far right) begins to take a commanding lead in the 36th running of the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sunday. OCEANPORT — With a record New Jersey racing crowd of 53,638 packing Monmouth Park Sunday and setting…
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Sheehan Classic returns to Red Bank tomorrow
By Warren RappleyeaStaff Writer By Warren Rappleyea Staff Writer Defending champion Simon Wangui of Kenya will head up a field of about 3,000 runners in the five-mile George Sheehan Classic tomorrow in Red Bank. The annual event, which traditionally kicks off to the sounds of strains of Bruce Springsteen’s "Born to Run," takes participants through…
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Tinton Falls Junior Leaguers respond to critics with win
By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Matt Conte works the mound for the host Tinton Falls team at the Eastern Regional Junior League Tournament at Hockhockson Park on Sunday. As the host team of the Eastern Regional Junior League Baseball Tournament, the Tinton Falls Junior League All-Stars received an automatic…
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Sport Shorts
Sport Shorts U.K. Elite Soccer Summer camps for soccer players between 3 and 14 years of age will be held in Highlands at Henry Hudson Regional School Aug 11-15 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; and at the Peninsula at Monmouth Race Track soccer fields, Aug 4-8 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Included in the camp cost is…
