Category: Atlanticville Sports

  • Hooligans upsets Shore, gets ready to face Fornicola Bros.

    Hooligans upsets Shore, gets ready to face Fornicola Bros. By jack oakley Staff Writer Hooligans stunned Shore Athletics in two straight games and Fornicola Brothers eliminated The Norwood Agency in three contests as they advanced to the playoff finals in the Long Branch Sunday Adult Softball League. Fornicola’s will host Hooligan’s in the opening playoff…

  • Babies on display in Grade III Sapling at Monmouth Park

    Staff Writer By jack oakley Monmouth Park will be showing off the babies Saturday in the Grade III Sapling. The 2-year-old fillies will be matched in a 6-furlong dash with a purse of $150,000. Baseball is the usual talk when George Steinbrenner’s name is mentioned, but he has a possible favorite when the ladies go…

  • Higgins Snaps Mulligan’s/IAMA Streak at 17

    It had to end sometime. Higgins Funeral Home, of Freehold Borough, snapped Mulligan’s/IAMA’s 17-game win streak in the Monmouth County Senior Softball League by defeating the regular season champions, 10-4 at Liberty Oak Park, Freehold Township. The loss evened the best-of-five playoff series at a game apiece. After sweeping through the regular campaign with a…

  • Nunnally, Bolger lead at Andrew Manning swim

    Swimming 1 mile in the safe, virtually unchanging conditions of a pool is hard enough. Now imagine doing it in the Atlantic Ocean. One hundred and twenty swimmers took part in the Aug. 5 Andrew Manning Ocean Mile Swim race, held in Sea Bright. The race featured some of the top swimmers of the local…

  • Point Given doesn’t disappoint at Haskell Invitational

    FARRAH MAFFAI Point Given and jockey Gary Stevens cross the finish line ahead of Burning Roma and Touch Tone at the 34th running of the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sunday. The world of horse racing’s top star came to Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sunday, and ran away with the $1.5…

  • Sheehan Classic returns to Red Bank Saturday

    Staff Writer By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Defending champions Titus Mungi and Catherine N’bereba will return to Red Bank to lead a field of more than 3,500 runners in the George Sheehan Classic on Saturday. Another 500-600 people will participate in a variety of other events that begin Friday evening with the Kids Classic, a variety of…

  • Mulligan’s/IAMA wins one for ‘The Birdman’

    It was the opening playoff game in the Monmouth County Senior Softball League and Mulligan’s/IAMA had decided to dedicate the game to "The Birdman." Donnie Bertleson, known as "The Birdman," had passed away earlier in the week and the senior loop champs remembered the brother of Mulligan’s/IAMA’s outfielder Buddy Bertleson with a 22-12 victory against…

  • County lifeguard competition a close battle to the end

    Staff Writer By chris kelly CHRIS KELLY Seven Presidents’ Drew Edson and Mike Frake beat out their counterparts from Manasquan during the rowing race at the Monmouth County Park System’s second annual Lifeguard Tournament. The sea was a little rough, but it wasn’t anything that the lifeguards at the Monmouth County Park System’s second annual…

  • Pavilion wins Monmouth Junior Lifeguard competition

    CHRIS KELLY Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion’s Leah Adams, 13, sprints to the finish line in the open beach run at the Battle of Monmouth Junior Lifeguard Tournament last Friday. They may be smaller, but they are just as competitive as the older guards at the Monmouth Beach clubs. Last Friday, Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion hosted…