Category: Atlanticville Sports

  • Monmouth Oaks captures interest at Monmouth Park

    Staff Writer By jack oakley With all eyes focused on The Haskell next week, Monmouth Park will offer a very attractive stakes race Saturday with the Grade II Monmouth Breeders’ Cup Oaks. The $250,000 race will be a prelude to next Sunday’s (Aug. 5) Haskell. The designation "Oaks" was established in England and the first…

  • Sport Shorts

    The Peninsula Eagles U13 boys soccer team has openings on its roster for the fall season in the Monmouth-Ocean Soccer Association. Call Coach Jim for a tryout at (732) 870-9547. Red Bank Catholic High School is seeking as assistant boys soccer coach and an assistant girls field hockey coach for the fall 2001 season. Applicants…

  • Mulligan’s/IAMA shatters Allstate’s hopes of an upset

    Allstate Insurance thought it was in good hands. Allstate had taken a 6-2 lead against Mulligan’s/IAMA in the Monmouth County Senior Softball League, but its brief moment of glory was shattered when Mulligan’s/IAMA broke out the big bats and shattered Allstate’s hopes of an upset. In the last count, Mulligan’s/IAMA, the unbeaten leader, had come…

  • Little Silver grabs the lead in Firemen’s League

    By virtue of its win against Oceanport, coupled with Eatontown’s loss to Oceanic, of Rumson, the Little Silver Fire Department has assumed control of first place in the Shore Firemen’s Sunday Morning Slow Pitch Softball League. Little Silver managed to win 32-21, despite Mike Flego’s swinging strikeout and Oceanic’s staving off a last-inning rally to…

  • Shore Athletics, Fornicola Brothers set for showdown

    Staff Writer By jack oakley After the dust settles Sunday afternoon, the picture in the Long Branch Adult Sunday Softball League will be clearer. The two division leaders, Shore Athletics in the East and West Division leader Fornicola Brothers, will square off in two games starting at 9:30 a.m. at IAMA. Shore Athletics swept the…

  • Calm preceding the Haskell storm at Monmouth Park

    Even though it is still a little over two weeks away, the horse racing world has the Haskell on its mind. With the running of the Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth Park last Sunday, Burning Roma cast its lot for the Haskell, although trainer Dick Dutrow wouldn’t say it’s a sure thing. But with Point…

  • Tinton Falls loses District 19 final to Freehold Township

    Staff Writer By tim morris SARAH McCOLGAN Tinton Falls pitcher Billy Yadlon winds up during a District 19 Little League contest against Freehold Township in Marlboro last Saturday. MARLBORO — Winning the coin toss to get the last at bat was the only thing that went right for the Tinton Falls Major League, Little League…

  • Blazers bats too much for Colts Neck Sliders Time limit used to end game in 3-1/2 innings

    Staff Writer By chris kelly Blazers bats too much for Colts Neck Sliders Time limit used to end game in 3-1/2 innings CHRIS KELLY West Long Branch’s Allison Roma prepares to deliver a pitch to her catcher during a game against Colts Neck in Long Branch last Friday. Things were cut a little short last…

  • Kelly regains her old form winning the Belmar 5K

    Alicia Kelly is back. At least according to Tim McLoone, who screamed just that phrase into his hand-microphone at the finish line on Fifth and Ocean avenues in Belmar on Saturday. "And she’s going to get in under 29," he added, as she raced by the clock at 28:59, and became the women’s champion of…