Category: Examiner Sports

  • Jersey Blues in search of 3rd straight national championship

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Brianna Penix, middle, from Ocean Township is one of Brookdale Community College’s five returning starters from last year’s women’s national championship soccer team. The Jersey Blues are seeking an unprecedented third straight National Junior College Athletic Association Division III title.

  • Redbirds work to play as a team in rebuilding year

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent In a preseason of uncertainty amid total rebuilding, Allentown High School boys soccer coach Andrew Plunkett finally is getting a read on his team and whether it can be competitive as it has been over the past three seasons. “We’ve got some talent. It’s just a matter of them playing together,”…

  • Using their heads

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Allentown High School’s Pat Kyle, left, and South Brunswick High School’s Chris Bobev try to win possession of the ball in air during a preseason scrimmage Aug. 21 at Allentown.

  • Allentown looks to fill spots left by key departed runners

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Conor Murphy repeatedly reset record times in distance running in his three years on Allentown High School’s cross-country and indoor and outdoor track teams before embarking this month on a college career at Rutgers University. Also graduated are top five crosscountry runners Andrew Fortier and Vincenzo Ferriola. Mimi Crawford, the lead…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Hurricane Junior Golf Tour (HJGT) will host the Central New Jersey Junior Challenge Sept. 12-13 at the Westlake Golf and Country Club in Jackson. Players can register as a member or non-member for the event. Members can play the event for $199, while non-members play at $244. To get more information about the HJGT…

  • Allentown’s Stroud key to Cheetahs Northeast title run

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent The New Jersey Cheetahs Premier Under-18 softball team out of Allentown won the Northeast Regional and finished fifth at the nationals this summer. Abby Stroud went from the depth of disappointment and frustration to the heights of exhilaration in a span of a few weeks, as she is about to embark…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    Sky Blue FC has confirmed its 2015 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) home finale for Sept. 2. Kickoff for the match against FC Kansas City will occur at 7 p.m. at Yurcak Field on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway. Tickets for the home finale of Sky Blue FC’s sixth professional season are on…

  • Running through drills

    REBECCA NOWALSKI Allentown High School football players Cameron Capone, left, and Colin Roy run through a linemen drill during a team practice at the high school.

  • Scheuerman suffers injury at Steelers training camp

    By WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Ross Scheuerman of Allentown will have to shop around for another shot in the NFL. Scheuerman, the Lafayette College graduated who went undrafted, suffered an injury that not only cost him a chance to play in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ opening exhibition Hall of Fame game versus the Minnesota Vikings Aug. 9,…