Category: HUB Sports

  • Bulldogs’ new coach looks to continue winning ways

    Staff Writer By chris kelly In the ’90s, Ben Dickerson turned Montclair High School’s lacrosse program from a struggling one to a competitive one. Now let’s see what he can do with a winning program like Rumson-Fair Haven. Dickerson, who played and graduated from Montclair in 1987, returned to his alma mater after graduating from…

  • Rumson-FH’s Fisher is Shore’s Player of the Year Wittlieb, Cole and Zoll among leading vote-getters

    Staff Writer By tim morris Rumson-FH’s Fisher is Shore’s Player of the Year Wittlieb, Cole and Zoll among leading vote-getters To the surprise of no one, Rumson-Fair Haven’s Chrissy Fisher was the Shore Coaches Association’s Player of the Year for girls’ basketball. The 6-1 Fisher, who is headed to the University of Maryland, led the…

  • Neptune’s run at a TOC title comes to an end

    Staff Writer By doug mckenzie VERONICA YANKOWSKI Neptune’s Taquan Dean can’t bear to watch the final moments of the Scarlet Fliers’ loss to St. Anthony’s in the Tournament of Champions final at the Continental Airlines Arena on Sunday. Earlier this season, when the Neptune Scarlet Fliers knocked off top-ranked St. Anthony’s of Jersey City in…

  • A year later, Waldman is back on the lacrosse field Shore sophomore has speedy return from horse riding accident

    Staff Writer By chris kelly A year later, Waldman is back on the lacrosse field Shore sophomore has speedy return from horse riding accident CHRIS KELLY Shore Regional’s Brittany Waldman has returned to the lacrosse field this spring, continuing her remarkable recovery from a horse-riding accident last March. It happened so fast that for all…

  • Quicker Blue Devils ready to launch a strong season

    Graduation may have stolen seven seniors for the Shore Regional High School lacrosse team, but don’t expect that to stop the West Long Branch Blue Devils from finding the W column quite a bit this year. After 76 girls came out for the preseason meeting, the West Long Branch program is now almost 60 strong…

  • Trio of upperclassmen to lead RBR in rebuilding year

    Staff Writer By chris kelly With only three returning starters, it looks like a rebuilding year for Red Bank Regional’s lacrosse program. Coming back from an 11-10 season where the Buccaneers placed fourth in the Shore Conference A North division, seniors Liz Garrison (cover point) and Chrissy Arck (third man), and junior Michelle Wyman (goalie)…

  • Pitching, defense expected to fuel BCC softball team DeVincenzo, Smith among star returners to Region XIX champions

    Staff Writer By tim morris Pitching, defense expected to fuel BCC softball team DeVincenzo, Smith among star returners to Region XIX champions JERRY WOLKOWITZ Brookdale sophomore Dara DeVincenzo shows the form that has made her one of the top junior college hurlers in the nation and has the Jersey Blues expecting another run at the…

  • Kalnas is all-American after fifth place at NCAAs

    Staff Writer By tim morris Jon Kalnas is traveling where no other Monmouth University track and field athlete has ventured. The senior, from Paulsboro High School, attained all-American recognition for the second straight year at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships, held in Fayetteville, Ark., March 8-10. Kalnas extended his school record and personal best…

  • Fair Haven defends title with win over Tinton Falls

    Staff Writer By chris kelly CHRIS KELLY A group of Tinton Falls players tries to strip the ball from a Fair Haven player during the Shore Intermediate Scholastic Basketball League championship game in Fair Haven. For three quarters, Fair Haven’s seventh/eighth- grade girls’ basketball team had to play catch-up, but in the end, they were…