Category: HUB Sports
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Monmouth Rugby Football Club kicking into high gear Season to start
Monmouth Rugby Football Club kicking into high gear Season to start on Sept. 9 for men and women By Doug mckenzie The warm-up period is over and local rugby players are ready to take on the regular season. On Aug. 19, the Monmouth Rugby Football Club got off to a good start for their fall…
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Coors Light Classic tops Labor Day schedule at Wall
Labor Day weekend means double points and extra distance races for the stock car drivers at Wall Stadium. Highlighting Saturday’s card will be the Coors Light Classic 70-lap feature for the Modifieds. Time trials will be the method of qualifying for this special race. The eight fastest drivers will advance directly to the final while…
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Long-shot Rize dominates weak field in Iselin Handicap
The field for Sunday’s Iselin Handicap at Monmouth Park wasn’t the greatest, but that didn’t stop local trainer Norman Pointer from entering his horse in the race. As a result, Pointer and the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Runnin Horse Farm are about $200,000 richer after his long-shot horse, Rize, ran away with the Grade II stakes…
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Sport Shorts
The Long Branch Police Athletic League Boxing Club will be presenting an international boxing tournament on Sept. 1 at the Ocean Place Conference Center, Long Branch. "The Battle of Monmouth II, the British Are Coming" will be a rematch between local amateur boxers against the Police Boxing Association of England. In February, the local PAL…
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Middletown athletes adding to drama of Olympic trials
Staff Writer By Doug mckenzie Alyssa Beckerman’s impressive comeback on Sunday at the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials in Boston was the type of effort that can make an athlete’s hometown swell with pride. Middletown residents who remember Beckerman when she was dominating the local gymnastics scene at Middletown High School South several years back were…
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THE CHASE IS ON —
Glenn Parisi of the Monmouth Rugby Football Club runs with the ball while teammate Jim Shaw (l) shouts encouragement during Saturday’s Jersey Shore Rugby Tournament in Sea GIrt. MARIE ORTIZ
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Pair of Bulldogs take on nation’s best freestylers Sophomores post winning records at national tourney
Staff Writer By Doug mckenzie Pair of Bulldogs take on nation’s best freestylers Sophomores post winning records at national tourney Rumson-Fair Haven High School wrestlers Bryan Heller (l) and Patrick Berger recently competed in the National Freestyle Championship in Fargo, N.D. Both wrestlers left the tournament with winning records. A pair of Rumson-Fair Haven High…
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Tennis club raises funds for children with cancer
JEFF HUNTLEY Jon Ramirez, club pro at the Little Silver Tennis Club, follows through on one of 5,000 consecutive serves as part of the club’s first annual Serve for Cancer tennis festival last Saturday. Jon Ramirez, the tennis pro at the Little Silver Tennis Club, probably has a sore shoulder, but his pain came as…
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Monmouth Park’s Iselin field may lack big names
Monmouth Park’s Iselin field may lack big names Monmouth Park will be the site of yet another wealthy race this weekend as the $350,000 Grade II Iselin Handicap returns to the Oceanport track. Although the lineup for Sunday’s race is not yet set, there are some highly regarded horses expected to appear. But the best…
