Category: Independent Sports

  • Sport Shorts

    The Middletown North Baseball Clinic for boys grades three through eight will be held on March 23 at the High School North bubble. The fee is a $20 cash donation. The staff includes Middletown North head baseball coach Bryan Kernan and his staff and players. Registration will be held from 10-10:30 a.m., with an introduction…

  • Rejuvenated Colts roll to 12th Shore Conference title

    By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Raritan center Steve Plagianakos faces the CBA defense during Saturday’s SCT final in Little Silver. When the Christian Brothers Academy basketball team lost a heartbreaking overtime game to top-ranked Neptune earlier this year on a last-second Marques Alston shot from near midcourt, something happened…

  • RBC girls hang on to beat

    Marlboro in SCT final, 48-46 By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer Don’t sweat the little things, people say. But it’s the little things that keep coaches up at night and it’s the little things that can decide a basketball game when two equal teams go at it. There was little to choose…

  • Brookdale wins first Region basketball championship

    Nationals are nextfor BCC five By tim morrisStaff Writer Nationals are next for BCC five By tim morris Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Brookdale’s Mark Kelly launches a shot during the Jersey Blues’ home win on Sunday. Paul Cisek had a good feeling about his 2002-03 Brookdale Community College basketball team from the start of the…

  • Raritan girls’ last shot to make some noise tonight

    Local teams begin state tourney play this week By Warren RappleyeaStaff Writer By Warren Rappleyea Staff Writer The Raritan High School girls’ basketball team will be looking to upset top-seeded Voorhees this evening in the opening round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II Tournament. Coach Erica Graham’s Rockets, 14-9, are coming off a victory…

  • Sport Shorts

    The Monmouth Power Sports Club (MPSC) is holding its fifth annual Slam Fest Basketball Tournament from April 28-May 4 in the Monmouth County area. Cost per team is $350 for a three-game guarantee. The club will hold its fifth annual Peak Performance Seminar April 8 at Marlboro High School at 7:30 p.m. This free seminar…

  • Rockets surprise District 22 field with a team title

    Slew of local grapplers advance to Region VI competition By Warren RappleyeaStaff Writer By Warren Rappleyea Staff Writer On the heels of its victory in the District 22 Tournament, the Raritan High School wrestling team is sending eight grapplers to the Region VI Tournament, which was scheduled to begin last night. Matt Pendle at 135…

  • Sport Shorts

    Carolyn "Nickie" Kelly, a former standout soccer player at Middletown High School North, was among the first five women to be inducted into Georgian Court College’s Athletic Hall of Fame at a luncheon on Feb. 8. A soccer player throughout her four years at Georgian Court College, Lakewood, Kelly scored 103 career goals. She was…

  • Conference tournaments playing out as expected

    Girls By doug mckenzieStaff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ Middletown South’s Nicole Baldessari and Lakewood’s Lakiea Peace battle for control of a loose ball during the Eagles’ second-round loss in the Shore Conference Tournament in Lakewood on Friday. Girls’ semifinals set for tonight in Lakewood; boys’ tomorrow at Red Bank Regional By doug mckenzie Staff Writer The…