Category: Independent Sports

Four of the five players on the 2000 All-Shore basketball team played youth ball in the Mid-Monmouth Basketball League. The league has built a tradition of producing quality players, and looks to have another crop of young talent on its hands this year. Future All-Shore basketball players competed in the Mid-Monmouth Basketball League All-Star games…

The Monmouth Gymnastics Academy Cyclones opened their competitive season at the state qualifier in Cherry Hill. Benjamin Daniel won the Level 6 all-around (52.2) in the 7-year-old age group. The MGA gymnast also won the vault (9.5) and parallel bars (9.1), and took second on the rings (8.7) and third on the pommel horse. Also…

Staff Writer By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Matawan wrestlers try to build a winning program Huskies should be an improved squad this season JERRY WOLKOWITZ Matawan’s John Cecere, shown here trying to escape from the grasps of Holmdel’s Matt Welbourne, is one of several talented wrestlers returning to the Huskies this season as they look to continue…

Staff Writer By Warren Rappleyea SJV boys hoops team has focus set on play-off berth Five seniors look to lead team to post-season A little experience can go a long way toward helping a talented team reach its potential. Five players with varsity experience return as the St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, boys’ basketball…

Staff Writer By tim morris Krzan heads Brookdale’s list of 2001 postseason honorees Former Middletown South star gets All-American recognition Lauren Krzan Middletown South’s Lauren Krzan led a parade of Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, soccer players who were rewarded for fine seasons on the field with postseason awards. Krzan, a forward, was one of four…

The Hazlet Hawk Junior PeeWees became the first Hazlet Pop Warner team to win a Jersey Shore League Championship with a 13-6 victory over the Lacey Lions. The Hawks completed a perfect 12-0 season with the victory. Both teams traded turnovers as the Hawks’ George Davis and Dallas Ouano came up with big plays, thwarting…

Middletown North’s Chris Lancos of Belford has verbally committed to play soccer at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the fall of 2002. The University of Maryland’s NCAA Division I soccer program is a part of the Atlantic Coast Conference, considered one of the toughest leagues in the country, and is under the direction…

FARRAH MAFFAI Keyport High School head basketball coach Kevin Flynn discusses some strategy with his team during their scrimmage with South River High School on Saturday in Keyport. The winter sports season begins on Friday, with a number of local teams scheduled to play their season-openers.

Staff Writer By tim morris VERONICA YANKOWSKI Brookdale’s Harold Bautista goes up for a shot over Suffolk’s Darrin Miller during their game Sunday afternoon in Lincroft. MIDDLETOWN — "Ask me after six games" was Paul Cisek’s response to what can be expected from his Brookdale Community College men’s basketball team this winter. "It’s a team…