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  • Lamirande, Jackson, Brown lead All-District football team

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Howell High School’s NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV state championship topped everything in 2007. FILE PHOTO Howell Rebels quarterback Tim Lamirande passed for 2,356 yards and 25 touchdowns and also rushed for four more scores as he led his team to the first state football title in school history. Cory…

  • Quintano, Bethel top District soccer team

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer With Manalapan taking care of the state, and Howell taking care of the Shore Conference, the Freehold Regional District won everything there was to win in boys soccer. John Natoli’s Braves capped a memorable three-year run by capturing their first state championship. The Braves played Clifton to a 1-1 draw…

  • Fish On

    After a few weeks, the fish are back RON NUZZOLO There was no need for a fish finder, but if you had turned it on, you would have read “fish” and “bait fish” from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light up to 10 feet thick. There were so many bass, you could lose count within a…

  • F.B. state champions dominate District team

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Freehold Borough’s girls were not only the class of the Freehold District, but the state as well. Elyse Bizzozzaro’s Colonials ruled girls soccer in 2007 as they overcame all the obstacles that a defending champion has to hurdle on the way to their second straight NJSIAA Group III state championship.…

  • Blend of vets, frosh has BCC winning

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Just a few games into the 2007-08 campaign, Brookdale Community College’s women’s basketball coaches Joanne Cobb and Marianne Campacci have a mixture of sophomores and freshmen that has clicked. JEFF GRANIT staff Brookdale’s Olivia Triano is fouled by Delaware Tech’s Ebony Smith during a game on Nov. 29 in Lincroft.…

  • Sports Shorts

    Karissa Leary of Marlboro, a freshman at Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, Pa.) was a member of the school’s women’s cross country team. The Crusaders finished fourth at the Landmark Conference championships and 15th at the NCAA Mideast qualifier. Leary’s best 6K time for the year was 25:02 at the Paul Short Invitational. Galaxy Gymnastics’ Level 4,…

  • New offense led to Rebels’ first state title

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer You can trace the roots of Howell’s state championship football season back to 2005. That’s when head coach Cory Davies chucked the option for the spread offense. “We wanted to do something different and get away from the option,” recalled Davies. “We decided to make the move to the spread…

  • Rebels are flawless in state championship

    Howell wins first football title, 46-13, over WWPS BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer They made it look oh so easy. From Chance Carrick’s interception on the first play of the game, to Tim Lamirande’s 47-yard touchdown pass on the first play from scrimmage in the second half to the hook-and-lateral that went for a touchdown,…

  • Jackucewicz, Lambert, Linnell top harriers

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The girls cross country season was highlighted by the Colts Neck-Howell rivalry. It was a rivalry that started in September and didn’t conclude until the Nike Team Nationals (NTN) Northeast Qualifier in Wappiner Falls, N.Y., at the end of November. The rivalry managed to make both highly ranked teams not…