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  • Freehold Twp. Seniors go 2-2 at World Series

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Just having the opportunity to see how his players responded to their first World Series experience made it all worthwhile for Freehold Township manager Anthony Cirillo. His Little League Senior League (ages 15-16) all-stars went 2-2 in Bangor, Maine, last week, but the highlight for Cirillo was seeing the faces…

  • Manalapan stars make it back-to-back titles

    BY JEFF APPELBLATT Correspondent They may only be 10 years old, but the players on Manalapan’s Cal Ripken All-Star team sure have learned what it means to be victorious. For the second year in a row, head coach Buster Caggiano led his team to the District title. And though his team lost 6- 5 in…

  • Manalapan Babe Ruth stars repeat as champs

    Team advances to state final BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer When Vince Luongo read the familiar names on the list of the Manalapan Baseball Association Babe Ruth 15-year-old all-stars that he would be coaching, he had a pretty good idea it was going to be a good summer. Many on the list had played on…

  • Freehold’s Frick gained from his trip to China

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Walking around the streets of Beijing and China’s other large cities, Justin Frick was struck at how small the world really is. Justin Frick With McDonald’s and KFC everywhere, he could have been in any city in the United States. “The world is more interconnected than you realize,” said Frick.…

  • New-look Hawks face familiar expectations

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Every football season brings new challenges. Last year, for Dave Callahan’s Monmouth University Hawks, it was handling the pressures of high expectations. With a 10-2 record, a Northeast Conference championship and a bowl berth (the Gridiron Football Classic played on Kessler Field against San Diego), the veteran Hawks delivered. FILE…

  • Sports Shorts

    The Manalapan Bombers had the opportunity to play on their field of dreams recently when they participated in the Cooperstown Dreams Park Tournament. The tournament was played on the baseball diamond at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. There were 96 teams competing in the five-day tournament and the Bombers finished 24th. The…

  • Freehold Township nine in Senior World Series

    Cirillo tosses five-hit shutout in Regional final BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Above, Freehold Township players parade the Senior League Eastern Regional pennant around Union Field at the West Deptford Little League Complex after the 4-0 win over DuBois, Pa., in the championship game Thursday. Anthony Cirillo’s (below) complete game shut-out…

  • Marlboro girls capture District 19 softball title

    Beat Lincroft in three game series BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer After his team went 1-5 the last two years in Little League Softball District 19 play, manager Mike Vitale knew he had to do something different. The answer to his Marlboro 10/11-year-old softball team’s dilemma was experience. The team needed…

  • For McInerney taekwondo runs in family

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Laurie McInerney is the only world taekwondo champion in her family, though her mother, Judy, brother, John, and father, Jack, have also fared quite well in competitions over the years. Laurie McInerney doesn’t like to bring attention to herself. But when you are…