Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Summer basketball allows coaches to evaluate talent

    BY JEFF APPELBLATT Correspondent BY JEFF APPELBLATTCorrespondent SCOTT PILLING staff Freehold Township’s Lorinne Coogan makes the pass in front of the defense of Howell’s Lauren Kolacki during a summer league game in Freehold Township on July 3. The average person would probably not name basketball among the list of top summer sports to watch. Schools…

  • Sports Shorts

    Duneside Perch equaled the New Jersey Sire Stakes (NJSS) record for 2-year-old pacing colts when he won the second round of the NJSS at the Meadowlands in 1:51.4. He won his $46,750 division by three lengths with Ron Pierce in the bike. He is now 2-2 for his career. Duneside Perch is the son of…

  • Big Foot Open brings state’s top archers to Jackson

    Black Knight Bowbenders hosting competition BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Mike Schultz of Little Egg Harbor takes aim on July 5 while practicing for this weekend’s Big Foot Open in Jackson. The bows may have the best of modern technology (sights, stabilizers, etc.) and the targets may be…

  • Remembering a special teacher, coach and friend

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer FILE PHOTO Former major leaguer Denny Walling (l) owes much of his success, both on and off the field, to the guidance and leadership provided by his former coach and friend Bernie Goldwater. This is a column I’d rather not be writing.With the passing of Bernie…

  • Goodes share father/son bond and Shore records

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer JEFFGRANIT staff Marcus Goode and his father, Milt, are the first two athletes to hold Shore Conference Track and Field records at the same time. Marcus Goode likes to needle his dad about his athletic career.He’ll tell his dad, Milt Goode, that his paper clippings are…

  • Next season has begun for Pats through Legion ball

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer For Frank Gualtieri and the Freehold Township America Legion Senior team, the 2008 high school season has begun. “We’ve told our players that the summer season is not an extension of the high school season,” he said. “It’s an audition for next season.” Gualtieri and his…

  • Jersey Shore softball team wins Carpenter’s Cup title

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Score one for the Shore.Anyone who has been watching Shore Conference softball over the last few years knows the overall talent in the area has improved dramatically. The area’s best has proven it can play with the state’s best come state tournament time, and one recent…

  • Sports Shorts

    Val Majewski of the Bowie Baysox, the class AA affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, has been selected to play in the Eastern League All-Star game tonight at Norwich, Conn., in Dodd Stadium. Majewski, who starred at Freehold Township High School, is leading the Baysox in batting (.285), hits (80) and runs scored (40), and is…

  • Forys was best the state has seen in 2006-07

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Craig Forys and Ashley Higginson of Colts Neck put together two of the most decorated seasons in state history this year, making them the obvious choices for the News Transcript’s Athletes of the Year. There are two Craig Forys.One enjoys surfing, being a…