Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Desero, Perrone top All-District Golf Team

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer John Edwards The 2007 scholastic golf season turned into an outstanding one in the Freehold Regional High School District. Area golfers left their marks individually throughout the Shore’s golf links, as did teams like Marlboro and Colts Neck. The season got started with a Marlboro victory…

  • Howell’s Blum at home playing arena football

    Playing center for Ready Express BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer The most memorable games of Scott Blum’s football career haven’t been on the gridiron. They’ve taken place in an indoor arena. Blum, an ex-Howell High School All-State offensive lineman who went on to star at Rowan University, plays center for the…

  • Sports Shorts

    Marlboro United, a 2007-08 U11 girls travel team that plays in the Monmouth-Ocean Soccer Association National I Division, is looking for one or two players for the fall U11 girls 2007 and spring 2008 seasons. The United is looking for committed, skilled players with travel experience who are looking to join and have fun with…

  • O’Flaherty brothers go one-two at FARC opener

    The opening night of the Freehold Area Running Club’s Summer 5K Race Series at Battlefield State Park, Manalapan, belonged to the O’Flaherty brothers. Cody and Michael O’Flaherty ran together, finishing in a virtual dead-heat as the series began its 25th year Wednesday evening. At the line, Cody, a sophomore-to-be at Freehold Borough High School got…

  • Forys, Andrews top All-District Track Team

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer 100 meters Matt Borzomati Howell sophomore 200 meters Matt Borzomati Howell sophomore 400 meters David Hayes Howell senior 800 meters Robby Andrews Manalapan sophomore 1,600 meters Craig Forys Colts Neck senior 3,200 meters Craig Forys Colts Neck senior 110-meter high hurdles Matt Sullivan Colts Neck senior…

  • Howell Athletic Hall of Fame inducts four

    O’Reilly, Leacock named Athletes of the Year BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer All-State quarterback Sean O’Reilly and hurdles champion Jamie Leacock were Howell High School’s stars of today at the school’s Senior Awards Banquet. They were named the school’s Male and Female Athletes of the Year. While the banquet was honoring…

  • Attention: Little League coaches

    Coaches looking for coverage of their Little League teams can contact the News Transcript by e-mailing [email protected], or calling (732) 358-5200.

  • FARC celebrating 25 years of Summer 5K Race Series

    Series begins tonight at Battlefield Park BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer In the summer of 1983, a new club, the Freehold Area Running Club (FARC), was in its infancy. Summer was approaching, meaning the runners would soon have a lot of time on their hands. So, they put their heads together…

  • Underdog role fits Marlboro Memorial

    BY JEFF APPELBLATT Correspondent BY JEFF APPELBLATTCorrespondent From the start of the 2007 baseball season, Marlboro Memorial Middle School head coach Dave Croken knew his team would be seen as an underdog. But that wasn’t going to stop his club from doing its best to compete with the big guys. The Monarch Lions took advantage…