Category: News Transcript Sports
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Pats, Braves, Cougars win Thanksgiving games
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Freehold Township has gotten a head start on the 2007 scholastic football season. After an 0-5 start, coach Dominick Lepore scrapped the spread offense for a more physical attack, and the result was four wins in the team’s final five game, including a big 28-27 win…
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Colonials get their share of a state championship
Freehold Boro girls play 0-0 tie in state final BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Freehold Borough’s Alyssa Mayrose fires a ball at the net during the Group IIIfinal in Ewing on Nov. 18. The silent bus trip back to Freehold Borough said everything about the Colonial girls’ soccer…
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Braves’ historic run ends in Group IV final
Manalapan falls to West Orange in Group IV BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer JEFFGRANIT staff Manalapan’s Erik Illisije tries to knock the ball into the net during the Group IV final in Ewing on Nov. 17. Whenever he talks about the success of his Manalapan boys soccer team, coach John Natoli…
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Cougar harriers confirm they are the state’s best
Colts Neck girls win first MOC championship BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Colts Neck’s girls have done everything possible to distinguish themselves as New Jersey’s top cross country team this fall, and are now setting their sights on the national championships this weekend. Despite remaining the No. 1…
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Colonials ride overtime magic to Group III final
Mayrose’s goal beats Shawnee in state semifinal BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Above, Freehold’s Alexa Rozzi collides with a Shawnee player during their Nov. 14 Group II semifinal game at Toms River South High School. Below, Freehold’s Alyssa Mayrose tries to advance the ball up the…
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Manalapan advances to state final for first time
DeLorenzo goal lifts Manalapan by Eastern, 1-0 BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Manalapan’s historic run to the school’s first-ever NJSIAA State Group IV boys championship final couldn’t have gotten off to a more inauspicious start. In their opening-round match of the playoffs against South Brunswick, the newly crowned Shore Conference Tournament…
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Pernicone achieves goal, qualifies for Futures Tour
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Becky Pernicone can finally say that she has a career, and as a professional golfer. The former Marlboro High School star played her way onto the 2007 Duramed Futures Tour at the recent Qualifying Tournament held in Lakeland, Fla., Nov. 7-10. Three-hundred golfers participated in the…
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Freehold Borough hosting Born to Run 5-mile run
For the 22nd straight year, runners and race-walkers will work off their Thanksgiving Day meals on the streets of Freehold Borough. The Freehold Area Running Club’s 22nd Annual Born to Run Five-Mile Race will take off at 11 a.m. Friday. Sign-in will start at 9 a.m. race day at the Freehold Firehouse, 49 W. Main…
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Thanksgiving rivalries heat up holiday festivities
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Thanksgiving Day rivalries will draw the curtain on the 2006 scholastic football season on Thursday. That’s unless Howell won its Group IV semifinal game with Brick Memorial Friday night (which was after the News Transcript’s deadline). In that case, the Rebels would be playing for the…
