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    The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation will host its inaugural Celebration of Champions Golf Outing at the Colts Neck Golf Club on Sept. 28. The $175 admission entitles a golfer to continental breakfast, greens fees, golf cart, range ball, barbecue lunch and one-hour open bar. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. followed at 9 by a shotgun start.…

  • Freehold Raceway opens for the 2006-07 season

    $350,000 Cane Pace highlights stakes sched.; Manzi defending champ Cat Manzi shows no signs of slowing down, and that’s not good news for anyone looking to supplant the Hall of Famer reinsman as Freehold Raceway’s top driver. When the nation’s oldest continually operating harness race track opens for the 2006-07 season, the Freehold driver will…

  • Allentown’s Mergel wins three-way playoff to capture JGA tour event

    Junior Golf America’s two-day State Open Championship had a little bit of everything. The golfers played through extreme heat in the two-day 36-hole event that featured a three-way playoff and a match of cards. The event took place at the Blue Heron Pines in Cologne and Gallaway National Golf Club in Gallaway (July 31-Aug. 1).…

  • Freehold Twp. American wins District 19 pennant

    Team is 1-1 in sectional play BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer At the 9- and 10-year-old level of baseball, the hitters are well ahead of the pitchers. Freehold Township American Little League manager Al Molina kept that in mind when building Freehold Township American. “All the kids will hit,” he said.…

  • Good wood

    CHRIS KELLY staff Freehold Township’s Dan Klinsky gets ahold of a pitch and drives it during a Senior Little League game against North Howell in Howell on July 25. Freehold Township won the game.

  • CJ Hitmen win Middlesex sophomore Legion title

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer The Central Jersey Hitmen smacked a grand slam in their Sophomore American Legion debut. The Hitmen won the regular season Sophomore Legion (ages 13-14) championship played in Middlesex County in their first season with a sparkling 15-2 record. And they were the “hit” men with a…

  • Area trio wins Joga 3 U16 soccer tourney

    Qualifies for global competition BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Robert Allen, Brandon Zeller and Kyle Bethel are currently in Brazil, representing the United States in the Global Joga 3 Futbol World Cup Tournament. What started out as a whim has turned into a world-traveling experience for Robert Allen, Kyle Bethel and…

  • Former Negro League stars keeping history alive

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer The surviving members of the Philadelphia Stars know they are the keepers of the flame. America has learned much about the Negro Baseball Leagues, but as the number of players who participated in those leagues dwindle, former players like Stanley “Doc” Glenn, Bill “Ready” Cash, Mahlon…

  • Five Jersey Blues athletes are Academic All-Americans

    Kyle Dunleavy It was another successful year for Brookdale Community College athletic teams on the field of play. Led by the second-place finish at the national championships by Bo Scannapieco’s women’s softball team, and the third place by Johnny Johnson’s baseball squad at the Junior College World Series, Jersey Blues teams were again contenders at…