Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Sports Shorts

    A 13- and 14-year-old sophomore American Legion Baseball team for players from Manalapan/ Freehold/Marlboro/Howell will be holding tryouts on April 18 from 6-8 p.m. All players must be born in the years 1991 and 1992. The tryouts will be held at Dave Gallagher’s Baseball Academy in Millstone. Games will be played during the week and…

  • Distance powers to compete at Cougar Relays

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer For scholastic track and field fans, the place to be Saturday is Colts Neck High School for the inaugural Cougar Relays. Many of the finest individuals and teams in the state will be in action. The most loaded field will be the Distance Medley Relays where,…

  • Forsyth focused on winning games, championships

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer You could ask Ashley Forsyth at anytime during the winter how many days it was to the start of softball practice and she could tell you exactly how many remained. As soon as the field hockey season wrapped up last November, Forsyth began her countdown to…

  • Softball teams are poised for very big seasons

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Freehold Borough’s Julia Brown tags out Colts Neck’s Amy Tripold as she attempts to steal second base during a game on Friday in Freehold. Armed with some of the finest pitchers in the Shore, clutch hitters, defense and experience, softball teams from the…

  • Higginson and Cougars top All-District Girls

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer RICH GRAESSLE Colts Neck’s Brianna Jackucewicz (l) and Ashley Higginson make up one of the most dominant distance duos in state history, landing both harriers a spot on the All-District Indoor Track and Field Team. There wasn’t much that Colts Neck and Ashley Higginson didn’t cover.They…

  • Outdoor track season holds plenty of promise

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer There has probably never been an outdoor track and field season that held as much promise as this one. The talent in the Freehold Regional District is as good as you will find in the state. It helps, of course, to have the state’s best distance…

  • Sports Shorts

    Shannon Brees, a firefighter/EMT with the Southard Fire Department in Howell, and an EMT with the Howell Police Department, is playing football for the New York Sharks, a women’s tackle football team that plays in the Independent Women’s Football League. The Sharks open their 2006 season on April 29 against Indianapolis at home, which is…

  • Bohn, Brave boys and Howell girls top AD teams

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Andrew Bohn’s state championship was the icing on the cake.The finest bowling season in Freehold Regional District history took on a whole new meaning when the Freehold Township sophomore became the area’s first individual champion. And he did it convincingly. He was the leader after the…

  • Reid using football fame to give back to borough

    Ex-Colonial helping Community Center YMCA BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Darrell Reid didn’t leave Freehold Borough behind.”I never really cut my ties,” said the ex-Freehold Borough High School star who is now playing professional football with the Indianapolis Colts. “I always try and find out what is going on. “It’s nice…