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Braves throw A North title chase up for grabs
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Straight out of a Claire Bee novel, a buzzer-beater from Manalapan’s Chris Saray put the Shore Conference A North Division in turmoil. The first meeting of the season between last year’s public school co-champions, Manalapan and Freehold Township, changed the face of the division race. Freehold…
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Rebels display progress on the basketball court
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Progress can be slow. On the basketball court it doesn’t always translate into wins and losses, but in a team’s competitiveness. Howell High School’s boys basketball team may not have the record to indicate that they have turned things around at 6-9, but teams are certainly…
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Sports Shorts
Missy Elsbree and Amanda Frost, teammates at Freehold Township High School, are playing together again, this time at Georgian Court College in Lakewood. Georgian Court is off to a 3-10 start. Elsbree, a senior, is playing point guard for the Lions. She is averaging 7.2 points, 3.3 assists and 3.6 rebounds a game for Georgian…
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Cougar runners shine sweeping state DMR races
Colts Neck girls set meet record BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer It was golden day for the Colts Neck High School Distance Medley relay teams as both the boys and girls captured State Group III championships Sunday at Princeton University. Ashley Higginson, who ran the opening 1,200-meter leg for the Colts…
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Records fall as Cougar girls win county title
Marlboro frosh Unachukwu wins 55 dash BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Colts Neck unleashed its talented stable of track and field athletes, and easily captured the Monmouth County Indoor Championships. The Cougars rolled up 86 points to lap runner-up Ocean, which had 52 at the championships held on the resurfaced Jersey…
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Rebel girls, Brave boys tops in their divisions
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Howell High School’s girls bowling team finds itself in a familiar position. The Rebels sit atop the Southern Monmouth Division of the Shore Conference with a 32-4 mark. But unlike previous years, the defending champions have no wiggle room. Ocean Township is on hot on their…
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Jersey Coast Cheetahs capture Kick-It 3v3 title
The Jersey Coast Cheetahs took first place in the Under 8 Female division this past weekend in Orlando, Fla., at the 2005 Kick-It 3v3 World Championships, the pinnacle of Team Championships International’s 2005 Kick-It 3v3 Soccer Tour, the largest 3v3 soccer tour in the world. Team members include Sydney Hicks and Samantha Wanzor, of Jackson,…
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Sports Shorts
Kara Rafael, a seventh grader at the Marlboro Memorial Middle School, won four gold medals at the recent I.S.I., Lake Placid (N.Y.) 2006 Championship Figure Skating Competition. Rafael competed in eight events at the championships held over the Martin Luther King Holiday and finished first in half of them. The competition was held on the…
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Rutgers gives state something to talk about
Local coaches, players chime in on progress of RU football program BY DOUG McKENZIE Staff Writer BY DOUG McKENZIEStaff Writer RUTGERS ATHLETICS Since taking over the Rutgers football program in 2000, Greg Schiano has been working toward establishing a winning tradition. Why not Rutgers? That’s the question facing RU head coach Greg Schiano and his…
