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  • Rebels continue to impress in beating Braves

    Howell takes control in A North with 56-9 victory BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Above, Howell’s Shaun Lynch works on Manalapan’s Charles Geloso during their 160-pound match in Howell on Saturday. At left, Manalapan’s Ben Shappee tries to flip Howell’s Josh Barnhard during their 189-pound bout. John Gagliano doesn’t want to…

  • Sports Shorts

    The New Jersey Nitro, a 13U baseball team, is looking for one or two players to round out the roster. Players must be born on or after May 1, 1992, to be eligible. Pitchers are preferred. For more information, e-mail [email protected]. Freehold Raceway will be the site of a harness racing handicapping contest on Jan.…

  • Cat Manzi was harness racing’s best in 2005

    At 55, becomes oldest driving champion with 727 wins BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Around June, Freehold’s Cat Manzi decided to try something he had never done before, go all out for the North American dash driving championship. Already a Harness Hall-of-Famer with more than 11,000 career wins, there was nothing…

  • Splish-splash

    CHRIS KELLY staff Freehold Township’s Stephen Fox races to the wall in the 200-yard freestyle event at Saturday’s Monmouth County Championships at the Ocean County YMCA.

  • Brookdale’s national champs reunited at ring ceremony

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Cherise Maltais hadn’t seen her Brookdale Community College women’s softball teammates for seven months, but it seemed like yesterday. Saturday, Brookdale Community College honored its 2005 national champions by handing out championship rings to the players and coaches at the Robert Collins Arena between games of…

  • Sports Shorts

    The husband-and-wife team of Jay Kessel and Lyn Ancona from Marlboro are among the contestants taking part in the AKC/National Agility Championships this weekend in Tampa, Fla. Jay and Lyn will be competing with their Eskimo dogs, Lulu and Liebchen, against almost 700 of the top agility dogs in the country. Agility is the AKC’s…

  • Two Howell Pop Warner cheerleading squads win national championships

    The Howell Pop Warner Cheerleaders reaffirmed that they are one of the top cheer programs in the country, as four out of the six competitive cheer teams earned the right to compete at the Pop Warner Cheer and Dance Championships at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. All four teams — Junior Pee Wee Small,…

  • Tough loss should reap rewards for RU football

    After further review Doug McKenzie For those who expected the Rutgers football team to get ambushed at the Insight Bowl, it didn’t take long for the Scarlet Knights to offer their response: Fugettaboutit. And while Rutgers was eventually out-gunned by an explosive Arizona State team playing in its 22nd bowl game, 45-40, the Scarlet Knights’…

  • Sports Shorts

    Manalapan’s Jenn Margolis, a junior at Bucknell University, was named to the Soccer Buzz Mid-Atlantic Third Team. The forward was the first Bison player since 2000 to be named to the Mid-Atlantic Region team. That honor was just the latest for the former Brave star. She had earlier been named to the All-Patriot Conference First…