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  • Turning things around

    CHRIS KELLY staff Freehold Township’s Ed Zachman tries to reverse Jackson’s Joe Cella straight to his back during a 215-pound bout on Thursday in Jackson.

  • Brookdale poised for strong second-half run

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer It’s been a trying season for the Brookdale Community College men’s basketball team. A very difficult early schedule, combined with injuries and academic ineligibilities, have led to a 7-7 start. Yet head coach Paul Cisek remains confident that his team will turn things around and be…

  • Sports Shorts

    The Manalapan Minutemen, a seventh-grade boys basketball team. finished with a 1-2 record in both the Howell and South Brunswick tournaments. The Minutemen are playing their first season together as a travel team. In addition to tournaments, the Minutemen participate in the Central Jersey League. The Minutemen are: Jared Graziano, Alex Szelest, Joe Arlia, Ryan…

  • Howell avoids upset, remains in first place

    Rebel girls 10-0 after win in Marlboro BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer JEFFGRANIT staff Ali Goldsmith and the Howell Rebels are yet to taste defeat this winter, racing off to a 10-0 start on the hard courts Howell High School’s girls basketball team had its foot in the proverbial trap Friday…

  • Colts Neck’s Higginson wins Group III 3,200 state title

    First state championship for Cougar sophomore BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer State championships are not handed out on by merit or seniority; they are won by someone who takes it when the opportunity is there. That’s why Colts Neck’s Ashley Higginson could appreciate what she did on Sunday morning at Princeton…

  • Ibraham always looking to improve

    Forward is averaging 22 points a game BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer CHRIS KELLY staff Manalapan’s Omar Ibraham puts in two of his 22 points during the Braves’ loss to Ocean Township on Saturday in Ocean. MANALAPAN — Rick Garretson could see it coming. Even though forward Omar Ibraham earned All-Freehold…

  • Las Vegas trip helped BCC women

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer An 0-3 trip to Las Vegas hardly rattled the Brookdale Community College (BCC) women’s basketball team. If anything, playing against top Division I junior colleges at the Dixie State College of Utah Invitational, made the Jersey Blues believers in themselves. “It was a real big help…

  • Historic wins for Cougars girls at Group III Relays

    Vaulters, jumpers win relay titles; Cougars girls are second BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer PRINCETON — Gretchen Volherbst didn’t know she was making history. When the Colts Neck vaulter cleared 8-foot-0 in the pole vault, she was just happy to have cleared the height for the first time this winter, giving…

  • Makin’ waves

    CHRIS KELLY staff Freehold Township’s Abby Muller competes in the 200-yard freestyle race at the Monmouth County Championships at the Ocean County YMCA on Sunday.