Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Ubilla brought excitement, titles to Patriots

    Named News Transcript BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Freehold Township’s Manny Ubilla was one of the state’s most electrifying high school basketball players this past season, leading the Patriots to a division title, and earning the News Transcript’s Senior Male Athlete of the Year honors. Every time Manny…

  • Cole always came through for the Marlboro’s cagers

    BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Chakhia Cole Chakhia Cole, the News Transcript’s 2004 Female Athlete of the Year, has a zeal for basketball that few could hope to match. "I love everything about it, it’s a great sport to play," said Cole. Her love and passion for the sport, along with…

  • Freehold’s Forsyth, Towers top All-District Softball Team

    BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer Freehold’s Forsyth, Towers top All-District Softball Team BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Freehold Borough and Manalapan carried the day in girls softball this past season. Jerrilyn Acevedo’s Colonials proved they weren’t a one-hit wonder by backing up last year’s championship season with a solid 14-7 campaign. Led by pitching ace Ashley…

  • 2004 All-Freehold Regional District Softball Team

    Pitcher Jen Towers Ashley Forsyth Freehold Boro. Soph. Amanda Roberts Freehold Twp. Sr. Infield Jen Towers Freehold Boro. Sr. Jill Kwiatkowski Manalapan Fresh. Kristina Iacovino Howell Jr. Outfield Kelly Kwiatkowski Manalapan Sr. Christie Kastner Marlboro Sr. Christie Novatin Howell Soph. Catcher Mia Fabiano Freehold Boro. Sr. Designated hitter Nikki Battaglia Freehold Twp. Soph. Utility Kristin…

  • Higginson’s late surge wins the Friday 5K for Women

    BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Local road racers braved the rainy elements to compete in the FARC’s Friday 5K, held in Marlboro. You might say that Ashley Higginson’s cross country career got off to an impressive debut. The Colts Neck High School sophomore will be running cross country…

  • Suarez wins NJJGC opener with three straight birdies

    Riding a string of three consecutive birdies on the back nine, Springfield’s Stephen Suarez opened the New Jersey Junior Golf Competition 2004 season with a sizzling round of 70 at the Eagle Oaks Golf Club. Suarez, 15, who will be a junior at Oratory Prep this fall, easily won the boys 14-15-year-old division as the…

  • Sports Shorts

    Sports Shorts Debra Vento finished third in the women’s high jump at the USA Track and Field Junior Nationals held last weekend in College Station, Texas, on the campus of Texas A&M University. Vento, a Freehold Borough High School graduate who just completed her freshman year at Duke University, just missed out on making the…

  • St. Rose a double-winner on Shore league diamonds

    BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer FREEHOLD BOROUGH — It was a doubly good year for St. Rose of Lima School on the diamond. The Jaguar baseball and softball teams each won Shore Parochial League championships this spring. For the girls, coached by Kevin O’Donnell, it was a second straight league title…

  • Marlboro Red Dogs win Touch Football Classic for fourth time

    BY TIM MORRISStaff Writer BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Payback was sweet for the Red Dogs, a Marlboro-based touch football team. For the fourth time in the last five years, the Red Dogs won the Touch Football Classic at Giants Stadium. The only loss during that run was last year’s final to Prime Time out…