Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Sport Shorts

    Sport Shorts Manalapan’s Christopher Marino has been invited to attend the All-American Baseball Talent Showcase at Mercer County Park on Sept. 12. Marino, a senior at Manalapan High School, is a left-handed pitcher. The talent showcase allows invited players to demonstrate their baseball skills before college coaches and professional scouts. A panel of baseball professionals…

  • SECA position dream job for Manalapan’s Liptzin

    By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer Scott Liptzin, the new supervisor of extracurricular activities at Manalapan High School, is a perfect fit for the position. His qualifications show a balance between teaching, coaching, supervising and competing — all qualities that a SECA needs. His parents, Stan and Eileen Liptzin, were both educators.…

  • Freehold’s Okerson takes Gastelu Memorial at Wall

    Kevin Flockhart of Jackson enjoyed his second career modified stock car victory on the second straight Saturday night, while Chas Okerson of Freehold celebrated his biggest win ever in the Pro Stock Ray Gastelu Memorial 69-lap race Saturday night at Wall Township Speedway. The two feature races highlighted a five-main-event program. Once the track was…

  • Monmouth University QB position up in the air

    Transfer Brian Boland battling Brendan Kennedy for starting spot By Wayne witkowskiStaff Writer By Wayne witkowski Staff Writer PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY Brick native Brian Boland, above, is a welcome addition to the Monmouth University football team, where he is competing for the starting quarterback spot with sophomore Brendan Kennedy (below), a former All-State player…

  • Knob Hill hosting finale

    for jr. golf competitionEx-Giant Eliaswill be guest speakerat banquet By tim morrisStaff Writer for jr. golf competition Ex-Giant Elias will be guest speaker at banquet By tim morris Staff Writer Keith Elias will be the guest speaker tomorrow night when the 2003 New Jersey Junior Golf Competition comes to a conclusion at Knob Hill Country…

  • Patriots on cloud nine after winning lacrosse league title

    First-ever for Freehold Township girls By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer Pure joy. Unless you are a member of the Freehold Township High School girls’ lacrosse team, you can’t appreciate what winning the GoodSports Girls’ High School Lacrosse League championship meant. "You don’t know how much it meant to us," said star…

  • No Pan Intended, Allamerican Native lead Cane Pace field

    Final is setfor Labor Day By tim morrisStaff Writer Final is set for Labor Day By tim morris Staff Writer We now know the eight finalists for Monday’s Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway. What remains to be answered is which 3-year-old pacer will win the first leg of Pacing’s Triple Crown. On Saturday, Freehold Raceway…

  • Howell PAL boxing is still going strong under Rush

    By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT John Rush works with 141-pound state champion Torey Toon at the Howell PAL Boxing gym. Through the peaks and valleys of boxing’s popularity, the Howell Police Athletic League gym on West Farms Road has kept running. For more than a quarter century,…

  • Summer basketball a bonus for new CN coach Truhan

    By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer Summer basketball leagues and camps have proven to be an essential for both scholastic players and teams. In the case of John Truhan and the Colts Neck Cougars’ girls’ basketball team, the summer provided the opportunity for coach and player to introduce themselves. Truhan, who coached…