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  • Lombardi Award honors top scholastic linemen

    Lombardi Award honors top scholastic linemen VERONICA YANKOWSKI Marlboro’s Danielle Tarzy swims the breaststroke during the girls’ 200 yard IM at the Shore Conference Swimming Championships at the Ocean County YMCA in Toms River on Feb. 12. Linemen, who labor in obscurity on the football gridiron, will have their moments in the sun on March…

  • Track MOC pushed back to Sunday at Princeton

    Track MOC pushed back to Sunday at Princeton The Blizzard of 2003 postponed the Feb. 16 Meet of Champions track meet to this Sunday at Princeton University. That means that Freehold Borough’s Debra Vento will have to wait an extra week to defend her 2002 girls’ high jump title. Vento, undefeated in 2003, has the…

  • Sport Shorts

    Freehold Township Recreation will be holding open registration for its girls’ softball league, its wrestling club and its in-line hockey league on Feb. 28 from 6-9 p.m. and March 7 from 6-9 p.m. at the Michael J. Tighe Activity Center. The softball league is split into three divisions: instruction/T-ball for grades K-2; minors, grades 3-4;…

  • Cougars win school’s first divisional hoops title

    Colts Neck boysare A Central champions By tim morrisStaff Writer Colts Neck boys are A Central champions By tim morris Staff Writer CHRIS KELLY Colts Neck’s Mike DeCorso shoots over a Manasquan defender during the Cougars’ home win on Feb. 10. The Colts Neck Cougars express arrived on time. With wins over Manasquan, 56-52, and…

  • Crown, 1,000 career points big for CN’s DeCorso

    By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer There have been a pair of milestones for Colts Neck guard Mike DeCorso this winter. The Cougar made history earlier this year by becoming the first Colts Neck basketball player, boy or girl, to score 1,000 career points (he got it on the road at Matawan).…

  • The Shore Conference Tournament has been the Holy Grail for the Marlboro High School girls’ basketball team. FARRAH MAFFAI Marlboro’s Brina Pollack shoots over Middletown North’s Kasey Killeen during the Mustangs’ home win on Friday. In 2001, as freshmen, the Mustangs got their first taste of big-time high school basketball in the semi-finals. Chakhia Cole,…

  • Manalapan stuns the Shore by beating Jackson

    Braves join1981 & By tim morrisStaff Writer Braves join VERONICA YANKOWSKI Manalapan’s Nick Manochio pins Jackson’s Matt Bradley in the 103-pound match at the Shore Conference Tournament finals at Southern Regional on Saturday. 1981 &’82 teams as tops in the Shore By tim morris Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Manalapan’s Teddy Louis-Jacques battles with Jackson’s Giro…

  • MEMS wrestlers romp to CJ Red Division titles

    By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer The Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School’s wrestling team capped a division championship season with an impressive victory at the Central Jersey Intermediate Wrestling League Red Division Tournament. Herb Arbeitman’s MEMS squad was a perfect 5-0 in the Central Jersey League Red Division during the season and 7-2-1 overall.…

  • Brookdale men (20-3) are making it a season to enjoy

    Jersey Blues in running for top seed in Region XIX tournament By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI Brookdale’s Chris Brown looks to shoot during the Jersey Blues’ win on Thursday. Winning has a way of making any season pleasurable. However, Brookdale Community College men’s basketball coach Paul Cisek insists that…