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  • Forys leads pack of All-District Cross-Country Team Three Howell Rebels make squad

    Staff Writer By tim morris Forys leads pack of All-District Cross-Country Team Three Howell Rebels make squad Howell High School’s boys cross-country team event has never been looked upon as a winning program, let alone a championship one. But that all changed in 2001 when Kevin Dee’s Rebels won the Freehold District championship for the…

  • Saffer, Liberatore, Garleb pace All-District XC Team

    Staff Writer By tim morris It was an unpredictable year in girls cross country in the Freehold District. The area’s best team, Freehold Township, was decimated by injuries that took down the district’s top runner, Jen Gaffey, and a sophomore, Laura Saffer, of Manalapan, emerged as the district champion. Colts Neck, which had lost to…

  • Higgins, DeJesus make early college decisions

    Staff Writer By tim morris Both Mike DeJesus and Kelly Higgins wanted to put the college recruiting circus behind them before their senior athletic seasons began. Last week, both succeeded. Higgins, a forward on the Freehold Township High School girls’ basketball team, signed her letter of intent to the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg…

  • Colonials bid for a title is thwarted in double OT Borough falls 2-1 to Ramsey

    Staff Writer By tim morris Colonials bid for a title is thwarted in double OT Borough falls 2-1 to Ramsey VERONICA YANKOWSKI Freehold Borough’s Meghan Phillips tries to dribble around Ramsey’s Crystin Murphy during Saturday’s Group II state title game at The College of New Jersey. EWING TOWNSHIP — The 2001 Freehold Borough High School…

  • Meder, Towers come up big in shootout for Colonials Win put Colonials in state final for first time

    Staff Writer By tim morris Meder, Towers come up big in shootout for Colonials Win put Colonials in state final for first time VERONICA YANKOWSKI Freehold Borough’s Holly Rackett (center) and Katie Polo show their disappointment following the Colonials’ 2-1 loss to Ramsey during the Group II final at The College of New Jersey on…

  • Howell’s Forys runs his best at Meet of Champions

    Staff Writer By tim morris FARRAH MAFFAI Howell’s Matt Forys pushes hard at the end as he takes 15th place at Saturday’s Meet of Champions at Holmdel Park. Forys’ time of 16:27.7 was his personal best at Holmdel. Matt Forys did have one more good race left in his legs after all. One week after…

  • MEMS soccer team repeats as conference champions

    The Manalapan-Englishtown Middle School’s boys seventh-grade soccer team is two-for-two. The Bears have fielded a seventh-grade team for two years and in both seasons, captured the overall Monmouth County Intermediate School Soccer League American Conference championship. The Bears dropped one match all season en route to the repeat championship. Tinton Fall made the Bears earn…

  • Born to Run five-miler on Friday in Freehold

    The streets of Freehold Borough will be echoing to the sounds of hundreds of running shoes hitting the pavement on Friday morning when the 17th Annual Born to Run five-mile race is held. Always one of the most popular events on the road-racing calendar, this year’s race will commence at 11 a.m. The race will…

  • Another great season for state runner-up CBA team

    Staff Writer By george albano Dan Keane has been coaching long enough to know how to quickly put things in proper perspective. The veteran head soccer coach at Christian Brothers Academy, Lincroft, was as disappointed as anyone when the Colts lost a tough 2-1 decision to Pingry in the Parochial A state final Nov. 13…