Category: News Transcript Sports

  • Photo

    SARAH MCCOLGAN Members of the Freehold Township Major League All-Star team watch from the dugout during Sunday’s District 19 final against Tinton Falls in Marlboro.

  • Sport Shorts

    Adam S. Kamras, a native of Marlboro, has been promoted to assistant athletic director at Colby-Sawyer College (New London, N.H.). Kamras, who was the college’s first, full-time sports information director, will retain that position and undertake new projects including marketing and promotion of selected fund-raising events. Kamras has been at Colby-Sawyer since 1994. The Jersey…

  • Brody wins Futures golf tournament at Knob Hill Goes wire-to-wire in 54-hole event

    Staff Writer By tim morris Brody wins Futures golf tournament at Knob Hill Goes wire-to-wire in 54-hole event FARRAH MAFFAI Professional golfer Carin Hayn looks over the 11th fairway at Knob Hill Country Club in Manalapan during the LPGA Pro-Am Thursday. MANALAPAN — Jenn Brody rallied on the back nine to capture her first win…

  • Bocra looks to Futures Tour as first steps towards pro career

    Staff Writer By tim morris FARRAH MAFFAI Howell’s Ashley Devincenzo, 11, keeps her eye on the ball during a golf clinic at Knob Hill Country Club last Wednesday, which was part of the Lucent Technologies Hewlett-Packard Futures Classic. Gia Bocra is a late-bloomer in the world of golf. She didn’t start playing until she was…

  • Braves’ Bianco ready for All-Shore Football Classic

    It’s Monmouth vs. Ocean Friday night at Toms River East By tim morris Staff Writer All-Star games were made for football players like Mike Bianco. The Manalapan High School grad and Iona University-bound Bianco won’t be the most recognizable name at Friday’s All-Shore Football Classic at Toms River East High School. But no one has…

  • Sport Shorts

    Marlboro’s Sherry Herman won her fourth Garden State Women’s Golf Association Stroke-Play Championship at Green Brook Country Club in Caldwell. Herman, representing Shore Oaks, lapped the field with her seven-stroke victory margin. She held the lead by two strokes after the first round with her two-over-par 75. Herman came back the next day and dusted…

  • Kwiatkowski changed Manalapan High School softball Named News Transcript’s Female Athlete of the Year

    Staff Writer By tim morris Kwiatkowski changed Manalapan High School softball Named News Transcript’s Female Athlete of the Year JERRY WOLKOWITZ Manalapan’s Kristy Kwiatkowski shows off the swing that made her one of the most feared hitters in the Shore Conference over the last three years. She also was one of the state’s best catchers…

  • Dave Michel wins one for Gastelu at Wall Stadium

    Staff Writer By tim morris Dedicating his victory Saturday night in the Marian O’Rorke Memorial Independence 76 to the late Ray Gastelu, Manahawkin’s Dave Michel scored his first Modified win of the season at Wall Stadium. It was an emotional triumph for the defending champion as he remembered the six-time Pro Stock champion who died…

  • Matawan tops Manalapan for Mid-Monmouth Babe Ruth title

    Staff Writer By tim morris JERRY WOLKOWITZ Ryan Armstrong of Manalapan delivers a pitch against Matawan during a Mid-Monmouth Babe Ruth game at Manalapan Recreation Center on July 3. When Yogi Berra made his famous remark "It ain’t over till it’s over," he could have easily been talking about Matawan in the Mid-Monmouth Babe Ruth…