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    The 2000 Cougar Basketball Camp, directed by Lou Piccola, will be held at Colts Neck High School. The camps, which will run daily from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., are for boys and girls ages 7-14. This year’s schedule has the girls’ camp run from July 10-14 and the boys’ on July 17-21, and again…

  • Hehner, Kelly, Gumnitz lead All-District Baseball

    The 2000 baseball season had a little of everything. There were numerous outstanding, record-breaking performances turned in by the likes of Howell’s Doug Hehner, Freehold Borough’s Mike Kelly and Manalapan’s Jason Gum-nitz. Then there was the run of Jon Block’s Colonials in the post-season, where they reached the semifinals of both the Central Jersey Group…

  • Kwiatkowski, Hennessy shine on softball diamond

    Kristy Kwiatkowski’s offense would have been enough to qualify her for most post-season honors, but she is also an excellent defensive catcher whom most teams learned quickly not to challenge on the base paths. Freehold Township broke new ground in softball this year, becoming the first Freehold District team to play for a state sectional…

  • CJ Hawks U-11 girls headed for nationals

    Staff Writer By tim morris The Central Jersey Hawks U-11 Amateur Athletic Union team has been so special that Regan Apo didn’t mind commuting home to Howell from college, Temple University, Philadelphia, three times a week to coach them. ‘My dad (Allan Apo) started the team last year and asked me if I wanted to…

  • Pellegrino, Vasconsellos win opening race of FARC Summer Race Series

    A pair of Marlboro High School runners, one a former champion and the other a junior, were winners in the first event of the Freehold Area Running Club’s Summer Race Series held last Wednesday night at Battlefield State Park, Manalapan. Joe Pellegrino, a former district cross country and track champion when he ran for Marlboro,…

  • Braves win District lift-off competition

    MARIE ORTIZ Chris Stoop of Colts Neck High School bench-presses 205 pounds at the Freehold Regional District weightlifting competition in Colts Neck. Manalapan High School won bragging rights as the strongest school in the District, winning the Freehold Regional High School District Lift-Off on June 12. The second annual event was hosted by Colts Neck…

  • Scholastic athletic year was one to remember

    MARIE ORTIZ Elyse Bizzozzaro of Manalapan (battling for possession with Janine Silva) closed out her stellar high school soccer career with an appearance in the Monmouth vs. Ocean All-Star game on Saturday in Neptune. The game ended in a 2-2 tie. With the first graduating class of the 21st century behind us and the 2000-01…

  • Pellegrino leads track contingent; O’Rourke again tops field performers

    Dave O’Rourke’s remarkable career in the weight events included perennial appearances at the Meet of Champions and setting the District record in the shot put with a mark of 60-6. The boys track and field season in Freehold District produced memorable swan songs from veterans Dave O’Rourke of Freehold Borough and Nick Pellegrino of Marlboro,…

  • Mayes, Freeman enter Borough’s Athletic Hall

    Staff Writer By tim morris JERRY WOLKOWITZ Members of Freehold Borough High School’s 1953 undefeated football team gathered to honor a couple of teammates when Walt Freeman and Jack Mayes were inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame. It was a different time and a different era. In the 1950s Freehold High School was…