Category: Sentinel-EBS Sports

  • Bears look to provide a challenge in Red Division

    EAST BRUNSWICK By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent There is no doubt the St. Joseph High School of Metuchen’s boys’ basketball team is favored to win the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Red Division title. The Falcons are winners of three out of the last four division titles and have captured the conference tournament five of the last…

  • Changes considered for non-public schools

    By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Correspondent High school football in New Jersey may change dramatically in 2016 as a result of the NJSIAA’s vote to create a separate conference for non-public high schools. NJSIAA members voted, 215-128, Dec. 7, with two members abstaining, to make the change. However, there is a possibility that the decision could be…

  • Falcons expect to be major state basketball threat

    ST. JOSEPH By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent It would have been impossible for last season’s St. Joseph High School of Metuchen basketball team to top the previous year’s achievement. All the Falcons did in 2013-14 was win the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions and, in the process, send four scholarship starters to the college ranks, including Karl-Anthony…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The fourth annual Friends of South Amboy charity basketball games will be held Dec. 19 at South Amboy High School. The three games begin at 4 p.m. when South Amboy’s girls team plays Koinonia Academy. At 6 p.m. Perth Amboy Vo-Tech’s boys will take the court against Mater Dei Prep. In the nightcap at 8…

  • Working against the defender

    MATT DENTON Middlesex Community College’s Nazjae Imes, left, searches for an open teammate during the team’s Dec. 3 game against the Community College of Philadelphia in Edison. Middlesex scored 104 points in the victory. The women’s basketball team is off to a 6-1 start overall and 6-0 in Region 19 play.

  • Falcons fall to 0-2 in start of ice hockey campaign

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Last season, the Monroe Township High School ice hockey team started 0-3 but did not lose consecutive games for the rest of the winter and ended up 11-9-1. The Falcons will have to fashion a similar turnaround this season if they are to finish with a respectable record. Two games into…

  • Warren’s success based on hard work and dedication

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Allie Warren East Brunswick High School student-athlete Allie Warren learned early in life that success in any endeavor requires a coordinated effort built around hard work. As a 10-year-old, Warren followed in the footsteps of her mother, Laurell, a former twirler for the University of Michigan, and won the New Jersey…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Central Jersey Umpire Association is looking for men and women who enjoy baseball and would like to make extra money. The group has many games on weekends, weeknights and weekdays from 7U to summer college level. Cadet training for 2016 will begin in February. Call or email Ron Marino for more info at 732-829-8036…

  • NJSIAA Cross-Country Meet of Champions

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Spotswood High School’s Alexandra Coghlan finishes the 5K course at Holmdel Park in a sprint at the NJSIAA Meet of Champions Nov. 21. The Chargers’ standout runner posted a time of 20:35 for the race.