Category: Sentinel-EBS Sports

  • Bears football team headed in right direction under Molarz

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent EAST BRUNSWICK If the East Brunswick High School football team’s 20-7 loss to Old Bridge High School is any indication, the Bears are on track to become a better football team under head coach Bob Molarz. But in Molarz’s own words, the team is not quite there yet. “I believe the…

  • Football coach Flood, AD Hermann out at Rutgers

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Either former Rutgers University football coach Kyle Flood lived in a vacuum or interpreted no news as good news concerning his job security. Whatever he believed, the four-year coach found out he was dismissed along with athletic director Julie Hermann Nov. 29, the day after the Scarlet Knights lost to the…

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Sayreville U8 Jr. MetroStars are a high-level boys travel soccer team playing for Sayreville Soccer Club in the MAPS league. The team is comprised of 7- and 8-year-old boys from South Amboy, Sayreville, South River and Avenel. They completed their regular season undefeated at 10-0 with 49 goals scored and six goals against. They…

  • Martini conducts herself with grace on and off the field

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent Monroe Township High School’s Grace Martini has been a leader for the Falcons athletically and academically. She will continue her field hockey career in college at East Stroudsburg University next fall. When Greg Beyer, supervisor of athletics at Monroe Township High School, learned a story would be written about senior Grace…

  • Rivalry football games not reserved solely for Thanksgiving Day

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent As a former player and longtime coach of the South River High School football team, Rich Marchesi has been associated with many different rivalry games. But none have been played on Thanksgiving. Marchesi, who has coached the Rams since 1987, was an assistant for five seasons before that and wore the…

  • Meet of Champions

    STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR The boys are off and running at the start of the NJSIAA Meet of Champions (MOC) held at Holmdel Park Nov. 21. The MOC was the final cross-country race of the season. Christian Brothers Academy won its sixth straight championship.

  • SPORT SHORTS

    The Board of Directors of the Standardbred Breeders & Owners Association of New Jersey elected Mark Ford as its president at a reorganization meeting held Nov. 16 at the association’s offices in Manalapan. Ford, one of the leading trainers in Meadowlands history, owns and operates the Mark Ford Training Center. He fills the position occupied…

  • Rutgers’ bowl chances slim following loss to Nebraska

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent The scene at Rutgers University’s High Point Solutions Stadium in Piscataway shortly before kickoff of the Nov. 14 game with the University of Nebraska. Most of the South end zone reserved for students was empty. Unless there is a shortage of eligible teams to fill the 80 slots in 40 postseason…

  • South River boys capture sectional soccer crown

    By JIMMY ALLINDER Correspondent There’s something about the state tournament that transforms a good South River High School boys’ soccer team into a great one. This year, the Rams, 10-8-1 and the fifth seed heading into the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group I tournament, stormed through the bracket winning three games — two against higher-seeded teams…