Category: Sentinel-EBS Sports

  • Wrestling Festival wraps up with familiar victory South Plainfield claims fourth straight Central Jersey Duals title

    By Warren Rappleyea Wrestling Festival wraps up with familiar victory South Plainfield claims fourth straight Central Jersey Duals title JERRY WOLKOWITZ Old Bridge’s Aaron Suozzo puts his weight on East Brunswick’s Adam Flejchaver during their match at the Old Bridge Wrestling Festival last Wednesday. More than 1,000 competitors participated in the 26th annual Old Bridge…

  • Spotswood comes up one run short in tourney final

    By Doug mckenzie The Spotswood Lightning 11-year-old all-star team had beaten a tough squad from South Brunswick 3-0 less than a week before seeing them again on Sunday in the championship game of the East Brunswick Little League tournament. However, Coach John Berner said that his team realized that the previous game held no bearing…

  • Local soccer team plays in international tournament

    By Richard Jerome A successful swing south of the border last week gave some area youth soccer players a rare opportunity to broaden their athletic and personal horizons. TASA-FC, a comprehensive soccer education and training company, sent the first-ever American under-17 squad to Lima, Peru to compete in an international tournament. Athletes from Franklin and…

  • Rutgers’ Brownlie continues to impress in summer ball

    Sophomore Bob Brownlie, a member of the Rutgers University baseball team, was selected to participate in the prestigious Cape Cod League All-Star Game, set for last Saturday at Cape Cod Tech in Harwich, Mass. Brownlie, who recently completed his freshman season at Rutgers, represented the Falmouth Commodores as a reserve pitcher in the game. His…

  • CHIPPING AWAY—

    John Kaczmarek, of East Brunswick, works on his short game before the start of the Junior Golf Competition at Battleground Country Club in Manalapan on Thursday.

  • Sport Shorts

    Rising sophomore Val Majewski of Freehold, a member of the Rutgers University baseball team, won the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL) All-Star home run hitting contest this past weekend in Keene, N.H. Majewski, who is among the league leaders in batting, home runs and slugging percentage, captured the long ball crown in front of…

  • O.B Wrestling Festival wraps up tomorrow

    MARIE ORTIZ Brian Ackerman (l), of East Brunswick, has a leg up on Joe Asastasio, of Manalapan, during a match at the Old Bridge Wrestling Festival on Saturday. Central Jersey Duals finals begin at 7 p.m. today and tomorrow By Doug mckenzie The first leg of the 26th annual Old Bridge Wrestling Festival was held…

  • Future looks bright for Spotswood track team

    By Richard Jerome Looking back with a few weeks’ perspective on his Spotswood High School girls’ spring track team, first-year Coach Matt Swartz still takes delight in the Chargers’ school-record 10-1 campaign. "I looked at this team and saw a lot of freshmen, sophomores and a few juniors," Swartz says. "And I thought, ‘Oh, well,…

  • Sport Shorts

    The Hillsborough Wildcats will be participating in the National Soccer Hall of Fame Legends of Summer 200 Soccer series. The under-19 tournaments will be taking place July 29 and 30. The tournaments will include teams from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and New York. For more information about the National Soccer hall of…