Category: Sentinel-EBS Sports
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S.R. recreation offers trips to baseball games
The South River Parks and Recreation Commission will sponsor four upcoming trips to New York Yankees and Trenton Thunder baseball games. • July 21 — New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m. at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, N.Y. Bus will depart at 4:30 p.m. Cost is $30. • July 26 — Trenton Thunder…
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Junior Golf Competition is off to a flying start
By tim morris Junior Golf Competition is off to a flying start JERRY WOLKOWITZ Chuck and Ginna DiLeo, of Manalapan, watch as their sons Vincent, 12, Patrick, 9, and Johnny, 4, practice their golf swings at Knob Hill Golf Course in Manalapan on Friday. The DiLeos operate the Junior Golf Competition Association of New Jersey.…
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Area’s top wrestlers to compete in O.B. festival
Area’s top wrestlers to compete in O.B. festival By Warren Rappleyea TThe 26th annual Old Bridge Wrestling Festival will kick off with two camps on Monday and culminate with 12 individual tournaments on July 22, 23 and 30 at the Old Bridge Arena. Greg DeMarco, director of the festival, is expecting a record field of…
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E.B. junior excels for indoor field hockey team
By Richard Jerome E.B. junior excels for indoor field hockey team IIdleness isn’t in Janine McMillin’s vocabulary. Entering her junior year at East Brunswick High School, the 16-year-old is an honors student and a piano teacher, and also holds down a job at Mega Movies. Her true love, however, is competing on the athletic field.…
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Spotswood Lightning third baseman Michael Turitto watches to make sure the Hillsborough baserunner keeps his foot on the bag during Saturday’s Babe Ruth Tournament game in East Brunswick. The Lightning went on to win the game 7-2.
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Sport Shorts
The Amateur Softball Association will conduct the New Jersey Garden State Games’ softball tournaments in August. Tournaments for girls fastpitch softball teams in 18-and-under, 16-and-under, 14-and-under, 12-and-under, and 10-and-under will be held in Warinanco Park, Elizabeth and Roselle on Aug. 5 and 6. There will be a four-game guarantee. Tournaments for men’s and women’s co-ed…
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CJ Hawks U-11 girls headed for nationals
Staff WriterT By tim morris Staff Writer T 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…
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O’Brien inks professional contract with Detroit Tigers
Former Rutgers University baseball player Mike O’Brien of Old Bridge has signed a free agent professional baseball contract with the Detroit Tigers. O’Brien, who was not selected in the recent Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, is currently in Lakeland, Fla., at the team’s minor league training camp facility. O’Brien is the fifth Rutgers player to…
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Monroe 12s fall to Thunder in tourney final
Staff WriterT By Lindsey Siegle Staff Writer T JERRY WOLKOWITZ Mike Sweeney of Monroe heads for home after swatting a solo home run in the finals of the 12-year-old division at the Monroe Tournament on Thursday. Three first-inning runs proved too much for the Monroe 12-year-olds tournament team to overcome as they fell to the…
