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By John Beisser    Call it stage fright, first-game jitters or just plain nerves, whatever the case may be, the Monroe Township High School boys and girls bowling team is trending upwards.    With a host of new faces dotting each of the their respective lineups, the Falcons’ boys and girls teams steadily improved their games throughout…

By David Gurney, Sports Writer    The price you pay for success is high expectations.    Monroe had expectations aplenty coming into the 2007 campaign.    But with most of its 2006 Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament champion line-up lost to graduation, a youth movement began for head coach Steve McKenzie and the Monroe Township High School boys soccer…

By John Beisser, Sports Writer    Middlesex County high school bowling is about as deep, talented and a competitive county as you might find in the state of New Jersey. Traditionally, the county produces some of the finest teams around and 2007-08 appears to be no different.    What is new and different is the head coach…

By Sean Richards, Sports Writer    What began as a season of guarded optimism and a new sense of purpose turned into one of the most amazing and storied chapters in the history of Monroe Township High School athletics.    By the time it was over the result was a glittering 14-2-2 record, its first Greater Middlesex…

By Sean Richards, Sports Writer    What began as a season of guarded optimism and a new sense of purpose turned into one of the most amazing and storied chapters in the history of Monroe Township High School athletics.    By the time it was over the result was a glittering 14-2-2 record, its first Greater Middlesex…

By Ken Weingartner, Sports Writer    As the Monroe Township High football players walked off the field at Matawan after losing to Long Branch in the semifinals of the Central Jersey Group III playoffs Saturday, senior Nile Clement offered this assessment of the Falcons’ season:    ”It was a phenomenal year,” he said.    Never in the school’s…

   Cranbury School 8th-grader Jenna Cody continued her impressive distance running success by qualifying for the USATF National Junior Olympic Cross Country Championships last weekend.    On Sunday, Cody competed in the Region 2 USATF championship at the Daniel Boone Homestead in Birdsboro, Pa. She finished third in the Youth girls division 4K race in a time…

By Sean Richards, Sports Writer    It was an anticlimactic ending to the season for the Monroe Township High School girls tennis team when it lost twice to Mother Seton on Monday afternoon.    The first was the result of the Falcons losing at first doubles in a completion of a match from earlier in the season.…

Peddie golfer from Cranbury earns scholarship    Cranbury resident and Peddie School student Max Bichsel recently signed a National Letter of Intent to attend Texas Christian University on a golf scholarship.    TCU coach Bill Montigel made the announcement on Wednesday, Nov. 14.    ”I can’t explain how excited I am,” Bichsel said. “For the past couple of…