Category: sports/the_princeton_packet
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WEST WINDSOR: Legion squad makes run at final eight
Baseball season ends with 19-9 record By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Even if West Windsor-Plainsboro had won on Friday to get to the New Jersey American Legion state tournament final eight, the odds would have been stacked against their success. But that doesn’t mean WW-P would not have liked to have taken a shot at…
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PRINCETON: Commissioner earns award
Stentz rewarded for service to basketball league By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor When Ben Stentz first took over as league commissioner of the Princeton Recreation Men’s Summer Basketball League, there was a sense of loyalty to his former high school coach. ”I guess the timing of it must have been good,” said Stentz, who is…
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WEST WINDSOR: 11s baseball comes close to title
All-stars fall in finals By Rich Fisher, The Packet Group Despite the fact that West Windsor’s 11-year-old All-Stars were one win from a District 12 title that never came, manager Brian O’Leary could take solace in one thing. ”I feel like they beat us more than we beat ourselves,” said O’Leary after Robbinsville took a…
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PRINCETON: Halligan, George’s/Ivy set to defend
Cool Runnings next up for 2008 champs By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor His playing days may have ended at The College of New Jersey, but that didn’t mean Brian Halligan couldn’t keep playing basketball with his former Lions teammates. Halligan, along with four of his former teammates at TCNJ, make up the core group of…
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PRINCETON: 10s baseball run ends in semis
All-stars show promise for future By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor This wasn’t your typical elimination game in a 10-year-old baseball tournament. Instead of two teams struggling to find enough pitching to get through the night, Princeton and Ewing hooked up in a pitchers dual before Ewing emerged with a 3-2 victory in the losers’ bracket…
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PRINCETON: Group effort lifts Princeton 10s
Baseball advances at districts By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor HAMILTON SQUARE — There is a lot to like about the Princeton 10-year-old all-star baseball team. Princeton has some solid pitching, plays good defense and can hit the ball. Those ingredients added up to the team being one of four left in the District 12 Little…
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WEST WINDSOR: WW 11s pull out a thriller
Michael Radey (center) is congratulated by players and coaches after his sixth-inning grand slam lifted West Windsor past Robbinsville on Wednesday night. Photo by Diane Kooker
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PRINCETON: DiDonato’s path leads to hoop semis
PHS graduate eyes playoff upset By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Adriano DiDonato is at that stage in life where he’s not really sure what he’s going to do. So, the Princeton High graduate is doing a little bit of everything. DiDonato, a Rider University graduate, spent last year playing basketball in an Italian ‘C’ League.…
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COLUMN: Nuse Sense
Baseball made for miracles By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor There are people that will tell you that baseball is just too slow of a sport for the youth of today. But there are some players and coaches from West Windsor that would certainly disagree with that right now. In these times of how fast can…
