Category: sports
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Middlesex College soccer players receive postseason honors
Five Middlesex College soccer players received postseason honors following the 2021 fall season. Destiny Pagan of Woodbridge was named First Team All-Garden State Athletic Conference and First Team All Region 19. Aanaliyah Hernandez of Middlesex Borough was on the Second Team for both. Andrew Solomon of Edison was named First Team. Marwan Fouad of South Brunswick was…
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Redbirds win first game in state tourney; face No. 1 seed on Nov. 2
Beginning in 2011, the Allentown High School field hockey team has made 10 straight appearances in the semifinals of postseason regional or state sectional tournaments. On Nov. 2, the Redbirds will try to reach a semifinal for the 11th straight year. Allentown will play Ocean City High School in the quarterfinals of the South Jersey…
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Patriots sink Mariners, 3-1, to win 2021 Shore Conference Tournament
A jacket from the Freehold Township High School girls soccer team’s 2011 Shore Conference Tournament championship was in style when the Patriots met Toms River North High School in the 2021 Shore Conference Tournament championship match on Oct. 28 at Barnegat High School in Ocean County. Coach Dave Patterson hoped that wearing his 2011 championship…
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East Brunswick defeats Metuchen, 4-0, to win fifth consecutive GMC soccer crown
Once again, the East Brunswick High School girls soccer team reigned supreme in the Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament championship match. The 2021 final was played on Oct. 27 at Woodbridge High School. East Brunswick (14-2) won its fifth consecutive conference tournament crown with a 4-0 victory over previously undefeated Metuchen (18-1-1). Coach Kevin Brady…
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Mustangs rule N.J. tennis with victory in 2021 Tournament of Champions
David Kretzmer has been at the helm of the Marlboro High School girls tennis program for 22 years. He has coached several outstanding teams during those two decades, but there was always a team “a little better” than the Mustangs when tournaments were contested. That changed in 2021 and this time it was the Mustangs…
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East Brunswick senior reaches volleyball milestone with 500 career kills
EAST BRUNSWICK – On Oct. 21, Paige Anania became the second athlete to record 500 career kills in the history of East Brunswick volleyball. A kill is a successful, legal, point-scoring play. As of press time, the decorated senior at East Brunswick High School had amassed 507 kills, 436 digs and 115 aces. In addition…
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Wickedly Innocent upsets Counterparty Risk in NJSS-SDF harness racing action
Jack Pelling won the biggest race of his driving career so far on Oct. 23 when he guided Wickedly Innocent to a 6/1 upset win in the New Jersey Sire Stakes – Standardbred Development Fund final for 2-year-old filly pacers at Freehold Raceway. Counterparty Risk, the winner of the first two legs of the series,…
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Lions to face Point Boro with possible state playoff berth at stake
MIDDLETOWN – One goal down. One goal to go. The Middletown North High School Lions have already achieved their first goal of the 2021 football season by winning a share of the Shore Conference Independence Division crown. The co-championship marks the first time Middletown North has won a division title since 1983. Now the Lions…
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Female named coach of newly-created men’s volleyball program at Middlesex College
Middlesex College has appointed Myia Williams as coach of the new men’s volleyball program, which is set to begin in Spring 2022. The college was among 15 two-year institutions chosen for a $10,000 grant by the NJCAA Foundation and First Point Volleyball Foundation to start a new men’s volleyball program, according to information provided by…
