Category: sports
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Howell graduate Hill ready to lead Rebels on gridiron in 2021
HOWELL – A special feeling came over new head coach Bill Hill when his Howell High School football team opened its 2021 training camp on Aug. 9. Hill remembers returning home to tell his wife, Pamela, that everything had started to feel real now that he was going to be the head coach at his…
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Bordentown seeks to secure first state playoff berth since 2014
When the Bordentown Regional High School football team stepped onto the gridiron last fall, they were coming off a winless season and had mustered only one win in two years. That surely has changed going into the 2021 campaign after the Scotties took a huge step forward on the field last fall. Bordentown tallied up…
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Code of Honor impresses after layoff with victory in Grade 3 Iselin Stakes
OCEANPORT – Whatever plans trainer Shug McGaughey settles on going forward with Code of Honor, he now has the perfect set-up race behind him to work off. Code of Honor, the 2019 Kentucky Derby runner-up and Travers Stakes winner, easily shook off the cobwebs from a seven-month layoff, rolling to a two-and-a-half-length victory in the…
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Princeton University’s Women’s Ice Hockey alum turns pro as coaches push athletes to achieve their fullest potential
By SAMANTHA GORMAN Correspondent Forward Annie MacDonald, Princeton University Class of 2021, was drafted into the National Women’s Hockey League by the Toronto Six. This second round, ninth pick selection was announced by Princeton alumna Kelsey Koelzer, Class of 2017, on June 29. “Annie certainly is a special player who deserved this draft pick,” said…
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Constantino returns to New Jersey roots as Middlesex College’s new athletics director
Rocco Constantino has been named the new director of athletics at Middlesex College. Constantino brings to his new role two decades of experience in education and athletics. For the past 15 years, he has worked in athletics administration on the NCAA, junior college, and high school levels. Most recently, he served as the athletics director…
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Sweezey counting on home track advantage for Phat Man in Iselin Stakes
OCEANPORT – To beat a horse like multiple Grade 1 winner Code of Honor in Saturday’s Grade 3 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park, trainer Kent Sweezey knows he needs every edge he can get. That’s where the home track advantage comes in for Phat Man. Code of Honor, the 2019 Kentucky Derby runner-up…
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Bulldogs set sights on winning state football title in 2021 campaign
Playing in December and making a run at winning a state championship has been drilled into the DNA of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School football players every season over the last decade. The Bulldogs have reached 10 state sectional championship games since 2007 and have won six of those games since 2010. Led by veteran…
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Modified Twin 30’s and Sportsman Twin 25’s headline Wall Stadium action Aug. 21
WALL TOWNSHIP – Twin 30-lap feature races for the headlining Modified division and two Sportsman 25-lap races will headline the card on Saturday night Aug. 21 on Wall Stadium Speedway’s one-third mile high-banked paved oval. Grandstand seating will open at 4 p.m., qualifying is slated for 5 p.m. and the first main event is planned…
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Code of Honor set to return in Iselin Stakes after seven-month layoff
OCEANPORT – It’s not so much a new and improved version of Code of Honor who will make his return to the races in the Grade 3 Philip H. Iselin Stakes on Aug. 21 at Monmouth Park, trainer Shug McGaughey said, as it is a more mature one. Idle since a fifth place finish on…
