Category: sports

  • Middletown South defeats Montclair to win Group IV state baseball crown

    Middletown South defeats Montclair to win Group IV state baseball crown

    Championship glory was always something Coach Chris LeMore believed his Middletown South High School baseball team was capable of achieving. From the first day he first spoke to his team in October 2019, LeMore knew the Eagles had talented players who had the skills that are needed to win a championship. The 2021 season will…

  • Stidham looking for big effort from Micheline in Eatontown Stakes

    Stidham looking for big effort from Micheline in Eatontown Stakes

    OCEANPORT – Now that Micheline has notched her first graded stakes victory, doing so in her 2021 debut, trainer Michael Stidham is convinced there’s much more to come this year for the 4-year-old daughter of Bernardini. The next step is the Grade 3 Eatontown Stakes on June 20 at Monmouth Park, with the $150,000 Father’s…

  • Colts Neck wins Group III state softball crown; defeats Cranford, 2-0

    Colts Neck wins Group III state softball crown; defeats Cranford, 2-0

    History has been synonymous with the Colts Neck High School softball team during the 2021 season. After winning their first NJSIAA state sectional tournament title and a Monmouth County Tournament crown in the span of a week, the Cougars (28-1) claimed the NJSIAA Group III state championship with a 2-0 victory over Cranford High School…

  • Bulldogs win fifth state sectional lacrosse crown in memorable 2021 campaign

    Bulldogs win fifth state sectional lacrosse crown in memorable 2021 campaign

    The perfect combination of an outstanding offense and a dominant defense helped the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School boys lacrosse team make the 2021 season one to remember. For the first 20 games of the season, the Bulldogs were unstoppable as they won every time they stepped onto the field. The team’s win streak included…

  • Ferrer proving age is just a number with meet-leading 16 winners at Monmouth Park

    Ferrer proving age is just a number with meet-leading 16 winners at Monmouth Park

    OCEANPORT – Jockey Jose Ferrer will often dust off one of his favorite expressions to make sense of having booted home an improbable longshot, as was the case in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth Park, when he won with Informative at odds of 79-1. One is that the horses can’t read the…

  • Wall Stadium honors dads with ‘Cone Races’ on June 19

    Wall Stadium honors dads with ‘Cone Races’ on June 19

    WALL TOWNSHIP – Six Wall Stadium Speedway stock car racing divisions will be in action when the one-third-mile high banked paved oval honors dads with a special discount grandstand admission price this Father’s Day Weekend, June 19. Grandstand seating will open at 4 p.m., with qualifying slated for 5 p.m., and the first main event…

  • Hillsborough softball advances behind Davenport to Group IV title game

    Hillsborough softball advances behind Davenport to Group IV title game

    Standing in the circle during the semifinals of the state tournament was something that Hillsborough High School softball team’s star ace Sarah Davenport didn’t think she would be doing when the 2021 season began. Not having a freshman season due to COVID-19, neither Davenport nor Hillsborough softball Coach Cheryl Iaione thought that she would be…

  • ‘Brotherhood’ mentality leads Middletown South to first sectional title since 2011

    ‘Brotherhood’ mentality leads Middletown South to first sectional title since 2011

    The message that first-year coach Chris LeMore has constantly told his Middletown South High School baseball team since the beginning of the 2021 season is that “the strongest part of our chain will be from the bottom to the top.” All of the players bought into the culture LeMore was trying to build and the…

  • Allentown lacrosse coach proud of team’s effort during 2021 campaign

    Allentown lacrosse coach proud of team’s effort during 2021 campaign

    ALLENTOWN – Playing lacrosse during the spring of 2021 was something Allentown High School girls lacrosse coach Jen Garavente and her players did not take lightly. After losing the 2020 season during the coronavirus pandemic, Garavente and her players made sure they took advantage of every moment they had on the field this year. “We…