Category: Suburban Sports
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Sport Shorts
The Amateur Softball Association will conduct the New Jersey Garden State Games’ softball tournaments in August. Tournaments for girls fastpitch softball teams in 18-and-under, 16-and-under, 14-and-under, 12-and-under, and 10-and-under will be held in Warinanco Park, Elizabeth and Roselle on Aug. 5 and 6. There will be a four-game guarantee. Tournaments for men’s and women’s co-ed…
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Junior Golf Competition is off to a flying start
By tim morris JERRY WOLKOWITZ Chuck and Ginna DiLeo, of Manalapan, watch as their sons Vincent, 12, Patrick, 9, and Johnny, 4, practice their golf swings at Knob Hill Golf Course in Manalapan on Friday. The DiLeos operate the Junior Golf Competition Association of New Jersey. TThere’s something to be said for competition in any…
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Area’s top wrestlers to compete in O.B. festival
Area’s top wrestlers to compete in O.B. festival By Warren Rappleyea TThe 26th annual Old Bridge Wrestling Festival will kick off with two camps on Monday and culminate with 12 individual tournaments on July 22, 23 and 30 at the Old Bridge Arena. Greg DeMarco, director of the festival, is expecting a record field of…
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E.B. junior excels for indoor field hockey team
By Richard Jerome IIdleness isn’t in Janine McMillin’s vocabulary. Entering her junior year at East Brunswick High School, the 16-year-old is an honors student and a piano teacher, and also holds down a job at Mega Movies. Her true love, however, is competing on the athletic field. McMillin scored 58 goals for the Bears’ lacrosse…
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Sport Shorts
The Mets stole the Spotswood Little League Championship last week by defeating the Orioles in a come-from-behind 7-6 win on Monday. The Orioles jumped on the scoreboard first when Robbie Thuring led the game with a triple and scored on a Brian Speigelhoff single. The Mets came right back with two runs of their own…
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Spotswood Lightning third baseman Michael Turitto watches to make sure the Hillsborough baserunner keeps his foot on the bag during Saturday’s Babe Ruth Tournament game in East Brunswick. The Lightning went on to win the game 7-2.
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CJ Hawks U-11 girls headed for nationals
Staff Writer By tim morris The Central Jersey Hawks U-11 Amateur Athletic Union team has been so special that Regan Apo didn’t mind commuting home to Howell from college, Temple University, Philadelphia, three times a week to coach them. ‘My dad (Allan Apo) started the team last year and asked me if I wanted to…
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O’Brien inks professional contract with Detroit Tigers
Former Rutgers University baseball player Mike O’Brien of Old Bridge has signed a free agent professional baseball contract with the Detroit Tigers. O’Brien, who was not selected in the recent Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, is currently in Lakeland, Fla., at the team’s minor league training camp facility. O’Brien is the fifth Rutgers player to…
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Monroe 12s fall to Thunder in tourney final
Staff Writer By Lindsey Siegle JERRY WOLKOWITZ Mike Sweeney of Monroe heads for home after swatting a solo home run in the finals of the 12-year-old division at the Monroe Tournament on Thursday. Three first-inning runs proved too much for the Monroe 12-year-olds tournament team to overcome as they fell to the Thunder, a Manalapan-based…
