Category: Tri-Town Sports

  • Stewart and Blaney gear up for Garden State battle

    Despite their renowned reputation as "Sunday drivers," the dirt-flyin’ racing action will be for real when NASCAR Winston Cup stars Tony Stewart and Dave Blaney invade New Egypt Speedway Aug. 22, to strap themselves into big-block Modifieds and take on the Northeast’s sharpest short-track standouts. "We’re ready," said Stewart, who won Tulsa’s big Chili Bowl…

  • Jackson’s Currie continues to improve on the golf links

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer JACKSON — As a young boy, Shawn Currie wasn’t all that interested in playing golf. In fact, it wasn’t until the age of 14 that Currie started to get serious about the sport. Two years later, Currie’s commitment to the game is evident in solid tournament…

  • War Emblem turns Haskell into a personal showcase

    By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ War Emblem (No. 6) leads the field down the front stretch during Sunday’s Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport. They came in droves to Monmouth Park in Oceanport Sunday, expecting to see the year’s dominant 3-year-old run away with the 35th Haskell Invitational.…

  • Jackson 10-year-olds win town’s first district title

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer The Jackson 10-year-old all-star baseball team recently completed a record-setting summer. Jackson became the first Little League team in town history ever to win a district 18 tournament, according to coach Floyd Needham. Jackson compiled a record of 8-1 in the district 18 tournament. They earned…

  • Jackson baseball coaches teach their future players

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer It’s 9:30 a.m. at Jackson High School and already the thermometer is slowly creeping into the mid 90s. Thirteen-year-old Craig Turner swings a bat from side to side as sweat drips off the end of his nose. His body is drenched in perspiration. He is waiting…

  • Lakewood pushing baseball, softball clinics for local kids

    For the past seven years Michael Matta, Lakewood’s County School Administrator/Recreation Director, has run the Lakewood Pitching Clinic for both boys and girls ages 8-16. Under the direction of Lakewood High School’s baseball coach, Tom Carney, and Piners’ softball coach Vinny Currao, more than 80 kids in Lakewood registered to get a few extra weeks…

  • Kell is back on track, wins New Egypt first

    When an off-season construction accident almost cost him his hand, Bucky Kell didn’t give up, never believing it would end his racing career. And the Folsom flyer sure proved that Saturday night, winning his first-ever Modified feature in only his fifth division start at New Egypt Speedway, on Ladies’ Night, sponsored by Burnett Racing Engines.…

  • Sport Shorts

    The Howell Heat girls’ 12/U softball tournament team will hold open tryouts Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. and Aug. 31 at 9 a.m. at Howell High School. No residency requirement is needed. Players must be 12 years of age or younger on Dec. 31. For more information, call (732) 938-6023 The Lakewood Township Recreation Department…

  • Women set to get racy on Ladies’ Night

    It’s Ladies’ Night, and the competition’s right on Aug. 3 at New Egypt Speedway, as the regular drivers hand their helmets over to the women for an eagerly awaited series of Powder Puff events, sponsored by Burnett Racing Engines of Belle Mead, that will cap off the track’s three-division race card. The ladies-only portion of…