Category: Tri-Town Sports

  • Sims happy to take over Jackson baseball program

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer JACKSON — Ken Sims knows what it takes to win a state championship. After all, the Goetz Middle School Physical Education/Health teacher played on the last Jackson High School baseball team to capture a state title. The year was 1972, and the Jaguars knocked off Summit…

  • FARC celebrates 20th year of Summer Racing Series

    Series that began in 1983 still going strong at Battlefield State Park By tim morrisStaff Writer By tim morris Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Gabrielle Galanti, 8, of Howell, leads the pack in the children’s 25-yard race at Battlefield State Park in Manalapan on July 17. The winner of the Freehold Area Running Club’s Summer Race…

  • Hometown Outlaw hero wins at New Egypt Speedway

    Garden Stater P.J. Chesson of Far Hills had the hometown crowd screaming their support, as the 24-year-old whiz kid beat the best the Pennzoil World of Outlaws had to offer Monday night at New Egypt Speedway, to record his career-first A main event victory in the country’s premier touring Sprint car series. "This is my…

  • 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…

  • 35th Haskell Invitational Sunday at Monmouth Park

    War Emblem looms as prohibitive favorite By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer The eyes of the horse racing world will be focused on Monmouth Park in Oceanport this weekend, as the $1 million Haskell Invitational Handicap returns to the famed track. The 35th renewal of the race, which is named for the…

  • Sport Shorts

    The following are the winners of the Nick "the Quick" Werkman’s All-American Action Clinic’s competition, held July 12 at the McCauliffe School. Krystin Czapkaski won the girls’ hotshot competition with 45 points, followed by Shannon Wyatt (40), Ebony Howard (38), Elena Miller (36) and Alaina Flanaga (34). Czapkaski also won the girls’ foul-shooting contest, going…

  • Competition fierce at Old Bridge Wrestling Festival

    By doug mckenzieStaff Writer By doug mckenzie Staff Writer VERONICA YANKOWSKI Howell’s Harry Turner (bottom) battles with Bridgewater’s Andrew Hampton during a bout at the Old Bridge Wrestling Festival on Sunday. Wrestlers from throughout the Shore and beyond flocked to Old Bridge this weekend to participate in the state’s top summer wrestling event — the…

  • Jackson legion team falls game short of playoff bid

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer For the second consecutive year, the Jackson American Legion baseball team failed to qualify for the playoffs. Both times the locals missed by a single game. Coach John Morvay won’t deny team members are a bit disappointed by the string of bad luck. However, Morvay has…

  • 25th All Shore Classic is a classic defensive battle

    By Mike WhiteStaff Writer By Mike White Staff Writer TOMS RIVER— Fans at Toms River North High School didn’t have a lot to cheer about in the first half of Sunday night’s 25th annual All Shore Classic football game. Both teams were engaged in a defensive battle. Both teams’ offense sputtered and failed to capitalize…