Category: Tri-Town Sports
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Monmouth tops Ocean in American Legion all-star game Rain-shortened game features excellent pitching and defense
Staff Writer By mike white Monmouth tops Ocean in American Legion all-star game Rain-shortened game features excellent pitching and defense FARRAH MAFFAI Howell’s Robert Cook connects for a two-RBI double during the Monmouth-Ocean American Legion All-Star Game at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft on Saturday. Two weeks prior to last Saturday’s American Legion All Star…
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Shooting Stars play well in spring tournaments
Staff Writer By Doug mckenzie Shooting Stars play well in spring tournaments The U-12 Shooting Stars ended a successful spring season by winning the recent Legends of Summer at the Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, N.Y. The team, which is comprised of players hailing from Middletown, Hazlet, Brick, Freehold, Long Branch, Howell and Toms…
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Sport Shorts
Dave Gallagher’s All-American Baseball Camp will be held at Frogbridge Camp, 7 Yellow Meeting House Road, Millstone, later this month. The camp, for players ages 7-12, will be held in two morning and afternoon sessions. The first session is Aug. 20-24 from 9 a.m. to noon, with the second session Aug. 20-24 from 1-4 p.m.…
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Manalapan’s DiBella named co-captain of Hawks team
Staff Writer By tim morris Manalapan’s DiBella named co-captain of Hawks team Mike DiBella knows only one way to play football, flat out. "I try to play above and beyond and be a leader," he said. That way of expressing himself on the football field helped him become a co-captain at Manalapan High School where,…
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SARAH McCOLGAN Howell’s Jaqueline Rucci, 11, (l) and Manalapan’s Jaclyn Scaglione, 10, chase after the ball during a soccer camp at Patriots Park in Jackson last Friday.
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YMCA ocean swim set for Aug. 11
YMCA ocean swim set for Aug. 11 Coordinated by the Ocean County YMCA and Seaside Park, a midsummer ocean swim will take place on Aug. 11, beginning at 8 a.m. Registration and check-in will take place between 7-7:45 a.m. at 12th and Ocean avenues, Seaside Park. The 1.5-mile swim starts at 12th Avenue and ends…
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Point Given doesn’t disappoint at Haskell Invitational
FARRAH MAFFAI Point Given and jockey Gary Stevens cross the finish line ahead of Burning Roma and Touch Tone at the 34th running of the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sunday. The world of horse racing’s top star came to Monmouth Park in Oceanport on Sunday, and ran away with the $1.5…
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Sheehan Classic returns to Red Bank Saturday
Staff Writer By WARREN RAPPLEYEA Defending champions Titus Mungi and Catherine N’bereba will return to Red Bank to lead a field of more than 3,500 runners in the George Sheehan Classic on Saturday. Another 500-600 people will participate in a variety of other events that begin Friday evening with the Kids Classic, a variety of…
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Sport Shorts
The following are the results of the Nick "the Quick" Werkman All-American Action Clinic’s Aug. 3 boys basketball camp at McAuliffe School in Jackson. In the hotshot competition, Brian Nowakoski was the winner with 21 points, followed by Codey Kooll (19), Brady Szoka (18), Mike Mcertelino (16), and Eric Brokaw and David Taulaso (14). In…
