• Colonials’ Spahn reaches 1,000-point milestone

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer It wasn’t until she reached high school that Freehold High School forward Camerin Spahn became a gym rat. Although the Colonials’ senior started playing basketball in elementary school, it was in high school that she “developed a love” for the sport and being in the gym playing it. Spahn received…

  • Coaches weigh in on IOC plan to drop wrestling from Olympics

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer As New Jersey’s best wrestlers head to Atlantic City for the biggest weekend of the season on March 8, there is a dark cloud hanging over their sport, and it has nothing to do with them. At a February meeting, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped the number of core…

  • Freehold Raceway features Dexter Cup, sire stakes in 2013

    The Grand Circuit Dexter Cup is one of the highlights of Freehold Raceway’s 2013 stakes schedule. This year, along with the stakes races, Freehold Raceway has added the Kenneth Fischer Memorial Spring Late Closing Series for 3- and 4-year-old pacers. The stakes season kicks off with the Grand Circuit 3-year-old Dexter Cup trot eliminations on…

  • Freehold honoring newest HOF members on April 18

    Freehold High School will be honoring its newest inductees into the Hall of Fame in a celebration to be held at 5:30 p.m. on April 18 at the Park 33 Restaurant in Freehold. The 2013 honorees are: Joseph Henderson Sr. (football); Ed Henderson (baseball); Frederick Darke (internationally known horticulturist); Rusty Mayes (football); Cicely Warrington (gymnastics)…

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    Marlboro’s Ada Unachukwu earned All-Big 10 honors in the triple jump at the Big 10 Indoor Championships in Geneva, Ohio, Feb. 22-23. A senior at the University of Michigan, Unachukwu leaped 41-11 1/2 to finish third. It was the second time she earned All- Big 10 indoor honors. Earlier this season, the former Marlboro High…

  • Colonials top Hopewell Valley to reach sectional title game

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer For just the second time in program history, the Freehold High School girls basketball team advanced to the state sectional finals. The Colonials, the No. 3 seed in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III tournament, made short work of No. 2 Hopewell Valley Central High School in the semifinals on…

  • Appice, Esposito capture Region 6 wrestling titles

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer A nother weekend, another championship for Manalapan High School heavyweight John Appice. While the senior was winning his second straight NJSIAA Region 6 title, Ben Esposito led three Howell High School wrestlers through the region to this weekend’s NJSIAA Individual Wrestling Championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City from March…

  • Piccola wins 500th game

    With the 2012-13 Colts Neck boys basketball team and his assistant coaches surrounding him, Cougars head coach Lou Piccola (c) celebrated his 500th career coaching win after Colts Neck, playing at home, dispatched New Brunswick High School, 59-43, on Feb. 26 in the first round of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III playoffs.

  • Patriots’ 4×800 relay team wins Eastern States title

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Freehold Township High School’s 4×800-meter relay team of (l-r) Abi Faith, Caitlyn Poss, Adrian Vitello and Emily Bracher captured the Eastern States Championships title on Feb. 25 at the Armory in New York City. On March 9, they will return to the Armory for the New Balance Indoor Nationals and…

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