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How to get your sports news in the paper
If you would like your sports news published, please submit a press release at least two weeks in advance of an event such as team registration or tryouts. Results of youth games and tournaments may also be submitted, as well as collegiate news about former high school athletes. Email to [email protected], fax to 732-780-4192, or…
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Jockey Lopez notches 1,000th career win
Jockey Paco Lopez reached an important milestone at Monmouth Park on Aug. 17 when he won the 1,000th race of his career. Lopez booted home Whitey’s Gold ($3.20) in the first race for trainer Bobby DiBona and he accepted congratulations in a winner’s circle celebration afterward. “It is really exciting,” said Lopez, 26, a native…
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Photos
Competitors in the fourth annual Rock Solid Mud Run at Raceway Park in Old Bridge make their way through the rope obstacle. The 5-mile run has participants contesting various obstacles during the course of the event. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Peter Illenye of East Brunswick takes a long, hard look at this wall, which he…
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Hawks are picked to finish first in NEC field hockey
Monmouth University For the first time in program history, the Monmouth University field hockey team was selected as the Northeast Conference (NEC) preseason favorite, voted upon by the league’s head coaches. The Hawks earned four first-place votes, while defending champion Rider University, picked for second, had three votes for the top spot. The Hawks hope…
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Jersey Flames 99 softball team captures PONY national title
The Jersey Flames 99, a 12U girls fastpitch travel softball team based in Middletown, won the PONY National Championship in Cary, N.C. The team is comprised of players throughout New Jersey who were born in 1999. The Flames earned a bid to the National Championship by placing in one of many qualifying PONY tournaments throughout…
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From off the pace, San Pablo wins Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park
San Pablo powered past Small Town Talk and Toby’s Corner in mid-stretch before drawing off to a threeand a-half length victory in the Grade 3 $150,000 Philip H. Iselin Stakes at Monmouth Park on Aug. 18 before a crowd of 11,958 people. Trained by Todd Pletcher, San Pablo sat off the pace early before coming…
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Summer play helped Lions get in a season’s worth of basketball
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent The Middletown High School North boys basketball team has gotten a season’s worth of basketball in during the summer months as it prepares to try for a repeat of a record 2011 season. “We play a lot of basketball in the summer — a full schedule of 25 or 26 games…
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on campus
Army Reserve Pvt. James M. Abood of Holmdel has graduated from One Station Unit Traiting (OSUT) at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo. Jenna R. Igneri of Aberdeen has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester and graduated magna cum laude from LIM College, New York, N.Y. with a Bachelor degree in business…
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Dorothy A. Uliano
Mrs. Uliano, 78, of Hazlet, died Aug. 8, 2012, at Regency Park Nursing Home, Hazlet. She grew up in Jersey City. Mrs. Uliano was a retired teacher’s aid for the Jersey City Board of Education. Surviving are her husband 52 years, Carmine Uliano; two daughters and sons-in-law, Trish and Edward Martin, of Hazlet, and Lisa…
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