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2012 Millrose Games to see return of Eamonn Coghlan
Celebrated runner Eamonn Coghlan is coming back to the Millrose Games, this time as an “adopted coach.” The seven-time champion of the Wanamaker Mile is helping to bring a talented Irish squad from Dublin City University to compete in the Byron Dyce College Men’s Distance Medley Relay in the 105th Millrose Games on Feb. 11…
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A Howell travel baseball team for youths ages 13 and 14 needs players for the spring travel season with the USABL; 60/90 travel experience is a must. The team is looking for a pitcher and a catcher. The team has won back-to-back USABL championships. For more information and tryout dates, call 732-840-1679 or email [email protected].…
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Rebels win 7th straight A North wrestling crown
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Howell You don’t set out to win seven consecutive league championships. When it happens, it is a year-by-year accumulation with contributions from many athletes. When Howell High School defeated Freehold Township High School, 45-22, on Jan. 21, the Rebels clinched their seventh straight Shore Conference A North Division wrestling title.…
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The Freehold Area Running Club’s 2012 Winter Series began on Jan. 8 with Billy Foster, 15, the overall winner. He toured the 5K course in Michael J. Tighe Park, Freehold Township, in a time of 17:48. Close behind Foster in second place was Tim Ragan (17:52). The women’s winner was Kerry Dyke, who turned in…
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Warriors stay in race for basketball crown
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent When the New Egypt High School boys basketball team beat Holy Cross of Delran, 61-55, on Jan. 21, the significance of the victory went beyond beating a perennially strong team that is enjoying a good season. For New Egypt, it was winning without its lone returning starter in the lineup —…
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Lions playing for bid to conference tourney
BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent A s it began the week, the Jackson Liberty High School boys basketball team needed one victory to tie the school record for most wins in a season (11, set in 2010-11), and that win, should the Lions get it, may clinch the team’s first bid to the Shore Conference Tournament.…
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Howell High School’s Leondra Weems competes in a heat of the 400-meter dash at the Monmouth County Indoor Track and Field Championships held Jan. 20 at the John Bennett Indoor Athletic Complex in Toms River. Weems finished second in her heat and 25th overall in the 400. For more photos, see the Photo Galleries at…
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Catholic bishops address poverty in New Jersey
BY PATRICIAYOCZIS Correspondent Eighteen Catholic bishops who represent seven dioceses in New Jersey, a state often ranked as the second or third richest in the nation, have pledged to tackle the issue of the growing number of people living in poverty in the state, which has nearly 800,000 residents struggling to make ends meet. The…
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Ruth C. Sauer
Mrs. Sauer, 83, of Jackson, formerly of Manalapan, died Jan. 1, 2012, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. After graduating from high school, Mrs. Sauer was employed as a typist for the Standard Vacuum Oil Co. She was a former religious education teacher at St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Manalapan. She was predeceased by…
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