• Students get dose of reality at school’s hunger banquet

    BY PATRICIA YOCZIS Correspondent COLTS NECK — The eighth-grade class at the Cedar Drive Middle School expected to attend a school assembly on Jan. 14, but instead of watching an assembly the pupils participated in a surprise banquet — a hunger banquet. According to Ileen Stoner, the Colts Neck K-8 School District service learning coordinator,…

  • Garcia, McKenzie lead Freehold to hoops title

    Colonials claim B North basketball crown BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The Freehold High School boys basketball season was not unfolding the way it was expected to. The Colonials were 5-3 and had just dropped their second straight game, an upset loss at the hands of Ocean Township High School. “We were at a crossroads…

  • Lancers’ Delaney claims 1,600M championship

    Freehold Twp. resident is now setting her sights on upcoming state meets BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Chelsea Delaney is a competitor, and that is why the St. John Vianney High School, Holmdel, runner loves racing. “I feel better in races,” said Delaney, a St. John Vianney senior who lives in Freehold Township. “It helps…

  • Streaking Colonials gain tourney berth

    Freehold High School ice hockey team heading for postseason play BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer While the very competitive Shore Conference C Division beat up the Freehold High School ice hockey team, it also did the Colonials a favor. The competition toughened up the players and made them better over the long haul of the…

  • Howell bowlers capture B Central championship

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Order was restored in the Shore Conference bowling world when, for the ninth time in the last 10 years, Coach Dave Clampffer’s Howell High School Rebels won a division championship. One year after Jackson Liberty High School ended Howell’s eight-year reign as champions, the Rebels were back op top, winning…

  • Father and son have connection in coach

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer Mike O’Reilly remembers the conversation well. His basketball coach from Xavarian High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Lou Piccola, was on the phone looking for some advice from his former point guard. Sean O’Reilly, a sophomore on the Colts Neck High School varsity basketball team, has something in common with his…

  • Sport Shorts

    National Girls and Women in Sports Day, sponsored by University Orthopaedic Associates (UOA) and in partnership with Rider and Rutgers universities, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Feb 14 at Rider University’s Student Recreation Center in Lawrenceville. The free clinic, open to girls ages 5-17, will offer interactive sports clinics led by…

  • Rebels play their way into state tournament

    BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer The road to a berth in the upcoming NJSIAA state tournament was not a smooth one for the Howell High School girls basketball team. There were some major potholes along the way, but all that mattered to coach Bill Gallacher is that after a 63-26 win over Middletown North High…

  • Ahr H.S. tricky tray to be held Feb. 26

    Bishop George Ahr High School will host its 31st annual tricky tray, titled “Welcome to the Jungle,” Friday, Feb. 26. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and prize calling will begin at 8 p.m. at the high school, 1 Tingley Lane, Edison. Admission is $20 and includes a door prize ticket and light refreshments; guests…

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