Tag: Allentown High School
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Spring sports teams handle canceled 2020 season in different ways
The crack of the bat. The announcement of runners: take your mark. Game-winning goals and spikes galore. Those were the moments high school spring sports athletes and coaches were looking forward to during the 2020 season. The global coronavirus pandemic put a halt to all those fun moments of the spring sports season that was…
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Allentown boys’ winter track claims program’s first state sectional title
The Allentown High School boys’ winter track and field team has been on the cusp the last two years of making history and winning a state sectional title. On Feb. 15 at the John Bennett Indoor Sports Complex in Toms River, Allentown soared over the hump to capture the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group 3 championship.…
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Central Jersey Top 10: Final boys’ basketball rankings
The scholastic basketball season has come to an end due to the world-wide coronavirus. The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association ruled on March 12 that the state tournaments for both boys and girls were cancelled as a result of the cornavirus. In that result, South Brunswick will finish as are No. 1 ranked boys’…
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Undefeated Peterson, record-setting Klinsky are crowned state wrestling champions
There has been no wrestler over the past two years in the state of New Jersey who has been able to defeat Dean Peterson of Saint John Vianney High School. As a sophomore in 2019, Peterson rolled to a 35-0 record and won his first state tournament championship with a 3-2 decision over Emerson-Park Ridge…
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Peterson wins second region title; Rumson-Fair Haven places second overall; Manalapan sends four to state tournament
Tickets were punched to Atlantic City —the venue for the state wrestling tournament–during the Region 5 Tournament at Franklin Township High School on Feb. 29. Headlining the fray going to compete at this week at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City was Saint John Vianney High School’s 2019 state champion, Dean Peterson. Last year’s state champion…
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Colts Neck claims first district team wrestling title; Kilinsy and Lamparelli crowned four-time district champs
Middletown High School North’s Tyler Klinsky and Allentown High School’s Joseph Lamparelli are good friends on and off the wrestling mat. The two senior standout wrestlers have been training with each other since they were in middle school at the Triumph Wrestling Club in Ocean Grove. At the NJSIAA District 22 Tournament that was wrestled…
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Colts Neck wins first district team title; Klinsky and Lamparelli are four-time champs
There were a lot of special moments made at the NJSIAA District 22 Tournament that was wrestled on Feb. 22 at Middletown High School North. One being the Colts Neck High School winning its first district championship in program history. Colts Neck out dueled runner-up Middletown North, 223-197.5, to finish atop the team standings. “It…
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Allentown girls’ basketball continues to shoot past top competition
Beating top-ranked opponents continued to be the case for the Allentown High School girls’ basketball team during its last 16 games. A last-second buzzer beater layup in overtime by junior Maddie McCrea sent the Redbirds to a 65-64 victory over a 14-victory Trenton Central High School squad on Feb. 11 in Trenton. Facing a 19-2…
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Allentown slows down Monroe for upset victory in girls’ basketball
Big victories against good teams continued to be the case for the Allentown High School girls’ basketball team on Feb. 15 against Monroe Township High School. The Redbirds held Monroe to a season-low 38 points to pick up a 41-38 victory in Allentown. The victory lifted Allentown’s record to 14-5 on the season. “We came…
