Tag: Baseball
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Loffredo’s impact felt on and off baseball field at St. Joe’s
By Jimmy Allinder Some choose to travel through life taking detours rather than confronting challenges that often dot the road. Then there’s Nick Loffredo, who is about to enter his senior year at Saint Joseph High School of Metuchen. Born with an unquenchable drive to succeed and the intelligence to make it happen, Loffredo is…
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Serrapica blossoms as closer, makes NY-Penn League all-star game
Joe Serrapica has thus far taken advantage of the opportunity the Tampa Bay Rays have given him. The right-handed pitcher via Manalapan High School was drafted by the Rays in the Major League Baseball draft in June. Although he had a year of eligibility remaining at Fordham University, Serrapica said at the time that he…
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Freehold Clippers capture first ABCCL title behind pitching
By Tim Morris One thing the Freehold Clippers learned early is that manager Rich Gawlak likes to play the game aggressively. The Clippers are not going to sit back and wait for things to happen on the baseball diamond — they will go after it. That philosophy has turned the Clippers into one of the…
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Spotswood’s Ciaccio focused on improving as baseball player
By Jimmy Allinder Matthew Ciaccio is 6 feet 7 inches tall and might grow a little more. But the former Spotswood High School basketball player decided his frame is better suited for pitching a baseball. Ciaccio, a Milltown native, was a starter for the 2014 Chargers, and it was thought the junior would be a…
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Red Bank’s Madigan excited to start collegiate career at Bucknell
By Warren Rappleyea Following a stellar career at Red Bank Catholic (RBC) High School, Evan Madigan is preparing to play collegiate baseball at Bucknell University. Madigan chose Bucknell following his junior season. The coaches there had been following his progress with the New Jersey 9ers travel team, where he played for three summers traveling to…
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MLB All-Star Brach focused on rest of season
By Tim Morris Brad Brach is having the finest season of his Major League Baseball career. But now is not the time to dwell on it. The former Freehold Township High School and Monmouth University great made his first all-star team this season and is one of the reasons the Baltimore Orioles are in the…
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Freehold Township Juniors made case in Eastern Regional
By Tim Morris The first thing that Steven Schulman did when he gathered his Freehold Township Little League Junior League all-star team together in June for its first practice was to ask the players a question. The manager asked why they were there. The overwhelming response was to play baseball. It was just what the…
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Old Bridge’s Attianese gets set to pitch at North Carolina
By Warren Rappleyea Old Bridge High School’s Zach Attianese is preparing to head to the University of North Carolina to begin his collegiate baseball career this fall. The 6-foot-2 left-hander attended a team camp for several weeks in late June and has been working out diligently since returning home and throwing on a flat surface.…
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Ras makes college decision with 2 years left at Middletown North
By Wayne Witkowski Tyler Ras made an early decision this summer to continue his baseball career with an athletic financial package at NCAA Division I powerhouse University of Alabama. It’s an early decision, as the 6-foot-3 right-handed-throwing switch-hitter enters his junior year at Middletown High School North. But it’s a well-informed decision that was deeply…
