Tag: Bishop Ahr High School
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Students engage in Emancipation exhibit
The traveling exhibit, Emancipation and Its Legacies, which took up residence at Bishop George Ahr High School on March 15, challenged students from local elementary schools to the high school within the Diocese of Metuchen to engage with history and essentially become historians. The exhibition, on loan from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History,…
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D’Agostino to rely on deep pitching staff in 1st year as Trojans coach
By Jimmy Allinder Bishop Ahr Scott Runkel retired as head baseball coach after 33 seasons, but he certainly didn’t leave the cupboard bare for his successor at Bishop George Ahr High School, Tom D’Agostino. The Trojans (10-10-1 overall, 5-6-1 Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Blue Division) are deep in pitching, which is more important than ever…
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Farr looks to remain effective on mound for St. Joe’s in senior year
By Jimmy Allinder St. Joseph Baseball is a team game, and there isn’t a better illustration of that than when Mike Farr is on the pitching mound. Farr, a Metuchen native, returns for his senior year at Saint Joseph High School of Metuchen after recording an 8-5 win-loss mark his previous two varsity seasons. On…
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Newsom in right frame of mind in return to competition from surgery
By Jimmy Allinder The expression “no gain without pain” has a special meaning for Edison High School softball and basketball player Bianca Newsom. The Edison High School senior had tried to battle through pain due to a genetic condition called developmental hip dysplasia that also affected her range of motion. “I tried to play as…
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Area teams vying for state sectional basketball championships
By Jimmy Allinder The NJSIAA boys’ and girls’ basketball tournaments kicked off with first-round games Feb. 27 and 28, hosted by higher-seeded teams. Boys’ basketball Saint Joseph High School of Metuchen (25-1) — fresh off its seventh Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) Tournament championship in eight years — was seeded second in Non-Public A South. That…
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Donation to provide steam for STEM program at diocesan schools
By KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — A recent private donation to the Diocese of Metuchen will allow Bishop Ahr High School to focus on continuing its robust STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — program it set out to create two years ago. “One of our first priorities will be to construct a…
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Trojans top Eagles to advance to GMC Tournament semifinals
By Jimmy Allinder Girls’ basketball It was an old-fashion knock-down, drag-out turf war between two combatants with common geography, with the team executing the best game plan winning in the end. That was the Bishop George Ahr High School (19-5 overall, 12-2 White Division) girls’ basketball team, which broke open a close game for three…
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Soccer star honored for academic accomplishments
NORTH BRUNSWICK – A young woman with a background in student politics and soccer has received recognition from her hometown. Sarah Glazewski of North Brunswick is a junior at Bishop George Ahr High School in Edison, where she is part of the Distinguished Honor Roll due to her 3.99 GPA. She is the Student Council…
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Trojans’ basketball teams have turned seasons around
By Jimmy Allinder Bishop Ahr It wouldn’t have been shocking if the Bishop George Ahr High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams struggled this season. Both underwent a facelift during the offseason, with Darius Griffin Jr. succeeding Dennis O’Keefe as boys’ coach and Brittney Griffin taking over for girls’ coach Kevin Harper, bringing with them…