Tag: Colts Neck
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Young players stepping up for competitive Cougars team
By Jeff Appelblatt A year after Colts Neck High School’s boys’ basketball team won the NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group IV title, coach Lou Piccola knew things would be different. The majority of the winning team graduated, while some of the other top competitors in the Shore Conference — including the team the Cougars beat in…
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Cougars halt skid with girls’ hoops win over Patriots
By Jeff Appelblatt Colts Neck High School’s girls’ basketball team had lost a few games in a row, dropping the team down to the .500 mark. However, when the team went to Freehold Township High School Jan. 11, the Cougars immediately demonstrated the skid needed to come to a stop. It was their gym, but…
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Colts Neck committee selects Macnow as mayor
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer COLTS NECK – Township Committeeman Russell Macnow will serve as Colts Neck’s mayor during 2017 after he was elected to that position by his fellow members of the Township Committee during the Jan. 7 reorganization meeting of the governing body. Macnow was sworn in as mayor by state Sen. Jennifer…
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Colts Neck girls’ hoops team looks to get back on winning track
By Jeff Appelblatt It could not have been what Colts Neck High School girls’ basketball coach Glenn Jansen hoped for when his team followed finishing December as winners of three straight with two straight home losses to Toms River High School North and Holmdel High School to open January. Toms River North entered the game…
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Marlboro sinks clutch free throws for big win in Colts Neck
By Jeff Appelblatt A free throw is meant to be a simple. It’s an uncontested shot earned after a basketball player is fouled. It’s sometimes referred to as shooting from the charity stripe because it’s a free shot. The only challenges are the sounds of the arena. Two players who find relative ease in making…
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Colts Neck girls look to out-run, out-think opponents on court
By Jeff Appelblatt The girls’ basketball team at Colts Neck High School took care of business in its season opener Dec. 16, beating Howell High School, 42-36. But it took fewer than 24 hours for the Cougars to be bounced from the WOBM Christmas Classic and have as many wins as losses on the season.…
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Cougars look for another title with new leaders, new division
By Jeff Appelblatt Colts Neck High School boys’ basketball coach Lou Piccola wasn’t totally sure what to expect in the Cougars’ season opener Dec. 16. His entire starting lineup from a year ago graduated, and his team was making the switch from the Shore Conference’s B North Division to A North. But in the first…
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Fitzgerald leaving Colts Neck government for county post
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer COLTS NECK – Michael Fitzgerald will step down from the Colts Neck Township Committee in January in order to accept the position of county counsel in Monmouth County. Fitzgerald’s resignation will be effective Jan. 8. Because Fitzgerald is a Republican, as are all five members of the town’s governing body,…
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Taylor tapped to join Colts Neck school board
By Peter Elacqua Staff Writer COLTS NECK – Michael Taylor has been appointed to fill an open seat on the Colts Neck K-8 School District Board of Education. The opening was created when Irene Sessa resigned from the panel in October. District administrators asked residents who were interested in serving on the board to make…
