Tag: Football
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Raritan Rockets ready to launch 2021 football campaign
HAZLET – Training camps are in full swing on high school football fields across the Shore Conference in Monmouth and Ocean counties and the players on the Raritan High School squad are trying to make the most of every practice they have during the preseason. Coach Anthony Petruzzi has instilled in his players the mentality…
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Howell grad Hill excited to take reins of Rebels football program
HOWELL – A year ago, Bill Hill received a phone call from Frank Edgerly, the former Red Bank Catholic High School football coach who had just taken over as the head coach at Howell High School. Edgerly asked Hill to return to his alma mater and join him on the Rebels’ coaching staff. At the…
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Edgerly leaves Howell football program; search for new coach begins
HOWELL – After one season at the helm of the Howell High School football team, Frank Edgerly has stepped down as head coach of the Rebels. In an interview, Edgerly said other coaching opportunities came about for him that were “very good and made sense for him” to leave Howell. “It was nothing but great…
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RBR Hall of Fame member, NFL punter dies after struggle with mental illness
The life of one of the finest athletes to ever come out of Red Bank Regional High School will be celebrated on Oct. 24. Gregory H. Montgomery Jr., 55, who played college football at Michigan State University and went on to a nine-year professional career in the National Football League, died on Aug. 23 in…
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Lepore named head coach of Manalapan High School football team
The Manalapan High School Braves football players will have a familiar face at the helm the next time they step onto the gridiron. Dom Lepore, who had been serving as the team’s defensive coordinator, was named Manalapan’s new varsity coach by the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education on June 22. Lepore is…
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Mater Dei’s Pearson signs with Central Michigan
George Pearson, who guided Mater Dei Prep to a state sectional football playoff final the past two seasons, signed a National Letter of Intent to continue his career at Central Michigan University. The senior quarterback signed his commitment letter at his school in Middletown on Dec. 20. Mater Dei defeated Holy Spirit High School in…
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South Brunswick edges Manalapan in dramatic state title game
The 2017 NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group 5 football playoff championship trophy will reside in South Brunswick High School this year. South Brunswick defeated Manalapan High School, 18-14, in a dramatic title game at High Point Solutions Stadium at Rutgers University in Piscataway on Dec. 2. The reasons that South Brunswick claimed the prized trophy ranged…
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Rumson-Fair Haven denied fifth straight state football playoff title
An impressive run came to an end for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School football team. Rumson-Fair Haven was thwarted in its bid to win a fifth straight NJSIAA sectional playoff championship when it fell to Somerville High School, 20-15, in the Central Jersey, Group 3 final on Dec. 2 at High Point Solutions Stadium…
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Mater Dei’s bid for repeat state football title halted in final
Mater Dei Prep’s football team put up a fight in its bid for a second straight state sectional playoff championship, but the Seraphs were unable to solve a formidable opponent in Saint Joseph High School of Hammonton. The two teams battled for championship glory in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 2 title game at Rowan University…