Tag: Girls Lacrosse
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Manalapan girls aim to move past early lacrosse struggles
By Jeff Appelblatt This season is a work in progress for Manalapan High School’s girls’ lacrosse team. The team had no answer for the Cougars in its March 29 opener at Colts Neck High School. Colts Neck jumped out to a 14-2 lead at halftime and finished the Braves off without much of a challenge,…
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Bulldogs aim to repeat last year’s girls’ lacrosse success
By Warren Rappleyea Although 13 members of Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s overall Group II girls’ lacrosse championship team graduated in June, plenty of talent remains as the Bulldogs look to repeat. After dropping an opening-day decision to perennially powerful Moorestown High School, Rumson-Fair Haven reeled off 25 successive…
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Returning players hope to lead Warriors to better lacrosse season
By Wayne Witkowski New Egypt High School’s girls’ lacrosse team may surpass last year’s 9-12 record with half of its lineup back. The team was slated to open the season at home March 29 against East Brunswick High School. Despite being the team’s third coach in three years, Lisa Malloy feels it has not affected…
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Tucci to lead Raiders’ lacrosse team in search of another GMC title
By Warren Rappleyea After picking up its second Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) championship in three years, North Brunswick Township High School looks to make it three out of four this spring. The Raiders will once again be strong in the middle with four-year starter Victoria Tucci leading the way. Tucci has career totals of 177…
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Talented Raiders girls’ lacrosse team sets sights on another GMC crown
By Warren Rappleyea North Brunswick Township High School’s girls’ lacrosse team will look to win its third Greater Middlesex Conference (GMC) championship in four year this spring. While the Raiders will be without the dynamic duo of Samantha Mehalick and Tatum Altman, who spent the past four years setting offensive records, plenty of talent remains.…
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Mater Dei to field lacrosse teams starting in spring
By Matthew Rocco Mater Dei Prep will expand its athletic program this spring, saying it will play lacrosse for the first time in school history. The Seraphs, who have made great strides in football and basketball, plan to field boys’ and girls’ junior varsity lacrosse teams in time for the 2017 season. Andrew Eastwood, Mater…
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Jackson Pride Lacrosse Club gives back to community
By Wayne Witkowski Jackson Pride Lacrosse Club has given back to the community in more ways beyond instructing the 150 participating boys and girls in third through eighth grades from the township on how to play the game and putting many in a competitive atmosphere. For the second year, the club “adopted” a family in…
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Monroe’s Frycz enjoys fast pace, physicality of lacrosse
By Jimmy Allinder Courtney Frycz is president of her senior class at Monroe Township High School, a near straight-A student and member of the school’s class council, Poetry Club and Future Business Leaders of America. Somehow, she is still able to play for the Falcons’ lacrosse team, which to her is more than just an…
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Sounds of Monroe scoring music to Tucker’s ears
By Jimmy Allinder The sweet sound of a rock-hard field hockey ball slamming against the back of a wooden goal box is one Olivia Tucker loves so much. It doesn’t happen often in a sport where 1-0 games are the rule rather than the exception, but when Tucker or one of her Monroe Township High…
