Tag: Howell High School

  • Rebels win state sectional team title; bow in Group V state final

    Rebels win state sectional team title; bow in Group V state final

    The Howell High School wrestling team and Coach John Gagliano won their fifth NJSIAA state sectional tournament team title in eight years on Feb. 9 in Howell against Hunterdon Central Regional High School of Flemington. Sophomore 138-pounder Giovanni Scafidi pinned Hunterdon Central’s Henry Wilkinson in the final bout of the championship match to lift the…

  • Rebels win Shore Conference, Monmouth County track and field crowns

    Rebels win Shore Conference, Monmouth County track and field crowns

    A season of history making moments has marked the 2021-22 campaign for the Howell High School girls winter track and field team. The Rebels have won the program’s first Monmouth County team championship and the program’s first Shore Conference team title. Kevin Dee, who has been a coach in Howell’s boys and girls track and…

  • Howell wrestlers set to continue program’s winning legacy in 2021-22

    Howell wrestlers set to continue program’s winning legacy in 2021-22

    HOWELL – Team wrestling championships are back in play during the 2021-22 season and the Howell High School grapplers are chomping at the bit to add to their school’s wrestling legacy. Coach John Gagliano and his Rebels have their sights set on winning the Central Jersey Group V state sectional team tournament championship. “I think…

  • Patriots top Rebels, 1-0, to win Central Jersey Group IV state sectional soccer crown

    Patriots top Rebels, 1-0, to win Central Jersey Group IV state sectional soccer crown

    Senior Josh Hocheiser stepped up to take a penalty kick for the Freehold Township High School soccer team in the 47th minute of the 2021 NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV state sectional tournament championship match against Howell High School on Nov. 11 in Freehold Townhip. It was a situation Hocheiser and the Patriots had seen…

  • Rebels top Mustangs, 3-0, to advance in state sectional tournament

    Rebels top Mustangs, 3-0, to advance in state sectional tournament

    There is a Cinderella story unfolding in the Central Jersey Group IV state sectional boys soccer tournament. Howell, the No. 13 seed in the sectional field, advanced to the sectional semifinals on the strength of a 3-0 victory over Marlboro on Nov. 4 in Marlboro. The team’s victory in the quarterfinal round match moved the…

  • New coach has Rebels shooting for winning soccer record in 2021

    New coach has Rebels shooting for winning soccer record in 2021

    First-year coach Miguel Arroyo is ready to change the recent fortunes of the Howell High School girls soccer program. After spending 15 years as an assistant coach in the Howell boys soccer program, Arroyo has switched gears this fall to lead the girls varsity squad, which he believes has the talent to win some matches…

  • Howell’s fourth quarter comeback falls short against Brick Township

    Howell’s fourth quarter comeback falls short against Brick Township

    BRICK TOWNSHIP – Nothing was clicking for the Howell High School football team and its offense heading into the final five minutes of the fourth quarter in a road game at Brick Township High School on Sept. 17. The Rebels were losing 12-0 and they had not come close to driving inside the Green Dragons’…

  • Howell graduate Hill ready to lead Rebels on gridiron in 2021

    Howell graduate Hill ready to lead Rebels on gridiron in 2021

    HOWELL – A special feeling came over new head coach Bill Hill when his Howell High School football team opened its 2021 training camp on Aug. 9. Hill remembers returning home to tell his wife, Pamela, that everything had started to feel real now that he was going to be the head coach at his…

  • Bruno remembered for work as educator, coach, athletics administrator

    Bruno remembered for work as educator, coach, athletics administrator

    Bill Bruno, a well-known and respected coach and athletics administrator in New Jersey, has died at the age of 68. Bruno, a resident of Howell, died on June 19 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, according to an obituary published by the Buckley Funeral Home, Asbury Park. Bruno had deep ties to Monmouth County.…