Tag: Manalapan High School
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Manalapan wrestlers primed for successful season in 2021
MANALAPAN – The Manalapan High School wrestling program returns a handful of region tournament qualifiers from a 2019-20 team that won the Central Jersey, Group 5 state sectional team championship and 24 dual meets. Led by senior and two-time state tournament qualifier Gavin Claro, Coach Scott Pressman believes his squad features several wrestlers who can…
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Freehold Township scores second victory over Manalapan cagers
The Freehold Township High School and Manalapan High School boys basketball teams squared off for the second time this winter on Feb. 10 in Manalapan. The events that transpired after the teams’ first meeting on Jan. 27, a 50-42 victory by Freehold Township, showed the players on both squads how unpredictable this winter is because…
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High school ice hockey teams preparing for puck drop in 2021 season
The cold air brushing against his face as he watched his Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School ice hockey players skate on the ice for the first time on Jan. 4 felt amazing to the Bulldogs’ second-year coach Eric Zullo. Months of waiting for a chance to get back on the ice at the Red Bank…
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Freehold holds off Manalapan to win 2020 grid season opener
FREEHOLD – Control the controllables. That is the message Freehold High School football coach Dave Ellis gave to his players the first time he was able to meet with them during the off-season prior to the start of the 2020 campaign. After going through a preseason that was unlike any other because of the coronavirus…
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Senior bats help Jackson Memorial advance in ‘Last Dance World Series’
It finally arrived this week – high school baseball players from across New Jersey had the chance to compete after a lost spring season when they took part in a summer event that was dubbed the “Last Dance World Series.” Players representing Jackson Memorial High School and Manalapan High School enjoyed three straight days of…
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FRHSD baseball players look forward to ‘Last Dance World Series’
The thrills associated with America’s pastime will be on display this summer when an event that has been dubbed the “Last Dance World Series” takes center stage for high school baseball players from throughout New Jersey. Saint Joseph High School, Metuchen, athletic director and baseball coach Mike Murray has put together the 222-team tournament. The…
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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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Gurrieri steps down after successful run as Manalapan football coach
Ed Gurrieri made the best decision he ever made 23 years ago. He had recently retired from the New York Police Department and decided to move his family out of Staten Island, N.Y., and to Manalapan. He had experience as a football player and coach when he was hired as the defensive coordinator of the…
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Undefeated Peterson, record-setting Klinsky are crowned state wrestling champions
There has been no wrestler over the past two years in the state of New Jersey who has been able to defeat Dean Peterson of Saint John Vianney High School. As a sophomore in 2019, Peterson rolled to a 35-0 record and won his first state tournament championship with a 3-2 decision over Emerson-Park Ridge…