Tag: Wrestling
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Allentown wrestlers look for repeat success on the mats
By Wayne Witkowski Allentown High School’s wrestling team hopes to recapture the excitement of last season as it prepares to hits the mats this winter. Allentown comes off a 15-8 season, during which the team won its first division championship since 2007, had two wrestlers advance to the state championships, went 12-1 in Mercer County…
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Tickets on sale for high school state wrestling tournament
Tickets went on sale Dec. 9 for the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state wrestling tournament that will be held March 3-5 at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. All-session tickets are priced at $40 and are on sale through Ticketmaster (https://goo.gl/JWkmYz), the Boardwalk Hall Box Office or by phone at 800-745-3000. This public sale will be…
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Places To Be — Week of Dec. 12
The opening bell will ring on Dec. 16 when the 2016-17 winter scholastic athletic season starts for boys’ and girls’ basketball, wrestling, boys’ and girls’ fencing and boys’ and girls’ indoor track and field. Some winter sports started early this season, as boys’ and girls’ ice hockey, boys’ and girls’ swimming and boys’ and girls’…
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Monroe’s Albach perseveres to find success on the mats
By Jimmy Allinder Despite a less than auspicious debut with the Monroe Township Recreation Department wrestling team, fourth-grader Donny Albach believed he had found his sport. Albach competed hard but kept losing every match, mainly because he was going up against more experienced opponents. Perseverance and a lot of family support eventually prevailed, and Albach’s…
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Trojans’ Ringwood looks forward to final wrestling season
By Jimmy Allinder Considering the improvement Gaven Ringwood has made since he was a freshman for the Bishop George Ahr High School wrestling team, he could certainly move on to the collegiate level. But that’s not going to happen, says the rising senior. “After this season, that’s going to be it,” Ringwood said. “I’ve had…
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Brazicki excels as three-sport athlete at Bishop Ahr
By Jimmy Allinder Joe Vigilante, Nick Tonzola and Scott Runkel understood Andrew Brazicki was a special athlete the first day he arrived at Bishop George Ahr High School. The Edison parochial school’s football, wrestling and baseball coaches could see the Franklin Township native was already physically mature, even though he was a freshman. Brazicki also…
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Bishop Ahr’s O’Connor stays relentless on the mats
By Jimmy Allinder Dylan O’Connor wrestles for Bishop George Ahr High School and is the defending NJSIAA District 19 champion at 126 pounds. O’Connor could very well be satisfied with what he’s accomplished as he begins his senior year. But that’s never been and never will be part of his make-up. That relentless drive is…
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Lombard’s instincts, passion leads to success on mats
By Jimmy Allinder Nicky Lombard’s approach to wrestling is really a case study in how the brain works. When the rising senior at Monroe Township High School steps onto the mat, he clears all the excess baggage out of his head and only focuses on beating his next opponent. “A lot of what I do…
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Sky Blue FC captain Christie Rampone received another major accolade when the Point Pleasant native was among an exclusive 12-member class inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park. “To be recognized by your home state is an amazing honor,” Rampone said in a prepared statement from the…
