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When Juan Garcia took over the Marist High School football program last year, he looked at it as a golden opportunity. After all, Garcia was getting a chance to be a head football coach at a very young age, just 27 years old. It was a football program with a good tradition, once a state …

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It was going to be a senior year to remember for Hoboken’s Josh Mercado. After all, it was Mercado who was the hero in last year’s Hoboken football state championship, making the big plays down the stretch, including the game-winning touchdown with just a few seconds left to give the Red Wings the thrilling win …

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Scott Emmerling has been involved with the Union City High School track and field and cross country program for the last three years, but became the head cross country coach this season. Emmerling knew that there were a lot of girls who ran track last spring and were going to come out for the cross …

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Weehawken had not faced neighboring rival Secaucus in football in four years. It used to be a Thanksgiving tradition, the two teams facing each other on the night before Turkey Day. But when the two schools were separated by divisions in the newly formed North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, the rivalry simply went away. However, the …

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At first glance, Crystal Ortiz doesn’t look like much of an athlete. She’s diminutive, slight of build, standing no more than 5-foot-3 and weighing less than 100 pounds. She’s also very demure and shy, speaking only a few words and uttering few syllables louder than a whisper. But the Hudson Catholic freshman is certainly making …

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It could go down as one of the most diverse performances in the history of Hudson County high school football. St. Peter’s Prep senior Minkah Fitzpatrick proved to everyone why he was considered the top all-around college prospect in the state of New Jersey and ranked No. 27 in the entire nation. However, if there …

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