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Shelton Gibbs stood in Snyder High School Annex gymnasium, a place also affectionately known as “The Tigers’ Den,” Tuesday afternoon and pointed toward the bright orange banners that hang on the walls. “I had something to do with all of those,” said Gibbs, the veteran head boys’ basketball coach at the school. Gibbs was right. …

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Jordan Capellan knew that he had to do something to change his fate and his status with the Memorial High School boys’ basketball team. After all, Capellan was entering his senior year with the Tigers and was coming off a junior year where he didn’t see a lot of action. If Capellan was going to …

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In 2006, three members of the North Bergen High School wrestling team earned medals at the NJSIAA state tournament, creating a slice of Hudson County history in the process. Bobby Dabal, Rico Rodriguez, and Marquise Johnson all won a medal at the NJSIAA state wrestling championships, the first time that any Hudson County school had …

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When the 2010-2011 girls’ high school basketball season ended last March, Secaucus head coach John Sterling had to wonder where he would go next. After all, when the Patriots played their last game in the NJSIAA North 2, Group I playoffs last season, it ended what was a remarkable run led by two of the …

Continue reading “TASTY TIDBITSSecaucus girls’ hoops squad rolls on, thanks to fabulous freshmen

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Breana Bey knew that she was a good basketball player, a better performer that she was last year when she was a sophomore at Lincoln High School. But Bey had no idea how much she had improved as she began her junior season with the Lions. “I knew it was my junior year and I …

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Nick Mariniello doesn’t pay attention to preseason basketball polls. So when he receives word that his Hudson Catholic basketball team is ranked as high as No. 3 in New Jersey in one poll and even No. 2 in another, it means nothing to the third-year head coach. “I think that the kids have worked hard …

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Alice DeFazio admitted that there was a different feeling when she walked into Marist High School to conduct her first practice as the new girls’ basketball coach there. “It was kind of surreal,” said DeFazio, who has decided to take over the program that was established by her late husband Bill, Hudson County’s all-time leader …

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It’s been a little more than two years since Kevin Bianco was first diagnosed with chronic myelogenous (or myeloid) leukemia. Since that time, Bianco has endured countless sessions of chemotherapy treatments, two bone marrow transplants and thousands of fears. A year ago, Bianco was sure that his problems were all behind him. The last bone …

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A few days had passed since North Bergen had pulled off the unthinkable and unimaginable, since the Bruins somehow managed to continue their improbable run all the way to the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV football state championship. Just the idea that the Bruins upset previously undefeated Montclair, 14-13, was one thing. But …

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The 2010-11 high school basketball season was one to remember for the fabulous Friars of St. Anthony High School, who rolled through the campaign undefeated with a 34-0 record, winning the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions crown and mythical national championship along the way. As the new high school season is set to begin next weekend, …

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