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In perhaps the rarest of all of the Hudson Reporter All-Area teams ever honored, the 2011 All-Area baseball team has only one of the 22 honorees back from last year’s team. Only Mike Santana of Bayonne is a repeat member of the All-Area squad. The other 21 are complete newcomers. It’s a feat that had …

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There was a time where they dazzled the local football scene, among the finest all-around players to ever grace the gridiron of Hudson County. They were destined for superstardom, ticketed at a very young age toward a life in professional football. Nothing, absolutely nothing, was going to stop the skyrocketing careers of Will Hill, known …

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The tale of two troubled local grid starsSagas of former Prep great Hill, former Bayonne star Britt beyond puzzling”

Kali Kendall was a little reluctant leaving her friends back at her former high school, namely Bishop Loughlin in Brooklyn. As a sophomore, Kali (pronounced KAY-LEE) was just getting settled in at Bishop Loughlin. She was comfortable there, participating in track and field, a sport she grew to love after beginning at the tender age …

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Snyder newcomer Kendall blazes trail almost instantly”

Kevin McSorley always had the competitive spirit and drive. Born in the Jersey City Heights, McSorley moved to Secaucus as a teenager and played basketball and baseball at Secaucus High, playing on some of the Patriots’ better teams in the early 1990s that featured future Anaheim Angels pitcher Mark Lukasiewicz. “It’s just part of my …

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Catching fire on the linksJersey City firefighter McSorley moves his way up amateur golf ranks”

Kieran Purcell didn’t know how he would fare this golf season at St. Peter’s Prep. After all, Purcell was just a freshman at Grand and Warren and he couldn’t predict how he would perform right away as a varsity golfer. But it helped that Purcell had a lot of golf experience. His father, Pat, is …

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Prep freshman Purcell makes golf history with outing at T of C”

Ray Coccioli could have never dreamed that his first season as the Union City softball coach would end in the first Hudson County championship ever captured by a Union City school – and the first championship for Union City High School other than bowling. “No, I never thought this was possible,” Coccioli said after his …

Continue reading “THREE WINS IN TOURNEY – Hoboken junior pitcher Kenny Roder secured his place as the county’s premier pitcher by winning three times in the Ed Ford Memorial Hudson County Tournament and caught the final out in the title game against North Bergen, giving the Red Wings their eighth county crown.”

When the 2011 high school baseball season began and possible contenders for county supremacy were being considered, Hoboken wasn’t even an afterthought. After all, the Red Wings had a young roster with not a lot of experience. There were other teams that had to be thought of as favorites, any others for that matter. As …

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The most unlikely of county champsHoboken wins Ed Ford Memorial Hudson County baseball tourney with stunning comeback”

Mark Bruscino said that he was about 4 years old or so when his father, Mark Sr., first introduced him to the game of baseball. “I was about 4 years old when he put the ball in my hands,” the younger Bruscino said. “I remember holding the ball and that’s all I know doing since …

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Secaucus’ Bruscino gets some solid adviceFollows in footsteps of father who played on school’s lone state champ”

The new all-time leader in New Jersey high school baseball coaching victories almost never became a coach at all some four decades ago. In 1967, Tony Ferrainolo, who was a standout athlete at Memorial High School in his heyday, had just completed his athletic career at Villanova University, earning a degree in economics and accounting. …

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Ferrainolo reaches coaching milestoneNorth Bergen’s Mocco back on the mat; MaxPreps honors St. Anthony”