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When Cherryl Bott watched the last Secaucus High School girls’ basketball game of the season in the Group I state playoffs in February, the veteran softball coach couldn’t believe her eyes. During the game, Bott watched her ace pitcher, senior Shannon Waters, go down with a dislocated shoulder. “It wasn’t Shannon’s pitching arm,” Bott said. …

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Dane Longa was convinced that his high school football career was over. The St. Peter’s Prep senior standout defensive tackle, headed for Kean University in the fall, believed that any chance of playing in an All-Star game would go to his more heralded and recognized teammates. “I didn’t have too much chance to get much …

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Hudson trio selected to North-South All-Star grid classicGreat achievements by two St. Paul’s of Greenville alums; McLeod steps down”

Union City High School baseball coach Chipper Benway makes no bones about what he wants from his program this season, a year after winning 22 games and winning the regular season Hudson County Interscholastic League title. “I don’t think Union City is thought of as one of the better programs in the county,” said Benway, …

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Union City baseball: No one-hit wonderReturning seniors hope to make 2011 even more successful than last year”

It’s the last season ever for St. Mary High School baseball, but veteran head coach Pat Laguerre isn’t on some emotional roller coaster or a sentimental journey. “We addressed that all a while back,” said Laguerre, whose school will close at the end of the current scholastic year. “We have a couple kids enrolled in …

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Tom Eagleson, the dean of Hudson County softball coaches with 502 career victories, ranking him seventh all-time in career softball victories in New Jersey, knows that his North Bergen squad is the preseason favorite to bring home a county title this year – and deservedly so. For one, the main rival down the block, namely …

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North Bergen looms as softball favoritesBianco thankful for get well wishes; 20 years since Dispatch’s demise”

Bobby Hurley was asked if he could believe that it was actually 20 years ago this weekend that he helped to shock the basketball world by beating the seemingly unbeatable and firmly placing himself and Jersey City on the college basketball map forever. “A lot has happened in that time,” Hurley said. “My daughter [Cameron] …

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Hurley recalls magical weekend 20 years agoJersey City native remembers Final Four in Indy that captivated the nation”

The 2010-11 Hudson Reporter All-Area Boys’ and Girls’ High School Basketball teams again represent the very best that one of the state’s premier hotbeds of basketball talent can offer. However, the two teams are very different, in that one features a host of newcomers and first-time honorees, while the other is packed with repeat performers, …

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George Maguire, the Hoboken gridiron great who died last week, didn’t realize his attempt to play college football in 1979 would eventually become national headlines. Maguire had left the University of Oklahoma way back in 1956 to come home to Hoboken to work, and somehow managed to return to school 23 years later. “I had …

Continue reading “HOISTING THE TROPHY – The St. Anthony players celebrate with the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions trophy after winning the overall state and national title. It’s the 11th time that the Friars won the T of C and the fourth time they won the national crown.”