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Prep relies on old reliable veterans to return to glory After losing key players, Marauders go back to players who put program back on map Last season was a year to remember for the St. Peter’s Prep basketball team. The Marauders won 26 games, won their third straight Hudson County championship, and captured the NJSIAA …

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When James Fox first entered the halls of St. Peter’s Prep a little more than three years ago, he wasn’t exactly the picture of athletic prowess. “I was a chubby little freshman,” Fox said. “There’s been a total transformation. I didn’t see any of this coming. There was no way I thought anything like this …

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Earns championships at Beast of the East and Mustang Classic tourneys”

When you have all five starters returning, two of whom were First Team Hudson Reporter All-Area honorees and one of whom is the two-time Hudson Reporter Player of the Year, then the expectations for a successful season are especially high. That’s what Secaucus girls’ basketball coach John Sterling is dealing with this season. “A lot …

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Marshall steps down at Hudson Catholic; D’Onofrio heads to Miami”

When the old divisional format of HCIAA basketball, namely Coviello for the big schools and Seglio for the smaller schools, was dismantled two seasons ago and tossed in the scrap heap, St. Mary athletic director/head boys’ basketball coach Tom Lalicato wanted no part of the Ramblers being placed in a smaller division ever again. Lalicato …

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Wins over Prep, North Bergen and Union City are proof that Ramblers are for real”

When Nick Mariniello was hired to become the new boys’ basketball coach at Hudson Catholic High School last year, he knew that it might take a few years for the Hawks to reach the level of success Mariniello was accustomed to when he was coaching at Bloomfield Tech. Well, Mariniello went a surprising 13-12 in …

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It was the fourth fight in 2010 for Tomasz Adamek and the previous three were all solid victories, all steps up the ladder toward eventually gaining that elusive chance at fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world. So it should have been no surprise whatsoever that the top heavyweight contender who trains regularly in …

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Adamek wins battle with MaddaloneMajewski, who trains in North Bergen, also wins; Huggins, Royster selected to MSG squad”

He had some of the most electrifying performances during the 2009-10 Hudson County high school basketball season, including a majestic 41-point outing against Memorial. He averaged nearly 19 points per game for one of the more surprising squads in the county, leading his Marist Royal Knights to 16 wins and a place of prominence among …

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Marist no longer everyone’s underdogLed by brilliant guard Williams, Royal Knights hope to be in hunt in county, state playoffs”

The 2010 Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team features several players who have earned the honor for a second straight season. North Bergen’s Peter Ramanand, Lincoln’s Ronald Butler and Ty Stevens, St. Peter’s Prep’s James Fox, Keith Lumpkin, Kevin Cosgrove and Savon Huggins, Secaucus’ Eddie Delgado, and St. Anthony’s Sylvester Wright and Jidamon Sparkman …

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After a 25-2 season that ended with a loss in the NJSIAA Non-Public B state title game to Camden Catholic, the Friars of St. Anthony are poised to make a little history this season. For one, the Friars will tip off the 2010-11 season next Friday night against Edison Academy needing just 16 wins to …

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St. Anthony looks totally loaded for possible state title runNew league officially formed with new leadership”