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It’s not easy being the quarterback on a team that features a Delaware Wing-T offensive set. In fact, it’s a thankless job. You take the snap from center, you turn around and hand the football to a running back, over and over again. Maybe, if you’re lucky, you get to throw the pigskin every so …

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He’s Wright on targetSt. Anthony QB has big game after season of handing off”

Kelsey Snedeker is someone who definitely keeps a busy schedule. The Secaucus High School senior is the starting goalkeeper for the girls’ soccer team, where she has excelled, collecting save after save. She has been the starting catcher for the Patriots’ softball team for the last three years, protecting home plate like it was Fort …

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Secaucus’ Snedeker named Wendy’s High School Heisman finalistHudson Catholic to honor Spanarkel, O’Koren; pigskin playoff prognostications”

It was the first week of November in 2008 and the high school football season ended all too uncharacteristically early for the granddaddy of all Hudson County high school football coaches, Vince Ascolese, ending what was a year to totally forget for the legendary coach. The Bruins ended that season with a 3-7 record, the …

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Milestone win for North Bergen’s AscoleseCareer victory No. 350 carries Bruins into NJSIAA state playoffs”

The losses continued to pile up, one after another. What was supposed to be a successful season for the Weehawken High School football team was rapidly drifting away toward oblivion. “It was absolutely unexplainable,” said sophomore running back/quarterback Damian Corredor. “We really thought we were going to the playoffs this year. But then we were …

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Weehawken’s Corredor keeps it all in the familyHas huge game in Indians’ first win against Palisades Park/Leonia”

After last weekend’s high school grid action, seven Hudson County teams have punched their tickets for next weekend’s NJSIAA state playoffs – a solid accomplishment indeed for the local teams. Three local teams are headed for the post-season in the same exact section, namely the North Jersey Section 2, Group I bracket, where Secaucus, Lincoln …

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Seven locals headed to state grid playoffsRemembering Rubino; Hazell talks of Dehere’s record”

When the Dickinson High School boys’ cross country team made a leap toward the top of the pack in Hudson County circles in 2008, the group wanted to be known as “the Wolfpack.” It was a little different for a school whose nickname has been the Rams for over a century. But the group of …

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It’s a ‘three-peat’ for the ‘Wolfpack’Dickinson’s boys, led by the fantastic Veras, win HCTCA title for third time; SDA girls win”

When Brandon Napoleon was a youngster and considering which high school to attend, he remembers becoming fascinated with the play of former St. Peter’s Prep all-everything standout Will Hill. “The first time I heard of Prep, I was watching a game on television,” Napoleon said. “And then I saw Will and said, ‘Who’s that?’ He …

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Prep’s Napoleon a chip off the old block and fits Marauders’ QB mold”

Tomasz Adamek was sure that he would have received his big chance at the heavyweight boxing championship of the world by now. After all, the top-ranked contender, who trains daily in Jersey City, has done everything he possibly can to earn the respect that comes with getting a title fight. Adamek, the Polish native who …

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Adamek ready for next challengeGrid observations; power point update”

When Sean Fallon took over the still-fledgling St. Anthony football program in January of 2009, there was still a cloud hanging over the first-year program. The former coach had used an ineligible player, which forced the Friars to forfeit the first four wins of the program’s history. That coach was terminated and the team finished …

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A different kind of championship for St. AnthonyFootball team clinches HCIAA American crown; top seed in upcoming state playoffs”

After the Lincoln High School football team suffered a tough loss to St. Anthony last week, senior quarterback Ronald Butler took the setback to heart. Butler didn’t play poorly in the Lions’ 42-16 loss to the Friars, but he still wanted to blame himself for the loss. “It took it personally,” Butler said. “I don’t …

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The Butler did it for LincolnSenior QB passes and runs for 200 yards each in huge win over Hoboken”