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Terry Matthews had been conducting interviews for the head football coaching position at Hudson Catholic High School when he received an interesting phone call. The athletic secretary told Matthews that he had a call from Leonard Marshall – yes, the same Leonard Marshall who was part of two New York Giants Super Bowl victories. “I …

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The Marshall is back in townFormer Giants great becomes head football coach at Hudson Catholic”

The St. Peter’s Prep mile relay team was in Philadelphia last Friday night, all set to attempt to win a second straight championship at the prestigious Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. However, while the Marauders were resting in their hotel rooms, disaster struck. Freshman Tyrell Gibbs …

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Prep quartet earns Penn Relays title for second straight year”

Tony Ferrainolo vividly remembers the days when he was a little boy and he would wake up and instantly head in one direction. “I lived right up the block from Miller Stadium,” Ferrainolo said. “I lived right on the corner of Bergenline Avenue in a big apartment building. I was about 8 years old when …

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A permanent honor for Memorial baseball coach FerrainoloWest New York names field at Miller Stadium after coaching great”

It was a lasting memory from a high school football game that seems like ages ago. In 2003, St. Peter’s Prep was playing Hoboken in their traditional rivalry game at JFK Stadium in Hoboken and Marauder running back Rashawn Jackson took a handoff and made the move of a lifetime. With a tackler coming to …

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Former Prep star Jackson awaits his NFL callRosario to Florida; former Friar McLeod resurfaces at St. Benedict’s”

In recent years, when someone wanted to talk about the upper echelon high school baseball teams in Hudson County, there were a lot of names that came to mind. Of course, Memorial and St. Peter’s Prep would be the first two schools mentioned, and deservedly so. The Tigers and the Marauders have earned their reputations …

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North Bergen: The best baseball team no one knows aboutBruins quietly stake claim to being Hudson’s best with solid 8-2 record”

It’s been said that baseball is perhaps the most redeeming of all sports. Whenever a baseball player has a low moment, there is generally an opportunity for the player to right the wrong. It might not happen overnight. It might not occur the next day, the next week, maybe even the next year. But chances …

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Weehawken’s Gerbehy gets shot at redemption against Lyndhurst”

When rumors were floating around that St. John’s University was going to replace Norm Roberts as head basketball coach, St. Peter’s Prep senior standout Ronald Roberts (no relation) expressed his displeasure in the coaching change and thought that he might want to get released from the letter of intent he signed with St. John’s. And …

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Roberts no longer going to St. John’sRosario officially leaves Rutgers; Arico steps down as Marist grid coach”

It was one of the best kept secrets going in a county where secrets usually last as long as a fuse on a firecracker. Bill DeFazio was told by his wife, Alice, the athletic director at New Jersey City University, that he was going back to Marist High School last Sunday afternoon for a brief …

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A permanent honor for DeFazioMarist names court after retired girls’ basketball coach”

Paul Pappaceno was really looking forward to his first start of the new baseball season. The St. Peter’s Prep junior left-handed pitcher worked hard in the offseason to get ready. He attended camps and clinics, participated in talent showcases, and played with a summer league team based out of Florida. Pappaceno also worked with the …

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Prep’s Pappaceno makes most of pitching debutJunior lefty fires no-hitter against Hudson Catholic”