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The 2009-2010 Hudson Reporter All-Area Boys’ and Girls’ High School Basketball Teams feature a host of talented players, many of whom are repeat honorees from a year ago. Among the boys, there are four players who have collected All-Area honors once again. With the girls, there are eight repeat performers. That’s a good sign of …

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As a youngster growing up in Jersey City, Stephon Whyatt used to watch and marvel at the talents of his uncle, Roshown McLeod, the former St. Anthony and Duke standout who later went on to play in the NBA and currently is an assistant coach at the University of Indiana. But Whyatt, currently a junior …

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Throughout the boys’ high school basketball season, the skeptics and doubters all said that this was not a vintage St. Anthony team, that the Friars had no prayer of contending with state powers like St. Patrick of Elizabeth or Paterson Catholic for the NJSIAA Non-Public B North title. Well, by virtue of its decision against …

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A masterful coaching job by HurleySt. Anthony wins state sectional crown, then falls in Non-Public B finale”

The ledger of accomplishments reads like a roll call of brilliance. • 139 career victories, easily a school record and one away from a county record. • Three District 16 championships and three Region 4 titles. • Fifth place in the NJSIAA state championships in 2009. • Second place in the NJSIAA state championships in …

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Prep’s Innis carves niche as program’s best wrestler ever”

Oscar Guerrero was totally content coaching and teaching at Kearny High School. He just completed his second year as the head football coach there. “I learned a lot about coaching in my time in Kearny,” Guerrero said. “I’ve made a lot of great relationships.” But when his high school alma mater, Memorial in West New …

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Guerrero hired as grid coach at alma mater MemorialMemorable night on tap at RAC; NB’s Quintero earns state wrestling medal”

She’s probably the best girls’ basketball player to come out of Jersey City in over a decade, but Daisha Simmons is virtually an unknown in Hudson County circles. “That’s okay,” Simmons said. “Out in Somerset County, I’m known pretty well. Give it time and I’ll be known here, too.” Simmons, who is an All-State player …

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Simmons: The best girls’ basketball player from Jersey City that no one knowsDowntown product finds stardom at suburban Gill St. Bernard’s”

For the first three years of his high school wrestling career, Chris Duran wasn’t anything to write home about. The North Bergen High School senior was mediocre at best. “He had about a .500 record and finished third in the districts [District 16] last year,” said North Bergen head coach Jerry Maietta. “He’s been with …

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North Bergen’s Duran goes from mediocre to unbeatenSurprising turnaround results in Region 4 championship and sixth seed at NJSIAA states”

Rutgers-Newark’s men’s basketball team had just lost in the New Jersey Athletic Conference semifinals to Richard Stockton, and Rutgers head coach Joe Loughran had to wonder whether his Scarlet Raiders, enjoying their best season ever, would still be rewarded with the program’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Division III tourney. “I thought we had a …

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Rutgers-Newark goes to NCAA tourney for first time with local flavorPrep’s Glass comes a hair short at M of C, with Snyder’s Thomas fourth”

Union City Superintendent of Schools Sandy Sanger called the process of hiring a new football coach at Union City High School “the toughest decision he’s ever made as an administrator.” “We’re obviously looking to improve our football program and when you take a chance to go outside of the school system for the first time …

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Valdez tabbed as Union City new grid coachFormer Ferris coach ends bizarre set of circumstances”

There are some people who truly believe that everyone who lives in Secaucus is related to someone else who resides there. It’s a smaller circle than the old “Six Degrees of Separation,” or even the popular “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game. Pick someone who is from Secaucus and chances are that person is related …

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Secaucus’ Schlemm keeps it in the familyJoins uncle, aunt and cousin in 1,000-point club”