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To simply say that Joe Impreveduto comes from a family lineage of standout athletes from Secaucus, well, you just better take your place in line. The list of relatives could stretch the borders of the entire town, from the Hackensack River to Hackensack Plank Road. “I think half the town is my family,” Impreveduto says …

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Secaucus’ Impreveduto falls right into family line, has huge day against St. Mary’s”

It may go down as one of the best comeback stories in local cross country history. North Bergen’s Danny Rondon, who missed most of last indoor season and all of the outdoor season due to injury, continued his fine comeback by winning his second straight Hudson County Track Coaches Association championship last weekend at Bayonne …

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Rondon repeats as county champ; Mahmood wins girls’ raceGrid playoff breakdown; realignment not working for local grid programs”

When Hudson Catholic High School announced last year that it was going to go co-educational to allow female students for the first time in the school’s 45-year history, it was not immediately known what it was going to mean for the athletic programs at the formerly all-boys Jersey City school located on McGinley Square. Meaning, …

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Hudson Catholic volleyball: Instant successFirst-ever girls program earns berth to NJSIAA state playoffs, win first contest”

Ever since the use of an ineligible player cost the team three victories and a chance to earn a berth in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 1 football playoffs last year, the St. Anthony Friars have been determined to put that misfortune far into ancient history. “We wanted to leave the past in the past,” said …

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St. Anthony’s Sparkman gives team spark to first-ever playoff berth”

In a battle of Polish natives who both once called Jersey City home, reigning IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek knocked out Andrew Golota in the fifth round of their “Battle of Poland” fight in their homeland of Poland last Saturday night. Because Adamek took the fight against Golota instead of defending his world title, the …

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Adamek wins in Battle of PolandGrid state playoff update; early wakeup call for Peacocks”

When Wilbur Valdez led the Ferris High School football program into the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group III playoffs back in 2005, the head coach figured that it was only the beginning of what the former Hoboken High and University of Miami standout truly believed would become an annual tradition at Ferris. Valdez was …

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Once again, state playoffs elude FerrisBulldogs suffer late-season setback, just miss playoffs for fourth straight year”

Prep’s Huggins falls right in line with great running backs Over the past two decades, St. Peter’s Prep has produced its share of sensational running backs. It’s been a litany of excellence in the backfield, much like Penn State has produced linebackers, Starbucks has produced frappaccinos and the Duggar family produces kids. One after another, …

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The Lincoln High School football team rolls on. After defeating Marist last weekend 38-6, the Lions are now an astounding 6-0, the latest a Lincoln football team has been undefeated since 1973. Back then, the Lions, led by All-County players like Bobby Morgan , Tony Samuel (currently the head coach at Southeast Missouri State) and …

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An archeologist may have an easier time digging for ancient ruins than he would finding the last time Secaucus High School didn’t have a dominant girls’ volleyball team. Indiana Jones could cross the threshold into the Temple of Doom long before he could uncover the last season that the Patriots didn’t totally romp their way …

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He’s reaching a milestone that is very rarely attained in local high school boys’ soccer. But when he finds the net on his next goal, Dickinson’s brilliant senior Maxi Garcia will have scored the 100th goal of his high school career, quite an extraordinary feat. There was a time in Garcia’s life where the thought …

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Dickinson’s Garcia on scoring rampage”