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The North Jersey Tri-County Conference held its first-ever championships (and quite possibly its last as well) Tuesday at Garret Mountain in Woodland Park. The area was well represented by some solid performances, highlighted by the North Bergen girls winning the Hudson larger schools team title, the school’s first girls’ team title of any kind since …

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Fine cross country performances at NJTCC meetPower point update; football performances of note”

The 2008 high school football season was one to totally forget for the Bruins of North Bergen. They were totally decimated by injuries and illness. They lost games that North Bergen teams don’t normally lose. Their legendary head coach was slowed by cancer. It was a complete and utter nightmare. The end result was a …

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The return of the BruinsNorth Bergen bounces back in solid fashion after season to forget”

It was late November of 2008 and the Hoboken High School football team was making yet another journey toward a state championship, but Jason Montalvo was not being a part of it. It was a shame, considering that Montalvo was targeted for greatness, destined to become the next standout Red Wing running back from the …

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Hoboken’s Montalvo learns valuable lesson, comes back with style”

Even the least likely of Hudson County football teams can somehow pull themselves by their collective bootstraps and earn a win every now and then. It was proven last weekend when previously winless Weehawken and Snyder both won their respective games. Weehawken downright shocked Ridgefield, 24-21, when freshman Damian Corredor caught a 33-yard touchdown pass …

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Grid wins for Weehawken, SnyderOrtiz leads Marauders; sad news about boxing champ Medal”

The McNair Academic High School girls’ soccer program has been in existence for a few years now, ever since the veteran soccer coach John Barulich transferred from coaching the boys at the downtown Jersey City school to initiating the girls’ program. But since the program began a little more than a decade ago, the Cougars …

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The Miracle of McNair girls’ soccerCougars remain undefeated in finest season ever”

The Lincoln-St. Anthony football game had reached halftime last Saturday and things weren’t going the way that Tyron Stevens would have liked. The Lincoln standout junior running back had about 50 or so yards rushing and he knew that he could produce more than that, if given the opportunity. So Stevens did what he could …

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Lincoln’s Stevens lays it on the lineInspires teammates to 242-yard performance in win over St. Anthony”

On another day, Danny Rondon might have been upset that he lost a lead in the final 600 yards of a cross-country race and had to settle for second best. But last Saturday represented more than just a silver medal for the talented North Bergen senior runner. It was a return to glory. Rondon returned …

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Fine return for NB runner RondonWendolowski new Prep baseball coach; Anderson resigns at High Tech”

When Josh Jantas returned to his alma mater, St. Peter’s Prep, last year to replace long-time head soccer coach John Irvine, he had hoped that he could help bring back some of the luster that the Prep soccer program once had, but was tarnished over the last few years. “I knew that we were coming …

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Restoring Prep soccer prideAfter a few down years, Marauders return to prominence”

When Dominik Montanez was attending Edison Elementary School in Union City as a youngster, he noticed one thing: He was fast. “We used to have races in the schoolyard and I was always one of the fastest ones,” said Montanez, now a junior at Union City High School and a member of the school’s football …

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Speedy Montanez makes instant impact for Soaring EaglesUnion City running back enjoys breakout game against Dickinson”

Needless to say, the first two contests of Chris Demarest’s tenure as the new head football coach and athletic director at Hudson Catholic High School haven’t gone exactly as planned. Under Demarest’s tutelage, the Hawks have lost to Weequahic of Newark, 38-0, and to Malvern Prep of Pennsylvania, 44-0. And Demarest took over a program …

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