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TASTY TIDBITS 06-21-2009 Nivins doing the NBA tryout sojournSad tale of Hoboken’s Canary; Prep’s Urbanovich retires

It’s safe to call Ahmad Nivins a traveling man. In fact, the Jersey City native has been bopping all across the country so much that he’s spending more time in airports than any place else. Such is the life when you’re a prospective draft pick in the upcoming NBA draft. Nivins, who was the Atlantic-10 …

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SCOREBOARD 06-21-2009 One last chance to shineHudson’s All-Star baseball selections fare well at NJSBCA Classic

The high school baseball season didn’t exactly end the way Michael Kuzirian wanted it to finish. The standout Memorial High School pitcher/infielder watched his team lose in embarrassing fashion to Randolph in the Group IV state playoffs and two days later, drop another heartbreaker to St. Peter’s Prep in the HCIAA Coviello championship game. What …

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One last chance to shineHudson’s All-Star baseball selections fare well at NJSBCA Classic”

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North Bergen finally rids the demons
Wins final HCIAA Coviello softball crown after four straight losses in finals

The last-ever HCIAA Coviello softball championship game had reached the fourth inning last Sunday afternoon and the heavily favored Bruins of North Bergen found themselves in a very familiar position in a title game. They were losing. In each of the last four seasons, the Bruins made it all the way to the championship game …

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TASTY TIDBITS 05-24-2009 It’s a ‘four-peat’ for High Tech softballState playoff confusion for Marist baseball; SDA wins HCTCA track title

In the past, winning the HCIAA Seglio Division softball title, like the way the Lasercats of High Tech High School had done in each of the previous three years, there wasn’t a ton of pressure on the players. However, when you’re the defending NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state champions and made a …

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It’s a ‘four-peat’ for High Tech softballState playoff confusion for Marist baseball; SDA wins HCTCA track title”

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SCOREBOARD 05-24-2009 Three generations of baseball heroinesRecent standout Brown meets legendary Little Leaguers Pepe, Vargas

So there they were, three women of influence who had their lives changed and influenced by the game of baseball, all together for the very first time. When Maria Pepe read the article about young Mackenzie Brown of Bayonne pitching a perfect game in the Bayonne Little League a few weeks ago, the first-ever girl …

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 05-17-2009 Hoboken’s Markle overcomes size discriminationBecomes big-time slugger, pitcher for Red Wings, after a great football season

Ever since he was younger – little cannot be used as a frame of reference here – Zack Markle has always been told that he was too small to do anything. The Hoboken High School two-sport standout heard that he was too small and slight to be a good football player, too short to be …

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Hoboken’s Markle overcomes size discriminationBecomes big-time slugger, pitcher for Red Wings, after a great football season”

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TASTY TIDBITS 05-17-2009 HCIAA Coviello softball race becomes Bruins and the restThe passing of two local sports fixtures; CREATE Charter dumps Sullivan already

While the HCIAA Coviello baseball scenario is in a complete state of flux and confusion, the exact opposite is taking place with the softball race. It has clearly become a year of North Bergen and everyone else. The Bruins rolled through the regular season totally unblemished with a perfect 16-0 record, defeating every other team …

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HCIAA Coviello softball race becomes Bruins and the restThe passing of two local sports fixtures; CREATE Charter dumps Sullivan already”

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SCOREBOARD 05-17-2009 HCIAA Coviello baseball: Going out in classic fashionAny of playoff contenders can come away with final title

The Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association will hold its final championships on May 30. That is, if the weather gods can cooperate and stop the wet stuff from falling like it has been for practically the entire spring. But thanks to the NJSIAA’s realignment plan that has turned the world of high school sports in …

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 05-10-2009 McNair’s Estremera following in father’s footstepsSlugging shortstop/pitcher has week to remember

Ever since she was a little girl, Natalia Estremera has constantly heard one thing. “It’s all the time,” said Estremera, who is a freshman at McNair Academic. “I always hear, ‘You’re Pito’s daughter.’ I mean, it’s all the time. I get that so much. I wish they would stop saying that already.” The younger Estremera …

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TASTY TIDBITS 05-10-2009 Hendricks, Wilkes earn All-Star bidsBeefsteak tribute to Hurley; HCIAA playoff preview

When Jason Hendricks stepped off the field at Rutgers Stadium last December, after his Hudson Catholic football team suffered a heart-wrenching 7-0 loss to Holy Cross in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group II state championship game, he probably thought that he had played in his final high school football game. Hendricks, the 2008 Hudson Reporter Most …

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