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Two high school football teams met at Caven Point Cochrane Stadium last Saturday afternoon, and they were two squads heading in opposite directions. For the Marauders of St. Peter’s Prep, it was a time for yet another celebration, because the 33-6 victory over Ferris gave the Marauders their remarkable ninth straight HCIAA championship, gave them …

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The HCIAA soccer championships are set for Sunday (Nov. 2) at Bruins Stadium inside North Bergen’s North Hudson Braddock Park. The first game, scheduled for 12 noon, will be for the HCIAA Seglio Division boys’ title, pitting perennial favorite High Tech against upstart McNair Academic. That game will be followed by the HCIAA Coviello girls’ …

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As expected, the NJSIAA ruled that the St. Anthony football team had to forfeit its first three victories of the season against Nazareth of New York, Memorial of West New York, and Sussex Tech, for allegedly using an ineligible player, believed to be an eighth grader, in those games. So instead of being 5-1 and …

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The official Dickinson High School nickname is Rams, but don’t tell that to the school’s boys’ cross country team. Those kids have a different moniker that they like to go by. In their eyes, they’re the Wolfpack. Yes, just like North Carolina State University. The nickname came as an idea by veteran Dickinson assistant coach …

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John Nagel is one of the truly good guys in Hudson County sports. You probably know him as the long-time athletic director and track coach at St. Dominic Academy. In fact, Nagel is currently celebrating the 30th anniversary of his first season as the cross country coach for the Blue Devils. Nagel has also worked …

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Back in January of 1971, late R&B legend Marvin Gaye released an anti-Vietnam War anthem entitled, “What’s Going On,” that became one of Gaye’s biggest selling singles. Well, if Gaye was still with us today, he could warble that same tune in regards to the current state of high school football in Hudson County. Because …

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Sometimes, it pays to be persistent and fight for what you believe in. Just ask the athletic departments at Secaucus and Weehawken High Schools, whose appeals to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association were heard and accepted, when it comes to the massive realignment plan the NJSIAA has in store for next year. When …

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When Julian Rodriguez returns to his eighth grade classroom at North Bergen’s Horace Mann School this week, he’s going to have a lot to talk about with his fellow classmates. That’s because Rodriguez, a budding boxing superstar, now has three more national championship belts to add to his burgeoning collection. The 13-year-old Rodriguez has now …

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