SCOREBOARD Friarsโ€™ season ends a little short once again
Fall to Roselle Catholic in NJSIAA Non-Public B title game

Last Wednesday afternoon, Bob Hurley was making plans for an eight-hour car ride to Columbus, Ohio for this weekend, with his wife, Chris, daughter Melissa and Melissaโ€™s two young children, Gabriel and Anna. The Hurley clan was heading west to Ohio, because Hurleyโ€™s eldest son, former Duke All-American and NBA basketball player Bobby was coaching …

Fall to Roselle Catholic in NJSIAA Non-Public B title game

TASTY TIDBITS Gallo takes over grid program at St. Anthony
Robert Morris has local flavor in NCAA tourney; mourning the loss of Dalton

After stepping down as the head football coach at Harrison High School, where he spent the last two years, Hoboken native Matt Gallo said that he was considering his options toward the next step in his coaching career. Gallo would have never believed the opportunity that simply fell into his lap. The 26-year-old Gallo was …

Robert Morris has local flavor in NCAA tourney; mourning the loss of Dalton

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
McNair Academicโ€™s Hegarty a dominant force in the pool

Sakura Hegarty thinks that she was about 3 years old the first time she was introduced to swimming. โ€œI started swimming in Japan,โ€ said Hegarty, who has the unique heritage bloodline of being half Japanese and half English. โ€œI go back to Japan every summer. I started swimming with my parents and really liked it.โ€ …

McNair Academicโ€™s Hegarty a dominant force in the pool

Soccer champs

LaGuardiola Pizzeria and Bistro celebrated as champions of the Bayonne Youth Soccer Association Boys League. Pictured in the top row are Coach Felix Pereira, Joseph Knox, Matteo Capurso, Mateo Ramirez, Marven Bekheet, Hanza Iqbal, Steven Pereira, Justin Roerty, Coach Mike Franchi. In the bottom row are Kyle Oโ€™Hara, Nicholas Rodriguez, Thomas Dunham, Alex Vazquez, Kyrillos …

Team Thunder

Bayonne Thunder Boys U-16 soccer team achieved second best in the High School Junior Division Winter 2015 League at Center Circle in Rahway. Coach Orlando Alcantara led the team to a 6-2 record against 16 highly-competitive academy and MAPS soccer teams. From the left in the top row are Bryan Marquez, Jose Rivera, Mohammed Elzokem, …

Checkmate! Division of Recreation to host spring chess tournament April 17 โ€“ 18

The Division of Recreationโ€™s Chess Club will hold its spring chess tournaments at the Recreation Firehouse at 597 Broadway on April 17 at 5 p.m. for the ages 18 and under tournament; and April 24 at 6:30 p.m. for the open chess tournament, all run by chess master Joe Lux. To register contact (201) 858-6127, …

Division of Recreation offering spring break multi-sports kids camp

Mayor James Davis has announced that the Recreation Division will team up once again this spring with the U.S. Sports Institute for a “Spring BreakCamp: Multi-Sports” for children ages 5 โ€“ 11. The US Sports Institute’s flagship Total Play Multi Sports camp offers 15 different international sports during held April 6 โ€“ April 10 from …

Champion gymnast

Liana Mendoza of Woodrow Wilson School is the 2015 USA Gymnastics Level 3 Beam State Champion with a score of 9.375. She also earned the following scores: third place in bars (9.275); fourth place in floor (8.9); sixth place in vault (9.125); and fourth place all around (36.675). She attended Bridges Gymnastics and was promoted …