Tag: Jim Hague

In recent years, when someone wanted to talk about the upper echelon high school baseball teams in Hudson County, there were a lot of names that came to mind. Of course, Memorial and St. Peter’s Prep would be the first two schools mentioned, and deservedly so. The Tigers and the Marauders have earned their reputations …

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North Bergen: The best baseball team no one knows aboutBruins quietly stake claim to being Hudson’s best with solid 8-2 record”

It’s been said that baseball is perhaps the most redeeming of all sports. Whenever a baseball player has a low moment, there is generally an opportunity for the player to right the wrong. It might not happen overnight. It might not occur the next day, the next week, maybe even the next year. But chances …

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Weehawken’s Gerbehy gets shot at redemption against Lyndhurst”

When rumors were floating around that St. John’s University was going to replace Norm Roberts as head basketball coach, St. Peter’s Prep senior standout Ronald Roberts (no relation) expressed his displeasure in the coaching change and thought that he might want to get released from the letter of intent he signed with St. John’s. And …

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Roberts no longer going to St. John’sRosario officially leaves Rutgers; Arico steps down as Marist grid coach”

It was one of the best kept secrets going in a county where secrets usually last as long as a fuse on a firecracker. Bill DeFazio was told by his wife, Alice, the athletic director at New Jersey City University, that he was going back to Marist High School last Sunday afternoon for a brief …

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A permanent honor for DeFazioMarist names court after retired girls’ basketball coach”

Paul Pappaceno was really looking forward to his first start of the new baseball season. The St. Peter’s Prep junior left-handed pitcher worked hard in the offseason to get ready. He attended camps and clinics, participated in talent showcases, and played with a summer league team based out of Florida. Pappaceno also worked with the …

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Prep’s Pappaceno makes most of pitching debutJunior lefty fires no-hitter against Hudson Catholic”

Bob Hurley was having a tough time keeping to himself what had become the one of the world’s worst kept secrets. The legendary St. Anthony High School basketball coach had known since a week ago Wednesday that he had gained enough consideration for induction into the Naismith National Basketball Hall of Fame, but was told …

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Memorable day for Hurley family in IndianapolisCoach Hurley gets Hall of Fame nod in city where Bobby became a star”

Last year the Hoboken High School baseball team stumbled and stammered to a 15-13 record, the highest loss total that veteran head coach Buddy Matthews had to endure in almost two decades. Now, the Red Wings will head to the bigger school division of the new-fangled North Jersey Tri-County Conference, playing all the larger enrollment …

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The Memorial High School baseball team, which is always perennially successful, won 23 games last year and captured the regular season championship in the final season of the HCIAA. Now the Tigers will play in the new-fangled North Jersey Tri-County Conference and will do so with a team that was downright ravaged last June by …

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Memorial’s baseball team looks to rebuild after massive graduation exodusDickinson’s Garcia signs with Seton Hall soccer; preseason Top Fives”

Chipper Benway spent three years as the head baseball coach at Union Hill High School, then joined forces with former Emerson coach Frank Clark last season as the coaching tandem with the new and unified Union City High School. Now, as Clark has left to pursue other administrative opportunities, Benway has been given the chance …

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New field, new league, new approach for Union City baseballFormer assistant coach Benway gets chance to lead Soaring Eagles”