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Kevin Wendolowski knows that it’s never easy replacing a legend, so the challenge of taking over as head baseball coach at St. Peter’s Prep for long-time Marauder mentor Joe Urbanovich looms large as the 2010 high school baseball season begins this week. Urbanovich, the St. Peter’s Prep and Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame inductee, …

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Veteran North Bergen softball coach Tom Eagleson knew that he was going to have a solid squad this season, so he did the best thing to showcase the Bruins. He’s taking them to Disney World. Thanks to a major off-season fundraising campaign, the Bruins will head to Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando next …

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North Bergen begins season as top Hudson softball squadThree to play in North-South grid classic; Hudson happenings at Felician”

Kevin Shaw admitted that he is a huge basketball fan. “Growing up in Chicago, I used to watch the Chicago Bulls games and Michael Jordan all the time,” said Shaw, a respected filmmaker and director. “I went to Michigan State and was obviously a big fan of the Spartans and [head coach] Tom Izzo. I …

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‘The Street Stops Here’: A perfect film about St. Anthony basketballDocumentary on Friars’ perfect season to air on PBS Wednesday”

The 2009-2010 Hudson Reporter All-Area Boys’ and Girls’ High School Basketball Teams feature a host of talented players, many of whom are repeat honorees from a year ago. Among the boys, there are four players who have collected All-Area honors once again. With the girls, there are eight repeat performers. That’s a good sign of …

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As a youngster growing up in Jersey City, Stephon Whyatt used to watch and marvel at the talents of his uncle, Roshown McLeod, the former St. Anthony and Duke standout who later went on to play in the NBA and currently is an assistant coach at the University of Indiana. But Whyatt, currently a junior …

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Throughout the boys’ high school basketball season, the skeptics and doubters all said that this was not a vintage St. Anthony team, that the Friars had no prayer of contending with state powers like St. Patrick of Elizabeth or Paterson Catholic for the NJSIAA Non-Public B North title. Well, by virtue of its decision against …

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A masterful coaching job by HurleySt. Anthony wins state sectional crown, then falls in Non-Public B finale”

The ledger of accomplishments reads like a roll call of brilliance. • 139 career victories, easily a school record and one away from a county record. • Three District 16 championships and three Region 4 titles. • Fifth place in the NJSIAA state championships in 2009. • Second place in the NJSIAA state championships in …

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Prep’s Innis carves niche as program’s best wrestler ever”

Oscar Guerrero was totally content coaching and teaching at Kearny High School. He just completed his second year as the head football coach there. “I learned a lot about coaching in my time in Kearny,” Guerrero said. “I’ve made a lot of great relationships.” But when his high school alma mater, Memorial in West New …

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Guerrero hired as grid coach at alma mater MemorialMemorable night on tap at RAC; NB’s Quintero earns state wrestling medal”