Tag: Jim Hague

When Wilbur Valdez led the Ferris High School football program into the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group III playoffs back in 2005, the head coach figured that it was only the beginning of what the former Hoboken High and University of Miami standout truly believed would become an annual tradition at Ferris. Valdez was …

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Once again, state playoffs elude FerrisBulldogs suffer late-season setback, just miss playoffs for fourth straight year”

Prep’s Huggins falls right in line with great running backs Over the past two decades, St. Peter’s Prep has produced its share of sensational running backs. It’s been a litany of excellence in the backfield, much like Penn State has produced linebackers, Starbucks has produced frappaccinos and the Duggar family produces kids. One after another, …

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The Lincoln High School football team rolls on. After defeating Marist last weekend 38-6, the Lions are now an astounding 6-0, the latest a Lincoln football team has been undefeated since 1973. Back then, the Lions, led by All-County players like Bobby Morgan , Tony Samuel (currently the head coach at Southeast Missouri State) and …

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An archeologist may have an easier time digging for ancient ruins than he would finding the last time Secaucus High School didn’t have a dominant girls’ volleyball team. Indiana Jones could cross the threshold into the Temple of Doom long before he could uncover the last season that the Patriots didn’t totally romp their way …

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He’s reaching a milestone that is very rarely attained in local high school boys’ soccer. But when he finds the net on his next goal, Dickinson’s brilliant senior Maxi Garcia will have scored the 100th goal of his high school career, quite an extraordinary feat. There was a time in Garcia’s life where the thought …

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Dickinson’s Garcia on scoring rampage”

The North Jersey Tri-County Conference held its first-ever championships (and quite possibly its last as well) Tuesday at Garret Mountain in Woodland Park. The area was well represented by some solid performances, highlighted by the North Bergen girls winning the Hudson larger schools team title, the school’s first girls’ team title of any kind since …

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Fine cross country performances at NJTCC meetPower point update; football performances of note”

The 2008 high school football season was one to totally forget for the Bruins of North Bergen. They were totally decimated by injuries and illness. They lost games that North Bergen teams don’t normally lose. Their legendary head coach was slowed by cancer. It was a complete and utter nightmare. The end result was a …

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The return of the BruinsNorth Bergen bounces back in solid fashion after season to forget”

It was late November of 2008 and the Hoboken High School football team was making yet another journey toward a state championship, but Jason Montalvo was not being a part of it. It was a shame, considering that Montalvo was targeted for greatness, destined to become the next standout Red Wing running back from the …

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Hoboken’s Montalvo learns valuable lesson, comes back with style”

Even the least likely of Hudson County football teams can somehow pull themselves by their collective bootstraps and earn a win every now and then. It was proven last weekend when previously winless Weehawken and Snyder both won their respective games. Weehawken downright shocked Ridgefield, 24-21, when freshman Damian Corredor caught a 33-yard touchdown pass …

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Grid wins for Weehawken, SnyderOrtiz leads Marauders; sad news about boxing champ Medal”

The McNair Academic High School girls’ soccer program has been in existence for a few years now, ever since the veteran soccer coach John Barulich transferred from coaching the boys at the downtown Jersey City school to initiating the girls’ program. But since the program began a little more than a decade ago, the Cougars …

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The Miracle of McNair girls’ soccerCougars remain undefeated in finest season ever”