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The Lincoln-St. Anthony football game had reached halftime last Saturday and things weren’t going the way that Tyron Stevens would have liked. The Lincoln standout junior running back had about 50 or so yards rushing and he knew that he could produce more than that, if given the opportunity. So Stevens did what he could …

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Lincoln’s Stevens lays it on the lineInspires teammates to 242-yard performance in win over St. Anthony”

On another day, Danny Rondon might have been upset that he lost a lead in the final 600 yards of a cross-country race and had to settle for second best. But last Saturday represented more than just a silver medal for the talented North Bergen senior runner. It was a return to glory. Rondon returned …

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Fine return for NB runner RondonWendolowski new Prep baseball coach; Anderson resigns at High Tech”

When Josh Jantas returned to his alma mater, St. Peter’s Prep, last year to replace long-time head soccer coach John Irvine, he had hoped that he could help bring back some of the luster that the Prep soccer program once had, but was tarnished over the last few years. “I knew that we were coming …

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Restoring Prep soccer prideAfter a few down years, Marauders return to prominence”

When Dominik Montanez was attending Edison Elementary School in Union City as a youngster, he noticed one thing: He was fast. “We used to have races in the schoolyard and I was always one of the fastest ones,” said Montanez, now a junior at Union City High School and a member of the school’s football …

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Speedy Montanez makes instant impact for Soaring EaglesUnion City running back enjoys breakout game against Dickinson”

Needless to say, the first two contests of Chris Demarest’s tenure as the new head football coach and athletic director at Hudson Catholic High School haven’t gone exactly as planned. Under Demarest’s tutelage, the Hawks have lost to Weequahic of Newark, 38-0, and to Malvern Prep of Pennsylvania, 44-0. And Demarest took over a program …

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Charlie Voorhees knows that he definitely has a full-fledged football program at Secaucus High School. After all, Voorhees has been in charge of the grid program at Secaucus for 11 years now and has watched the cycle keep spinning year after year. A good group of kids graduates and moves on, then another crop of …

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Carrying on a Secaucus winning traditionPatriots dominate in league, but can they make the next step?”

A year ago, the Union City High School football team was thrown together for the first time, combining the programs of both former schools, namely Emerson and Union Hill. It was a lot to ask of head coach Joe Rotondi, the former coach at Union Hill, who was selected to lead the new united program. …

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Losing a plethora of talented players to graduation, including a bunch that moved on to play college football, is one thing. But when you lose a host of others to injury before you play a single game the following season, well, you have the recipe for troubled times. That’s the scenario that the perennially powerful …

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There’s no question that Vince Ascolese would love to wipe the calendar year of 2008 from his already impressive and legendary memory book. The long-time head football coach at North Bergen High School, who ranks second among active New Jersey high school coaches in career victories with 326, had to endure both professional and personal …

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Bruins, Ascolese try to forget lost seasonGranddaddy of Hudson grid coaches mentors grandson, as NB looks to rebound”

Rich Glover never thought that he would experience the kind of troubles he has endured since he took the Dickinson High School head football coaching position three years ago. The former Snyder High School standout and University of Nebraska All-American nose guard who won the Outland Trophy and the Lombardi Trophy as the nation’s best …

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