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It’s definitely safe to say that professional boxing is alive and well in Hudson County once again.If you need proof, there was Pound4Pound Promotions’ latest card at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, which was held to a sold-out crowd of enthusiastic boxing fans last Thursday night. In fact, promoter John Lynch, who runs Pound4Pound with …

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As the NBA Draft moved on last Thursday night, Ahmad Nivins sat in his Jersey City home watching every single selection for more than four hours, and never heard his name called. One by one, all of the other prospective draftees were taken in the draft, guys that the former St. Anthony High School and …

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Nivins finally gets the call from DallasFormer St. Anthony standout gets picked in second round; former Prep hockey star picked”

The high school baseball season didn’t exactly end the way Michael Kuzirian wanted it to finish. The standout Memorial High School pitcher/infielder watched his team lose in embarrassing fashion to Randolph in the Group IV state playoffs and two days later, drop another heartbreaker to St. Peter’s Prep in the HCIAA Coviello championship game. What …

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One last chance to shineHudson’s All-Star baseball selections fare well at NJSBCA Classic”

In the past, winning the HCIAA Seglio Division softball title, like the way the Lasercats of High Tech High School had done in each of the previous three years, there wasn’t a ton of pressure on the players. However, when you’re the defending NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state champions and made a …

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It’s a ‘four-peat’ for High Tech softballState playoff confusion for Marist baseball; SDA wins HCTCA track title”

So there they were, three women of influence who had their lives changed and influenced by the game of baseball, all together for the very first time. When Maria Pepe read the article about young Mackenzie Brown of Bayonne pitching a perfect game in the Bayonne Little League a few weeks ago, the first-ever girl …

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Three generations of baseball heroinesRecent standout Brown meets legendary Little Leaguers Pepe, Vargas”

While the HCIAA Coviello baseball scenario is in a complete state of flux and confusion, the exact opposite is taking place with the softball race. It has clearly become a year of North Bergen and everyone else. The Bruins rolled through the regular season totally unblemished with a perfect 16-0 record, defeating every other team …

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HCIAA Coviello softball race becomes Bruins and the restThe passing of two local sports fixtures; CREATE Charter dumps Sullivan already”

The Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association will hold its final championships on May 30. That is, if the weather gods can cooperate and stop the wet stuff from falling like it has been for practically the entire spring. But thanks to the NJSIAA’s realignment plan that has turned the world of high school sports in …

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HCIAA Coviello baseball: Going out in classic fashionAny of playoff contenders can come away with final title”

Ever since she was a little girl, Natalia Estremera has constantly heard one thing. “It’s all the time,” said Estremera, who is a freshman at McNair Academic. “I always hear, ‘You’re Pito’s daughter.’ I mean, it’s all the time. I get that so much. I wish they would stop saying that already.” The younger Estremera …

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McNair’s Estremera following in father’s footstepsSlugging shortstop/pitcher has week to remember”