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When Alex Mirabel took over the St. Peter’s Prep basketball program last year, he knew that it was going to be somewhat of a rebuilding process. After all, it looked like everyone involved with the program totally vanished after playing for the NJSIAA Non-Public A North title in 2014, namely the head coach and virtually …

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Plain and simple, it can’t be easy playing basketball for a team with a 2-15 record. The losses continue to build. The setback total continues to rise, higher and higher, like a one of the skyscrapers popping up all over Jersey City. Yet, as a player, you have to go out there, playing for pride, …

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Chinwe Wosu’s now burgeoning basketball career didn’t exactly come easy. Born and raised in Jersey City, Wosu first started to play around with a basketball at age 5. He played at Liberty Charter Academy in grade school, then went to University Charter for high school. “It was a good experience for me,” Wosu said. “I …

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St. Peter’s Prep will have the best athletic training facility in Hudson County by the end of this year. Officials from the private all-boys school broke ground last week on a $5.25 million athletic training facility that will be built adjacent to the school’s football practice field, the Rev. James F. Keenan, S.J. Field. The …

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Ron Washington’s love for the game of basketball started when he was just a toddler, just out of diapers. “I was 3 years old and in day care in Jersey City,” said Washington, the Snyder High School senior. “And I got a basketball in day care and started dribbling it all around the room. I …

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The college basketball season is more than half over. It has brought about some major surprises. There have been multiple changes galore in the Associated Press Top 25 every week. There are teams making noise in their respective conferences. Take for instance, the Peacocks of St. Peter’s University. They might be the best kept secret …

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Ever since he was a little boy, John Bauza wanted to be just like his father, Juan. When Juan Bauza was still a competitive boxer in his native Puerto Rico, young John used to mimic his father, throwing punches left and right, bobbing and weaving. “I always wanted to do it,” John Bauza said. “In …

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The Hudson Catholic girls’ basketball team was practically torn apart by graduation, leaving very few returning players for this year’s team. “I knew a lot of it was going to be on me,” said junior point guard Tania Scott. “I had to be strong and level headed. I just had to keep my head until …

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Brian Innis had an inkling that the inevitable was going to happen, that long-time St. Peter’s Prep head wrestling coach Anthony Verdi was going to step aside because of family commitments. “I knew that his kids were getting older and it had become more of a hassle for him,” said Innis, who spent the last …

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Dan Reardon is officially the granddaddy of all Hudson County girls’ basketball coaches. The North Bergen head coach is currently in the 29th year of his coaching career and Reardon collected the 400th win of his career last season. It means one thing: Reardon has been around the game of girls’ basketball for quite a …

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