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The St. Peter’s Prep football team should learn the words to “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling” before next August. That’s because the Marauders are headed to Ireland to become the first New Jersey high school football team to play a game overseas. According to head coach and athletic director Rich Hansen, the Marauders will travel …

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The pressure of replacing a great person or player can sometimes be so totally immense. Just like Shemp trying to take over for Curly with the Three Stooges. B.J. Honeycutt wasn’t exactly as funny as Trapper John on “M*A*S*H.” The jury is still out on Stephen Colbert taking over for David Letterman on “The Late …

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Julia Peschetti started playing the sport that has changed her life back in fifth grade. “I guess when I was a kid, I just loved soccer,” said the Secaucus High School senior. “I just loved the thrill of the game, the constant action, the pace.” Plus, Peshcetti had a family of soccer players. “My cousins …

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Rene Portillo had the world on a string six years ago, when he took his Dickinson boys’ soccer team to the pinnacle, the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group IV state championship game, only to fall to Ridge. But the idea of anyone taking any Jersey City public school team to a state title soccer …

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The high school football season was five weeks old and the Patriots of Secaucus were in a very unfamiliar way, having lost all five of their games this year. Secaucus football teams simply don’t go 0-5. The Patriots have certainly gone 5-0 in the past, but not 0-5. “It was very hard and very frustrating …

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The news filtered down from throughout the rest of the New Jersey football circles and caused shockwaves throughout. How in the world could St. Peter’s Prep, the defending NJSIAA Non-Public Group 4 state champion and the overall No. 1 team in New Jersey last year, lose games by scores of 47-14 and 56-14 in a …

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Last fall, the Union City High School girls’ cross country team made news when the Soaring Eagles captured the first Hudson County championship in school’s history. Now, it appears as if the boys’ team wants to try to keep up with the girls’ squad. Both the Soaring Eagles boys’ and girls’ teams won their respective …

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The pieces were all in place for it to be a sensational senior season for Zymire Gordon. The Lincoln High School quarterback was returning after helping the Lions reach the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group II championship game at MetLife Stadium last December. Gordon was being considered as a solid college prospect with good …

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Lincoln High School was getting ready to play its biggest football game of the season last week and there were a host of problems to deal with for head coach Robert Hampton. While the Lions were preparing to face Union City – a team that the Lions had never defeated before – Hampton had to …

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It was a season to remember in 2014 for the Secaucus High School girls’ volleyball team, a campaign that culminated in the Patriots winning the NJSIAA Group I state championship. It was the 19th state crown for the school, which is a state record, and it was the first state title for the Patriots since …

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