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There was a point in the high school softball season when winning the Hudson County Tournament would have been a totally foreign thought to the Bruins of North Bergen. Sure, no Hudson County team has won more softball county crowns than the Bruins and veteran head coach Tom Eagleson, the granddaddy of all Hudson County …

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University Charter has been in existence as a high school in Jersey City for over a decade now, but does anyone really know it? Seriously, the school opened in 2002 on West Side Avenue. It’s a school affiliated with New Jersey City University and is located in the building that used to hold NJCU’s School …

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For his first three years of high school, Danny Harcourt was a two-sport athlete, starting for the St. Peter’s Prep hockey team as well as being a key member of the golf team. Harcourt was a starting defenseman for the Marauders on the ice and admittedly, Harcourt said he played a key role. “I was …

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Brian Rodriguez was 16 years old when his family moved from their native Dominican Republic to their new home in Weehawken. “It was very different for me,” Rodriguez said. “In the Dominican Republic, I played baseball all year long. Here, I could only play for a couple of months. It was a big difference. I …

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It’s been said that sometimes all people need in life is a second chance. There is no better proof of that old adage than Andrew Nasti. Nasti was a fine three-sport athlete coming out of Weehawken High School in 2009. He played basketball and football, but his main sport was baseball. It was Nasti’s baseball …

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The truth be told, Danny Suarez never envisioned himself becoming a baseball coach, even though many people who watched him grow up thought he was predestined to become one. From his teenage days, when Suarez was playing at the now-defunct St. Mary’s of Jersey City and as a solid second baseman for the traveling Jersey …

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When Sophia Pardo was growing up, she spent a lot of time watching and admiring her older brother, Jorge, who was a standout catcher for the Memorial High School baseball team during his heyday. “I always looked up to my brother,” Sophia Pardo said. “When I was a little kid, I would go to all …

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It was first the Brendan Byrne Arena, then the Continental Airlines Arena and finally the Izod Center, but from the minute the doors opened in the summer of 1981, it was more universally known as its unofficial name, the Meadowlands Arena. And it was a building that helped to put New Jersey on the national …

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The St. Dominic Academy softball team is steamrolling along these days, putting up an impressive 12-4 record. “Honestly, I’m not surprised by it,” said second-year head coach Mike Nieves. “We had seven of our nine starters returning. I expected us to be successful.” One of the major reasons why Nieves had high hopes for the …

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A year ago, Elijah Pereira suddenly emerged as one of the best pitchers in Hudson County. As a junior, Pereira took on most of the top teams in the county and was highly successful. But having a year under his belt and establishing a reputation in the process wasn’t good enough for Pereira. He worked …

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