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It’s another softball season for Tom Eagleson. It’s an event he has been enjoying for more than 30 springs as the head coach at North Bergen and the longest standing coach, either for baseball or softball, in all of Hudson County. So that’s why this particular preseason was more trying than any other in Eagleson’s …

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The Marauders of St. Peter’s Prep lost some key components to last year’s team that finished 22-7 and lost to Marist in the Hudson County Tournament finale. But veteran head coach Pat Laguerre believes that the Marauders will be a force to be reckoned with once again this season. “I think we exceeded expectations last …

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The Marist High School baseball team won its second Ed “Faa” Ford Memorial Hudson County Baseball Tournament in the last three years last May, when the Royal Knights knocked off defending champion St. Peter’s Prep in the title game, sparked by a heroic home run by outfielder Tyler Cruz, the unlikeliest of heroes. Well, the …

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When National Signing Day took place on the first Wednesday in February, Eli Terry felt just a little left out. The St. Anthony standout running back knew that he was good enough of a football player to deserve a college scholarship, but there wasn’t a letter of intent for Terry to sign. So while his …

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The 2014-15 Hudson Reporter All-Area Boys’ and Girls’ High School Basketball Teams represent some of the most talented players that Hudson County has ever produced, especially on the girls’ side. So let’s start there for a change. The amount of talent on the Hudson Reporter All-Area Girls’ High School Basketball Team has no parallel. It …

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Last Wednesday afternoon, Bob Hurley was making plans for an eight-hour car ride to Columbus, Ohio for this weekend, with his wife, Chris, daughter Melissa and Melissa’s two young children, Gabriel and Anna. The Hurley clan was heading west to Ohio, because Hurley’s eldest son, former Duke All-American and NBA basketball player Bobby was coaching …

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After stepping down as the head football coach at Harrison High School, where he spent the last two years, Hoboken native Matt Gallo said that he was considering his options toward the next step in his coaching career. Gallo would have never believed the opportunity that simply fell into his lap. The 26-year-old Gallo was …

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Sakura Hegarty thinks that she was about 3 years old the first time she was introduced to swimming. “I started swimming in Japan,” said Hegarty, who has the unique heritage bloodline of being half Japanese and half English. “I go back to Japan every summer. I started swimming with my parents and really liked it.” …

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It was a basketball smorgasbord Monday afternoon/night in Jersey City, with two NJSIAA Non-Public B North semifinals taking place almost simultaneously, with the two winners getting the opportunity once again to face each other in the state playoffs. First, there was a journey to downtown Jersey City to watch St. Anthony dispose of Dwight-Englewood in …

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After spending the last three seasons as the head boys’ basketball coach at Secaucus, Carlos Cueto has decided to resign. Cueto handed in his letter of resignation soon after the Patriots finished a 14-12 campaign. Cueto, who was once the highly successful coach at Union Hill before the two Union City schools merged seven years …

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