Tag: Jim Hague

It’s what every New Jersey high school football team dreams about when practices begin in the sweltering summer days of August. They all aspire to be playing in the cold and frigid days of the first week of December. Because if that happens, then it means only one thing: Your team is playing for a …

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Seven weeks ago, there weren’t many people – outside of the ones who attend Hudson Catholic High School – who knew who Crystal Ortiz was. But now, after her breakthrough freshman cross country campaign, one that saw her win the Hudson County Track Coaches Association title, the NJSIAA Non-Public B state championship and finally the …

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It was halftime of the NJSIAA Non-Public 4 semifinal against Bergen Catholic and St. Peter’s Prep standout defensive players Dave Tolentino and Jordan Fox couldn’t believe what was happening. The Marauders, the No. 1-ranked team in the entire state of New Jersey and ranked among the top five nationally in some polls, were actually trailing …

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Although Secaucus High School had won a state-record 18 NJSIAA Group state championships over the years, there hadn’t been a new banner to add to the walls of the Secaucus gymnasium since 2006. What was once an annual occurrence hadn’t taken place in eight years. It was almost a given that the Patriots would win …

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While high school football standouts enjoy their big college letter signing day in early February, athletes from other sports can sign their national letters of intent in November – thus the reason for celebrations at both St. Anthony and Memorial over the last few weeks. At St. Anthony, two members of the school’s renowned basketball …

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The calendar might have read mid-November and usually by this time of the high school sports schedule, the soccer balls and uniforms have long been tucked away in the equipment locker at Secaucus High School. See, when you get to November, it’s generally the time of the NJSIAA state tournament. When you get to the …

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Some of the area’s top cross country performers will head to Holmdel Park this weekend for the NJSIAA Group championships. One of those who will compete with the state’s best is McNair Academic’s Rachel Prendergass, who finished seventh at the North Jersey Section 2, Group I championships at Greystone Park in Morris Plains last Saturday. …

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Football came easy to the Terry brothers. The younger brother, Eli, used to watch an older brother, Bryant Obie, come home from football practice at Hoboken High School. “He used to bring his football equipment home,” Eli Terry said. “That’s what got me started. I wanted my own equipment.” Eli Terry joined the football program …

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When Juan Garcia took over the Marist High School football program last year, he looked at it as a golden opportunity. After all, Garcia was getting a chance to be a head football coach at a very young age, just 27 years old. It was a football program with a good tradition, once a state …

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