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After enjoying a Hudson Reporter All-Area season as the starting quarterback for the Lions of Lincoln High School, Darius Wade was set to get shifted to a new position at wide receiver, which is his natural position. “I wasn’t disappointed,” Wade said. “I was happy to go back to my true position. I was happy …

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St. Anthony senior quarterback Alex Vidal knew exactly how much last Saturday’s game meant to his head coach Ed Stinson. Therefore, the game against Hoboken took on a greater importance for Vidal and his Friar teammates. “It meant a lot to us,” Vidal said. “We never beat Hoboken in my previous three years. But we …

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Camille Bertholon was having a blast, frolicking in the rain and mud at Holmdel Park last Saturday afternoon. The St. Dominic Academy junior just loves running in the rain. “I was so pumped to run in the rain,” said Bertholon, who was competing in the prestigious Shore Coaches Invitational meet with 200 of some of …

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The North Bergen football coaching staff had its concerns. They wondered how in the world the Bruins could replace Dominick Trautz, the school’s all-time leading passer, who compiled more than 4,000 yards in the air over the last two seasons and took his school records off to Cheyney University in Pennsylvania. “We all said, ‘Where …

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When the 2014 high school football schedule was released last spring, veteran Hoboken head coach Lou Taglieri had to be shaking his head, wondering how in the world could that happen. How would the schedule maker be so unkind and designate that slate of games for his Red Wings? The first two games were against …

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Before he entered his cross country teams in the prestigious and highly competitive Passaic County Coaches Invitational cross country championships at Garret Mountain last Saturday, veteran Secaucus head coach Stan Fryczynski knew that he had the makings of a special group, especially with his girls’ team. “At the beginning of last week, I told both …

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Two years ago, when he was a freshman, Ricardo Azucar was an exciting addition to the Memorial High School football team. Azucar was one of the Tigers’ leading rushers and gave everyone hope for a bright and promising future. But last year, right before Azucar was going to start his sophomore year, his season came …

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When Miguel Perez played soccer at Dickinson in 2003, there was a sense of pride and dignity in the school’s boys’ soccer squad. So after Perez graduated, went on to college and then aspired to be a soccer coach, he began a journey that would eventually take him home. Perez coached at Sussex County Community …

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If there had been one problem during Czar Wiley’s brief tenure as the head football coach at North Bergen, it had been a slow start that forced the Bruins to make a mad scramble to get into the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group V state playoffs. And after all, it is an annual tradition …

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When Daniel Taylor first attended high school, he resided in a tiny upstate New York town called Pine Bush. Although standing only 5-foot-4 and weighing just 150 pounds, Taylor was excited to play football in Pine Bush. But Taylor’s guardians, aunt and uncle Kelly and Matthew Montgomery, moved back to their native Jersey City and …

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