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The Weehawken High School softball program hasn’t exactly been setting the world on fire for several years. In fact, it’s maybe even longer than that. It’s not readily known when the last time the Indians were even a factor on the softball diamond. It has been that long. Most people in Weehawken have chosen to …

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When your school has a basketball team that has a national reputation, it’s hard for any other sport to gain any positive recognition. Thus is the case at St. Anthony, where the Friars are respected throughout the land for their basketball exploits. The Jersey City school offers other sports, like baseball, which has not had …

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Crystal Vargas already had a distinction in Hudson County sports history. During her days at Marist High School, Vargas became the first female to ever win a game as a pitcher in a boys’ varsity baseball game. Vargas then went on to have brilliant softball career at Rutgers University, then became an assistant softball coach …

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There was never any doubting Christina Mezey’s talents as a softball pitcher. From the minute she grabbed the ball and entered the circle as a pitcher for the St. Dominic Academy softball team two years ago, Mezey displayed the immense power that comes with being a dominant pitcher. Mezey had flashes of brilliance last year …

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Six years ago, Josh Aronowitz was strictly a physical education teacher and basketball coach at Bergenfield High School, when he learned of an opening at a new Jersey City charter high school searching for a baseball coach. “I would love to do that,” Aronowitz said at the time. “I was young and I wanted to …

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St. Peter’s Prep has had a host of top NCAA Division I football products over the last quarter century. More than 100 former Marauders have moved on to the top level of college football. But never had a Marauder headed to one of the most storied college programs of all time. Until now. Minkah Fitzpatrick, …

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Coming into the 2014 high school baseball season, junior Elijah Pereira was slated to be the top hurler on the Ferris pitching staff. There was only one problem. “The problem is that he’s also our top shortstop,” said veteran Ferris head coach Mike Hogan. “A lot of the other teams have the luxury of having …

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The Marist High School baseball team began the 2014 season with extreme high hopes. After all, the Royal Knights returned two pitchers who have already signed NCAA Division I scholarship papers and a host of talented youngsters poised at the threshold of stardom. The Royal Knights got off on a sensational start, defeating rival St. …

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After last year’s dream season that resulted in the first-ever Hudson County Tournament championship and the first-ever NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state sectional title, Secaucus softball coach Cherryl Bott stepped down. Bott turned the program over to her former assistant, Amanda Jones, and the new coach is determined to make sure the …

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Alizea Henriquez had a jump start to her athletic career at Hoboken High School – even before Alizea (who is also known as Ali) and her twin sister Jaeda were born. You see, the Henriquez twins, both freshmen on the Hoboken softball team this season, come from a strong athletic background. Their father, Anthony Henriquez, …

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