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Once again, St. Peter’s Prep was clearly the best football team in Hudson County in 2013 and it shows in the array of talent from the Marauders that were selected to the 2013 Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team. All totaled, 10 Marauders were selected to the All-Area squad, including a clean sweep of …

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When North Bergen native Greg Herenda left the University of Massachusetts-Lowell to become the new head men’s basketball coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck last April, there were a lot of people who wondered whether Herenda was doing the right thing. After all, UMass-Lowell was all set to become an NCAA Division I program, …

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It’s safe to say that former St. Dominic Academy basketball standout Bria Smith is making her presence felt at New Jersey City University right away. Smith, a freshman forward with the Gothic Knights, has started off her collegiate career like gangbusters, earning the Rookie of the Week honors in the New Jersey Athletic Conference for …

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Although he was the starting quarterback who helped to guide Hoboken to the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group I state championship last year, Donte Bass wasn’t the typical inspirational leader that a quarterback should be. His head coach, Lou Taglieri, should know. After all, Taglieri was a standout quarterback during his playing days at …

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And then, there were two. Two local teams have earned the right to play for their respective NJSIAA state sectional championship. The Marauders of St. Peter’s Prep will face nationally-ranked Paramus Catholic and its All-American do-everything Jabrill Peppers for the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 4 state championship at MetLife Stadium on Friday, Dec. 6 at 8 …

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When Anthony Giraldo first started to wrestle in the North Bergen Recreation program as a youngster, he always dreamed of the day that he could reach the pinnacles of a wrestler’s career. Simply put, Giraldo wanted to win a state championship and earn a scholarship to college. Last March, Giraldo secured the first part, becoming …

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And then, there were four. Four local high school teams are still competing for their respective NJSIAA state championships, just one win away from playing for a state title. There’s St. Peter’s Prep, the state-ranked powerhouse, who manhandled Paul VI last weekend and will face St. Augustine Prep this weekend. A win this weekend will …

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A scary moment happened during Marist’s 55-7 loss to St. Joseph of Hammonton in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 1 state playoffs last Saturday. Royal Knights’ standout running back D’Ondre Robinson, who was honored as The Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Week last week, suffered a serious head injury during the game and was airlifted on …

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Tamaine Boyd faced some emotional news last week. His mother, Mildred Ares, was diagnosed with a form of bone cancer, a sarcoma in her leg. She was set to have surgery, leaving Boyd alone with an older sister. “I was a little bit scared for her,” said the talented Union City running back/linebacker. “But I …

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Kyle Anderson was living the dream. The former St. Anthony High School All-American and two-time Hudson Reporter Player of the Year was actually playing basketball at one of the most storied schools in college basketball history – namely UCLA. Yes, the same UCLA where the college basketball coaching icon John Wooden devised the famed Pyramid …

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