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In 2009, Fernando Colon took over the girls’ volleyball program at Hudson Catholic High School. There wasn’t a problem in having an easy transition, because there was no such thing as a girls’ volleyball program at the school before Colon’s arrival. He was it. “Seven years ago, we started the program,” Colon said. “We figured …

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The Hudson County boys’ soccer tournament championship game should be a fine one with two evenly matched teams. Top-seeded North Bergen, with a 12-3-1 record, will face second-seeded St. Peter’s Prep, with a 13-3-1 record, Sunday at Harrison High School at 2 p.m. The game was originally scheduled for Caven Point Cochrane Stadium, but was …

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There was never any doubt what Johnathan Lewis’ role would eventually be at St. Peter’s Prep. From the minute Lewis enrolled at Grand and Warren, he was going to replace Brandon Wimbush, the former all-everything quarterback with the Marauders. It wasn’t going to be an easy task for Lewis, considering Wimbush was only the New …

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There’s no question that Giovanna Noguera loves sports. “Ever since I was young, I played sports,” Noguera said. “I played soccer, basketball, softball. I wasn’t very good, but I played. I was also involved in a lot of clubs. I didn’t think much of track.” But then, as a senior at North Bergen High School, …

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The Secaucus High School football team snapped a two-game losing streak with a resounding 45-13 victory over Ridgefield last Friday night. That alone isn’t newsworthy. But what it is impressive about the Patriots’ win is the way they got to the lopsided win. The Patriots gained a total of 484 yards rushing, easily the highest …

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Bernard Shivers makes no bones about what he sees himself as. “I’m a baseball player,” said Shivers, the St. Anthony High School junior who pitched the Friars to victory over Hudson Catholic in the first round of the NJSIAA Non-Public B state tournament last spring. “I love baseball. I love hitting. I love the pace …

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Union City High School head football coach Wilber Valdez realized that his Soaring Eagles had faced the crossroads of their already tough and new-fangled schedule, courtesy of the team’s involvement as part of the New Jersey Super Football Conference. After wins against West Orange and Dickinson, the trials began. “We knew that this was the …

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It was learned this week that the Hudson Catholic athletic administration did the right thing by self-reporting a major dilemma in its boys’ soccer roster. The powers-that-be realized that the soccer team had played an ineligible player for the first seven games of the season, a player whose high school eligibility had expired. The player …

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It all began fairly innocently at a Snyder High School football practice last year. Jahleel Baker came to Snyder, thinking he was going to be a lineman. After all, it was the position he played for the Jersey City PAL football program. “All throughout growing up, I was a lineman,” Baker said. And as a …

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Pietro Sollecito’s love for baseball began as a youngster, first as a toddler growing up in Hoboken and later as a Little Leaguer and high school player living in Weehawken. “My upbringing is in baseball,” Sollecito says. “I grew up playing in Weehawken Stadium.” Sollecito went on to pitch at St. Peter’s Prep, playing for …

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