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Perhaps the greatest basketball player to ever come out of Weehawken passed away last week. Harry Anderson died way too young. He was 63 years old. Anderson helped Weehawken win its lone HCIAA basketball championship in 1967 and helped the Indians advance to the NJSIAA Group III state title game that year. A year later, …

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While facing Marist in the Hudson County Tournament, St. Peter’s Prep senior Sean Cummings felt something wrong in his lower buttock. “I felt something pull,” Cummings said. “It hurt so much that I had to sit it out. I did what I had to do to come back, but it was the kind of injury …

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One day after defeating St. Peter’s Prep for a second straight Hudson County Tournament championship, Hudson Catholic head coach Nick Mariniello lost his father, Pasquale, after a long illness. Pasquale “Pat” Mariniello was 74 years old. “It was a long haul,” Mariniello said. “I went to see him Saturday [in Mountainside Hospital] and he was …

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It was a performance never before seen in the history of the NJSIAA District 16 wrestling championships. St. Peter’s Prep won 11 of the 14 individual titles at the tournament held at North Bergen High School last Saturday. The Marauders placed 13 wrestlers in their respective weight class finals. They accumulated 311 team points, compared …

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Ever since she was a little girl, around the age of 8, when she first picked up a basketball and started to play, She’Kinah Suber never had a problem dribbling and driving to the basket. The Lincoln High School junior had to be able to do something, especially if she wanted to keep up with …

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Nick Mariniello has had to endure his share of emotional strife this season. The head basketball coach and athletic director at Hudson Catholic had to watch as three of his top players from the school’s first Hudson County championship since 1975 leave the program and head for different schools. Not many programs can survive losing …

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Most high school bowlers don’t get to experience in a lifetime what Will Blanco did in the past week. It’s safe to say that it will always been a week to remember for the St. Peter’s Prep senior. Blanco started off his week Monday by rolling a 739 series to qualify for the NJSIAA individual …

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For most of her first two years of high school basketball, Doris Ilic was a player without a position. The North Bergen High School standout was first a taller-than-normal point guard during her grade school days at Anna L. Klein School in Guttenberg, but as a sophomore at North Bergen, she was moved to a …

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After his team lost to Memorial in the Hudson County Track Coaches Association Relays last month, St. Peter’s Prep head track and field coach Mike Burgess wondered whether his team had the intestinal fortitude to bounce back in time for the HCTCA championships, held last week at the New York Armory. “We knew we could …

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Hoboken native Angela Zampella is only 35 years old and not far removed from being a super standout high school basketball player at St. Dominic Academy. So the idea of being named to any Hall of Fame is a little early for Zampella, who just last year was playing professional basketball in Italy. But Zampella …

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