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If you drove along County Road in Secaucus and managed to see kids running up and down Shetik Field located there, it’s not a track meet going on. Nope, it’s actually a soccer game being played by the Secaucus High School boys’ soccer team. The Patriots play at a break-neck fast pace, going up and …

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Peter and Paul Some were born 45 minutes apart some 17 years ago, with Peter making his arrival later, much to the chagrin of their mother. The Some twins were born in Ghana, so there really wasn’t much chance of learning the American game of football before they arrived in the United States. They were …

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Over the last 30 years or so, there have been cries for help and usually those pleas have been answered. There have been false alarms that St. Anthony High School was about to fall by the wayside, become victim of the Parochial school purge that has engulfed the Archdiocese of Newark, become one of the …

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When Joe Cullen was a soccer player at Montclair State a few years ago, he was always impressed with the tenacity and the drive of the players at New Jersey City University. “I had a great amount of respect for New Jersey City back then,” said Cullen, a native Clementon near of the south western …

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Kamani Addison had no choice but to become a football player. That’s because the sport runs deep in Addison’s family bloodline. Addison, the talented and extremely quick Lincoln High School running back, is the nephew of former Snyder High School and University of Iowa great defensive back Lou King, a member of the Hudson County …

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The high school football season is only two weeks old and St. Peter’s Prep has already been elevated into the No. 1 ranking in the entire state, courtesy of a 41-28 victory over Blessed Trinity of Atlanta in a game played in Dublin, Ireland. But it’s a position that veteran head coach Rich Hansen isn’t …

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There were no lay-ups in the 2016 high school football schedule for the Redwings of Hoboken High School, no games that the players could circle on the slate and say they were going to be walks in the park. The formation of the New Jersey Super Football Conference saw to that, so the schedule makers …

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Five years ago, Timothy Rojas decided to make a major decision in his life, when he enlisted in the United States Army. The North Bergen resident wanted to be like his father, Freddie, who was a medic in the US Army during his days. “I wanted to follow in his footsteps,” Rojas said in a …

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The Hudson Catholic football team reached new heights in 2015, winning 10 games for the first time in school history, winning two games in the NJSIAA Non-Public Group 1&2 state playoffs for the first time ever and advancing to the state sectional title game for the second time in school history. “It was great for …

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This preseason was definitely the hardest in Zach Naszimento’s young coaching career. The Weehawken head coach began his fifth season with the Indians and faced the prospects of not having a season altogether, because the numbers on the Indians’ preseason roster were dangerously low. “We have only five kids back from last year,” Naszimento said. …

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