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After enjoying a breakthrough 13-win season last spring, Weehawken veteran baseball coach Anthony Stratton knows that his team has to take the next step up this year. “There’s an old cliché that says where we have some unfinished business,” said Stratton, who welcomes back an Indians’ roster filled with experience. “That’s the way we’re thinking …

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Tariq Carey had carved a nice high school basketball career for himself at Newark East Side High School. He was a three-year starter there, a 1,000-point scorer who was the team’s main man and top scorer. He averaged 14 points, eight rebounds and six assists per game. He was well on his way to becoming …

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J.R. Robinson and Nate Ortiz never had the chance to play against each other in high school, since Robinson was a standout defensive back/kick returner at St. Peter’s Prep and Ortiz an impressive tight end at St. Anthony. But the two Hudson County grid stars are going to get the chance to know each other …

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The Hudson Reporter All-Area Boys’ and Girls’ High School Basketball Teams once again represent the very best that high school basketball can offer in the Hudson County area. The Boys’ All-Area team features three players who are repeat honorees and the rest are all newcomers to the honors. The Boys’ Player of the Year should …

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As you read this, the North Bergen Board of Education will have already appointed Czar Wiley, the 1996-97 Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Year, to be next North Bergen High School head football coach, replacing Jimmy Crane, who appointed just recently to replace the legendary Vince Ascolese. Ascolese had the job for the last 39 …

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Legendary St. Anthony boys’ basketball coach Bob Hurley is making a bold statement about his current team, which captured a record 27th NJSIAA state championship last Sunday. Hurley believes that his current Friars, winners of 30 straight this season and an astounding 63 consecutive overall throughout the last two years, is the best bunch of …

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The St. Peter’s Prep hockey season was not exactly going well in mid-January when the Marauders faced state-ranked power Don Bosco Prep. It was about to get even worse for junior forward and Marauders’ leading scorer Vinny Addeo. “We were playing them pretty even,” said Addeo, a native of Hoboken. “It was toward the end …

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It wasn’t that long ago, maybe 10 years ago or so, when Evan Rodriguez was just like the Lincoln School students he stood before last Tuesday. “I grew up just like you guys,” Rodriguez told the students of Lincoln School. Rodriguez, a North Bergen native who just finished his college football playing days at Temple …

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