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When St. Peter’s Prep shocked the high school football world in 1994, defeating the No. 1 team in the country, Bergen Catholic, in the Parochial A North state championship game at Giants Stadium, the Marauders had a mighty mite of a fullback from Jersey City named Mike Medrano, who looked more like a longshoreman than …

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Former Prep grid standout Medrano takes to MMACounty champs crowned in cross country in snow; state sectionals moved”

There had been a handful of times when legendary North Bergen football coach Vince Ascolese was pondering the thought of retiring. Maybe it was a decade ago or so, when a bunch of ill-advised minions tried to take a run at his job, but Ascolese wasn’t ready to walk away. Or maybe it was a …

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The end of an era in North BergenAscolese announces retirement after storied 50-year career; Bruins Stadium renamed in his honor”

Jared Crayton hasn’t had the easiest roads towards high school football stardom. The St. Peter’s Prep senior running back was forced to be a mature young man far before his time, then had to bide his time to get a chance to play, then had to overcome an injury to finally get his chance to …

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Prep’s Crayton overcomes adversity, injuryScores four touchdowns in huge win over Memorial”

The first round of the NJSIAA football playoffs are just two weeks away and it appears as if several local teams are still in contention. Some have already clinched a spot in the postseason and are jockeying for seeds and possible home field advantages in the first round, while others are still fighting to qualify …

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Local football playoff picture taking shapeMemorial appears headed for first berth since 2001”

Claudio Kawecki has always enjoyed a passion for the game of golf. A former standout at Montclair Kimberley Academy, Kawecki, now a resident of Hoboken, was also a former club champion at the Upper Montclair Country Club, the same course where both the LPGA and the Senior PGA held prime events, not to mention the …

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Hoboken’s Kawecki earns chance of a lifetimeWins contest to be PGA star Davis Love III’s caddie for a day”

The general tendency of today’s youth is to act more laid back, relaxed and whimsical. More and more teenagers take the never-say-care approach toward practically everything in life. Donte Carter, a junior at Hoboken High School, does not subscribe to that philosophy. He is in no way a blithe spirit. “He’s the type of kid …

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Call Hoboken’s Carter ‘Mr. Serious’Running back’s no-nonsense approach leads to big four-TD performance”

It’s definitely shaping up as the best season in the history of the McNair Academic girls’ volleyball program. The Cougars have won all 22 of their matches this season, but the idea that the Cougars are undefeated is not coming as a surprise at all. “We were 17-3 last year and we had a lot …

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McNair Academic girls’ volleyball squad rolls along undefeatedCougars unblemished at 22-0; football power point update”

The rigors of intense chemotherapy, the process to tackle a rare form of lymphoma, was getting to long-time Memorial High School baseball coach Tony Ferrainolo, but he was not about to let anything, especially that wicked foe known as cancer, try to stop him from occupying the place he loved best, coaching his Tigers. Ferrainolo …

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Memorial sports legend Ferrainolo dies at 65All-time leader in baseball coaching wins; field named in his honor in 2010”

When the high school football season began in earnest with preseason practices and scrimmages in August, North Bergen senior Sergio Rodriguez was a tight end for the Bruins. Although Rodriguez was a quarterback for most of his tenure with the North Bergen grid program, he accepted his fate as a blocker and part-time receiver. “I …

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North Bergen’s Rodriguez super-sub at quarterback, leads Bruins past Bayonne”

Students at Jersey City’s Middle School No. 7 were treated to a special visitor Tuesday morning, when former Rutgers University football player Eric LeGrand came to the school to talk to the students. The school’s physical education teacher, Alan Gross, reached out to LeGrand on a whim to see if LeGrand, the inspirational Scarlet Knight …

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Jersey City middle school gets special visitorHurley on NJ Hall of Fame ballot; grid observations”