Tag: Jim Hague

Kieran Purcell didn’t know how he would fare this golf season at St. Peter’s Prep. After all, Purcell was just a freshman at Grand and Warren and he couldn’t predict how he would perform right away as a varsity golfer. But it helped that Purcell had a lot of golf experience. His father, Pat, is …

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Prep freshman Purcell makes golf history with outing at T of C”

Ray Coccioli could have never dreamed that his first season as the Union City softball coach would end in the first Hudson County championship ever captured by a Union City school – and the first championship for Union City High School other than bowling. “No, I never thought this was possible,” Coccioli said after his …

Continue reading “THREE WINS IN TOURNEY – Hoboken junior pitcher Kenny Roder secured his place as the county’s premier pitcher by winning three times in the Ed Ford Memorial Hudson County Tournament and caught the final out in the title game against North Bergen, giving the Red Wings their eighth county crown.”

When the 2011 high school baseball season began and possible contenders for county supremacy were being considered, Hoboken wasn’t even an afterthought. After all, the Red Wings had a young roster with not a lot of experience. There were other teams that had to be thought of as favorites, any others for that matter. As …

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The most unlikely of county champsHoboken wins Ed Ford Memorial Hudson County baseball tourney with stunning comeback”

Mark Bruscino said that he was about 4 years old or so when his father, Mark Sr., first introduced him to the game of baseball. “I was about 4 years old when he put the ball in my hands,” the younger Bruscino said. “I remember holding the ball and that’s all I know doing since …

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Secaucus’ Bruscino gets some solid adviceFollows in footsteps of father who played on school’s lone state champ”

The new all-time leader in New Jersey high school baseball coaching victories almost never became a coach at all some four decades ago. In 1967, Tony Ferrainolo, who was a standout athlete at Memorial High School in his heyday, had just completed his athletic career at Villanova University, earning a degree in economics and accounting. …

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Ferrainolo reaches coaching milestoneNorth Bergen’s Mocco back on the mat; MaxPreps honors St. Anthony”

There was a time when the Lincoln High School softball program was the utter laughingstock of the area, perhaps the single worst athletic program in all sports in the entire county. The 1962 Mets were world beaters in comparison. Charlie Brown punted the football with Lucy holding it more than the Lions won. Same goes …

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Lincoln softball enjoys a total transformationLong-time losing Lions evolve into overnight success story”

Sal Mendez was always destined for baseball stardom. His talents, especially as a left-handed pitcher, were recognized at an early age when he was selected to play on an assortment of local travel teams, including the exclusive Jersey City Sharks program, run and operated by Hudson County’s resident baseball guru, the late Ed “The Faa” …

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Weehawken’s Mendez emerging as a rising star”

The New Jersey Marathon Festival at the Shore will take place Sunday in Long Branch and incredibly, of the 11,000 runners who will participate in either the 26-mile marathon or 13.5-mile half marathon, an astounding 300 will be Hoboken residents. Only New York City will have more runners in the event than Hoboken – and …

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Hoboken runners flock to New Jersey MarathonArismendi makes college choice, signs with Southern University”

It was the kind of play, the highlight reel moment that legends are made of. It was the 1981 NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group IV basketball playoffs between Passaic and Snyder, a game being played in the humble confines of a place called the “Tigers’ Den” inside Snyder High School. It was a fiercely …

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A Jersey City hoops legend gone too soonTeammates, coach recall the legacy of ‘Boo-Bee’ Richardson”

At first, the transfer of Ruben Rivera to Marist High School looked like a major find for the Royal Knights’ baseball program. Rivera was a proven commodity, a pitcher who while playing for Warren Hills High School in Warren County, knocked off nationally ranked Hunterdon Central two years ago. Rivera spent his first two years …

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Marist’s Rivera makes up for lost yearAce hurler/hitter turns it up a notch for Royal Knights”