Tag: Jim Hague

It’s safe to say that Angel Paulino was always destined for greatness on the baseball diamond. From his younger days in Little League to his teenage days playing in several leagues, most notably the Jersey City Recreation Diamond Dawgs program, Paulino was always touted as the next great pitching sensation to come out of Jersey …

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St. Mary’s Paulino comes of age as a pitcher, fanning 17 in one game”

St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, with its affable coach Phil Martelli, has always been a place where local basketball players, especially products of St. Anthony High School, have settled in nicely as college players. People like former St. Anthony standouts Dwayne Lee and Ahmad Nivins have enjoyed great careers with Martelli and the Hawks. Well, …

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St. Joseph’s gains one local, loses anotherRoberts heads to Philly while Rogers gets a release; Emerson Hall induction”

On the surface, it was a junior varsity softball game, played on a Jersey City Little League field. It’s not exactly headline-making material. But a closer look shows that it was truly a special event, remembering a truly special young lady. Just two years ago, Victoria Beckner was a vibrant, alive, beautiful teenager who loved …

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Remembering VictoriaJV softball get-together honors standout player gone too soon”

The best all-around track and field athlete to come out of Dickinson High School in more than 30 years almost never had a chance to display his immense talents. When Jose Veras entered Dickinson three years ago, he had no idea what track and field was. He thought about running when he was a student …

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Dickinson’s Veras blazing the track, winning a host of events”

There’s supposed to be excitement and joy in the fact that Hudson County finally is sponsoring true county championship tournaments for the very first time. Since the HCIAA was abolished last year, thanks to the major realignment mandated by the NJSIAA, the county’s athletic directors got together and decided to hold true county tournaments in …

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Absurdity abounds in Hudson County tourney seedingNorth Bergen honors its new champ; Dickinson alumni rally for football team”

Terry Matthews had been conducting interviews for the head football coaching position at Hudson Catholic High School when he received an interesting phone call. The athletic secretary told Matthews that he had a call from Leonard Marshall – yes, the same Leonard Marshall who was part of two New York Giants Super Bowl victories. “I …

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The Marshall is back in townFormer Giants great becomes head football coach at Hudson Catholic”

The St. Peter’s Prep mile relay team was in Philadelphia last Friday night, all set to attempt to win a second straight championship at the prestigious Penn Relays Carnival at Franklin Field on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. However, while the Marauders were resting in their hotel rooms, disaster struck. Freshman Tyrell Gibbs …

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Prep quartet earns Penn Relays title for second straight year”

Tony Ferrainolo vividly remembers the days when he was a little boy and he would wake up and instantly head in one direction. “I lived right up the block from Miller Stadium,” Ferrainolo said. “I lived right on the corner of Bergenline Avenue in a big apartment building. I was about 8 years old when …

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A permanent honor for Memorial baseball coach FerrainoloWest New York names field at Miller Stadium after coaching great”

It was a lasting memory from a high school football game that seems like ages ago. In 2003, St. Peter’s Prep was playing Hoboken in their traditional rivalry game at JFK Stadium in Hoboken and Marauder running back Rashawn Jackson took a handoff and made the move of a lifetime. With a tackler coming to …

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Former Prep star Jackson awaits his NFL callRosario to Florida; former Friar McLeod resurfaces at St. Benedict’s”