Howell Rebels top loaded gymnastics field
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Howell High School's gymnastics team has had something special going for it the last two years and the Rebels don't want it to come to an end. With the cornerstones of their back-toback undefeated Shore Conference A North Division championships teams, Austyn Fobes and Brianna Ecklof, returning, t...
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Howell's Fobes verbally commits to University of New Hampshire
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      When Austyn Fobes joined the Howell High School gymnastics team, it was her first experience being a part of a team, and she liked it. She recalled thinking if college is anything like that, let's start it now. Now is still a year away for the Rebel senior; however, her college choice isn't.
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JMHS boys soccer looking for repeat
Jaguars participated in SCT, state tourneys in '07 en route to 15 wins
BY MIKE WHITE Staff Writer
      The 2008 edition of the Jackson High School Memorial High School boys soccer team will have a tough act to follow. After all, the 2007 squad won 15 games, captured the Shore Conference A South title, advanced to the semifinals of the SCT tournament and battled its way to the quarterfinals of the s...
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Big Brown heads nomination list for Monmouth Stakes
      Kentucky Derby and Haskell Invitational winner Big Brown tops a list of 35 nominations for the Monmouth Stakes, a mile-and-an-eighth turf test to be contested at Monmouth Park on Saturday. Trained by Richard Dutrow Jr.
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Sports Shorts
      Monmouth University goalie Melissa Katz stopped all but one for the Hawks field hockey team (0-4) as they lost an overtime match, 1-0, with the West Chester Rams (2-1) on Sunday afternoon at So Sweet A Cat Field.
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Jackson Memorial football trying to climb over .500 mark
Jaguars open next Friday against Manalapan
BY MIKE WHITE Staff Writer
      High school football coaches have come to view the bye week as a crucial part of their regular-season schedule. Some use it as a week to review fundamentals and make minor adjustments, while others spend time adding a new offensive or defensive scheme.
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Rutgers Roundup
      After 110 minutes of play, neither team was able to find the back of the net as the Rutgers men's soccer team (2-1-1) and St. Peter's College (0-2-1) played to a scoreless tie on Sunday afternoon at Yurcak Field. The game, which was originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m.
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Lacroix, New Egypt to open grid season Friday night
BY MIKE WHITE Staff Writer
      Getting an offensive line to work together properly takes patience, dedication and many hours of trial and error. A tight and synchronized group of blockers, however, will make or break a team's ground. Any high school football coach will tell you that without good blocking, scoring touchdowns doe...
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Art Official joins greats as Cane Pace winner
      Art Official joined the greatest standardbreds in the sports history when he won the $392,850 Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway on Labor Day. His driver, Millstone's Ron Pierce, has put his name alongside the greatest drivers in the sport's history.
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Golden Grand Prix concludes
BY WARREN RAPPLEYEA Staff Writer
      The Jersey Shore Golden Grand Prix series of road races came to a close on Labor Day with the Pier Village 5K in Long Branch. Dersce Deriboba of Ethiopia outdueled fellow countrymen Genna Tuffa to win by two seconds with a time of 14:45.5 on a relatively cool day.
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Lakewood opens Currao coaching era Saturday
Piners play at Lacey on Saturday for new football coach
BY MIKE WHITE Staff Writer
      Vinnie Currao has been around coaching long enough to know that there are no quick fixes when it comes to turning around a football program. So when he accepted the position to be the new head coach of the Piners, Currao knew patience and a commitment to rebuilding the program was his foremost obj...
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Many kinds of fish waiting to be caught in local waters
RON NUZZOLO Fish On
      It's that time of the year again. With fall approaching, anything is possible. This is the time of the year you can land three, four or even five different species of fish. Anglers in the Garden State are doing just that. Porgies, sea bass, weakfish, fluke and bluefish are just a handful of the va...
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