Fobes peaks at right time, places second in state
Rebel is runner-up at 125; Accardi, Frankel also place

BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      In Atlantic City, wrestlers either rise to the occasion, or shrink.You can count Howell's Cody Fobes among those who met the challenge. Saving his best wrestling for the state finals, held Friday through Sunday, Fobes finished second in the state in the 125-pound weight class.
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      The Cyclones boys gymnastics team from Monmouth Gymnastics Academy, Morganville, competed at the fourth annual Temple University Invitational in Philadelphia, where they dominated the competition. The Level 7 and Level 6 teams won the first-place team awards, he Level 10 team placed second, and the Level 5 team was third.
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BCC women win GSAC basketball championship
Add Region XIX title; national championships are next
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Brookdale Community College's women have captured the Garden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) championships before - three times, to be exact. But the 2006-07 title will hold a special place for coaches Joanne Cobb and Marianne Campacci.
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      Marlboro's Tom Zubulake received the Lehigh University Scholar Athlete Award at the university's fall sports banquet. The senior, majoring in accounting, posted a 3.35 grade point average in the fall and has an overall GPA of 3.47 and is multi-year Academic Honor Roll honoree.
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SJV's Apo wins Kerwin Award as Shore's top basketball player
      Alisa Apo, a senior guard at St., John Vianney High School, Holmdel, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Margaret M. and James J. Kerwin Memorial Award, symbolic of being the best girls basketball player in the Shore. The award has been given out yearly since 1974. Apo, who lives in Howell, is the fourth Lancer to receive this honor.
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      Former Freehold Borough High School high jump champions Debra Vento and Justin Frick came up with their best jumps of the college indoor season at their respective championship meets.
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     SCOTT PILLING staff Freehold Borough's Alyssa Mayrose tries to get past the defense of Willingboro's Angela VanMorter during the Colonials' state playoff loss in Freehold on March 1.
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Underdog Rebels climb back to sectional final
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Relishing their role as an underdog, the Howell High School girls basketball team has ridden it all the way to the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV finals. With Friday night's 36-33 win over No. 3 seed Hillsborough, the 10th-seeded Rebels completed their unlikely climb back to the state sectional final.
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Big finish changes Pats' outlook on season, future
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      It's late February, you're 7-13.The last thing a basketball team is looking to do at this time is play more games. But instead of handing in their uniforms, the Freehold Township girls added six games to their schedule, and if they could have added more, coach John Sciarappa would have.
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Moskal wins Eastern States; Cougar girls second
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      In a span of three days and two races, Allyson Moskal leaped to the front of the pack. After the Freehold Township sophomore broke 5:00 for the 1,600 (4:59.20 in finishing third at the NJSIAA Indoor Meet of Champions on Feb. 24) and then won the Eastern States two-mile run on Feb.
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Wilmot powers Patriots to CJ IV hoops final
Top seed beats Trenton Central
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      It was Rodger Wilmot time.With Freehold Township's offense sluggish, the senior guard took charge. He provided the spark the Pats needed to get by Trenton Central Friday night in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV semifinals.
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