Howell looks to carry momentum into 2007
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Coming off the finest playoff run in school history, Cory Davies' Howell Rebels are carrying a lot of momentum into the 2007 high school football season. Davies' Rebels were the story of late fall when they drove into uncharted territory, reaching the finals for the first time.
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Colonials tackle season with an eye on playoffs
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Freehold Borough has been making steady progress under head coach Mark Ciccotelli. In his first two years with the Colonials, the team has taken steps toward regaining its footing as a winning program. They were a Thanksgiving Day win away from .500 last year.
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Veteran Pats team has high hopes on gridiron
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Areturn to the basics helped Freehold Township and head coach Dominick Lepore turn its 2006 season around, and is reason for optimism this fall. Lepore gave the spread offense a whirl last fall and after a 0-5 start, he figured it was time to do what Freehold Township does best, play physical football.
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Sports Shorts
      Chris Ranieri, of Manalapan, has been signed to a contract by the New Jersey Jackals of the Independent Canadian America Baseball League. Ranieri, a shortstop, starred at Alvernia College (Reading, Pa.), where he was a First Team All-Pennsylvania Athletic Conference pick this spring. In his two years at Alvernia, he had an impressive .383 batting average.
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BCC women start season ranked No. 3 in nation
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Brookdale Community College's (BCC) women's soccer team begins the 2007 season as a marked squad. As if being the national runner-up last year weren't enough, Frank Lawrence's Jersey Blues begin the season No. 3 in the junior college coaches' poll. That's just fine with him.
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Van Etten remembered as great coach and friend
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      As a football coach, the late Jack Van Etten was called "a coach's coach" by Brick Township's Warren Wolf. Coming from the winningest football coach in New Jersey, it doesn't get any better than that. But, the highest praise for Van Etten, who died on Aug.
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Cane Pace is Monday at Freehold Raceway
      Aplace in harness racing history is at stake on Monday with the running of the 53rd Cane Pace at Freehold Raceway. Yes, the $300,000 estimated purse is nice, but the winner of Monday's race will put his name alongside the sport's alltime greats, joining the likes of legends Albatross, Niatross and Bret Hanover as a Cane winner.
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Sports Shorts
      Spice Queen extended her 2007 winning streak to seven when she won the $26,800 opening leg of the New Jersey Sire Stakes for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Thursday at Freehold Raceway. In a wire-to-wire performance, the daughter of Yankee Glide won by 3½ lengths in 2:00.1. David Miller was in the bike.
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