Cougars advance to CJ IV hoop final
3 other teams eliminated from state tournament
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The Colts Neck High School girls basketball team has lived by the threepoint shot for much of the 2008-09 season.
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Bloom provides guide for young runners
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Marc Bloom has written nine books. Some were very personal, like "God on the Starting Line," about his time coaching the St. Rose High School, Belmar, boys cross country team.
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Manalapan's Andrews captures Eastern mile
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      After setting the national indoor record for 1,000 meters earlier this season, Manalapan High School senior Robby Andrews thought he could pop a fast mile. The Eastern States Championships on Feb. 24 on the fast New York Armory track would be his opportunity to do just that.
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Patriots turned it around behind Barthel, defense
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The goal of every coach is to have his team fulfill its potential. John Sciarappa could not say that about his Freehold Township High School girls basketball team early in the season, even though the Patriots were winning. However, he could say it by the end of the season, when it counts.
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Sport Shorts
      Freehold Pop Warner youth football and cheerleading will hold open registration from 6-9 p.m. March 13 and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 14 and March 21 in the Michael J. Tighe Park activity center, Georgia Road, Freehold Township.
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Fraley places fifth in state wrestling
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Tyler Fraley did not flinch in his first trip to Atlantic City. The Colts Neck High School sophomore was not overwhelmed by the vast Boardwalk Hall and finished fifth at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association wrestling championships at 103 pounds.
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Big night for Colonials at Lombardi dinner
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The members of the Freehold High School football team are beginning to understand how permanent the state championship they won last fall will be in their lives. It is now state tournament time in basketball and soon the focus will be on the start of the baseball season. Yet the Central Jersey Group II state championship that the Colonials won will not go away.
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Devine leads Patriots to sectional title game
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Devine intervention. In the case of the Freehold Township High School boys basketball team, it was the hot hand of Matt Devine that sparked the Patriots (18- 11) to three state tournament wins last week and put them into the March 9 Central Jersey Group IV championship game against No. 1 seed West Windsor-Plainsboro South High School.
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Monmouth golf courses set to open on March 15
      The Monmouth County Park System golf courses will reopen on March 15 (weather permitting) with a special lineup of new promotions for 2009. Anyone who holds a Monmouth County Park System golf ID card (resident or nonresident) will now earn one free round of golf for every 15 paid rounds of golf played at any Monmouth County golf course.
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Panel will examine horse racing industry
      Gov. Jon Corzine has signed an executive order creating the Governor's Commission on the Horse Racing Industry. The commission is to identify, assess and recommend possible funding solutions for horse racing meets after 2010 and propose long-term funding solutions that will promote the future sustained viability of the horse racing industry in New Jersey.
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