Freehold playing for sectional title
Field hockey squad trying to extend 2009 campaign
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      There was only one thing the Freehold High School field hockey team could do and that was score a goal. Visiting Morristown had just scored with :46 left in regulation to force an overtime in a North Jersey Section II, Group III state sectional quarterfinal field hockey match on Nov. 4 in Freehold Borough.
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Braves top Mustangs to reach CJ IV semis
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      There is a reason the playoffs are called the second season: because it is. Records hardly matter, since the teams that are playing the best in the playoffs are the ones that advance. The Manalapan High School girls soccer team is one team that was getting hot at the right time. After a 2-1 win over Marlboro on Nov. 5, the No.
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Dassa retains county tennis championship
Marlboro H.S. junior wins second straight first singles crown
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Michelle Dassa was quite miffed when the seedings for the Monmouth County tennis tournament were announced. The defending champion from Marlboro High School found herself inexplicably unseeded. "Just like last year," she said. "It made me more determined. I was a little shocked" at being unseeded.
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Area harriers shining on top college teams
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Former teammates and rivals are distinguishing themselves at the major college level in women's cross country competition. Ashley Higginson and Allison Linnell, who were teammates at Colts Neck High School, and former Jackson Memorial High School standout Amanda Marino are competing for three of the best teams in the United States.
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Sport Shorts
      The Monmouth University men's soccer team won its fifth consecutive Northeast Conference regular season championship when the Hawks beat Quinnipiac, 2-0, and second place St. Francis, N.Y., was beaten by Fairleigh Dickinson, 3-1.
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Howell ready to host state grid playoff game
Rebels will open bid for CJ IV sectional title
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Keep the train rolling. That is what Howell High School assistant football coach Mike Verrochi kept shouting every time the Rebels picked up a first down and marched down the field. There was plenty of rolling on Nov. 6 as the Rebels, behind quarterback Jimmy Ryan's four touchdown passes, beat Southern Regional High School, 37-19, in Howell.
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Garfield a pioneer in NYC marathon
Area man competed in 1970, and once again this year
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Ralph Garfield and his 127 compatriots had no idea what they were starting. It was 1970 and the first New York City Marathon was being run. Garfield, who was living in the city at the time, decided on a whim to give the 26.2- mile race a try. At that time runners and Central Park were strangers.
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Freehold Twp. advances to first field hockey final
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The Freehold Township High School field hockey team is not settling for just being good. Now that the Patriots have become an established winning program, Coach Beth English wants her team to strive for more. "Our goals used to be to make the Shore Conference Tournament and the state tournament," she said. "Now, that's a given.
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Cougars' O'Dowd wins state sectional X-C race
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      It took 15:50 for all of Mike O'Dowd's off-season miles, dedication and sacrifices to pay off. That is how long it took the Colts Neck High School harrier to run around the Thompson Park 5K layout in Jamesburg, Middlesex County, on Nov. 7 to win the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV cross country championship.
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