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NEW UNION CITY COACH – Former Ferris head football coach Wilbur Valdez was officially appointed as the new Union City football coach at the most recent Board of Education meeting last week, ending two months of rumors and speculations as to the replacement for former coach Joe Rotondi. SCOREBOARD 03-07-2010
Valdez tabbed as Union City new grid coach
Former Ferris coach ends bizarre set of circumstances

Union City Superintendent of Schools Sandy Sanger called the process of hiring a new football coach at Union City High School “the toughest decision he’s ever made as an administrator.” “We’re ...
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Secaucus senior Zac Schlemm ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-28-2010
Secaucus’ Schlemm keeps it in the family
Joins uncle, aunt and cousin in 1,000-point club

There are some people who truly believe that everyone who lives in Secaucus is related to someone else who resides there. It’s a smaller circle than the old “Six Degrees of Separation,” or even t...
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AT THE RIGHT TIME – The St. Anthony Friars, coached by the state’s all-time victory leader Bob Hurley (center), are playing the best basketball in the state right now, evidenced by their nine-game win streak and 22-2 overall record as the NJSIAA state playoffs tip off this week. SCOREBOARD 02-28-2010
Friars continue remarkable season
Even legendary coach Hurley never saw this success coming

About five years ago, respected sportswriter Adrian Wojnarowski released a great book entitled “The Miracle of St. Anthony,” which captured the essence of the 2003-04 undefeated championship ...
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UNLIKELY HERO – Weehawken High School senior Enrique “Kiki” Romero won the District 7 wrestling championship last weekend, wrestling for the Bogota/Weehawken cooperative. Romero became the first district champ from Weehawken since 1986. TASTY TIDBITS 02-28-2010
The most unlikely of District wrestling champs comes from Weehawken
Glass blazes at state Group meet; who’s the coach at Union City?

The NJSIAA District wrestling championships were held last weekend and several local wrestlers earned district gold. St. Peter’s Prep won the team title once again at District 16 and crowned fo...
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Snyder junior track standout Zamir Thomas ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-21-2010 Snyder’s Thomas sprints his way to state indoor track glory
If the truth can be told, the young man who is rapidly putting his name among the all-time track and field greats to come out of Snyder High School never really wanted to be a runner in the first...
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MOVING ON – Chris Demarest, who spent only six months as Hudson Catholic’s head football coach and athletic director, has decided to move on and pursue opportunities in college coaching. TASTY TIDBITS 02-21-2010 Demarest out as Hudson Catholic grid coach, AD
St. Anthony gets help from NJSIAA, big win; impressive track performances

Last August, it seemed like a marriage made in scholastic heaven, the idea that former Rutgers assistant football coach Chris Demarest would be the perfect replacement to Rob Stern as Hudson ...
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DEFINING WIN – St. Peter’s Prep head basketball coach Mike Kelly had been searching for the big victory that would put his program on the grand stage throughout New Jersey. The Marauders got it last Saturday night, defeating perennial national powerhouse Oak Hill Academy. SCOREBOARD 02-21-2010
Prep basketball’s defining moment
After three previous tries at getting the ‘big one,’ Marauders topple Oak Hill

For the last three seasons, the St. Peter’s Prep basketball program has definitely been on the rise. In 2008, the Marauders went from being the eighth seed in the HCIAA Coviello playoffs to win...
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Union City senior 119-pound wrestler Willie Rodriguez ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-14-2010
100 reasons why Rodriguez is Union City wrestling star
Program’s first true standout approaches impressive milestone

There was something about the sport of wrestling that appealed to Willie Rodriguez when he was in seventh grade. At the time, Union City Recreation had just started a wrestling program, and the...
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HALL OF A LUNCHEON – From left, John Stark of North Bergen, Hudson County Hall of Famers Gerry Bellotti and Joe Gardi and Sammy Flores of Hoboken get together for the third annual Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame Outreach Luncheon last Tuesday Hudson Hall of Famers reach out to current high school students
Luncheon proves to be a big history lesson for county’s top student-athletes

Gail Marquis has a unique way of handling of driving through Jersey City traffic. “When someone cuts me off when I’m driving on Kennedy Boulevard, I don’t flip them the bird,” Marquis told a ro...
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END OF AN ERA – Dickinson head football coach Rich Glover, who is a football legend and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame after his brilliant career at Nebraska, had no idea that the Jersey City Board of Education had decided to discontinue the Dickinson football program. SCOREBOARD 02-14-2010
The end of an era
Jersey City Board of Education pulls the plug on Dickinson football

The names that once wore Dickinson High School football uniforms read like gridiron royalty. There was Al Blozis, who went from being a Dickinson Ram to playing football at Georgetown Universit...
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Dickinson senior point guard Chaquan Scott ATHLETE OF THE WEEK 02-07-2010
Dickinson’s little big man
Despite being just 5-foot-9, Scott does everything big for Rams

Chaquan Scott thought he had the world at the tips of his fingers. He was the toast of the Brooklyn schoolyards, another basketball wizard out of the famed Brownsville section. He was headed to...
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TASTY TIDBITS 02-07-2010
North Bergen wrestling team enjoys bounce back season
Hudson County hoop tourney seeds announced; Peacocks on a roll

Although they just missed out qualifying for the upcoming NJSIAA state sectional tournament by a single power point, the North Bergen wrestling team has enjoyed a fine season, rebounding from a...
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