Archive for the ‘SPORTS’ Category
Lyndhurst will be a 12-team mecca for holiday hoops
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action LYNDHURST– After hosting the Lyndhurst Holiday Tournament, a six-team girls basketball event, for many years, LHS has added a boys tourney to its holiday hoops lineup. The Bruce Bartlett Memorial Holiday Tournament will also feature six squads and will open on Monday, Dec. 27. Named in [...]
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Wallington boys basketball battalion moves to 2-1
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action WALLINGTON– Following what was the best Fall sports season in the history of Wallington High School -one in which the boys soccer squad won the State Group 1 championship and the football contingent earned a state championship, as well- the WHS boys basketball battalion is off [...]
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Valiant Vikings
The latest edition of the boys basketball team from North Arlington High boasts a quintet of seniors: Mike Effner, Mike DeLugo, Ralf Gwiszcz, Matt Puentes and Taylor Frato. The Vikings are off to a 2-1 start and will return to action next week by hosting the annual NA Tournament, with Glen Ridge facing Academy Charter [...]
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Captains Courageous
Captaining the senior-less boys basketball bunch from Wood-Ridge High are two juniors: point guard Matt Alvarez and center Vinny O’Beirnd. The Blue Devils are a 2-0 start and will return to action next week by hosting the Herb Cohen Holiday Tournament at Wood-Ridge High, where Wallington locals will battle Lodi at 6 p.m. and the [...]
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Capable Quartet
Becton Regional’s boys basketball contingent includes a quartet of 12th-graders: Patryk Hanas, Edgar Flores, Frank Murano and Tristan Leibeck. The Wildcats are off to 2-1 start and will return to action next week by taking part in the six-team Bruce Bartlett Memorial Holiday Tournament at Lyndhurst High, where the locals will go up against the [...]
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Six Rutherford volley-girls garner post-season plaudits
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. / New Jersey Sport/Action RUTHERFORD (Dec. 16, 2010) — Following a season in which the volleyball team from Rutherford High School went a healthy 26-5 overall, with a near-perfect 13-1 mark in conference combat, six members of the Lady Bulldogs contingent have reaped some level of post-season plaudits. Deborah [...]
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Local cancer survivor runs the big race
By Danielle Elliot / Special to The Leader NEW YORK (Dec. 2, 2010) — Bobby Bloor is a two-time cancer survivor. But if you ask him about his greatest accomplishment, he might not even mention the battle with cancer. He’s more likely to talk about the ING New York City Marathon, which he recently completed [...]
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Panthers, Gaels headed to state football finals
By W.L. Bill Allen Jr. / Special to The Leader (Nov. 26, 2010) — In case you hadn’t noticed, this is a pretty good year as far as local football is concerned. Even though perennial power Becton and upstart North Arlington were both edged out of the post-season by just a handful of power points, [...]
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Panthers beat Midland Park, win championship
By W.L. Bill Allen Jr. / Director, New Jersey Sport Action WALLINGTON (Nov. 18, 2010) — The bracket’s top seed, Wallington High held off second-slotted Midland Park, 2-1, to earn the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group 1 state championship on Thursday, Nov. 11, at Tryon Field in Rutherford. That victory propelled the league champion [...]
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Wood-Ridge volley-girls win league championship
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. / Director, NJ Sport/Action WOOD-RIDGE (Nov. 18, 2010) — For the second time in four years, the volleyball contingent from Wood-Ridge High School has earned a league championship, as the Lady Blue Devils garnered the inaugural North Jersey Interscholastic Conference/Meadowlands League-Division B title by going 10-0 in the brand-new [...]
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