O’Reilly left his mark as Howell’s team leader
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Sean O’Reilly was beside himself last week. “I was coming home sleeping,” he said. “I didn’t know what else to do.” Howell High School’s longest, most successful football season had come to an end on the night of Dec. 3 when the Rebels lost to Hunterdon Central, 42-24, at Rutgers Stad...
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Dokouslis becomes a two-way gridiron star
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Even though he became a star catching the football this fall, Bill Dokouslis remains first and foremost a defensive player in his heart and mentality. The Manalapan senior raised quite a few eyebrows when, out of nowhere, he became a play-making tight end for the Braves. It came as a ...
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Higginson, Cougars led the way in District XC
Howell’s Lambert, Patriots’ Walsh get nods as well
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The honor of having the best team in the state has seldom been the domain of the Freehold Regional District. But when it comes to girls cross country, the District has the bragging rights. Colts Neck was the season-long No. 1 team in New Jersey and backed it up by winning the ...
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Forys in his own league during x-country season
Teammate Krewer, Braves’ Andrews also All-District
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Colts Neck’s Craig Forys scorched the cross country hills and dales unlike anyone who has preceded him. He turned the 2006 season into his personal tour de force. Starting with the Spike Shoe Invitational at Penn State University, the Cougar senior set six meet records, including tw...
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Forys fights back to finish second at Foot Locker
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      When he was just a freshman, Craig Forys earned the respect of the upperclassmen by the way he gave no quarter to them during a race. The juniors and seniors who expected it to be their time and found Forys unwilling to accept that, paid tribute to his “guts.
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Sports Shorts
      Manalapan’s Mike Gaeta, a senior at Springfield (Mass.) College is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the 141-pound weight division by the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III poll. Springfield is ranked No. 16. Gaeta, the first Manalapan High School wrestler to win 100-career...
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