Colts Neck players headline All-District team
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Winning a championship was so much fun that the Colts Neck High School baseball team decided to do it twice. Back in the cold days of April, the Cougars set out to win the program's first championship. Four-year starters A.J. Rusbarsky and Dominick Hayes spearheaded the drive, but the...
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Rampino, Kwiatkowski top All-District softball
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Four-year starters Ashley Rampino and Jill Kwiatkowski certainly went out on top. The seniors led the Manalapan High School softball team to its third consecutive Shore Conference A North Division title, a school record. A mid-season slump jeopardized the Braves' drive for the c...
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Desero, Perrone top All-District Golf Team
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The 2007 scholastic golf season turned into an outstanding one in the Freehold Regional High School District. Area golfers left their marks individually throughout the Shore's golf links, as did teams like Marlboro and Colts Neck.
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Howell's Blum at home playing arena football
Playing center for Ready Express
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      The most memorable games of Scott Blum's football career haven't been on the gridiron. They've taken place in an indoor arena. Blum, an ex-Howell High School All-State offensive lineman who went on to star at Rowan University, plays center for the Reading Express of the Americ...
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Sports Shorts
      Marlboro United, a 2007-08 U11 girls travel team that plays in the Monmouth-Ocean Soccer Association National I Division, is looking for one or two players for the fall U11 girls 2007 and spring 2008 seasons. The United is looking for committed, skilled players with travel experience who are ...
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O'Flaherty brothers go one-two at FARC opener
      The opening night of the Freehold Area Running Club's Summer 5K Race Series at Battlefield State Park, Manalapan, belonged to the O'Flaherty brothers. Cody and Michael O'Flaherty ran together, finishing in a virtual dead-heat as the series began its 25th year Wednesday evening.
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Sports Shorts
      Kristi Kwiatkowski, Jamie Shapiro and coach Ron Fazio are the newest additions to the Manalapan High School Hall of Fame. Kwiatkowski, class of 2001, was the News Transcript's Senior Athlete of the Year when she led the Braves to the Shore Conference A North Division title and the S...
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Prudhomme double-winner as owner at SuperNationals
Raceway Park hosted event for 38th year
      Don "the Sanke" Prudhomme enjoyed many a weekend at Raceway Park. During his famed National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Hall of Fame career, Prudhomme won Funny Car titles at the Old Bridge drag strip five times.
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