High School Sports Reporter for NJ Advance Media, The Observer and Jersey Journal. Hartford '07, Livingston '03. Email: jbernstein
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I know college baseball skews south, but how in the world does the Big 10 runner-up both in the regular season and tournament not make it to the NCAA Tournament?
Harrison football legend and former Rutgers and Jets standout Ray Lucas has officially returned home to take over as the Blue Tide's head football coach.
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On this date 12 years ago, the biggest game in the history of New Jersey High School Basketball - No. 1 St. Patrick vs. No. 2 St. Anthony at a sold out RAC
@SAHSFriarNation
@patrickschool
A touching moment as Colonia places the championship trophy on the chair of assistant coach Danny Brix who passed away a day before the start of the state tournament
In an inspirational performance drawing praise from Tom Brady and others, Red Bank Catholic
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QB Alex Brown
@AlexRayBrown2
throws for 6 touchdowns, runs for 2 more a day after his mother passed away.
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"We’ll still feel like we’re at Hoboken because we got each other.” This Hoboken football duo is set to remain teammates as walk-ons at Rutgers
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Congrats to Marquise on his new job at Rutgers. There is no doubt in my mind that the Irvington native and former
@PCFB_Paladins
and
@SPPFootball
star will do big things at
@RFootball
Bayonne has dipped into its recent past as it has hired former Bees great and one-time Penn State DE Jerome Hayes to be its next football coach
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"Once I want to start to do something, I want to be the greatest in the world at it.” Hudson Catholic assistant coach Sophia Lewin is set to make her mark in the male-dominated world of football
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Per multiple sources former Marist head coach Ben Gamble has been approved as the new coach at Bayonne. Gamble has also coached at Mater Dei, Cardinal McCarrrick and Hudson Catholic to go with a very successful run as Bob Hurley’s top assistant at St. Anthony.
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"Once I want to start to do something, I want to be the greatest in the world at it.” Hudson Catholic assistant coach Sophia Lewin is set to make her mark in the male-dominated world of football
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Rutgers commit Zamar Wise started his senior season with a bang, rushing for 223 yards and 4 TDs in Barringer's 46-0 victory over Millburn.
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Free-agent right-hander Rick Porcello in agreement with
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on a one-year contract, pending a physical, sources tell The Athletic. On it:
@enosarris
.
As if it wasn't a good enough day for St. Peter's Prep junior Rayshawn Ford, per coach Alex Mirabel, after the game Ford was offered by a scholarship by Fairleigh Dickinson head coach Greg Herenda
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The end of an era, not just in Jersey City, but North Jersey as a whole. Whether it was in Hudson County with Stinson and Ascolese or North Jersey against Toal, Stengel and Karcich, Hansen was the last man standing and he’ll leave with a resume few can match.
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BREAKING: Coach Rich Hansen has announced 2020 will be his last season as
@sppfootball
head coach. He will remain as AD, continuing to build on the tradition of excellence across Prep’s 19 sports.
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Jersey City getting plenty of well deserved kudos, but it is not the only Hudson County city now home to a national champion. Congrats to Hoboken native, Hudson Catholic, UConn grad assistant and now national champion, J.R. Lynch.
A basketball season ending with a Patrick School/St. Patrick player dominating and a coach named Hurley winning convincingly? If you are from Jersey, you know neither is a surprise
With his big personality, strong opinions and booming writing voice, no sports writer better personified where he came from or the beat he covered more than Hudson County’s Jim Hague.
No one supported the athletes of Hudson County more than Jim and he will be missed.
"It’s a really good feeling to put my small city on the map and to show everybody where Union City’s at." Former
@UCFOOTBALLNJ
star and Penn State grad Steven Gonzalez
@StevenG511
continues to represent heading into NFL Draft
@ChrisJohnsen77
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BREAKING: St. Peter's Prep makes it official, announcing Rich Hansen III as its head football coach for 2021. Rich has been the Marauders' defensive coordinator the past 13 seasons.
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ICYMI: It's been 101 weeks since Nyjon Freeman suffered a devastating knee injury. Now, after two surgeries and months of rehab, the Hoboken star is back and ready to return to the gridiron tonight.
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For those who missed it earlier, or for those who wanted to see Ray in action in his finest
@RFootball
gear. Here's my story on Ray Lucas taking over as Harrison's new head coach.
Congrats to former St. Peter's Prep and University of Hartford standout T.J. Ward on signing with the Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers of the Union Shores Professional League.
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@tj_ward3
@SPPBASEBALL
@HartfordBASE
(Photos and Video) Down 18? No problem for
@SPPBASKETBALL
and Mark Armstrong
@markarmstr0ng1
. The sophomore scores 18 in the fourth quarter, including the game-winner with 2.7 seconds left to lift St. Peter's Prep past Montclair.
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“I don’t think you’ll ever see anything like that again," Legendary 1989 St. Anthony boys basketball team is inducted into
@NJSIAA
Hall of Fame
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FINAL: Fourth-seeded Union City upsets top-seed Hudson Catholic, 58-56 in the semifinals of the Hudson County Tournament!!! Hudson Catholic’s run of 7-straight HCT titles is now officially over! The Soaring Eagles will face second-seed Marist in the HCT final on Sat. at 7 pm!
"These kids work hard and they deserve it, every bit of it.” No. 8 St. Peter’s Prep
@SPPBASKETBALL
gets over the hump, defeats No. 17 Marist for Hudson title
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Seton Hall Prep 28, St. Joseph (Mont.) 27
This was an upset that changes everything. People keep doubting
@theprepfootball
and they keep proving everybody wrong.
Case and point.
📰🏈 Recapping a huge upset & crazy day:
@zanderzebrowski
@mattcolantuono
The hottest ticket in NJ this weekend is to see Mark Armstrong and Tahaad Pettiford as the HCIAL has announced that Saturday's Hudson County Tournament boys basketball final between Hudson Catholic and St. Peter's Prep is SOLD OUT
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@HCHawksHoops
@SPPBASKETBALL
@HcialThe