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Little League All Stars finish second

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Bayonne Little League Eight Year Old All Stars finish second in the District 7 tournament. Bayonne defeated Lincoln Park, 14-3, at Bridge Field in Bayonne. Mike Lojewski led Bayonne with two tripl...

Big Apple wins regular season title
In an epic, eight-inning struggle, defending champion Big Apple defeated Valley National Bank, 3-2, to take the Cal Ripken Rookie League’s regular season crown. Valley took a 1-0 lead in the first...

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Lady Hawks perform hat trick in softball league
Henry Harris’ softball team, the Lady Hawks, defeated Woodrow Wilson’s Wildcats, 3-0, in the Bayonne Department of Parks/Recreation Jr. Women’s Elementary Softball League playoffs to win its third ...

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Track League announces week four results
The Olympic Spirit Track League is in its 67th continuous season, headed by League Director John Hnath. The following coaches, parents and friends provide guidance for the league and are the key ...

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AOKA victorious in karate championship
The Don Nagle AOKA Inc. Isshinryu Karate School, located at 764 Broadway, was victorious in the BKG Open Karate Championships, held by Grandmaster Isaac Henry, 10th Dan, at Brookdale Community Coll...

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REMEMBER, HE’S A TITAN – Bayonne native and former Bayonne High standout Kenny Britt fulfilled a dream last Saturday night, when the former Rutgers receiver was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the first round of the NFL Draft, becoming the first Rutgers product and first Bayonne native ever and the first Hudson County product to get picked in the first round since 1960.

From Bee to Scarlet Knight to Titan
Bayonne’s Britt selected in first round of NFL Draft

Bayonne’s Kenny Britt earned two slices of history Saturday evening. First, the former Bayonne High School standout became the first-ever Rutgers University football product to get selected in th...

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MACKENZIE AND J.J. – New York Mets reliever J.J. Putz poses with Bayonne s Mackenzie Brown prior to the Mets-Washington Nationals game last Saturday, a game where the 12-year-old Brown threw out the first pitch at CitiField. Putz gave Mackenzie his glove after they met.

Bayonne girl makes national sports headlines
Pitches perfect game in Little League, throws out ball at Mets game

A month ago, Mackenzie Brown was your typical 12-year-old girl, a pretty young lady with bright smile that is being corrected with braces. The Bayonne resident is a multi-talented seventh grade st...

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BLAZIN’ KNIGHT ACE – Senior Fabian Roman, who has already won his two starts in the young season, is drawing rave reviews, throwing as hard as 94 miles per hour in at least one scout’s radar gun. The Marist pitching ace puts the Royal Knights among the top baseball teams to watch this season.

With Royal Knights, trust is placed in Fabian and Eddie
Pitcher/catcher combo could be the best in school’s history

A year ago, the Marist High School baseball team was perhaps the biggest surprise on the Hudson County diamonds. On the last day of the regular season, the Royal Knights managed to snare the No. 8...

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BAYONNE’S BEST – From left, Paul Conway, Alex Stencel and Connie Gallagher get together as they were inducted into the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame last Thursday night. It was the single best representation from Bayonne in the 19-year history of the county’s Hall of Fame.

Bayonne trio honored with Hall of Fame induction
Stencel, Gallagher, Conway take place with Hudson County sports legends

It had been 15 long years since Alex Stencel had visited his hometown of Bayonne. However, Stencel came back to his old stomping grounds last week to receive his induction into the Hudson County ...

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MEMORABLE TIME – Just a year ago, the Marist girls’ basketball program, with head coach Bill DeFazio (far right) calling the shots, celebrated the HCIAA Coviello championship. As it turned out, it was the last county title in DeFazio’s illustrious career, as the fiery coach called it a career Wednesday.

TASTY TIDBITS 03/29/09 Marist’s DeFazio decides to retire
Clemente Jr. visits Hoboken; Red Wing grid stars make college choice

After coaching girls’ basketball in Hudson County for more than 30 years, Bill DeFazio knew that his time had come. “I always said that when I wasn’t having fun, then it was time to give it up,...

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MANY STOPS OF JOE BOROWSKI – Bayonne native Joe Borowski, who announced his retirement from Major League Baseball last week, had memorable stints with the Chicago Cubs , Florida Marlins and finally the Cleveland Indians.

End of the road
Major league baseball player from Bayonne calls it a career

After weighing lukewarm offers from the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Phillies, then taking a long look at his life, Joe Borowski decided that he had enough. The Bayonne native was retiring ...

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COUNTY CHAMPS AGAIN – The Bayonne High School girls’ basketball team captured the HCIAA Coviello championship by defeating Lincoln last Saturday at Yanitelli Center at St. Peter’s College. It was the 21st time that Bayonne captured an HCIAA title. Photo by Jen Lapinski.

Bayonne: City of champions
Bayonne High, HFA both claim final HCIAA girls’ basketball titles

It was the final time that the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association was holding a “Super Saturday” basketball championship bonanza, so maybe it was only fitting that the last two lea...

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Marist fielding young football team after miserable season Arico likes the youth and exuberance of the Royal Knights
After enduring a horrific 1-9 season a year ago, Marist High School head football coach Larry Arico did what most coaches would do - just get rid of the season from the memory bank. "We just t...

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