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Pips, meatballs and new life: Inside the world of silly chants in a softball dugout
Immaculate Heart and Ramapo not only play a good game, they talk a good game. The two North Jersey softball superpowers will collide in Saturday’s Bergen County Tournament final at 1 p.m. in Wood-Ridge, but you may hear them before you see them. Both teams perform the beautiful jazz symphony of what is best...
Girls lacrosse: Bronxville beats Albertus Magnus to capture another Section 1 Class D title
SHRUB OAK — Before the Section 1 Class D girls lacrosse playoffs began, it didn’t seem likely three of the top four No. 1-seeded teams would fall. After all, one, Class C Nyack, had run the table against Section 1 opponents, even if No. 2 Rye had played it close. ...
Wolf Pac Mauls Huskies to Earn Wednesday Quarterfinal Date with Top-Seed Yorktown
MAHOPAC, N.Y. – The Wolf Pac boys have been playing some of their best lacrosse late in the season, and that trend continued last Saturday when No. 9 seed Mahopac rolled into Harrison for a Class B out-bracket playoff game and dominated the eighth-seeded Huskies from the opening faceoff in a 13-5 victory. The win earned Mahopac (4-11) a date with top-seeded Yorktown in Tuesday’s quarterfinal round. That winner advances to Friday’s semifinals. The Class B championship game is set for Wednesday (May 29) at Yorktown HS at 6:30 p.m.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE...
North Jersey Female Athlete of the Week delivers her best throws to repeat as double-champion
Layla Giordano has always been an athlete. "I don't remember a time when I wasn't doing multiple sports often at the same time,'' she said. "I was in basketball in second or third grade, I played soccer, softball and even tried lacrosse for a season as a kid.'' ...
NJ lacrosse team rankings and individual stat leaders as we enter state playoffs
In some years, it can be a misnomer to call the girls lacrosse battle between Ridgewood and Immaculate Heart a rivalry. Not this one. The Maroons and Blue Eagles produced a pair of entertaining matches in the span of six days – first in the Bergen County championship and then again in a regular-season matchup. ...
HS baseball: Repeat! St. Peter’s tallies 3 times in home seventh to capture 2nd straight CHSAA Archdiocesan crown (92 photos)
For the better portion of Friday night’s CHSAA AA Archdiocesan championship game, the outlook was looking grim for St. Peter’s and a pending return trip to Fordham University in the Bronx for a deciding game was beginning to look like a reality. The Eagles offense couldn’t come up...
'The perfect athlete, it's her.' No challenge too big for North Jersey lacrosse captain
Isabella Lotito had every reason to walk away. The Mahwah senior has dealt with two labrum tears in her career – one in each shoulder. She's battled epilepsy for the last four years and experienced a seizure in a lacrosse game earlier this season. Sometimes, her medication can make her sleepy by 8 p.m. or feel fatigued. ...
North Jersey, Group 4, first round - Boys lacrosse roundup for May 24
Cody Lam scored five goals and tallied four assists for second-seeded Westfield in its 22-1 win against 15th-seeded Bergen Tech in the first round of the North Jersey, Group 4 tournament in Westfield. Garrett Ferguson had four goals and an assist for Westfield (11-5). Colin Coyle netted a hat trick...
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