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Registration planned for Fort Lee indoor soccer
By Robyn Nadel FORT LEE – The Fort Lee Soccer League will be holding registration for the 2011 winter in-town indoor soccer season 7-8:30 p.m., Monday, December 13 at the borough’s Community Center. The registration fee is $65 and a copy of birth certificate must be provided. Sign-ups are limited to the first 400 registrants. [...]
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Northern Valley/Old Tappan volley-girls earn STOC title, Cresskill falls in state semi’s, 31-28
By By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action AREA–In what has been a very productive post-season for a handful of teams from the Press-Journal coverage area, the girls volleyball contingent from Northern Valley Regional’s Old Tappan High School proved itself to be, far-and-away, the best spikers squad in the state this year, while [...]
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Prime-Time Knights need one more win to make year truly ‘golden’
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action OLD TAPPAN– 11-1 with one championship is one heck of a good year. However, 12-0 with two titles is, obviously, much, much better and would truly be a “Golden” year. To achieve the latter, the girdiron contingent from Northern Valley Regional’s Old Tappan High School will [...]
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Basketball Academy program starts in Englewood
ENGLEWOOD – The Uptown Sports Academy, whose goal is to help develop sound fundamental athletes, is hosting its “Building a Champion” (BAC) Basketball Academy program, 10 a.m.-noon, Saturdays and Sundays starting Saturday, Dec. 4, for boys and girls in Grades 3-8. All sessions will be held at the Dr. McCloud Elementary School (formerly known as [...]
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Leonia boys run to third straight league championship
By By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action LEONIA– It may be a different league, but the outcome was the same, as the boys cross-country contingent from Leonia High has earned its third straight league title. In addition, the Lions earned a spot in the State Group 1 championships for the 11th straight [...]
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Fort Lee soccer under 14 boys finish in first
By John Marin FORT LEE – The Fort Lee Soccer League wrapped up its fall travel season on Saturday, Nov. 20 and Sunday, Nov. 21 with several of the teams participating in matches in the Northern Counties Soccer Association (NCSA). The Under 14 Boys ‘A’ travel team avenged their only loss of the season [...]
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Rare turkey time tilts still loved by most
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action AREA– Not all that long ago, at a Friday night/Homecoming Game hosted by a school in western NJ, a veteran journalist who had covered that school for many years, asked the athletic director why the annual first-weekend-of-November “big game” had to played at night, even though [...]
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North Bergen ousted in double-overtime
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action NORTH BERGEN– It all came down to the second overtime. In that second extra session, the Bruins had a fourth down pass into the end-zone ruled incomplete after the ball bounced away when the receiver hit the ground, while second-seeded Randolph scored on a 27-yard field [...]
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Cliffside Park wins state championship
By W. L. Bill Allen, Jr. Director, NJ Sport/Action CLIFFSIDE PARK– Well, it took three straight trips to the state finals, but the boys booters battalion from Cliffside Park is finally in sole possesion of a state championship. After tying Delran, 1-1, in the 2008 state title tilt and then losing to those same Bears, [...]
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