Tag: sports

Just a year ago, Alex Bauman was a two-sport standout for Red Bank Catholic. Now he’s responsible for one of the most thrilling finishes in the college football bowl season.

The changing of the guard can send shockwaves through a football program, especially when the team has enjoyed tremendous success.

The Bulldogs head coach continues to mold RFH as an elite state power and back-to-back losses to nationally ranked teams will only help a talented team learn how to handle all comers when the post-season rolls around.

TOMS RIVER – The dominance of the Saint John Vianney girls basketball team puts the Lancers in the unenviable position of being such a massive favorite that, when a team plays them close for an extended period of time, it garners headlines.

MIDDLETOWN – In the countless games over the years during a high school basketball season, it seems as if every type of storyline has played out, but last Saturday afternoon in Middletown brought a pregame headline that was truly rare: husband versus wife. 

RED BANK – Red Bank Catholic head wrestling coach Joe Gallagher had tears in his eyes as his wrestling team posed with the first sectional championship trophy in school history. The Caseys have a lineup of young wrestlers who Gallagher thought would be making history in 2023 but instead, RBC arrived a year early following a 39-30 win at the Eck Center against Holy Spirit to earn the Non-Public “B” South sectional title.

I am a former dual-sport Division I athlete and am a youth sports coach (in my copious free time, while I’m not running a consulting practice, mothering four children and teaching for the University of California, Irvine.)

Justine Pissott celebrated her 1,000-point milestone following RBC’s 67-49 win at Rumson-Fair Haven Jan. 13. Rich Chrampanis By...

varsity athletes under the Friday night lights was cutting its teeth in New Jersey’s American Youth Football (AYF). The Rumson-Fair Haven 14U AYF team wrapped up its season by claiming the NJAYF’s “B” Division Championship last Sunday in Berkeley with a 20-6 win over Sayreville.

LAKEWOOD – Dominance was the theme for the 2021 Shore Conference cross country championships at Ocean County Park Oct. 28.