Nyers takes over at helm of JFK football
Team coming off two-win season
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      After coaching stints at Bishop Ahr High School, Cardinal McCarrick High School, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and even Bremen, Germany, Rich Nyers is now the new head coach at John F. Kennedy High School. A psychology teacher at JFK since 2001, Nyers spent the past three seasons as the offensi...
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JFK girls XC looking for improvement from year ago
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      With its biggest turnout at tryouts in school history, the John F. Kennedy High School girls cross-country team is hoping for a big season this fall. Last year's team ran to a 3-5 record, but with a number of veteran runners back for another season, the future of the program appears headed in the ...
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Sports Shorts
      U.S. women's rowing, coached by former Rutgers rower Tom Terhaar, recently took the gold medal in the women's eight race at the Shunyi Rowing- Canoeing Park in Beijing, China. The U.S. won its first gold medal in 24 years and its second medal in as many Olympics after taking the silver in 2004.
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Riggi looking for better second year as Stevens coach
Hawks finished with 2-8 mark last season
BY JEFF APPELBLATT Correspondent
      No matter how painful a losing season can be for any coach, there is typically at least one positive he or she can take away, especially if the poor season was the coach's first year as team leader. Joe Riggi spent eight seasons as defensive coordinator of J.P. Stevens High School's football team...
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BCC women's soccer team is progressing
Open at home tomorrow
BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer
      Brookdale Community College women's soccer coach Frank Lawrence is using the team's early contests to get a feel for what he has. Opening in New York State against a powerhouse Herkimer squad Saturday and then playing a junior college Division I power Harford in their home opener tomorrow (4 p.m....
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Edison football banking on senior leadership this season
Eagles have 32 seniors, led by Janz, Sherrod
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      The days of winless season after winless season are a thing of the past for the Edison High School football team. Under head coach Matt Fulham, low expectations and fundamentally unsound football has disappeared from the Edison gridiron. Last year, in his third season with the Eagles, Fulham help...
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Hawk soccer teams picked to repeat
      If the Northeast Conference coaches have it right, Monmouth University soccer teams will rule again. Both the men's and women's teams, which won the NEC championships last fall, are picked by the coaches to repeat as the conference's best.
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