RU women come up short versus Tennessee
     JEFF GRANIT staff Rutgers' Brittany Ray drives to the basket against Tennessee's Briana Bass at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in Piscataway on Jan. 3. The Knights held a 20-point halftime lead, only to watch it slip away en route to a 55-51 loss. Ray finished with 14 points. The team's next game i...
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Rutgers men fall to Pitt at home
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer
      For most of its game against Pittsburgh last Wednesday, the Rutgers University men's basketball team stayed with the nation's top-ranked team. At one point early in the second half, the Scarlet Knights even held a seven-point lead.
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Gazda returns to high school sideline
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      With longtime hoops coach Val Gazda back on the sidelines, the Metuchen High School girls basketball team is off to a 4-2 start to the season after winning the Dr. Rose Battaglia Tournament at Benedictine Academy. The Bulldogs picked up tournament wins over the host school and St. Patrick and St. ...
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JFK boys hoops team to face local rivals this week
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      After a rough outing at the Gene Haley Holiday Tournament in Edison, in which it suffered losses to Edison and Bloomfield, the John F. Kennedy High School boys basketball team inched closer to the .500 mark with a 49-45 win over South River on Saturday. Kennedy heads into this week's action 2-3 on...
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Sports Shorts
      Deweycheatumnhowe, the 2008 Hambletonian winner, has been selected as the New Jersey Standardbred of the Year for 2008 by the New Jersey Equine Advisory Board. The 3-year-old trotting colt, sired in New Jersey by Muscles Yankee, won 22 of his 25 career starts with purse earnings in excess of $3...
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Metuchen brings home holiday tourney crown
Boys hoops team wins tournament in Roselle Park
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer
      After opening the season with a pair of losses, the Metuchen High School boys basketball team climbed back to .500 with two straight wins to capture the Roselle Park Holiday Tournament championship. The Bulldogs took the title with a 76-50 win over the host school, followed by a 68-65 victory over...
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