Covering New Jersey High School Sports Since 2006!
Covering New Jersey High School Sports Since 2006!
BigStateSportsBy, David Hashagen Newark, NJ A game with high expectations rarely lives up to the billing. Rarer still is a game of high magnitude that exceeds the billing. But the rarest of them all is a game that not…
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BigStateSportsBy, David Hashagen Newark, NJ — It was the final that, coming into the day, had the most question marks. Mainly because with the exception of a few no one expected either Pingry or Immaculate Heart to make it…
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Zack SmolenNewark, NJ — Every season has a Cinderella, but the story of the Morris Knolls/Hills hockey season brought some originality to the tale as old as time. From fourth place in the Mennen Division to the top of the…
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Joe HofmannDelbarton’s Cameron Sontz is a freshman – in name only. This 106-pound kid sure doesn’t wrestle like one. Technically, he has the mat awareness and poise of someone much, much older than him. That was all too obvious during…
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Joe HofmannWhen the wrestling room opened up at Delbarton in the fall, freshman Ryan DeGeorge didn’t know where he’d be. 120 pounds? 126? Atlantic City? But he knows exactly where he is today – right at the top of the…
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Joe HofmannIt started from one end of Boardwalk Hall and soon cascaded to the other end. And it was unmistakable. BOOOOOOO! Some bloodthirsty folks in the crowd wanted an upset. They were rooting for Delbarton’s returning state champion Alessio Perentin…
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Joe HofmannIt all came so suddenly – and Boardwalk Hall was left stunned. The move … the winning takedown …the state championship … it all happened in the blink of an eye, totally unexpected. But we are talking about Delbarton’s…
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Joe HofmannATLANTIC CITY – Move over Anthony Guidi. Here comes Tyeler Hagensen. The 113-pound Hagensen, a Mount Olive senior, captured a state championship with a 5-2 victory over St. Joseph-Montvale’s Johnathon McGinty at the state tournament held at Boardwalk Hall…
Read morePeter FifootMarch is here for the Girls Basketball Group Tournament as well. Big State Sports is here to predict these games as well. GROUP 1 NORTH 1 Newark University @ 1 Park Ridge Paradise Fisher is an electric rod of…
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Zack SmolenNewark, NJ — Another year, another instant classic is set up for us to kick off the New Jersey Ice Hockey State Championships at Prudential Center. The last time these two teams met in the playoffs, the St. Augustine…
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