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WALL — Monday’s winner-take-all game for the Section 3 Junior League Baseball title between North Wall and Berkeley was not for the faint of heart.

The North Wall team players, the majority of whom have been playing together since the age of eight, were looking to continue their magical postseason run, while Berkeley staved off elimination twice to force the winner-take-all game.

North Wall put the game away in the ...

Like a butterfly, 12-year-old Nicole Vaiani of Wall has sprouted wings and started to fly in the world of fencing.

Vaiani may wear the cocoon-like equipment when she fences, but the sport has given the seventh-grader at St. Catharine School a new-found confidence.

Nicole recently won the Youth 12-year-old division for foil fencers at the Summer National Championships of the United States Fencing Association.

The week-long event, which featured a total ...

POINT PLEASANT — After three hours of baseball on Tuesday night, Point Merchant Coach Art Rooney sat in the dugout of the Point Boro baseball field looking back at what had just transpired between his team and the Toms River Tigers with mixed emotions.

On the one hand, the 1-0 extra-inning loss to the visiting team was a hard pill to swallow. On the other hand, the veteran ...

MATAWAN — For many of the players on the field at Matawan High School last Friday night, their chance to play in the annual U.S. Army All-Shore Gridiron Classic was both the realization of a lifelong dream, and their first time strapping on a helmet and pads in close to eight months.

On the two sidelines — which were loaded with some of the top recent graduates from ...