boys soccer feature

TUCKERTON - Pinelands senior forward Matt O’Connell stands out a lot more on the stat sheet than he does in pregame warmups, but like Wildcats eighth-year coach Jason Asch found out the first time he saw his goal-scoring dynamo play, it does not take long to watch O’Connell in game action and realize where the gaudy numbers of the past two years come from...

Before his first day on the job as head boys soccer coach at his high school alma mater, Todd Briggs wrote down two goals for his program and he shared both with his team on Tuesday night. First, he wanted the team to be competitive every year, which in his words meant "to have a chance to win every time we step on the field...

NEPTUNE – Among the many regular chants by the creative, boisterous and loyal Christian Brothers Academy student section better known as the “Colt Crazies” is one that goes: “GOD’S ON OUR SIDE (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)." If what the Crazies say is true and God is indeed on the CBA bandwagon, then the Creator probably climbed on board in 1980 to find Dan Keane driving it...

Shore Conference Tournament Bracket SCT Quarterfinal Predictions A 1-3 start to the season my damage the collective confidence of a team, but the Middletown North boys soccer team knew its slow start just meant it was time to go to work against an unforgiving Shore Conference Class A North division schedule...

The Shore Conference Tournament will be seeded Monday, which means it’s time to start considering what the field might look like when the bracket is finalized. There are officially 27 teams that have qualified for the tournament, with Matawan beating Red Bank on Sunday night to become the 27th qualifier...

TOMS RIVER - Soccer has been a part of Ed Leibe’s routine for nearly a half-century and for most of those nearly 50 years, playing playing the sport was a part of that routine for an active man with an athletic background. The first part of his soccer life included starring in high school at Steinert in Hamilton, N...

This weekend’s Toms River Kick-Off Classic is not to the first summer high school soccer tournament, but with its proximity to the first official day of practice for New Jersey high school teams, it marks the beginning of the countdown to the fall season, particularly for Shore Conference soccer...

D.C. United of Major League Soccer selected University of Maryland senior and former Holmdel star Dan Metzger with the 42nd overall pick of the MLS SuperDraft on Thursday in Philadelphia. The Black and Red had the final pick of the day and chose Metzger with a pick acquired in a trade with the champion L...

Most coaches spend precious time figuring out how to deter their players from looking beyond the next game, but second-year Red Bank Catholic head coach Justin Meehan understood why his players were fixated on the NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public A semifinals before the tournament even started...

Fresh on the heels of one of the more unpredictable Shore Conference Tournaments in recent memory, the NJSIAA Tournament is up next, with the opening round of the boys sectional playoffs beginning on Monday. Thirty-five Shore Conference teams in nine different sections qualified for the tournament, with the Shore Conference earning No...

Fresh on the heels of one of the more unpredictable Shore Conference Tournaments in recent memory, the NJSIAA Tournament is up next, with the opening round of the boys sectional playoffs beginning on Monday. Thirty-five Shore Conference teams in nine different sections qualified for the tournament, with the Shore Conference earning No...

Boys SCT Bracket   Shore Conference Tournament Championship Saturday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m. Memorial Athletic Complex at Summerfield Elementary School, Neptune No. 4 Wall vs. No. 11 Freehold Township   Wall (14-3-2, 9-2-1 in Class B North) Head Coach: Garry Linstra SCT Championships: None Last Final Appearance: 1998 Road to the Final: Defeated No. 29 ...