photo/Edward kensik The Record Last year’s record: 11-1 Final ranking: No. 9 Marquee game: Oct. 25 vs. Cresskill Best assets: Hasbrouck Heights reached the North 1, Group 1 sectional final last season unbeaten before falling to Pompton Lakes, 20-14. Returning to make...

Bernadette Marciniak / Staff Photographer:                   Keon Banks of St. Mary   By Mark Czerwinksi Staff writer - The Record Last year’s record: 9-3 Final ranking: No. 20 Marquee game: Oct. 18 at Hasbrouck Heights Best assets: The Gaels are blessed with one...

Record file photo of Adeyemi Da Silva The Record Football Rankings Last year’s record: 8-2 Final ranking: No. 14 Marquee game: at New Milford, Sept. 12 Best assets: Senior QB Adeyemi Da Silva returns as one of the top signal-callers in North Jersey after throwing for...

                                     The Record - Boys soccer No. 20 Park Ridge Last year's record: 17-7 Final ranking: No. 12 Marquee game: at Waldwick, Sept. 16 Best assets: The defending sectional champions hope to build on last year's success with a new coach in...

The Record - Boys soccer No. 21 Garfield Last year's record: 12-6-2 Final ranking: No. 24 Marquee game: Sept. 5 vs. Hawthorne, 4 p.m. Best assets: The Boilermakers' attack is led by senior midfielder Nikolce Ilioski, a second team All-Bergen pick last year. Ilioski,...

photo courtesy/gearity family Heather Gearity, pictured here in 2012, after her first year winning the National title in the 400-meter hurdles....

By JIM JONES SPORTS EDITOR EMERITUS Glen Rock Gazette Following an outstanding scholastic lacrosse career at Glen Rock High School, Fiona McDonald is preparing to head for Hamilton College in upstate New York and play for the Continentals in the New England Small...