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Friday, October 14, 2011

BOYS SOCCER:Wallington keeps on keepin' on with win at Heights

Hasbrouck Heights' Dylan Colombo.

By Cory K. Doviak
NJS.com Editorial Director

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS – Even though it did not always have a soccer team, Wallington has long been a soccer town. So when the boys soccer program started up in 1999 it was a meteoric rise from infancy to Group 1 dominance. The Panthers have been to seven state sectional finals and they have won the last two, but the logical conclusion might have been that last season's run had to be the peak. Wallington won 23 of the 25 game it played and topped it off with the school's first-ever outright Group 1 state championship, but with the playoffs' end came the end of the brilliant high school careers of Tomek Kwiatkowski, a goal-scoring machine, and Konrad Plewa, one of the most complete players in Bergen County and six other seniors. Instead, what the graduation of those two players has shown is that Wallington is much more than a typical Group 1 team that rises and falls with the fortunes of a few players in any given class. What Wallington is is a quality program that regenerates itself with quality players who pick up for those that have come before. MORE...

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