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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Howell Youth Football And Cheer Clubs Forging Pact

Pop Warner and American Youth Football working on deal to share football fields

They are two among the many lessons we all learned in kindergarten: Play nice with others. And share. That’s what the township’s two major football and cheer organizations are trying to relearn as the leaders of Howell Pop Warner and American Youth Football are working out a deal to share the Old Tavern Road football fields between the two clubs for the upcoming season and beyond. The Howell Lions Pop Warner organization previously had an exclusive lease with the township to use the township-owned fields in exchange for upkeep, Mayor William Gotto said. That worked for quite a long time, because Pop Warner was the only game in town. But a rift within the organization’s ranks caused numerous members all around the Shore Area to migrate to …

Jeanine Reitsma

9:09 am on Thursday, May 2, 2013

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Friday, December 28, 2012

PHOTOS: Howell Squads Bring Home National Crowns

Football and cheerleading leave their marks in Florida

For a group of young Howell cheerleaders a trip to Florida earlier this month was the culmination of a season's worth of hard work that sometimes included working in freezing cold gyms in the wake of a powerful storm. For a local football team, their trip was the culmination of years of near misses before finally reaching their goal.  By the time the trips were done Howell had two national champions and a national runner-up after a very busy fall season.  Tom Bonham, the coach of the Howell Division II Pee Wee squad said their goal was to make it to Florida from the start of their American Youth Football season. "We used it as motivation in practice that we had to get better each day to achieve it and the team kept responding," he said.  …

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