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Lincoln senior guard Toriano Munford
After a brilliant junior season, averaging 15.5 points and five rebounds per game and earning All-Hudson County Third Team honors,
Toriano Munford knew he had to try to improve his game this year.
The 6-foot-3 Lincoln High School do-everything senior was prepared to be more of a factor.
“I felt like I had to step up and play a bigger role this year,” Munford said. “I had to help the team more.”
But with a worldwide pandemic ongoing, it was going to be tough to improve, especially with his Lincoln teammates.
“It was very difficult,” Munford said. “I couldn’t do anything. I had to stay in the house. I watched a lot of basketball, but it wasn’t like playing.”
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Zahir Abdus-Salaam (seated center) signs his National Letter of Intent to head to Western Michigan, flanked by his mother Zakiyyah Akhtab (left) and father Muhammad Abdul-Salaam (right)
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St. Peter’s Prep teammates Jordan Campbell (left) and Ethan Rodriguez (right) will remain teammates in college after signing with Sacred Heart University
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Zahir Abdus-Salaam, the two-time
Hudson Reporter All-Area running back from Union City High School, looked down at the piece of paper in front of him early last Wednesday morning and shook his head.
Salaam then took a pen, put his autograph on the dotted line, and with that, he became a big-time college football player.