GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School football team’s four-game winning streak ended with a 21-7 loss to Dumont on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 23, at Hurrell Field. Dumont jumped out to a 14-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Ridgers got on the scoreboard in the second quarter, when Matteo […]
GLEN RIDGE — The fourth-seeded Glen Ridge High School field hockey team defeated 13th-seeded South Hunterdon, 1-0, on Oct. 25, at George Washington field in the first round of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Group 1, tournament on Oct. 25. Grace Petretti scored on an assist from Natalie Shaw in the first period. Ashley Woertz made […]
Blue Knights to host West Orange; IHS alumnus/WOHS head coach Darnell Grant makes his homecoming
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School football team defeated Bayonne, 53-27, Friday night, Oct. 22, in Bayonne. The Blue Knights won their second straight game and improved to 6-2 overall and 4-0 in the North Jersey Super Football Conference–Freedom White Division on the season. Irvington, under sixth-year head coach Ashley “Smoke” Pierre, also won […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School football team lost to West Orange, 42-14, on Friday night, Oct. 22, at West Orange to move to a 2-6 overall record. West Orange won its fourth straight game to move to 6-2. Senior quarterback Charles Abplanalp scored on a two-yard run in the second quarter and junior […]
NUTLEY — The Nutley High School football team lost a heartbreaking 15-13 decision to Bergenfield on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 23, at Tangorra Field/Park Oval. It was the first home game since the death of former NHS football head coach Steve DiGregorio, who died the previous week after a battle with cancer. DiGregorio coached last year’s […]
BELLEVILLE — James Cook Jr. scored three touchdowns to lead the Belleville High School football team to an emphatic 42-14 win at Passaic on Friday night, Oct. 15. The Bucs improved to a 4-3 record on the season. Trailing 6-0, the Bucs got on the board when Brian Dessources scored on a 32-yard run and […]
ORANGE, NJ — The late Monte Irvin, an Orange native and Hall of Fame baseball player, is part of the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame class. Irvin, who died Jan. 11, 2016 at the age of 96, played left field and right field in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball for the […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School football team defeated Bloomfield, 18-15, in thrilling fashion in Bloomfield on Friday night, Oct. 15. Columbia won it on a 22-yard field goal by sophomore Henry Aaron in the fourth quarter. After Columbia trailed 7-0 at halftime, senior Stephen Henry ran for two touchdowns in the third […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Columbia High School senior Nate Lindstrom and CHS junior Emma Friedrich finished in first place overall in the boys and girls races respectively at the Super Essex Conference–American Division Championship meet held at Branch Brook Park in Newark on Oct. 12. Lindstrom finished in a time of 17:02.60. Friedrich finished in […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School football team put together an all-around excellent performance in a hard-fought 7-0 victory over a solid Ridgewood team at Irvington’s Homecoming on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 16 in a Super Football Conference crossover game. The lone score came in the fourth quarter as Raheem Wright ran for an 8-yard […]