MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Playing its first home game in two years, the Columbia High School football team defeated Livingston, 9-0, in the season opener on Thursday, Aug. 31, at Lynn V. Profeta Field/Underhill Sports Complex. The high school football season kicked off for most of the teams across the country and around the state for […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The dream for any football player is to make it to the NFL. Ronnie “Rocket” Hickman has realized that dream. After an impressive preseason, the 21-year-old South Orange native made the final 53-player roster for the Cleveland Browns. The 6-foot-1, 209-pound safety signed with the Browns as an undrafted free agent […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School boys soccer team is looking forward to another great season. The Ridgers, who won the state sectional tournament title last season, will be playing this season with heavy hearts. Nathan Latifi, who was a strong contributor last year as a junior, died in a car accident […]
ORANGE, NJ — Wearing the program’s unretired uniform No. 3 for the first time, senior quarterback Maurice Williams passed for 321 yards and six touchdowns and ran for 63 yards and another score to power the Orange High School football team to an emphatic 50-0 win over Paterson Kennedy on Friday night, Sept. 1, at […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — For the Irvington High School football team, this season hasn’t started the way it had hoped. The IHS Blue Knights are 0-2, having been shut out in both games. After losing to Camden Eastside, 6-0, Friday, Aug. 25, at home, the Blue Knights fell at Millville, 34-0, Saturday, Sept. 2. Irvington hopes […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School fall teams begin their seasons this week. The boys soccer, girls soccer and girls volleyball teams’ seasons will begin Thursday, Sept. 7. The girls tennis team, under first-year head coach Kyle Steele, began the season Tuesday, Sept. 5, at home against Cedar Grove at Irvington Park. Steele also […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Despite being hit hard by graduation, the Belleville High School boys soccer team returns a solid, talented group that is looking to capture the Super Essex Conference–Colonial Division championship this season. The Bucs had a 3-3 overall record through Monday, Sept. 18. They were in second place in the division at 3-1, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School football team lost to Montclair, 24-21, in the season opener on Saturday night, Sept. 2, at Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson. It had been five years since the Montclair Mounties had been able to defeat the West Orange Mountaineers. Not since former head coach John Fiore, were […]
NEWARK, NJ — The East Orange High School football team lost to Clifton, 30-12, in the season opener on Saturday, Sept. 2, at Schools Stadium in Newark. For the second season in a row, there has been a lot of hype circling around the first game of the season between East Orange Campus and Clifton. […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Valerie Martin is excited about the Nutley High School girls tennis season. Entering her 16th season as the head coach, Martin said the program continues to grow. This season, there are 28 players in the program, with 11 on the varsity and the rest on junior varsity. Nutley defeated Bloomfield, 5-0, in […]