Liberty Division champion is state sectional runner-up for the second straight year
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School girls basketball team, under head coach Mike DelloRusso, enjoyed another magnificent season. The Ridgers finished as runner-up in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state tournament for the second year in a row. Glen Ridge, seeded No. 2, crushed […]
Jaguars finish 23-6 after being runner-up in state sectional tournament
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange High School boys basketball team enjoyed a sensational season. The Jaguars, under sixth-year head coach Gabe Baltimore, advanced to the championship of the New Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament. Though the third-seeded Jaguars lost at top-seeded Ridgewood, 57-54, on Friday, March 1, they can certainly savor […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — Corbin Raston, Gideon Griffin and the boys 4×400-meter relay team represented the West Orange High School boys and girls indoor track and field teams at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state indoor track and field Meet of Champions at the Ocean Track and Field Facility on Sunday, March 3. […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School boys and girls indoor track and field program featured several athletes who qualified for and competed at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state indoor track and field Meet of Champions on Sunday, March 3, at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility on Staten Island, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls basketball team, under head coach Caniece Montague Williams, finished a stellar 20-10 season after losing at second-seeded Morristown in the semifinals of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament on Wednesday, Feb. 28. For the third-seeded Mountaineers, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School sophomores Leanna Noel and Saharia Quamina enjoyed stellar finishes at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s girls state individual wrestling championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Noel and Quamina each won fifth-place medals in their weight classes. Competing in the 145-pound weight class in a field of […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Troy Bowers, a former standout Irvington High School athlete and later a coach at the school, has been named the interim IHS athletic director. Bowers was a standout three-sport athlete at Irvington High School. The 1987 IHS graduate lettered in football, basketball and baseball. He later came back to Irvington and was […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley High School’s Carina Rivera and Isabella Bobadilla enjoyed great performances at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s girls state individual wrestling championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Rivera won the seventh-place medal and Bobadilla won the eighth-place medal in their respective weight classes. Rivera, a junior competing in the […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ —Belleville High School seniors Jakob Ferrer and Rocco Negron posted good efforts at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s boys state individual wrestling championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Ferrer, competing in the 113-pound weight class, was the No. 18 seed in the field of 32 wrestlers. In the preliminary round, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — The Nutley High School girls wrestling team finished in third place overall at the inaugural girls wrestling Essex County Tournament, hosted by NHS, on Friday, Feb. 16. The NHS Raiders had 90 points. Bloomfield was first with 165 points and West Orange was second with 127 points, among the 11 scoring teams. […]