EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School girls’ varsity basketball team defeated Weequahic and Montclair to move to a 13-2 record. Lakel Willis had 17 points and eight steals and Moriyah Jordan had 14 points and five rebounds in an 80-7 home rout of Weequahic on Feb. 2. Barbara Jackson had 12 points, […]
IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School boys’ and girls’ indoor track and field team participated in the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 3 Championship meet at the Bennett Center in Toms River last weekend. Senior Jonathan Carlon placed sixth in the boys’ 55-meter dash with a time of 6.92 to lead the Blue Knights. […]
IRVINGTON – The 18th-seeded Irvington High School girls’ varsity basketball team defeated No. 27 seed Central, 47-19, Feb. 6 in the first preliminary round of the Essex County Tournament at IHS. The Blue Knights snapped a two-game losing streak and improved to a 7-8 record. IHS was scheduled to visit 15th-seeded Mount Saint Dominic Academy […]
WEST ORANGE – West Orange High School senior Zach Brown signed a National Letter of Intent in accepting a soccer scholarship to Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. Brown helped lead the WOHS boys’ soccer team to a magnificent season last fall. The Mountaineers, under head coach Doug Nevins, won the Super Essex Conference-American Division championship […]
IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School boys’ basketball team demonstrated its resolve. The Blue Knights entered last week with a nine-game losing streak for a 2-11 record. But they won all three games during the week, capped by a victory against Cedar Grove in the Essex County Tournament. The Blue Knights then won their fourth […]
MAPLEWOOD – History was made in Paris, France, when Maplewood’s Jack Woods, age 14, won Gold and was the first fencer to win this prestigious international event for two years in a row, according to the organizers of the Challenge CEP Marathon Fleuret, 2016 – the world’s largest Youth Men’s (Y15) Foil Event. Three-hundred […]
BELLEVILLE – Alcides DosReis scored 13 points and Mohammed Yousef had 11 points to lead the Belleville High School boys’ varsity basketball team to a 45-39 win at Glen Ridge on Feb. 2. Andre Velez had nine points; Dave McAllister added five points; Kayson Wilder contributed four points and Ethan Luarca contributed three points for […]
BELLEVILLE – For the Belleville High School girls’ varsity basketball team, this season is based on team development. That is head coach Liz Ramirez’s main goal for her Lady Buccaneers. The Bucs earned their third win of the season on Jan. 19 as they defeated Golda Och Academy, 38-35, at home. Junior Gianna Benacquista had […]
SOUTH ORANGE – The Synchroettes Synchronized Skating organization, representing the Essex Skating Club of New Jersey, returned home last week from the 2016 Eastern Sectional Synchronized Skating Championships in Richmond, Va., with a Gold Medal in the Preliminary Division. Thirty teams and close to 600 skaters competed in qualifying rounds with 12 teams proceeding to […]
BLOOMFIELD – Bloomfield High School senior football standouts Lowell Kelly-Gamble and Olivier Georges signed with their respective colleges. Kelly-Gamble, a defensive lineman, signed with Monmouth University. Georges, a tight end, signed with American International College in Springfield, Mass.