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, […]
Several St. Joseph’s Celtics CYO basketball teams advanced to the league finals this weekend. It was do-or-die for the eighth-grade varsity girls team, as it went up against St. Aloysius, a formidable team it went 1-1 against during back-to-back games three weeks ago. Starting with Sofia Peterson’s smooth layup minutes into the game, St. Joseph’s […]
Senior will attend FDU, shoots for a career in medicine
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — When Talia Baptiste began her final season with Columbia High School’s girls basketball team, it was far from certain that she would achieve 1,000 high school career points. “I wasn’t really sure if I was going to get it,” said Baptiste, a senior. “I was only at 552 points.” A bone […]
They each take third place at state Meet of Champions
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange High School juniors Jordaine Johnson and Shakur Taylor enjoyed great performances at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state indoor track and field Meet of Champions at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility on Staten Island, N.Y., on Sunday, March 3. Johnson took third place in the […]
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 […]
Pirates boast school-record 8 wrestlers in AC; Brzozowski takes 5th place and Salerno takes 7th
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep wrestling team qualified a school-record eight wrestlers who competed at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s state individual championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City last weekend. Two wrestlers went 0-2, four wrestlers went 1-2, sophomore 215-pound Rocco Salerno went 5-2 and finished in seventh place […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Cashieve Blair, an 2022 Irvington High School graduate, is enjoying a fine career so far for the St. Peter’s University track and field team. Blair, a sophomore, broke his own school record in the men’s 200-meter dash to place third with a time of 21.58 seconds to lead St. Peter’s at the […]
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 […]