WEST ORANGE – Twin right-handed pitchers Jamil and Jermaine Vanheyningen, who are rising seniors on the Seton Hall Prep varsity baseball team, have verbally committed to Campbell University, located in Buies Creek, N.C., to continue their baseball careers. The West Orange residents were key contributors for this past spring’s SHP team that won the Greater […]
BLOOMFIELD The Bloomfield High School varsity football team is getting ready for its season. The Bengals, under head coach Mike Carter, were scheduled to visit Summit in a preseason scrimmage Tuesday, Aug. 23. BHS will visit Pequannock, Friday, Aug. 26, at 10 a.m. in a preseason scrimmage and will host West Essex in a game […]
BLOOMFIELD – The Bloomfield High School varsity fall teams will begin their seasons. The following are schedules for boys’ soccer, girls’ soccer, girls’ tennis, girls’ volleyball and cross-country: Boys’ soccer (home games at Watsessing Park, unless otherwised noted.) Sept. 9, at Newark Academy, 4 p.m. Sept. 10, at Clifton, noon Sept. 13, Montclair, 4 p.m. […]
EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School varsity football team has been preparing for the upcoming football season. The Jaguars, under second-year head coach Al-Majid Hutchins, hosted a quad scrimmage on Saturday, Aug. 20, at Paul Robeson Stadium in East Orange. The other teams were Irvington, Willingboro and Camden. Competing in the newly-formed […]
ORANGE – The Orange High School varsity football teams has been preparing for the upcoming season. The Tornadoes hosted Butler on Aug. 17 at Bell Stadium. Competing in the newly-formed North Jersey Super Football Conference, OHS will kick off the regular season Sept. 9 at home against Ferris. OHS schedule Sept. 9, Ferris, 7 p.m. […]
IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School varsity football team, under first-year head coach Ashley Pierre, is getting ready for the upcoming season. The Blue Knights competed in a scrimmage hosted by East Oragne Campus High School on Saturday, Aug. 20, at Paul Robeson Stadium in East Orange. The other teams in the scrimmage were Willingboro […]
IRVINGTON – Irvington High School alum Asnage Castelly gave a good effort at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Castelly, a 1998 IHS graduate, competed in wrestling for the country of Haiti in the 74 kg freestyle division. In the quarterfinals Friday, Aug. 19, Castelly lost to Iran’s Hassan Yazdan by a […]
High school fans were saddened to learn the passing of Bill Allen, a longtime sports photographer and sports writer. Allen, who died unexpectedly Sunday, Aug. 14, at the age of 58, always had a happy-go-lucky disposition while taking photos of countless scholastic events and writing feature stories and game stories for more than three decades. […]
WEST ORANGE – Kyrie Irving and the United States Olympic men’s basketball team, as expected, brought home the gold. Irving, a West Orange native who helped the Cleveland Cavaliers to the National Basketball Association title just a few moths ago, had four points, four assists and three rebounds as the starting point guard as the […]
WEST ORANGE – The West Orange High School fall varsity teams will begin their seasons next month. The football team will host Union City, Sept. 9, to kick off the season. The boys’ soccer team last season won the state North Jersey Section 1, Group 4 tournament championship and finished as state Group 4 runner-up […]