NUTLEY – The Nutley High School girls’ varsity basketball team began its season in emphatic fashion. University of Maryland-bound senior guard Blair Watson scored 21 points, including three 3-pointers, and freshman Alaina Feaster added 14 points as the Lady Raiders crushed Weequahic, 73-13, in the season opener on Friday, Dec. 18, at Weequahic in Newark. […]
NUTLEY – Senior Will Montgomery scored 11 points and senior Geoff Bevere and freshman Marty Higgins each had 10 points to lead the Nutley High School boys’ varsity basketball team to a 56-48 home win over Christ the King Prep in the season opener on Friday, Dec. 18. Sophomore Matt Schettino and senior Devin White […]
IRVINGTON – Talik Lee had 14 points and four assists and Ahmere Nelson had 13 points, three rebounds and two assists to lead the Irvington High School boys’ varsity basketball team to a 55-44 home win over Orange in the season opener on Friday, Dec. 18. Ijah Jones had 12 points and Othniel Nyameke contributed […]
IRVINGTON – The Michigan-Ohio State football rivalry just got a bit more intense. That’s because Irvington resident Kareem Walker, a senior running back at DePaul Catholic High School in Wayne, has decided to sign a National Letter of Intent with the University of Michigan, a month after he reneged on his months-long commitment to Ohio […]
EAST ORANGE – East Orange Campus High School boys’ varsity basketball head coach Billy Lovett has been suspended by the East Orange Board of Education. Lovett was suspended a week before the season began. The suspension is until Jan. 2. The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is investigating a complaint about the boys’ basketball […]
NUTLEY – The Nutley High School varsity wrestling team, under first-year head coach Mike DiPiano, opened the season at the The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Pride Classic at Brick Memorial on Saturday, Dec. 19. Only teams that had a coach who wrestled for Coach Dave Icenhower at Trenton State College/The College of New Jersey […]
WEST ORANGE – The Seton Hall Prep varsity basketball team opened the season with wins over Newark Tech, Columbia and Delbarton to improve to a 3-0 record. Senior guard T.J.Gibbs had 17 points, five rebounds and five assists and junior forward Treyvon Bennett had 12 points, nine rebounds and three steals in the 69-48 win […]
WEST ORANGE – The Seton Hall Prep varsity wrestling team opened its season on Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Morris Knolls Wrestling Tournament at Morris Knolls High School in Rockaway, finishing in fifth place with 105 points. The Pirates entered 10 wrestlers, seven of whom placed second, third, or fourth place. The following Pirates finished […]
IRVINGTON – Irvington native Dwayne Beckford proved to be a dominant defensive player in his first season playing for the Marian University football team in Indianapolis, Ind. In fact, Beckford is a big reason why Marian is the 2015 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national champions. Beckford a 6-foot-1, 240-pound senior linebacker, posted six […]
MAPLEWOOD – The Columbia High School wrestling team for the 2015-16 season is a very young and inexperienced group of wrestlers. The Cougars’ small team of about 21 wrestlers has 10 freshmen and only three seniors. Additionally there are only five returning varsity wrestlers. However, with a few wrestlers moving up from the youth team […]