WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School girls lacrosse team beat Parsippany 19-4 on Monday, May 15, to capture its first-ever New Jersey Interscholastic Girls Lacrosse League divisional championship. The Mountaineers got out to a fast start putting 13 goals up in the first half. The girls were led by Nyah McKinney who […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Columbia High School girls lacrosse team, seeded ninth, lost at No. 8 seed Ridge 9-5 in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Group 4 state tournament on Wednesday, May 24, at Ridge. Senior Jamie Fardin had four goals and freshman Anabel MacGuire had one […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Tosca Blanford-Bynoe, a 1982 Irvington High School graduate who won the girls 100-meter hurdles title at the state track and field Meet of Champions in her senior season, was recently appointed as a superior court judge in Gloucester County. Blanford-Bynoe was nominated by Gov. Phil Murphy. For the past three-plus decades, she […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School girls volleyball star Lucinda Edwards was named a New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Scholar Athlete for 2023. Edwards and her peers from other schools in New Jersey were honored at a reception on Sunday, May 21, held at the Pines Manor in Edison. In addition to […]
BELLEVILLE, NJ — Belleville High School’s Jericho Perez and Ashley Cely were honored as 2022-2023 Karen Fuccello Essex County Scholar Athletes during a banquet on Tuesday, May 9, in Belleville. Perez lettered in track and field and football, and Cely lettered in volleyball, basketball and softball. The award is named after the late Karen Fuccello, […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Nutley High School seniors Jack Bumpus and Mia DiPiano were honored as 2022-23 Karen Fuccello Essex County Scholar Athletes during a banquet on Tuesday, May 9, in Belleville. The award is named after the late Karen Fuccello, who was the longtime Belleville High School director. This award is given to the top […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep golf team completed its season with a 19-3 record. They went 4-0 last week. They defeated West Orange 153-181 behind junior Michael Read’s 36 and sophomore AJ Dickinson’s 38; and defeated Montclair 164-172 behind senior Brody O’Connor’s 35 and sophomore Michael Gallucci’s 40. The next day they […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School baseball team, under head coach Tim Blumkin, defeated Bergen Tech in the first round and lost to Bloomfield in the quarterfinals in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament to finish a winning season. The 10th-seeded Mountaineers scored […]
GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School softball team had a good run in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state tournament. The seventh-seeded Ridgers defeated 10th-seeded North Arlington 9-1 in the first round on Tuesday, May 23, at Glenfield Park. Inari Krabbe went 2-for-4 with […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School boys lacrosse team, under head coach and CHS alumnus Dylan Heningburg, won the New Jersey Interscholastic Lacrosse League–Bianchi Division title with a 6-0 divisional record. It marked the Cougars’ second straight divisional championship. The Cougars, seeded sixth, defeated No. 11 seed Morristown 10-5 in the first round […]