BELLEVILLE – The Belleville High School girls’ varsity basketball team, under fifth-year head coach Liz Ramirez, has a strong returning group looking to achieve a successful season. The Bucs lost just two key players to graduation – guard Samantha Samaniego and point guard Arianna Douglas. The following are returning players: Sophomores: Jasmine Del Valle (G), […]
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville High School varsity football team endured a tough season. The Bucs lost players to injury even before the season started. The bad luck continued into the season as the team, which unfortunately was never at full strength, finished with a 1-9 record, with the lone win coming against Newark East Side. […]
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams and wrestling teams will begin their seasons Dec. 18 and Dec. 19. The boys’ basketball team will visit Immaculate Conception, while the girls’ basketball team will host Montclair Kimberley Academy, both Dec. 18, in their season openers. The wrestling team will participate in the […]
BELLEVILLE – Carlos Castro, a Belleville High School graduate, was named the Most Valuable Player of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship game after leading the Rutgers University-Newark men’s soccer team to a 3-0 win over Manhattanville College last month. Castro, a sophomore midfielder, scored two goals, three overall in the tournament. The goals were […]
BELLEVILLE – Belleville High School will honor the late George Zanfini with a trophy case in the school lobby, adjacent to the gymnasium. The case will be unveiled on Friday, Dec. 18. That day, the BHS girls’ varsity basketball will tip off its season at home against Montclair Kimberley Academy at 4 p.m. Zanfini, the […]
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville High School girls’ varsity volleyball team, under head coach John Spina, enjoyed a stellar 19-9 season. The Bucs were led by several outstanding players. The following BHS players have earned Worrall Media All-Area honors: Breana Nieves, senior outside hitter. Nieves was named first team All-Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division. “Breana was my […]
BELLEVILLE – The following Belleville High School boys’ varsity soccer players earned All-Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division honors: Elias Tapia, first team Jairo Campoverde, second team Chris Andrade and Maverick Garcia, honorable mention. Tapia and Campoverde also earned Worrall Media All-Area honors. The Bucs finished with a 6-11-2 record this season.
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville High School girls’ varsity soccer team, which finished with an 11-7-1 record, featured several players who made All-Super Essex Conference-Colonial Division. Priscilla Olavarria, Jazmine Lotto, and Briana Ulloa each made First Team; Keila Garcia, Lindsey Riera, and Krystal Rasczyk each made Second Team; and Eliana Legeien made Honorable Mention on the […]
UPPER MONTCLAIR – Never have televised sports become so pervasive. In today’s ever-widening world of sports there are more games, more pre-game shows, more post-game analyses, more everything. And more and more former athletes dominate the airwaves. We take for granted the countless ex-players who transition from the playing field to the broadcast booth or […]