EAST ORANGE, NJ – For the fourth consecutive season, the East Orange Campus High School boys’ indoor track and field team won the team title at the Super Essex Conference-American Division Championships held at Ocean Breeze Complex in Staten Island, N.Y., Dec. 22. Al-Shadee Salaam won the 55-meter dash (6.64) and won the 200-meter dash […]
ORANGE, NJ – Losing everything in a house fire is one of the most devastating tragedies a family can ever endure. And to have it occur around the holidays makes it even more heartbreaking. Unfortunately, that was what happened to an Orange High School senior student-athlete and her family on Dec. 13. The story touched […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – The East Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team fell to Columbia, 48-44, in the season opener Friday, Dec. 14, at Columbia in Maplewood. The Jaguars then fell at Roselle Catholic, 67-34, Sunday, Dec. 16 to move to 0-2.
EAST ORANGE, NJ – Derrick Johnson is back! After a one-year hiatus, Johnson has returned as the East Orange Campus High School girls’ basketball head coach and will enter his 15th season at the EOCHS helm. When Johnson was in charge, the Jaguars were simply dominant. Before he stepped down to become the EOCHS athletic […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ –As a basketball player at East Orange High School and Upsala College in the 1970s, Mike Booker had a number of thrills on the hardwood. With the Panthers, Booker, who could play equally well at guard or small forward, vied on teams that won county and state championships. And for the Vikings, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – The East Orange Campus High School football team featured several players who earned All-Super Football Conference-Liberty Blue Division. FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Nasir Montgomery, junior QB Chris Stultz, senior OL Quadir Scott, junior WR Bryant Manuel, junior RB Kashim Daniels, senior WR FIRST TEAM DEFENSE Locksley Burke, sophomore LB Ian Brown, junior […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – No. 16 ranked New Jersey City University men’s basketball team won twice last week -its third and fourth wins in a row – and sophomore shooting guard Denzel Banks (Newark, NJ/(East Orange Campus) had the biggest impact for the Gothic Knights. After scoring 38 points in only 35 minutes of action […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – The East Orange Campus High School varsity football team ended its season on a high note as the Jaguars defeated their long-time rivals, the Barringer HS Blue Bears, 20-12, in the teams’ annual Thanksgiving Day game at Schools Stadium in Newark. The Jaguars finished the season with a 7-3 overall record, […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – In the rich history of basketball in Essex County, there have been a number of superb coaches in the high school ranks, both on the boys’ and girls’ sides. Among male coaches, people like George Cella of Bloomfield, “Finn” Tracey and Bob Farrell of Seton Hall Prep, and Greg Tynes of […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ – In one of the longest series in state history, the East Orange Campus High School varsity football team will visit Barringer in the season finale on Thanksgiving Day at Schools Stadium in Newark at 10:30 a.m. The Jaguars have beaten Barringer in each of the past eight seasons on Thanksgiving after […]