EAST ORANGE – The return of longtime former head coach Marion Bell to East Orange Campus’s Paul Robeson Stadium was eclipsed with a double-overtime performance by the two long-time rivals in the annual Thanksgiving Day Rivalry Varsity Football Game between Barringer High School and East Orange Campus High School. The EOCHS Jaguars prevailed, 12-6, to […]
EAST ORANGE – For first-year head coach Al-Majid Hutchins and his East Orange Campus High School varsity football team, beating a good Barringer team on Thanksgiving definitely was a great way to end the season. Junior running back Giovanni Shine scored on a short run in double overtime to lift the Jaguars to a 12-6 […]
EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School varsity football team, pictured above entering the field at Paul Robeson Stadium when it lost to West Orange this season, will host Barringer on Thanksgiving in the season finale at Robeson Stadium. Kickoff is 10:30 a.m. The Jaguars are 3-6. Marion Bell, who was the head […]
EAST ORANGE – In an effort to create a more competitive balance for high school football, athletic directors representing four conferences gathered to officially approve the creation of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, during a meeting at Mayfair Farms in West Orange on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Believed to be the largest high school […]
EAST ORANGE – Newark Academy senior Jocelyn Willoughby had cause to celebrate on National Letter of Intent Signing Day this month. Joined by family, friends and coaches, the East Orange resident signed her National Letter of Intent to play basketball for University of Virginia. Willoughby is looking forward to graduation and to playing hoops for the Virginia Cavaliers.
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 […]
ORANGE – The Orange High School and East Orange Campus High varsity football teams lost in the first round of their respective state sectional playoffs last weekend. The OHS Tornadoes, seeded fourth, lost to fifth-seeded Ridgefield Park, 33-12, Friday, Nov. 13, at Bell Stadium to finish the season. The Tornadoes, under head coach Randy Daniel, […]