EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball teams will begin their seasons on Friday, Dec. 18. The boys’ team will visit Newark Central in a Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division game, while the girls’ team will host Blomfield Tech in an SEC-American Division game, both at 7 p.m. The […]
EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School varsity football team endured a season in transition. Al-Majid Hutchins, a 2007 EOCHS graduate who was a standout defensive back for the Jaguars, was promoted to head coach right before the start of training camp in August, after serving as the team’s defensive coordinator under Marion […]
EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Panthers and the rest of the Garden State American Youth Football League enjoyed a successful first season this year. The Garden State American Youth Football League sent Montclair Cobras’ 13U, East Orange Panthers’ 12U, and Montclair’s 11U teams to the regional semifinals, with only Montclair’s 13U getting a bye […]
EAST ORANGE – The East Orange Campus High School boys’ varsity soccer team featured several players who earned honors this season. On the All-Super Essex Conference-Colonial Division, senior defender Bendjener Alexander, junior forward Roshard Jervis, freshman attacking midfielder Morrison Milfort and senior goalie Stanley Igbudu made first team; senior center back Andrae Walsh, junior Sebastian […]
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 […]