EAST ORANGE/ORANGE/IRVINGTON, NJ — The East Orange Campus High School, Orange High School and Irvington High School football teams are preparing for their respective season openers. The OHS Tornadoes and IHS Blue Knights will both kick off on Friday, Aug. 25. The Tornadoes, under third-year head coach Khalfani Alleyne, will visit Wayne Hills at 6:30 […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — High school football is back. A number of area teams will kick off the season in Week 0, including Irvington High School. Irvington will host Camden Eastside at 7 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25. Irvington originally was scheduled to begin its season in Week 1 at Millville. Last season, Irvington and Millville […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The title of this piece has yet to begin to describe the changes in popular male-dominated sports which traditionally left our fairer halves out of the club. Traditional female sports that are not relatively heavy on the contact, such as tennis, track and field, swimming/diving and gymnastics, are now taking a […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Jean Pierre Valencia is the new 165-pound king of New York. The rising amateur boxing prospect from Irvington completed a dominant sweep of the New York Tournament on Friday, July 28, with a devastating first-round knockout of Israel Bailey in the open class finals at the Classic Car Club Manhattan at Pier […]
Irvington High School’s new principal doesn’t drink or smoke. “Coaching is my vice,” Principal Darnel Mangan said. “Coaching is the vehicle that drove me here.” Mangan is almost certainly the first person ever kicked out of an Irvington public school as a student to return and become principal of a school in the district. He […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School boys soccer team is enjoying a busy summer as it gets ready for the season this fall. The Blue Knights have been participating in a weekly 8-on-8 summer league at the Capelli Sports Complex in Tinton Falls in Monmouth County. Irvington won one game in emphatic fashion and […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School will have two new head coaches this fall. Both coaches are also head coaches of other IHS teams. Jenna Weiss has been named the head coach of the girls soccer team. Weiss is also the current longtime head coach of the IHS softball team that shared the Super Essex […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Janasia Wilson and Faith Phillips, both part of this past spring’s Irvington High School girls flag football team, are members of the State Island Giants club team that won the regional girls flag football tournament and will play as part of the NFL Pro Bowl in January. The team will face other […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School alumna and track and field legend Tosca Blanford-Bynoe was recently appointed a superior court judge in Gloucester County. Blanford-Bynoe won the 100-meter hurdles at the state outdoor track and field Meet of Champions in her senior season in 1982. Blanford-Bynoe was the head coach of the renowned Willingboro High […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington High School rising seniors and safeties Vaboue Toure, Cam Richardson, Eric Lee and Jasin Shiggs recently announced their verbal commitments in accepting football scholarships. Toure committed to Penn State University. Richardson committed to Stanford University in California. Lee committed to the University of New Hampshire. Shiggs committed to the University of […]