IRVINGTON, NJ — For the past several seasons, the Irvington High School football team has been one of the best in the state. youtube.com/watch?v=X2bpxtgOEXY&feature=youtu.be Blessed with Division 1 collegiate-caliber players, the Blue Knights have achieved tremendous success under head coach Ashley “Smoke” Pierre. This season, the Blue Knights are poised to continue their dominance. “I […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School football team will look to bounce back from a tough 6-0 season-opening loss to Camden Eastside at Irvington on Friday night, Aug. 25. The Blue Knights will visit Millville on Saturday, Sept. 2, at noon. Irvington defeated Millville, 25-17, at Rutgers University’s SHI Stadium in Piscataway in the […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Irvington High School girls flag football team traveled cross-country to play in the second Nike Football Kickoff Classic at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., Aug. 24-25. It was a thrilling experience for Irvington, under head coach Kyle Steele, as the Blue Knights finished in first place among the five […]
EAST ORANGE/IRVINGTON, NJ — The Rutgers University football team this season features several players from East Orange and Irvington. Junior wide receiver Nasir Montgomery, junior running back Al-Shadee Salaam and sophomore quarterback Raeden Oliver are East Orange Campus High School graduates. The Irvington graduates are Famah Toure and Zaire Angoy. Montgomery, a 6-foot-1, 190-pounder who […]
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 […]