Irvington cross-country runners earn honors

IRVINGTON – The following Irvington High School boys’ and girls’ cross-country runners earned All-Super Essex Conference honors: Boys SEC-Colonial Division First team: sophomore Nehimie Estil Second team: senior Monfort Celestin, senior Elijah Shannon, and sopohomore Michael Veltz Honorable Mention: senior Brandon Moreno Girls SEC-Liberty Division Honorable mention: seniors Destiny Mack and Mahogany Bass. Estil also […]

Irvington’s Kareem Walker and Hasise DuBois end their careers with a third straight football title for DePaul

IRVINGTON – Irvington residents Kareem Walker and Hasise DuBois ended their high school football careers with a third straight state championship, helping DePaul Catholic to a convincing 40-17 victory over St. John Vianney in the state Non-Public Group 3 title game at Rutgers University’s High Point Solutions on Saturday, Dec. 6. Walker, a senior All-American […]

Irvington HS football team shows strong resiliency during the season

IRVINGTON – When the season seemed to be slipping away, the Irvington High School varsity football team never quit. The relatively young Blue Knights turned things around after an 0-5 start, defeating Weequahic, Livingston and Caldwell in the next three games. Though they lost to Columbia and North Hunterdon in the final two games to […]

Irvington HS boys soccer players earn All-SEC and All-Area honors

IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School boys’ varsity soccer team, which finished with a 4-9-1 record this season, was led Adamsky Jean Phillipe, Michael Agyane, Shevon Gordon and Peter Drummerand, who have earned All-Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division honors. Jean Phillipe made first team; Agyane made second team and Gordon and Drummerand made honorable mention on […]

Irvington’s Kareem Walker and Hasise Dubois lead DePaul football to state title game

IRVINGTON – Irvington residents Kareem Walker and Hasise Dubois, both seniors, helped the seventh-seeded DePaul Catholic High School varsity football team to a 34-7 win over third-seeded Delbarton in the state Non-Public Group 3 playoff semifinals on Saturday, Nov. 21, in Morristown. Walker, an All-American, rushed for 136 yards on just nine carries, including an […]

New exhibit “Now Doing the Talking” showcases trailblazing athletes-turned-broadcasters

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 […]

Jersey Heat High School cross-country runners win state title

IRVINGTON – On Nov. 1, the Irvington-based Jersey Heat High School boy athletes became the USATF New Jersey Association state champions in a 5k division during the organization’s first round of the cross-country national series. Each athlete on the scoring team earned a patch to symbolize/mark their achievement.  The team was led by Irvington High […]

Irvington HS football team falls in finale, but future is bright

Irvington HS football team falls in finale, but future is bright

IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School varsity football team lost to North Hunterdon, 35-21, in the season finale on Saturday, Nov. 14, at the IHS Sports Complex. The Blue Knights, under head coach Pete Pascarella, finished with a 3-7 record, but were young this season, which bodes well for next season. Leading the Blue Knights […]

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