IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School winter varsity teams will begin their seasons this weekend. The boys’ basketball team will host Orange and the girls’ basketball team will visit Livingston, both Friday, Dec. 18. The wrestling team will host its annual Christmas Tournament on Saturday, Dec. 19. The boys’ and girls’ indoor track teams will […]
IRVINGTON – Return to prominence! That is the theme for this year’s Irvington High School indoor track and field program. Under head coach Marvin Hawkins, both the boys’ and girls’ teams feature talented athletes who Hawkins said will bring the Blue Knights back to the dominant years of 2004-2013 which featured many championships. The Blue […]
IRVINGTON – Irvington’s Malik Bakker, a senior running back, rushed for 102 yards on 20 carries to lead the Don Bosco Prep varsity football team to a 21-10 victory over St. Joseph of Montvale in the state Non-Public Group 4 championship game at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Friday night, Dec. 4. Don Bosco […]
IRVINGTON – The Irvington High School varsity football team had a bit of roller coaster season, losing its first five games, then winning the next three before losing the final two to go 3-7. But without a doubt, the Blue Knights featured several standouts. The following IHS players have earned Worrall Media All-Area honors: junior […]
IRVINGTON – On Saturday, Dec. 5, Florence Avenue School fourth-grader Jamir Brown of the Irvington-based Jersey Heat Track Club finished fifth in the nation in the 9-year-old boys division at the 2015 AAU Cross-Country National Championships contested in Danville (Decatur area), Ala. Jamir ran a personal-best 11:34.88 in the 3K (1.86 mile) race. This was […]
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 […]