MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School wrestling team has high hopes for the season. “We are very excited about the upcoming season,” CHS head coach Mike Freedman said. “I would anticipate, if we stay healthy, this will be the best Columbia High School wrestling team in the last decade.” Reid Ordower has 89 […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School boys basketball team has a good mix of youth and experience, looking to have a competitive season. “I like that we are a young team, with a mixture of some veterans,” said second-year head coach Deon Mingo, as the Cougars were about to begin practice on […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — This season’s Columbia High School girls basketball team features athleticism and talented youth, much to second-year head coach Aaron Breitman’s delight. “We’re fast and athletic,” said Breitman after the team’s practice at CHS on Tuesday, Dec. 3. “We’re very good in transition. I think we are going to surprise a lot […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Columbia High School football players Hans Archer and Charlie Knutsen earned All–Super Football Conference–Freedom White Division honors, as selected by the divisional coaches. Archer, a junior lineman, made the Second Team Offense. Knutsen, a junior tailback/defensive end, made the Honorable Mention. Photo Courtesy of Felicia Laguerre Owens
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition of the annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition is being run by Regina Pacis Council No. 4066 and will take place Friday, Jan. 10, in the Our Lady of […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — More than 25 student-athletes recently competed in the South Orange Elks Lodge Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Competition at St. Joseph’s in Maplewood. The winners were: 8-9 Boys – Sebastian Banker 10-11 Girls – Kendrick Conway 10-11 Boys – Greyson Gousse 12-13 Girls – Fiona Lowe 12-13 Boys – Aditya Singla These winners […]
MONTCLAIR, NJ — Maplewood resident Eva Sieger has excelled as a sophomore on the rise for the Montclair Kimberley Academy field hockey team, which finished with a superb 16-7 record following a 5-0 loss to second-seeded Oak Knoll (Summit) in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Non-Public, North Jersey state tournament sectional semifinals on […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Even though one might call it bittersweet, the 2024 season for the Columbia High School girls volleyball program was more sweet than bitter. The freshman team, coached by David Crouch, completed a perfect season, going 16-0 in regular-season matches, and won the West Essex Freshman Tournament by beating the host team […]
SOUTH ORANGE/MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The South Orange Elks Lodge No. 1154 will be holding its Elks Hoop Shoot Free-Throw Competition on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. at St. Joseph’s School gym, located at 240 Franklin St., in Maplewood. Registration and warmups are from 9 to 9:25 a.m. The contest will begin […]
BAYONNE, NJ — The seventh-seeded Columbia High School girls soccer team lost at second-seeded Bayonne, 2-0, in the quarterfinals of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 state tournament on Thursday, Nov. 7. The Cougars, under first-year head coach Mateo Green, finished with a 9-10-1 record. Columbia beat No. […]