MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE – The Columbia High School varsity football team will host Seton Hall Prep this Saturday, Oct. 15, at 1 p.m. Seton Hall Prep has an 0-5 record. The Cougars lost a heartbreaker to Livingston, 13-12, last Friday, Oct. 7, in Livingston to move to a 1-4 record. CHS sophomore quarterback Luke Hayes completed […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The Maplewood-South Orange Villagers 10U Softball team won the Mount Olive Schools Back Tournament championship on Oct. 2. The Villagers opened up the tournament with a tough 6-4 loss against a team from Monroe, N.Y. But it didn’t take long for the Villagers to get back on track! They followed the […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE (updated Tuesday Oct. 11, 9:53 a.m. ) – As the head tennis coach at Columbia High School, Bob Lieberman’s most satisfying season came after this past spring when the Cougar boys’ squad went 19-5 and captured a division title. This fall, Lieberman has also been pleased with the play of the CHS girls’ […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ (updated Friday Oct. 7, 10:12 p.m.) – The Columbia High School boys’ varsity cross-country team won the team title at the Super Essex Conference-American Division Championships at Branch Brook Park in Newark on Oct. 5. The Cougars finished first among 10 teams. They defeated second-place Seton Hall Prep by a score of 48-70 […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ (updated Friday Oct. 7, 3:40 p.m.) – Columbia High School Athletics will host recruitment guru Jack Renkens, who will provide a workshop on athletic recruiting for college. The workshop will be held Wednesday, Oct. 26, at the CHS Auditorium at 7 p.m. Complimentary admission is offered for all student-athletes and families. The workshop […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The South Mountain YMCA will hold Travel Basketball Tryouts for boys and girls. The following is a schedule: Grades 3 and 4 Oct. 18 and 20, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at South Mountain Elementary School Gym, located at 444 W. South Orange Ave. One team is selected. Grades 5 and […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The Columbia High School girls’ varsity soccer team enjoyed a 5-0-1 start to the season before losing two straight games. The Cougars dropped a tough 1-0 decision to undefeated Livingston at DeHart Park on Sept. 28. Hannah Williams made nine saves for CHS. It was the Cougars’ first loss of the […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The Columbia High School boys’ varsity soccer team won two straight games following a four-game losing streak. Rashid Peart scored on a golden goal in double overtime to lift the Columbia High School boys’ varsity soccer team to a 2-1 win over Verona on Sept. 29 at CHS’ Ritzer Field. Joe […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Thirteen-year-old national foil fencing champion Zander Rhodes won Gold in the Junior Women’s Foil event at the Mission Regional Junior Cadet Circuit 2016 (Region 3) tournament held on Long Island, N.Y. This A3 rated event attracted 73 top-level fencers from many states and earned Rhodes her A 2016 rating. Rhodes demonstrated […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School varsity football team looked across the field and saw its former head coach on the opponent’s sideline. John Power, who coached the Cougars for the past two years, is the head coach for Morristown HS, the team Columbia hosted on Friday night, Sept. 30 under soggy conditions. […]