By Joe Ragozzino and JR Parachini MAPLEWOOD, NJ (updated Monday Nov. 7, 6:52 p.m.) – Despite losing its last seven games to fall to a 1-8 record, the Columbia High School varsity football team has managed to clinch a berth in the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 5 playoffs. The Cougars gained the eighth and […]
MORRIS PLAINS, NJ – The Columbia High School boys’ cross-country team finished fourth overall in the team standings at the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 4 Championships at Greystone Park in Morris Plains on Saturday, Nov. 5. For the second straight year, the Cougars qualified for the Group 4 state championship race. Jared Pangallozzi […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The 10th-seeded Columbia High School girls’ varsity soccer team defeated Newark East Side and lost to state-ranked Watchung Hills in the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 4 tournament to finish the season with a solid 9-7-3 record. Caroline Cerny and Ceci Munoz each had a goal in the 2-0 win at […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – The U11 Fury won its girls’ soccer division at the Mount Olive Annual Halloween Classic Tournament with a 3-2 victory over the Long Valley United Rebels recently. Goaltending duties throughout the tournament were handled by Sophie Spitz, Megan Driscoll, Eden Karp-Foster and Catherine Holt. Offensively, Ava Davis, Peyton Hollis, Sam Stein, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – In a weekend doubleheader, the Our Lady of Sorrows cross-country team competed at Natirir Park on Friday at the Saint Elizabeth Meet and followed that less than 24 hours later with a trip to Greystone Park for the First Annual Saint Mary’s Prep Halloween Meet. The team was led by eighth-graders […]
Camille Pham also wins Gold; Zander Rhodes excels
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Maplewood’s champion foil fencer, Jack Woods, won the Gold medal in the Junior (20 years and under) Men’s Foil A3 event at the Cobra Challenge Regional Junior/Cadet Circuit Tournament (Region 3) held in Jersey City recently. Woods, who is now a freshman at Columbia High School, competed against 87 high level foil […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ (updated Tuesday Nov. 1, 11:30 a.m.) – The Columbia High School varsity football team lost to Morris Knolls, 35-12, Saturday, Oct. 29, in Rockaway. The loss was the Cougars’ sixth straight and moved their record to 1-7. CHS, however, is looking to make the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 5 playoffs. The […]
MAPLEWOOD (updated Saturday Oct. 29, 11:38 a.m.) – The Columbia High School boys’ varsity cross-country team won the Essex County championship at cold and blustery Brookdale Park in Bloomfield on Friday, Oct. 28. The Cougars finished first among 21 teams and defeated second place Seton Hall Prep by a score of 53-67 based on the […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School girls’ varsity soccer team, under head coach Ashley Corino, clinched the Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division championship this season. The Lady Cougars played West Essex to a scoreless tie on Oct. 26 in North Caldwell in a divisional game to move to an 8-5-3 overall record and 4-0-1 in […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School girls’ varsity soccer team, seeded 10th, will visit seventh-seeded Newark East Side in the first round of the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 4 tournament on Nov. 1. The winner will play the winner of No. 2 seed Watchung Hills and No. 15 Union in the quarterfinals […]