UPPER MONTCLAIR – Great talent doesn’t always win. A great team culture almost always does. So how do teams (no matter what level) become strong and unified and the absolute best they can be? Three of New Jersey’s most accomplished sports figures – basketball Hall of Famer Bob Hurley Sr., two-time Super Bowl champion Chris […]
LIVINGSTON – The South Orange/Maplewood Cougars 9U travel baseball team defeated a good squad from Livingston to advance to championship game of the New Providence Green League (9U). The Cougars pounded out 18 hits in the game with multiple-hit games from Luke Bailey, Aaron Budd, Max Drechsler, Elijah Hall, Lincoln Kessler, Alex Mandell, Luca […]
MAPLEWOOD – St. Joseph’s CYO in Maplewood is hosting a Basketball Skills and Drills Mini Camp from Aug. 8-12, from 9 a.m. to noon, for girls and boys in grades 2 to 5. There is a registration fee. Campers can sign up to be a day camper as well for a daily fee. This Skills […]
SOUTH ORANGE/MAPLEWOOD – The New Providence Green and Gold League held its inaugural All-Star event on Saturday, July 16. Players representing teams from across northern New Jersey competed in games from 8U to 14U. Below is a list of the players from the South Orange/ Maplewood travel baseball program who were selected to the All-Star […]
MAPLEWOOD – International foil fencing champion Jack Woods, of Maplewood, won the Silver medal in the Youth 14 years and-under Men’s Foil Event at the 2016 Summer National Fencing Championships in Dallas, Tex. earlier this month. Two hundred forty-nine qualified fencers from around the country competed in this A2/B3 event with Woods winning all his […]
MAPLEWOOD – Former Columbia High School fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is gearing up for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Muhammad, who competes in saber, is recognized as the first Muslim woman who observes hijab to qualify for the United States Olympic Team. Muhammad, 30, was a three-time NCAA All-American for Duke University […]
MAPLEWOOD (updated Tuesday July 12, 12:16 p.m.) – Maplewood fencer Amber White won a seventh-place medal in Cadet Women’s Saber at the USFA National Championships in Dallas, Tex. White, a 15-year-old rising sophomore at Kent Place in Summit, also placed ninth in Juniors, and won a fifth-place medal in Div. II. White earned her “A16” […]
SOUTH ORANGE/MAPLEWOOD – The South Orange Maplewood 8U Summer Baseball team won the Cal Ripken Northern New Jersey District 12 Championship July 5 in Warren, beating the Chatham team, 4-2. The team will move on to the Cal Ripken states portion of the tournament next week. These games will take place in Hazlet, beginning July […]
WEST ORANGE – The West Orange Recreation Summer Basketball League began the week of June 27. The Third-Fourth Grade Boys Division, Fifth-Sixth Grade Boys Division, and Fifth-Sixth Grade Girls Division games are held at West Orange High School. The Seventh-Eighth Grade Boys Division and Seventh-Eighth Grade Girls Division games are held at Liberty Middle School. […]
MAPLEWOOD – Two years ago, Olivia Baker completed arguably the best high school track and field career in New Jersey history. Baker, now a star at Stanford University, found herself on the verge of achieving a track athlete’s ultimate dream of making the Summer Olympics. Unfortunately, Baker’s quest to make the Rio Games next month […]