MAPLEWOOD – The Columbia High School varsity baseball team received the No. 9 seed in the state North Jersey Section 2,Group 4 tournament and will visit No. 8 seed Bridgewater-Raritan in the first round on May 23. The winner will face the winner between No. 1 seed Watchung Hills and No. 16 seed Plainfield in […]
MAPLEWOOD – The Columbia High School varsity softball team hopes to make a good run in the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 4 tournament. The Cougars, seeded 11th, will visit sixth-seeded Bayonne in the first round on May 23. The winner will face the winner between third-seeded Millburn and No. 14 seed Woodbridge in […]
MAPLEWOOD – At the New Jersey YMCA Competition on May 15 at the Madison YMCA, the South Mountain Aces had two A team competitors, Grace Healey, who was recovering from an injury for much of the fall, competing 14 and under, level 8, and Kellyn Shuster, 15 and over level 8. Shuster received fourth on […]
Baseball Experts Examine Which Baseball Team Had the Best Cluster of Championship Seasons
LITTLE FALLS — Baseball has always had supreme rulers. Even teams more known for their ineptitude – the St. Louis Browns and Chicago Cubs – once dominated America’s pastime. As Casey Stengel once said: You could look it up: The Browns won four straight pennants in the late 1880s and the pre-cursed Cubs won four […]
MAPLEWOOD – Jordan Stephan fired a three-hit shutout with seven strikeouts to lead the Columbia High School varsity softball team to a 4-0 home win over Cranford on May 10. Stephan also went 1-for-1 with an RBI and a walk. Clementine Sherman went 2-for-2 with a walk and two runs; Sophie Goldman went 2-for-3 with […]
MAPLEWOOD – Quinn Krais had three hits and three RBI and Eliot Dix had two hits and three RBI to lead the Columbia High School varsity baseball team to a 14-1 home win over Glen Ridge on May 14. Christian Pierre had two hits and two RBI and winning pitcher Danny Boehmer struck out five […]
MAPLEWOOD – Columbia High School’s Fifth Annual Switch Sticks event will be held Monday, June 6, at Underhill Field from 5:30 to 8 p.m., with a rain date of Tuesday, June 7. The CHS boys’ and girls’ lacrosse players switch sticks and then play each other. There will be four 20-minute games: Eight grade, Freshman, […]
MAPLEWOOD – The Columbia High School track and field teams had good showings at the Super Essex Conference-American Division Championships on May 14 at Schools Stadium in Newark. The girls’ team finished second overall to Montclair in the girls’ team standings. CHS finished 10 points behind Montclair, 143-133. The boys’ team finished third overall with […]
MAPLEWOOD – Maplewood native Jules Heninburg of the Rutgers University men’s lacrosse team was named to the Big Ten Conference First Team. Heningburg led the conference with 38 goals and led all conference players with 26 points and 18 goals in conference games. The sophomore’s six goals and eight points versus Penn State was the […]
MAPLEWOOD – Morristown-Beard School sophomore golfer Pat Ryan, of Maplewood, and senior teammate Steve Sields, of Florham Park, finished first overall at the Metedeconk Prep Challenge on Sunday, May 1, in Jackson. Together, the MBS golfers beat some of the best teams in the state, including Delbarton, Bergen Catholic, Peddie School, Blair Academy, Lawrenceville, and […]