MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School football season will kick off Friday, August 31, when the Cougars host Newark Central at Lynn V. Profeta Field/Underhill Field Complex. Kickoff is 7 p.m. The Cougars hope to bounce back from a 1-9 season. Here is the schedule: August 31, Newark Central, 7 p.m. Sept. 7, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School boys’ soccer team, under head coach Josh Russotto, is preparing for the fall season by adding new coaching staff and playing together on a weekly basis. The captains have led practice sessions at Underhill Field in South Orange. The captains are goalkeeper Sam Maidenberg, center midfielder Julian Lyons, […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – South Orange is hosting a special District 12 Babe Ruth League baseball tournament on Saturday, June 30, at historic Cameron Field in South Orange. It will feature the hometown South Orange-Maplewood 14U Cougars and visiting teams from New Providence and Cranford. The Cougars will kick things off with a 9:30 a.m. […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Jules Heningburg has enjoyed a fine start to his professional lacrosse career. The Maplewood native is playing for the Florida Launch of Major League Lacrosse. The Florida Launch selected Heningburg with the seventh overall pick this spring out of Rutgers University. On May 19, Heningburg, 22, recorded the first goal of his […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Orange Recreation Summer Basketball Leagues began on Monday, June 25. The following are the schedules: High School Girls Division (all games in Tarnoff Gym at West Orange HS) Monday, July 9 Court 1: West Orange vs. Cedar Grove, 7:30 p.m. West Orange vs. Verona, 8:30 p.m. Court 2: East […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Columbia High School varsity head softball coach Cliff Smith was proud of his team’s successful season. “I thought this year we had a very successful year,” wrote Smith in an email to The News-Record. “We finished with a 16-9 record overall and a 7-3 record in the (Super Essex Conference) SEC-Liberty (Division), […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ – Our Lady of Sorrows Track team finished the season with a pair of non-championship meets where many its athletes got a chance to compete in events in which they had not attempted during the season. The Kids 4 Kids meet is a relay meet and a charity meet benefiting the Scholarship […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – The Columbia High School varsity baseball team, which finished with a 13-11 record, featured several players who earned All-Super Essex Conference-American Division honors. FIRST TEAM Eliot Dix, junior shortstop Christian Pierre, senior center fielder Luke Jackson, senior third baseman SECOND TEAM Phil Whitney, junior outfielder HONORABLE MENTION John DelGreco, senior Dan Lawall, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Olivia Baker, a 2014 Columbia High School graduate, finished fifth in the 800-meter finals to lead the Stanford University women’s track and field team at the NCAA Division 1 National Championships at Hayward Stadium in Eugene, Ore. Baker, a senior, clocked 2:06.18 on the final day of the four-day meet on Saturday, […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Columbia High School senior Ayanna Henry earned the eighth-place medal in the girls’ triple jump event at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association State Meet of Champions held at Northern Burlington County Regional HS in Columbus on Saturday, June 9. Henry leaped 37 feet-10 ¼ inches. She also competed in the […]