NUTLEY – The Nutley High School varsity softball team hopes to make a strong run in the state tournament. The Raiders received the No. 2 seed in the state North Jersey Section 2, Group 3 tournament and will host No. 15 seed Kennedy-Iselin in the first round on May 23. The winner will face the […]
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 […]
NUTLEY – Nutley High School senior captain Chloe Jelley began her second season with a big win in the 3,200-meters (12:18.84) at the Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division Track and Field Championship meet on May 14 at Schools Stadium in Newark. Jelley ran a controlled race and pulled away from the field with two laps to […]
NUTLEY – Junior Matt Dasilva and sophomore Jimmy Quinn came home with gold medals leading the Nutley High School boys’ track and field team in the Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division Championship Meet on May 14 at Schools Stadium in Newark. In the 400-meter intermediate hurdles, a race that featured three of the top 15 runners […]
NUTLEY – The third-seeded Nutley High School varsity softball team’s quest for the Essex County Tournament title came up short as the Raiders lost to sixth-seeded Cedar Grove, 2-1, in the quarterfinals on May 14 at Yanticaw Park. The Raiders took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI by […]
NUTLEY – The Nutley High School varsity baseball team was 0-for-2 in the meetings with state powerhouse Millburn this season. But the Raiders finally solved their Super Essex Conference-American Division foe. And the reward is a berth in the county championship game. Senior Nick Senatore scattered eight hits and struck out three in a complete-game […]
Anthony Condito's two-run homer lifts Raiders to 2-1 win over Newark Academy
NUTLEY – Senior right fielder and Rutgers University-bound Anthony Condito hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the third inning to lift the third-seeded Raiders to a 2-1 win over sixth-seeded Newark Academy in the quarterfinals of the Greater Newark Tournament on Thursday, May 12, at the Park Oval. The Raiders will face second-seeded […]
NUTLEY – The Nutley High School varsity softball team lost a heartbreaking 4-1 decision in 10 innings at Mount Saint Dominic Academy on Thursday, May 12, in Caldwell in a game that decided a share of the Super Essex Conference-American Division title. Mount Saint Dominic won it on a walk-off homer by Julianna Kocenski. The […]
NUTLEY – Central Connecticut State University softball player Eileen Purcell was named to the All-Northeast Conference Second Team at shortstop. Purcell, a Nutley High School graduate, makes her first appearance on an All-Conference list. She obliterated opposing NEC pitching this season, finishing with a .453 batting average, good for second best in the league. Purcell […]
NUTLEY – The Nutley High School boys’ and girls’ track and field teams will compete at the Super Essex Conference Championships on Saturday, May 14, at Schools Stadium. At the Essex County Relay Championships, the boys’ team finished 11th out of 21 scoring teams in the boys’ team standings, and the girls’ team finished ninth […]