Teams will meet again for Essex County title
NUTLEY – Andrew Santos delivered an RBI squeeze bunt with no outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Nutley High School varsity baseball team to a thrilling 5-4 walk-off win over Seton Hall Prep, ranked No. 2 in the state, on May 18 at the Park Oval in a Super Essex […]
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 […]