By Mike Connolly Correspondent MAPLEWOOD, NJ — For the first time in six years, the Cougar Soccer Club girls are back on top. The Girls U10 Elite team finished the season 9-0-1 to win its Northern Counties Conference flight. It is the first Cougar girls team to win its flight since the fall of 2016. […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — South Orange resident Jordan Fishback, a senior at Montclair Kimberley Academy, recently committed to Oberlin College (Ohio) to play lacrosse next year. A superb defenseman on the lacrosse field, Fishback also recently completed an outstanding senior football season for the 5-4 Cougar gridders. He rushed for 513 yards and 6 TD, […]
MAPLEWOOD — Maplewood resident Luca Sieger, a sophomore at Montclair Kimberley Academy, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Maine to eventually play Division I college baseball. The standout catcher earned first-team all-prep B Division honors his freshman season while helping to lead MKA to the prep B tournament championship with an upset […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The season finale saw the cross-country team from Our Lady of Sorrows compete at the varsity (sixth, seventh and eighth grades) and junior varsity (third, fourth and fifth grades) divisions at the fifth annual St. John the Apostle Championships. Each division required five members to score; because of this, OLS was […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls volleyball team enjoyed a great season. The Lady Cougars, under head coach Juan Bas, finished with an 18-8 record, including finishing tied for second place in the Super Essex Conference–Liberty Division. Columbia and West Orange (14-10) were both 9-3 in the division. Montclair (13-6) won the […]
SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The South Orange Elks Lodge No. 1154 will be holding an Elks Hoop Shoot free-throw competition on Sunday, Nov. 13, at noon in the gym at St. Joseph School, 240 Franklin St. in Maplewood. Registration is from 11:30 a.m to noon. The contest begins at noon. The program is free to […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Mae Dowling, a junior, finished in eighth place out of 107 runners to lead the Columbia High School girls cross-country team at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 state championships at Oak Ridge Park in Clark. Dowling was timed in 19 minutes, 44.41 seconds. […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The 13th-seeded Columbia High School girls soccer team fell to fourth-seeded Livingston, 3-0, in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament on Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Livingston. Columbia finished the season with a 6-10-1 record.
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School boys soccer team had a good run this season. Jack Niles scored in the first half to lift the 10th-seeded CHS Cougars to a 1-0 upset win over No. 7 seed Fair Lawn in the first round of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School football team lost to Scotch Plains–Fanwood, 14-7, on Thursday, Oct. 27, at Scotch Plains–Fanwood. The Cougars ended the season with a 1-8 record. The lone win came against Bloomfield on Friday, Oct. 7, in Bloomfield by a score of 13-3 in the sixth game of the season. […]