MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls soccer team hopes to make a strong run in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 state tournament. Columbia, seeded 13th, will visit fourth-seeded Livingston in the first round on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. The winner will face […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls cross-country team finished in third place out of nine teams at the Super Essex Conference–American Division championships at Branch Brook Park in Newark on Friday, Oct. 14. Junior Mae Dowling finished in fourth place out of 64 runners in a time of 20 minutes, 28.90 seconds […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls soccer team lost at top-seeded Montclair, 3-1, on Wednesday, Oct. 12, in the first round of the Essex County Tournament. Haley Kampner scored the goal for Columbia. Josie Brophy made nine saves. Columbia moved to 4-6-1 on the season. Montclair is ranked No. 10 in the […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The sixth-seeded Columbia High School boys soccer team had a good run in the Essex County Tournament. Senior Jack Niles had two goals, and senior Cyrus Merriweather had one goal and one assist in the 3-0 win over Glen Ridge in the first round on Thursday, Oct. 13, at Underhill Field. […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School football team lost to Union City, 26-0, at West Orange High School’s Joe Suriano Stadium on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 15. The Cougars fell to 1-6 on the season, while Union City moved to 6-1. Columbia was coming off its first win of the season, having defeated Bloomfield, […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The 10th-seeded Columbia High School girls volleyball team upset No. 7 seed Caldwell, 25-19, 22-25, 26-24, in the first round of the Essex County Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Caldwell. Columbia, which improved to 15-5 on the season, was scheduled to visit No. 2 seed Verona in the quarterfinals on […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School football team will face Union City on Saturday, Oct. 15 at West Orange High School’s Joe Suriano Stadium, located at 51 Conforti Ave. in West Orange, on homecoming and senior day. At 1:30 p.m., there will be Senior Day student-athlete and family announcements. The CHS marching band […]
By Gerry O’Connor MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — On Friday night, Oct. 7, “The Battle of Prospect Street” took place at St. Joseph’s Church in Maplewood as the St. Joseph’s Celtics took on the Our Lady of Sorrows Crusaders in girls CYO volleyball. The match was the very first volleyball game in St. Joseph’s history. The […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Our Lady of Sorrows School cross-country team participated in the inaugural Saint Cassian Cross-Country Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 8, at Brookdale Park in Bloomfield. With just seven runners, the team placed three, from fifth place to ninth place, in three races. Two of the medal winners had never competed before. […]
MAPLEWOOD/SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — Anya Terry scored two goals, including one in overtime, to lead the 16th-seeded Columbia High School girls soccer team to a 3-2 win over No. 17 seed Belleville in the preliminary round of the Essex County Tournament on Monday, Oct. 10, at Underhill Field in Maplewood. “She’s become our top-producing attacker […]