ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Men of Essex Inc. selected Irvington High School football phenom Mikai Gbayor as recipient of the 63rd annual Essex Award. Gbayor was a standout linebacker for Irvington High School and was named a 2020 All-American candidate by Sports Illustrated. He was named to the USA Today All–New Jersey first team. […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The Super Essex Conference recently named students to all-conference teams in baseball and softball. Baseball In the American Division, first team honors went to Millburn High School’s Daniel Cifu; Montclair High School’s Anthony Anzaldi, Brett Janifer and Jeremy Sacks; Nutley High School’s Lou Raffaelli; Bloomfield High School’s Nico Ong and Andre […]
SOUTH ORANGE / MAPLEWOOD, NJ — With an impressive 11-1 record, the Budin, Greenman & Greenman team were the champions of South Orange Maplewood Baseball in the Babe Ruth Division, which is for 13 to 15 year olds. SOM Baseball plays as part of the Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth league. The team — coached by Jason […]
LITTLE FALLS, NJ — Continuing a beloved tradition in local high school sports, for the ninth consecutive year the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center honored student athletes from member schools of the Super Essex Conference in a celebration of the qualities that made Yogi Berra a national treasure. Recipients of the 2021 Investors Bank […]
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ — A stellar group of 18 individuals has been selected as the NJSIAA Gallagher/Bollinger Hall of Fame’s class of 2021. All inductees were selected by a statewide committee of journalists and both active and retired school administrators. “What always amazes me about our annual Hall of Fame process is that there never seems […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The selections of the Super Essex Conference “all conference” swim teams were calculated by reviewing the fastest recorded times this past season. Because of the pandemic, no SEC championship meet was conducted. Named to the boys swimming first team were: Seton Hall Prep’s Jaeden Yburan, Dylan Negron, Richard Poplawski and Jack […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — The Cougars varsity girls basketball team was named the Essex County Team of the Year and third-year head coach Chuck Keegan was named Coach of the Year by Sideline Chatter, an online sports page covering Essex County high school sports. While the team played a modified schedule, playing half the number of […]
MAPLEWOOD / SOUTH ORANGE, NJ — The Columbia High School girls basketball team got to play only half as many games this season as they would in a normal year because of COVD-19, hitting the court 13 times as opposed to last year’s 24. But they didn’t let that stop them from having a good […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Columbia High School girls basketball team defeated the Bloomfield Bengals 58-33 at the BHS gym on March 2. For the Cougars, Corteney Provilon-Louis and Zahra Alexander led the team with 11 points each, following by Shana Desir with 10, Bella Galatt with 9, Kaijhe Hall will 8, Talia Baptiste with 7, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School boys soccer team took a 3-0 win over Columbia High School in a home game held on Lincoln Field on Oct. 5. “The boys had an impressive win today,” WOHS head coach Doug Nevins said. “The defense was excellent. Connor Hinfey, Ari Rosu and Bryce Hannah […]