WEST ORANGE – The following Golda Och Academy varsity baseball players earned All-Super Essex Conference-Independence Division honors: First Team: Elijah Taitel. Second Team: Ari Esrig and Alex Moskowitz. Honorable Mention: Jeremy Berkowitz. Taitel, Esrig and Moskowitz also made Worrall Media All-Area Honorable Mention.
WEST ORANGE – As a youngster, Kyrie Irving honed his basketball skills while growing up in West Orange. Irving fulfilled his dream to reach the National Basketball Association. In fact, he was drafted No. 1 overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2011 following his freshman year at Duke University. Irving quickly become one of the best […]
WEST ORANGE – The West Orange High School varsity softball team, despite finishing with an 8-16 record, featured several players who have earned All-Super Essex Conference-Liberty Division and Worrall Media All-Area honors. They include shortstop Nahtali Simpson (First Team on both All-SEC-Liberty and All-Area); catcher Chyna Chitty (Second Team All-SEC-Liberty and First Team All-Area); left […]
WEST ORANGE – The West Orange United Soccer Club teams finished a great season. On Sunday, June 5, the Sounders U10 boys traveled to Nutley and came away with a hard-fought 5-4 victory. While the game was played with periods of heavy downpours, the Sounders played tough and received goals by Mike Udodi (two), Hudson […]
Correction: Seton Hall Prep won its eighth Non-Public A championship. WEST ORANGE (updated Tuesday June 14, 12:32 p.m.) – The Seton Hall Prep varsity baseball team completed an outstanding season with a 4-2 victory over St. Augustine Prep at Ryan Field at Toms River North High School as the Pirates […]
WEST ORANGE – Seton Hall Prep track and field athletes gave good efforts at the state Meet of Champions at Central Regional HS in Bayville, June 8. Sophomore Nick Parisi took 22nd out of 29 runners in the 200-meter dash in 22.79. Parisi also took 19th out of 20 runners in the 400-meter dash in […]
WEST ORANGE – Freshman Tyler Galantini sparked the West Orange High School golf team to a 12-10 record, 6-6 in the Super Essex Conference this season. Galantini, playing in the first or second slot in the lineup, averaged 3.95 over par overall and a plus 3.25 in conference matches. He shot nine rounds under 40. […]
WEST ORANGE – The second-seeded Seton Hall Prep defeated fourth-seeded St. Joseph of Montvale, 6-2, in the championship of the state North Jersey Non-Public A tournament at Ramapo College in Mahwah on June 7. The Pirates, under head coach Mike Sheppard Jr., won their 13th North Jersey Non-Public A tournament title. Jack Zyska went 3-for-4 […]
Update: Nutley has dropped out of the league. The Essex County Senior American Legion Baseball League will begin the season Wednesday, June 8. The league consists of high school players. SCHEDULE Wednesday June 8 Bloomfield at Livingston, 5:45 p.m. Saturday June 11 Bloomfield at Belleville, 10 a.m. Sunday June 12 Cedar […]
WEST ORANGE – On May 26, Rachel Ruffino completed her West Orange High School golf career by shooting a 73 in the Super Essex County Divisional Championship. The score landed her in a tie for second place with Nutley’s John Sabadics and a first-place finish among the girls. In April, she scored an 83 in […]