BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School wrestling team hosted Caldwell on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Caldwell won 58-16. Here are the results: 106-pound weight class: Carmine Sipper, Caldwell, pinned Matthew Miller 5:13. 113: Dominic Holler, Caldwell, pinned Anthony Lizama 4:58. 120: Solomon Soriente, Caldwell, technical fall over Ahlexa Montalvo 25-10, 5:15. 126: Kira Pipkins, Bloomfield, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School wrestling team defeated Secaucus 54-15 on Monday Dec. 19 at home. Here are the results: 113-pound weight class: Jacob Orlando, Secaucus, decisioned Anthony Lizama 11-4. 120: Ahlexa Montalvo, Bloomfield, pinned Andrei Delos-Santos 1:25. 126: Kira Pipkins, Bloomfield, pinned Alex Lopez 0:26. 132: Dean Costantino, Secaucus, decisioned Rahjohn Plummer […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School wrestling program, under head coach Ryan Smircich, enters the season with much optimism. On the girls side, the program will be led by senior Kira Pipkins, arguably the best female wrestler in the state. Pipkins is a three-time New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association girls state champion. “This […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School senior standout wrestler Kira Pipkins has been selected to participate in a developmental training wrestling camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 3-6. As a junior last winter, Pipkins won her third straight New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s girls state individual title, capturing […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Barak Pipkins, Class of 2017, was a standout football player and wrestler at Bloomfield High School. When he attended college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, he got into cycling. Pipkins liked cycling so much that he eventually joined a team, Edge Cycling, and started training. In just a few short years, […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School girls wrestling state champions Gianna Faura and Kira Pipkins enjoyed great showings at the USA Wrestling Junior Nationals at the FargoDome in Fargo, N.D., July 16-19. Faura, who graduated in June, finished between eighth and 12th place out of 60 competitors in the 200-pound weight class. She was a […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Gianna Faura and Kira Pipkins, who both won state championships in girls wrestling this past winter, are getting ready to compete in the 2022 USA Wrestling Junior and 16U National Championships at the FargoDome in Fargo, N.D., July 16-22. Faura, a graduated senior, won the 235-pound crown to cap an unbeaten season […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Here are the Bloomfield High School winter athletes who have earned all-conference and all–Essex County honors. Boys basketball: All-Super Essex Conference–Colonial Division first team, Julian Paulino and Uma Kalu; second team, Shayne Hinton; honorable mention, Ramuel Gotrasse and Seth Edwards. Girls basketball: All–SEC–Colonial Division first team, Chiara Hilario and Lucy Heyman; second […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — The Bloomfield High School wrestling team featured several All–Super Essex Conference– American Division honorees. The honorees were selected by the divisional coaches. Gerald Van Baelen, a senior, made the first team in the at-large category. Van Baelen finished fifth in the state Region 3 tournament in the 126-pound weight division and had […]
BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield High School senior Gerald Van Baelen finished in fifth place in the 126-pound weight class at the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Region 3 tournament at West Orange High School on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25 and 26. Van Baelen pinned Michael Hare, of West Morris, in 2:54 in the […]