ORANGE, NJ – Moving up to a higher division in the conference, the Orange High School varsity boys’ basketball team is ready for the challenge. Sure, the Tornadoes lost their top scorer and rebounder to graduation in Zahier Childs and Rasheed Boyd, respectively. But head coach Jamaal Cooper’s squad returns five seniors from a team […]
Photos by Steve Ellmore: Orange (gray unforms) vs. Hillside, scrimmage, Dec. 8, at Orange HS ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ and girls’ varsity basketball teams will tip off their seasons Dec. 15. The boys’ team, under head coach Jamaal Cooper, will host Newark Central at 7 p.m. The girls’ team, under head […]
ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team, which won a three-way share of the Super Essex Conference-Colonial Division title this season with Bloomfield and Verona, featured three players who earned All-SEC-Colonial Division honors. Senior guard Zahier Childs made First Team; senior forward Rasheed Boyd made Second Team, and senior point guard […]
ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team had a great run this season. The third-seeded Tornadoes reached the semifinals of the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group 3 state tournament, but lost at second-seeded Chatham, 52-43, Saturday night, March 4. OHS led 12-11 at the end of the first quarter. Chatham […]
ORANGE, NJ – The third-seeded Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team will visit second-seeded Chatham in the semifinals of the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 2, Group 3 state tournament on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. Rasheed Boyd scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and fellow senior Zahier Childs had 12 points to […]
ORANGE, NJ – Zahier Childs scored 17 points; D’Angelo Blackmand had 14 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks; and Rasheed Boyd had 12 points and 13 rebounds to lead the third-seeded Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team to a 66-48 win over 14th-seeded Cliffside Park in the first round of the NJSIAA North Jersey […]
ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team clinched a share of the Super Essex Conference-Colonial Division championship with Bloomfield and Verona. All three teams finished 9-3 in the division. Orange split their two games with Bloomfield and also split its two games with Verona. The Tornadoes dropped a wild, four-overtime game […]
ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team hopes to make a strong run in the North Jersey Section 2, Group 3 state tournament. The Tornadoes, who had an 18-4 record through Feb. 16, will host 14th-seeded Cliffside Park in the quarterfinals on Feb. 28. The winner will face the winner between […]
ORANGE, NJ – Henry Jean-Baptiste had 19 points and Zahier Childs had 15 points, but the ninth-seeded Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team lost at eighth-seeded Barringer, 77-74, in the first round of the Essex County Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 11, in Newark. D’Angelo Blackmand had 12 points; Wesley Lafleur had nine points; Mischael […]
ORANGE, NJ – The Orange High School boys’ varsity basketball team defeated Hackettstown, North 13th St. Tech and Millburn to extend its winning streak to seven games and improve to a 16-2 record. Wesley Lafleur had 14 points and nine assists and D’Angelo Blackmand had 13 points and 12 rebounds in the 52-47 home win […]