ROSELLE, NJ — The Roselle Catholic High School girls basketball team, seeking to build on last year’s improved 12-14 finish, is off to a solid start after its first three games. After holding their own against defending Union County Conference-Watchung Division champion New Providence High School in a close 61-54 setback in their season and […]
ROSELLE PARK, NJ — Thirty years ago, John Wagner guided the Roselle Park High School Panthers football team to a second straight 11-0 record and back-to-back North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state championships. Before that, he was a highly successful varsity head softball coach at Roselle Park, where he graduated from in 1969. At […]
CRANFORD, NJ — On his way to hopefully becoming the “Best” in March in Atlantic City for the first time, Cranford High School standout grappler Jordan Chapman got his junior campaign off to an impressive start. One of the most accomplished wrestlers in all of New Jersey, Chapman placed third at 165 pounds at the […]
+ UNION COUNTY, NJ — Mike Gambino was named the head baseball coach at Penn State University in early July, just six days before his 46th birthday. Last week, in Middlesex County, he was instructing fellow college and also high school, travel and youth coaches from Bergen County to South Jersey on how he handles […]
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ — Just about the only thing the New Providence High School girls basketball team did not accomplish last year was going undefeated. However, the Pioneers came real close. Guided by longtime mentor Cap Pazdera, New Providence produced, perhaps, its finest season ever – that from a program with two previous state championship […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Which boys basketball teams in Union County will see the ball bounce their way more often than not this season? We shall soon find out, as the 2023-2024 season will commence around the state of New Jersey on Thursday, Dec. 14. There was a bit of a “changing of the guard” […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union High School junior wide receiver Renick Dorilas hauled in 35 passes for 550 yards and five touchdowns, the longest one covering 80 yards. Linden High School senior middle linebacker Myles Hamilton was credited with 155 tackles, 36 of them solo and 119 assisted. To say he was all over the […]
UNION, NJ — Is Union Farmers baseball a bit splintered at the moment? Lou Clemente doesn’t think so. “Definitely not,” Clemente said. “It’s just not right now at a level that it used to be.” One of Union County’s best players the first decade of this century at Roselle Catholic High School and also a […]
ROSELLE PARK, NJ — Since the last time they finished better than .500 six years ago, the Roselle Park High School Panthers endured their lumps on a weekly basis and also suffered at the hands of their neighborhood gridiron rival, Abraham Park High School, Roselle. The last three times the Panthers and Rams clashed on […]
MILLBURN, NJ — One of the greatest high school football coaching staffs, not only in New Jersey, but in the entire country, was located right here in Union County. At Union High School. Right here in Union. A member of that coaching staff, which exactly 30 years ago captured a third consecutive North 2, Group […]