SPRINGFIELD, NJ – Storks and angels can find you anywhere, even on the front seat of a car on Interstate 78 in morning rush-hour traffic. That’s what Anuj and Vandhana Desai learned the morning of March 20, when Springfield fire Chief Carlo Palumbo and Capt. Michael Mastroeni arrived in the nick of time to deliver […]
UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL ALL-DIVISION TEAMS FOR 2017-2018: WATCHUNG DIVISION FIRST TEAM Camryn Wichelns, Cranford, senior Brennah Cody, The Patrick School, junior Lashae Dwyter, The Patrick School, freshman Madison Ruddy, The Patrick School, sophomore Tyara McQueen, Roselle Catholic, senior Taniya Hanner, Roselle Catholic, junior Victoria Jacobs, Roselle Catholic, senior Allison Seater, Union, senior […]
SCOTCH PLAINS AND UNION – With the sun out and the temperature reaching just over 50 degrees, several Union County baseball teams were able to get in scrimmages Saturday exactly one week before the first day of the season. Some still were not due to the recent heavy snowfall. Squads that were able to get […]
UNION COUNTY BOYS’ BASKETBALL STILL ALIVE IN STATES (11, heading into Feb. 28): WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28: NORTH 2, GROUP 3: 8-Colonia at 1-Rahway 10-Gov. Livingston at 2-Chatham NORTH 2, GROUP 1: 13-Dayton at 5-Weequahic NON-PUBLIC, NORTH A: 10-Oratory Prep at 7-Union Catholic THURSDAY, MARCH 1 NORTH 2, GROUP 4: 11-Ridge at 3-Linden 7-Phillipsburg at 2-Scotch […]
UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE FINAL BOYS’ BASKETBALL STANDINGS FOR 2017-2018 SEASON: WATCHUNG DIVISION (5 schools): 1-Roselle Catholic (8-0) – outright champions 2-Linden (5-3) 3-Patrick School (4-3) 4-Elizabeth (1-6) 5-Plainfield (1-7) Elizabeth at Patrick School not played. MOUNTAIN DIVISION (4 schools): 1-St. Mary’s, Elizabeth (6-0) – outright champions 2-Union Catholic (3-3) Union (3-3) 4-Westfield (0-6) […]
UNION COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING STATE CHAMPIONS (128 the first 84 years) (does not include wrestlers from Union County that won a state championship at another school) NJSIAA TOURNAMENT: 2017-1934 Union County high schools have had only one state champion in the last 9 (2009-2017) seasons. 2010s (1) 2011: 152-Christian Barber, Westfield ————— 2000s (7) […]
UNION – Roselle Catholic has come close the last six years, with the agony of defeat ever so present. After the heartbreaking loss to underdog Union in the 2013 quarterfinals – one year after the Lions reached the final for the first time in 49 years – two very close setbacks followed in the 2015 […]
UNION – Of these three boys’ basketball programs – Cranford, Johnson and Roselle Catholic – which has not won the Union County Tournament yet? Cranford? No. The Cougars captured their lone title the year the Beatles arrived in America – 1964. Johnson? Wrong. Known then as Johnson Regional, the Crusaders claimed their only championship the […]
