UNION COUNTY, NJ — Two Union County players excelled on defense last year to help the North squad produce an historic gridiron triumph. Nine players from Union County high schools are listed on the first North roster for this June’s annual showcase. Which of them might help the North to another victory in less than […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — For the first time, a Union County baseball team won a state championship in Hamilton a year ago, as the Governor Livingston High School Highlanders captured the Group 2 crown for the fourth time in program history. With players such as junior University Virginia commit Zach Geertsma back at shortstop and […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Roselle Park High School produced its first winning season of girls basketball in at least 15 years. Cranford High School came back from a 4-9 start to finish 15-12 and reach a sectional final. Westfield High School captured North 2, Group 4 for the second time in four years. To top […]
SOMERVILLE, NJ — When the Cranford High School girls basketball team lost at home to Roselle Catholic High School, 52-42, in Union County Conference–Watchung Division play on Tuesday, Jan. 21, the Cougars fell to 4-9. Time was slipping away on Cranford, trying to figure out its 2024-2025 season. Somehow, the Cougars did. They went from […]
ATLANTIC CITY. NJ — Jordan Chapman came close again, but fell one win short of his ultimate high school goal. In the NJSIAA Tournament 175-pound final in Atlantic City on Saturday, March 8, second-seeded Chapman of Cranford High School was defeated by top-seeded and defending champion Ryan Burton of St. Joseph Regional High School, Montvale, […]
WEST ORANGE, NJ — The last Union County High School wrestler to win a state championship was Westfield High School senior Christian Barber at 152 pounds in 2011. The last Cranford High School grappler to have his arm raised in an New Jersey State Interecholastic Athletic Association Tournament final was senior Pat Hogan in 2006. […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The Cranford High School girls basketball team did not challenge for a county championship the way it did last year. The Cougars finished three games less than .500 in the Union County Conference’s very challenging Watchung Division, which includes perennial powers New Providence, Westfield and Roselle Catholic high schools. As a matter […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Arthur L. Johnson High School produced a 20-win season by going 21-4 and was the last Union County basketball team this year, boys and girls, to lose a game after an unprecedented 19-0 start. The Crusaders also captured the Union County Conference’s Valley Division crown with a perfect 10-0 league mark. […]
UNION, NJ — In his first high school head coaching stint in New Jersey, after a lengthy resume filled with high school and college stops scattered from the Midwest and South to the East, Barris Grant made going to Hillside High School games a must-see for local high school football fans. Grant turned Hillside into […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — At its own gym for the last time this year, Cranford High School showed wrestlers from Bergen and Hudson counties how it’s done and was right there with a standout team from Essex County. Speaking of Essex County, Governor Livingston High School grapplers excelled at Nutley High School. Wrestlers from the […]