UNION, NJ — Part of the recipe for continued improvement stems from competition in a college setting some six months before the season begins. That seems to be working out quite well for the Union High School wrestling program. For the third year in a row and the second straight at The College of New […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The 2024 campaign was a special one for several Union County boys soccer teams. The 2025 season is now just about one month away from commencing. The first official day of practice is Monday, Aug. 18, with the first games scheduled for Monday, Aug. 25. Many schools in New Jersey now […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The David Brearley High School Bears didn’t win as many games as they did last year. However, the Bears achieved something they had not done in 16 years: That was to capture a sectional state championship. Senior left-hander Sean Budis led the way with some of the most well-pitched games ever […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — What makes a good coach? When his team wins. Winning is everything. What makes a successful coach? One who surrounds himself with a staff he can trust. One who, along with his staff, takes great pains to pick the right players with which to go to battle. One who, sometimes, also […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The beginning of official high school football practice in New Jersey is now a little more than five weeks away. It seems to creep up earlier and earlier, digging deeper and deeper into the month of August and August vacation time. That is the reality. The first practices with pads can […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Earlier this month, the best softball players in Union County were honored by the Union County coaches for their outstanding production during the recently completed 2025 campaign. The division winners, all in close races and outright, were Arthur L. Johnson High School, capturing the Watchung Division title; Roselle Park High School, […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — What a year it has been for Governor Livingston High School baseball. For the first time in program history, the Highlanders captured division, county, sectional and group state titles in the same season. Also, for the first time in program history, Governor Livingston repeated as champions on the county, sectional and […]
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ — Two weeks ago Governor Livingston High School was one strike away from seeing a dream season come to a nightmare close. It was Michael Novotny who saved an already highly-memorable 2025 campaign by, with two strikes and two outs in the bottom of the seventh, producing an RBI-single up the middle to […]
CLARK, NJ — From game one on Tuesday, April 1, to game No. 30 on Wednesday, June 4, the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders proved to be one of the best softball teams in the state. There’s no denying that. Ranked in the state’s Top 20 for most of the season, the 2025 campaign […]
UNION, NJ — Well, it lasted for a year. That is the only lead the North has had in this football all-star series, as the South came back in the fourth quarter to edge the North for its first win in seven years. It was an interception at the South 10 on the final play […]