UNION COUNTY, NJ — The first week of the 2023 high school football season is in the books, with four schools, Linden, New Providence, Rahway and Scotch Plains-Fanwood, all 1-0 and three other schools, Union, Elizabeth and Governor Livingston, starting off 0-1. Returning senior quarterback Tequan Thomas scored three touchdowns, including the game-winner in the […]
CLARK, NJ — Last season was a step in the right direction for the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders. It was a much-needed step. For the first time in five years, the Crusaders finished better than .500 and reached the state playoffs. Although the season ended early in the playoffs with a first-round loss […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Girls tennis began last week with tennis balls just beginning to be hit back and forth. This week the remainder of the fall sports in New Jersey began practice on Monday, Aug. 21 as we creep nearer and nearer to the beginning of the 2023-2024 school season. The other sports that […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Here it is. High school football returns to New Jersey for 2023. The 2023 season is set to kick off Friday, Aug. 25, with games scheduled this weekend on Friday, Aug. 25; Saturday, Aug. 26; and Sunday, Aug. 27. This is the week termed “Week Zero” with a handful of teams […]
UNION, NJ — There’s the Battle at the Beach this weekend in Ocean City. There’s the Rumble at the Raritan in Rutgers later in September. So why not some good old fashioned football right here in Union County at Kean University to kick off the 2023 season? How about something like the “Kickoff at Kean”? […]
CLARK, Nj — When Ray Redziniak was an all-state senior football player in the fall of 1995, the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders not only went 11-0 and captured the program’s first state championship in the playoff era by winning North 2, Group 2, but the gridiron standouts from Clark also outscored the opposition […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Now that the first day of official practice commenced last week and the first scrimmages are scheduled for this week, it’s time to take a look at the playoff histories of all 17 Union County football playing schools. The 2023 season is set to kick off Friday, Aug. 25, with games […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Football scrimmages are now almost as highly-anticipated as the first weekend of regular season games across the state, especially since the start of the high school football season in New Jersey seems to be earlier now than it ever was before. Official practice, shoulder pads and all, commences for every school […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Last year, as many as 10 girls soccer teams in Union County finished with winning records. The competition went down to the wire on many occasions and then some. Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School defeated Cranford High School on kicks from the penalty mark in one Union County Tournament semifinal. Then, Westfield […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — No football in December? State championship games will be played on weekday nights? Wow, most of us did not see that coming from the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. That will be the case this fall for, pretty much –the first time in New Jersey. When these changes were approved […]