CRANFORD, NJ — How challenging will Region 4 wrestling be at North Hunterdon High School? Nine Cranford grapplers will make the field that much more difficult. Cranford High School continued a highly successful season by placing four champions, two second-place finishers and three third-place qualifiers at the District 13 competition that took place last weekend […]
UNION, NJ — The strides made during last year’s abbreviated season have manifested into the reward of qualifying for the North 2, Group 4, playoffs for the first time in five years for the improved Union girls basketball team. With a record of 7-9 through the cutoff on Saturday, Feb. 12, Union was projected to […]
ROSELLE PARK, NJ — After winning one close bout and then dominating its next opponent at home on Monday, Feb. 7, as the second seed, the Roselle Park wrestling team ventured north to Bergen County to see if it could capture its first state sectional championship in four years. Its foe on Wednesday, Feb. 9, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Roselle Catholic, ranked No. 2 in the state, never won the boys basketball Union County Tournament before 2018. But the Lions won in 2018 and repeated as champions in 2019. They reached the final again in 2020, falling to the Patrick School. Roselle Catholic, with its eye on capturing another crown […]
CRANFORD, NJ — For the second time in 15 days, Cranford High School junior wrestler Dylan McDonald came through with a big win against the same Westfield High School opponent, senior Sergio Cabrera. On Saturday, Feb. 5, in front of a packed house in Westfield’s gymnasium, it was McDonald beginning the 215-pound bout with a […]
CLARK, NJ — This tale is not about a team dubbed “the little engine that could.” What culminated at the end of February 41 years ago did not have a Villanova-slaying-Georgetown feel to it. Perhaps Arthur L. Johnson High School — then a regional-district high school known as Arthur L. Johnson Regional High School — […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Cranford wrestling, which last month captured a seventh consecutive Union County Tournament title, has never won a state championship. The Cougars, winners of the North 2, Group 3, sectional crown in 2017, will attempt to pin down that lofty goal next week. One of the highest-ranking teams in North 2, Group […]
CRANFORD, NJ — In the past quarter of a century, there have been three Union County wrestling dynasties. The third one continues to roll along, escaping the clutches of all who attempt to grab the headlines away from it. On Sunday, Jan. 23, in Clark — at the two gymnasiums housed at Arthur L. Johnson […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Last year, COVID-19 wiped away wrestling’s Union County Tournament. It was the first year since the event began in 1976 that it did not take place. This year, Tropical Storm Ida’s destruction of Union High School’s Louis J. Rettino Gymnasium prevented the annual UCT from taking place there. Plans were originally […]
SPRINGFIELD, NJ — In one of his classic works, “Piers Plowman,” written around 1360, poet William Langland said that “patience is a fair virtue.” Roman historian Cato the Elder and the Latin poet Prudentius, among others, have also been credited with coining the phrase. What do these words actually mean? Perhaps that the ability to […]