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 […]
Win 5 championships in same season for first time
TRENTON – On the second Friday in February Roselle Catholic had them. The Lions had the No. 1-ranked team in the nation – Montverde Academy, Fla. – on the brink of its first loss. Roselle Catholic led by six with 29 seconds left before Duke commit R.J. Barrett took the game over by scoring six […]
Of the 36 basketball teams that qualified for state tournament competition in Union County – 18 boys’ and 18 girls’ squads – only three made it to Week No. 2. They include the Roselle Catholic and Linden boys’ reaching their sectional finals and the Oak Knoll girls’ advancing to their sectional semifinals. The Roselle Catholic […]
Indians finish 23-4 and have produced 65 wins the past 3 seasons
RAHWAY – Luke Valerano took it upon himself to make sure Colonia was not headed to overtime for a second straight state tournament contest. So after Rahway senior Keyshawn Cummings tied the game for the fifth and final time – and for the first time since late in the second quarter – with a free […]
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) […]
States will be seeded Feb. 27 and contested March 2-4 at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall
Wrestlers from high schools in Union County excelled at this past weekend’s Region 4 competition at Union, with six winning championships. Two others placed second, three third and four fourth. The top four wrestlers in each of the 14 weight classes from all eight regions advanced to the NJSIAA Tournament, which will be contested March […]
Hanner nets 15, McQueen 13 for the RC girls', while Horton pours in 20, Whitney 17 and Frink 13 for the RC boys'
UNION – While it was close for three quarters, this time Roselle Catholic was simply not going to be denied. Not on this night. Not on this year. This was their county tournament to lose and had been for some time. So the Lions grabbed hold of the game in the fourth quarter and this […]
The Celtics are defending champions on both sides
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 […]
Wichelns pours in game-high 25 points for Cougars, including game-high 7 3-pointers
CLARK – Survive and advance? For The Patrick School, which is the top seed and defending champion, that’s exactly how the Celtics moved on to their third county championship game in four seasons. It took a free throw by freshman guard Lashae Dwyer with five seconds remaining and then TPS had to hold its breath […]
Here are the rosters for the Feb. 21 Union County Tournament girls’ basketball semifinals at Johnson High School in Clark. It will be third-seeded Westfield (18-6) vs. second-seeded Roselle Catholic (19-4) at 6 p.m., followed by fifth-seeded Cranford (13-11) vs. top-seeded and defending champion The Patrick School (19-5). Westfield and RC split Watchung Division games, […]