The Linden boys’ basketball team has a stranglehold on winning Group 4 state championships, with six captured since 2000, including repeating this year for the second time in program history. However, the Tigers are still seeking their first Tournament of Champions crown after falling to Don Bosco Prep 65-58 in Sunday’s semifinals in Toms River. In […]
Here are – what I think I figured out – the new division alignments for Union County Conference baseball for 2017: 2017 UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE BASEBALL WATCHUNG DIVISION (6 schools): Westfield – defending champion Scotch Plains Elizabeth Cranford Gov. Livingston Union MOUNTAIN DIVISION (5 schools): Johnson – defending champion Union Catholic Linden […]
Tigers seek second straight appearance in championship game and first title
Because of Tuesday’s statewide heavy snowfall, the boys’ basketball Tournament of Champions has been moved up to a March 17, March 19, March 20 schedule: Second-seeded Linden, which repeated as Group 4 champions, will now play in the semifinals March 19 at Pine Belt Arena (Toms River North High School). Here’s the revised schedule: QUARTERFINALS: Friday, […]
Crawford scores 17, Watkins 16 and Jones 13; TOC is next, with Linden expected to get No. 2 seed
PISCATAWAY – Underdog Shawnee – without a senior in its starting lineup – was executing a nifty backdoor pass, hitting some 3s and preventing Linden from getting into a flow offensively to produce the game’s first lead of any kind. That kind of performance kept the Burlington County Renegades more than just in the game […]
Linden has won Group 4 two of the last three years and five times total, beginning with first title in 2000
The Linden boys’ basketball team has won state championships before – five to be exact. The Tigers have also won consecutive state titles in the past – doing so in 2006 and 2007 (present New York Jets defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson was a starter as a junior and senior on both of those squads). On […]
Will next face North 1, Group 4 champion Bloomfield in March 9 Group 4 semifinal at the Dunn Sport Center in Elizabeth
LINDEN – Outside of two, brief one-point deficits, host Linden played out in front the entire game, receiving huge contributions from two seniors off the bench and playing its usual, stingy man defense to keep a high-scoring Newark East Side team at bay. Linden also made 16 of 18 free throw attempts, which helped tremendously. […]
Of the 20 wrestlers from Union County high schools that qualified for the states out of Region 4 at Union, seven went on to win medals at last weekend’s highly-competitive, season-ending NJSIAA Tournament at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Although Union County failed to produce a state champion for the sixth straight season and for […]
Tigers beat visiting Red Raiders 62-59 in OT in last year's title contest
Arguably the two best public school high school boys’ basketball teams in the state will clash for the second straight season in the North 2, Group 4 championship game. The when is the same as last year – March 7. The where is also the same – at the cozy confines of Linden High School’s […]
Just to wet your appetite before Tuesday night, March 7, here is how I reported last year’s boys’ basketball North 2, Group 4 championship game at Linden, with the host Tigers winning 62-59 in overtime. Last year’s game took place at Linden on Monday night, March 7. Enjoy: LINDEN – After Newark East Side came […]
DiProfio nets career-high 32 in 80-68 semifinal round victory at second-seeded and defending champion Bordentown
Normally this time of the year Dave Kennedy has already traded in his basketball whistle for a bat and a bag of baseballs as he makes his usual February into March transition from basketball to baseball coach at Johnson High School in Clark. That is not the case this year and for a very good […]