The defending boys’ soccer Group 1 state champion Brearley Bears will wrap their scrimmage schedule Aug. 31 at North Plainfield after having faced Governor Livingston on the road and Linden at home. Brearley captured its second Group 1 state title outright last season, its third overall and its second in three years when it defeated […]
ROSELLE – The Rams have qualified for the playoffs 12 times, but have never made it three years in a row. Roselle will – once again – attempt to reach that lofty goal for the first time, led by three-year starter Gerald Hairston III (6-2, 230) at quarterback. The mobile, southpaw-throwing, senior signal-caller has been […]
Jamil Jackson, Class of 1989, was just hired as the new head football coach at Elizabeth, succeeding John Quinn, who was in charge for six seasons from 2010-2015. Jackson, who as a senior starred on Elizabeth’s 1988 North 2, Group 4 state championship team, is Elizabeth’s 17th head football coach. The Elizabeth Board of Education […]
Advances to semifinals of her women's 400-meter hurdles competition
SCOTCH PLAINS – With the whole world watching – including the entire galaxy along Martine Avenue in Scotch Plains – 17-year-old track sensation Sydney McLaughlin continued to amaze. This time the stage was as grand as it comes – the 2016 Rio Olympics. McLaughlin, who just turned 17 on Aug. 7 and who in a […]
Dave Curtin, who made his mark in Union and Essex counties as a football and track and field coach and also as an athletic director, passed away Aug. 10 after a battle with cancer and heart failure. Curtin, who had just turned 58, grew up in Kenilworth and graduated from Kenilworth’s Brearley Regional High School […]
This summer’s third annual Union Farmer Soccer Camp can be termed a success mostly based on the following statement: “We had over 190 kids attend this year’s camp from our community,” said Camp Director Lester Lembryk, the head boys’ soccer coach at UHS since 2008. The camp ran at Union High School the last week […]
She just turned 17 on Sunday, Aug. 7. She will begin her senior year at Union Catholic High School in less than one month. In a week – on Monday, Aug. 15 – she will be competing on the biggest stage of her young lifetime. Born in New Brunswick, a resident of the tiny Middlesex […]
Union was one game away from playing for a state championship last fall. A big reason for that was the play of junior two-way standout Mike Tverdov. Dennis McCarthy of his annual Dennis McCarthy Report ranks the Rutgers-bound Tverdov as Union County’s No. 1 college-bound senior. “He has great intensity,” McCarthy said. “He’s very quick […]
Ray McCrann coached two different football schools to state championships in the playoff era and also coached one of the best high school football players to ever come out of New Jersey – that being 1984 Passaic graduate Craig “Ironhead” Heyward. While McCrann is moreso remembered for his highly-successful coaching tenure at Passaic, it is […]
Linebacker Okomaro of Hillside named MVP; Elizabeth's Burch, Linden's Guillaume score Union County TDs
Sometimes in sports you just have to switch things up just for the sake of switching them up. You may need to go against conventional wisdom and put people in positions where they will need to learn, need to grow, in order to be successful. When you put that philosophy into an all-star game setting, […]