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, […]
Rahway is other Union County squad in section
The winningest Union County program the last five seasons and the only one to reach three state championship games and win two of them in that span is in the early stages of familiarizing itself with a different section. The NJSIAA moved Cranford out of North 2, Group 3 and into Central Jersey, Group 3 […]
Game taking place at Woodbridge for the first time
When discussing Cranford football the past two seasons many people were aware of the accomplishments of lineman Will Fries and quarterback Jack Schetelich. The 2016 graduates have moved on to the next level, playing in the next state west of us now, with Fries at Penn State and Schetelich at Villanova. However, a lot more […]
The Union Post 35 Senior American Legion baseball team needs to win today – Sunday, July 17 – to stay alive in District 2 play at Union’s refurbished Teener League Field. Union Post 35 lost to Bordentown Post 26 by the score of 17-2 July 16 in the tournament’s very first game. Hamilton Post 31 then […]
Saturday's second doubleheader rained out; Sunday's schedule and the schedule for the rest of the tournament will have to be adjusted
UNION – For the host team, which had the honor of playing the first game at the refurbished facility, just about everything that could have gone wrong for it did. Following a first-place regular season finish, Union Post 35 ran into quite a formidable foe. Bordentown Post 26 from the Mercer County town Hamilton, which […]
Successful squad finishes regular season with 17-2 record for 34 points
The Union Post 35 Senior American Legion baseball team just concluded one of its most successful regular seasons ever. Sparked by the pitching of Matt Pavick and the hitting of Jaime Olivo, Union won at American Division champion Bloomfield 11-4 at Bloomfield Middle School Wednesday night, July 13, to finish 17-2 for 34 points and […]
The myCentralJersey.com Snapple Bowl XXIII is Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Woodbridge High School, with the annual All-Star Football Game between Union County and Middlesex County just-graduated gridiron standouts taking place at Woodbridge for the first time. Middlesex County has won the last four games and nine of the last 10 and leads […]