Stateliners and Hunterdon Central both lead Delaware Division with 3-0 marks
Here we have the winningest football program in the state invading Cooke Memorial Field for the very first time. Phillipsburg has won 643 games, the most of any team in New Jersey, with its first year of football being 1905. Knocking on the door of 500, Union has won 498 games, with its first season […]
Top Crusaders for first time since 2004 and first time at home since 2003
Kudos to the Hillside football team for a magnificent victory in front of their home fans Saturday afternoon. Hillside came back from a two-touchdown halftime deficit to turn back non-division foe Johnson 30-27. After trailing 14-0 at halftime the Comets scored 14 points in the third quarter and 16 in the fourth. Hillside, which improved […]
Zalewski wins at first singles for second time and Podsiebierski at second singles for her first crown
Last week’s 38th annual girls’ tennis Union County Tournament at the Donald Van Blake Courts in Plainfield had Linden back on top again at first singles and a parochial school supplanting perennial winner Westfield as the champion. For the second time in three years – she did not compete in last year’s tournament – Linden’s […]
Dayton, Union, Johnson and Brearley were to host first 4 matches
The girls’ soccer Union County Tournament was to kick off this Saturday, Sept. 28, with four preliminary round matches. Defending co-champion Scotch Plains was awarded the top seed once again. Four first round games are scheduled to be played Wednesday, Oct. 2, with four more second round games set to take place Saturday, Oct. 5. The […]
Panthers seek to avenge last year's 19-9 home setback to Eagles
The Roselle Park football team will now play at South Hunterdon Saturday night at 7 after the game was postponed Friday night after a transformer box shot off sparks from a pole as the football field’s lights ad scoreboard went dark during pre-game warmups. “We were on the field stretching when it happened,” Roselle Park […]
Bears host Dayton Bulldogs next Friday night in battle of 1-2 squads
The Brearley football team’s attempt to win consecutive games since opening its 2011 season with two straight wins was thwarted by host Belvidere Friday night. In Mid-State 38 Conference-Union Division action in Warren County, Brearley was defeated by Belvidere 26-6. Both teams are now 1-2 overall and 1-2 in the Union Division. Brearley head coach Scott […]
Senior quarterback Terry tosses 4 touchdown passes and runs for one score
SUMMIT – The way the Summit football team performed in its home-opener Friday night can another 12-0 season be in store? The Hilltoppers looked that sharp.That precise. That unbeatable. Summit scored all seven times it had the ball in the first half en route to a commanding 48-14 triumph over Cranford in Mid-State 38 Conference-Raritan […]
Lions play at UCC-Valley Division foe Brearley Thursday night
Roselle Catholic junior forward Antonio Altamirano connected off an assist from freshman Billy Carvalho for the only goal in the Lions’ 1-0 boys’ soccer triumph vs. Union Catholic at Chakey Field on Tuesday. Junior goalie Anthony Milano, in his first season as a varsity starter in net, made five saves for the shutout as Roselle […]
SPRINGFIELD – Frank Esposito, PGA Professional at Brooklake Country Club, Florham Park, captured his record breaking 5th New Jersey PGA Professional Championship, shooting a 1-under-par 215 to claim victory in the 54-hole event that took place Sept. 17 to 19, at famed Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield. Jim McGovern, PGA Professional at White Beeches Golf […]
Relieved Moore: I went with my heart, my gut feeling
Although he’s not quite sure when he will sign on the dotted line once the signing period begins in November, Linden senior basketball standout Quadri Moore – one of the top big men in New Jersey – was still relieved to have given Cincinnati a verbal commitment last week. “There was a lot of pressure […]