LINDEN – Will this be the year Linden really puts it all together and has a chance to win a state championship in December? Moving its best player – senior Juwan Dolbrice – to quarterback was what seventh-year head coach Deon Candia hopes was the first step toward that lofty goal. “Juwan is a great […]
CLARK – With a new head coach and starting quarterback in place, the Crusaders hope to build upon last year’s season-ending three-game winning streak. Last year’s special teams coordinator and also the coach of the defensive linemen, linebackers and fullbacks, Anthony DelConte – a 2006 Johnson graduate – can’t wait for the opening game of […]
ROSELLE PARK – Winning is difficult enough. Winning again – with a new regime – is just as challenging, if not more so. Roselle Park football was put back on the map the last two seasons, with the Panthers posting winning campaigns that included trips to the playoffs, a championship game appearance and long-awaited victories […]
The Write on Sports camp experienced a successful expansion campaign at Roselle Catholic High School. A total of seven campers – who declared themselves The Sports-Savvy Seven by the end of the two-week experience on Raritan Road – and two teachers combined to make Write on Sports’ initial offering at Roselle Catholic nothing short of […]
Keeping sharp during the summer before the 2014 season commences in early September, the Union boys’ soccer team excelled in a weekend tournament earlier this month and hopes to play well in another one this coming weekend. Union won three of four games in the Poconos Cup Premier Tournament held in the Poconos, Pa. on […]
There are many reasons why the Roselle Park football team was able to reach a championship game for the first time in 19 years two seasons ago and that Cranford was able to not only reach one for the first time but win one three seasons ago. Two of them were playing for the Union […]
Snapple Bowl practice commences later this week; the game is July 17 at Sayreville
Both quarterbacks can drop back and throw the ball. One looks more like the classic drop back because of his size. One looks more like the classic scrambler, also because of his size. One way or another it doesn’t matter. Cranford’s John Oblachinski and Rahway’s Jeffery Bost are pretty good at finding manners in which […]
Two years ago Dominic Cuniglio was a very last minute replacement to succeed Brian Sheridan as Union High School’s head football coach afterSheridan took a leave of absence one week into practice. Upon his return to Union County to continue his coaching career, Cuniglio was given a bit more time to mold the team he is now fully in charge of. […]
The 8th Annual Jonathan Dayton High School Alumni Ice Hockey Game was held at the USA Ice Rink in Union on May 30. As always, the game raises money for the Healing Heart Foundation, a charity formed in memory of David Nehmer, a Springfield resident and student, who lost his battle with leukemia at age […]
BRIDGEWATER – Despite all of its success and winning in the past, Summit lacrosse was on its way to doing something it had never done before. That was both the girls’ and boys’ squads winning Tournament of Champions titles on the same day. Both got halfway there Saturday, each leading their games at intermission. However, […]