After a successful three-game stint in HudsonCounty over the holidays, the Union girls’ basketball team will look to take that momentum with it when Union County Conference-Watchung Division play continues for the Farmers this weekend. In a battle of two of the top teams in UnionCounty and in the UCC’s Watchung Division, Union (4-1) will […]
RC's Balogun, Tobie named to All-Tournament Team
ROSELLE – Freshman guard Jennifer McClave scored the game’s final five points, including the game-winning shot with 8.1 seconds left, to lift Roselle Catholic to a 41-38 win over Morris Catholic in Monday night’s Roselle Catholic Tournament girls’ basketball championship game at Roselle Catholic. Both highly-regarded parochial school teams entered the contest with identical 3-0 […]
Bonaparte paces Union with 9 points
UNION – So far the pattern has been eerily similar two games into the season. Roselle Catholic’s girls’ basketball team struggles a bit in the first half and is outscored in one of the first two quarters. Then the Lions turn it on in the second half as they have limited their first two foes […]
Berliner, Pires add 9 points each for Highlanders
CRANFORD – There are times you can argue that the game’s most important basket was made before the fourth quarter. A case could be made for that concerning arch rivals Governor Livingston and Cranford. In Friday night’s girls’ basketball season-opener at CranfordHigh School’s Martin Gymnasium, it was a long-range basket by the person who ended […]
Linden, sparked by county champions Zalewski and Podsiebierski, capture Valley Division title
The Roselle Park girls’ tennis team improved its overall and league records this season and next year will return five of its top seven players. The Panthers, guided by head coach Nancy Sturcke since 1977, finished 11-7 overall and 7-5 and in third place in the Mountain Division of the Union County Conference. Last year’s […]
1986 UHS grad and fifth-year Ridge head coach Bill Tracy leads Red Devils to their first-ever 12-0 season
PISCATAWAY – The book on Union has always been that the one thing you can do against a pretty good Farmer team is pass on it. Who would know that history better than 1986 UHS graduate Bill Tracy? The fifth-year Ridge head coach didn’t instruct talented senior quarterback Conor Hughes to throw the ball until […]
Hilltoppers hang on to halt Parsippany Hills 16-13
In addition to beginning its 2014 campaign with a program-best 45-game regular season winning streak, the Summit Hilltoppers football team will also start the season with a state-best overall 24-game winning streak. After producing a 12-0 record for the second consecutive season for the first time, Summit has now not only gone the past five seasons […]
Former Roselle Park head coach John Wagner will lead Point Pleasant Beach in only the program's second title game and first in 31 years
For one team, it tasted (non-alcoholic, of course) champagne (or Gatorade) just 12 months ago. For the other, it’s now been exactly 20 years since a celebration took place. For one coach, it’s also been 20 years since he led a team to the promised land. That’s the Union County menu for this championship football weekend that kicks […]
Tracy Young talked about how her coach Lois Hochuli-Lampert was responsible for driving her to track meet after track meet and that she always appreciated her efforts for wanting to be there for her. High school, college and NFL standout Larry Kubin discussed how in the town of Union nothing was given to you and […]
Cranford finishes successful season at 7-4; 11-0 Hilltoppers will face Parsippany Hills in championship game
SUMMIT – With an offense averaging nearly 40 points, Summit quite often provides the knockout punch by getting in the end zone four to five times before intermission. Teams have a difficult time containing a no-huddle offense that spreads the ball either running or passing it. On Saturday in the North 2, Group 3 semifinal […]