UNION COUNTY, NJ — For longtime neighborhood football rivals Roselle Park High School and Roselle’s Abraham Clark High School, who still play on the Thanksgiving holiday or now the night before when the game is at Roselle, the 2024 campaign has been a season of streaks. This time, both will be battling to end their […]
SPRINGFIELD, NJ — Arguably the top baseball instruction in the northeast continues next month in Union County when some of the finest baseball minds will congregate to offer their expertise. College, high school, travel and youth coaches from the area and beyond will not want to miss attending the fourth annual Garden State Baseball Coaches […]
KENILWORTH, NJ — With only seven wins, and just two of them on the road, the David Brearley High School Bears boys soccer team knew that, if it was going to have state tournament success for the third straight year, it was going to have to be done away from home, away from its new […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Cranford High School and Elizabeth High School–Frank J. Cicarell Academy came so close to advancing, while New Providence High School held on and was able to reach a sectional state championship game for the first time in 14 years. Cranford and Elizabeth both scored in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Just qualifying for the playoffs is challenging enough, but when you have to travel almost half the state to face a once-beaten, top-seeded team in order to advance to a state championship game, well, the odds are not stacked in your favor. The odds really go down even farther when you are […]
NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ — In order to reach their first sectional state championship game in 14 years, just how will the New Providence High School Pioneers stop a Hasbrouck Heights High School offense that is averaging 29 points? “We’ve had our difficulties with the triple option, but we’re not going to see that again,” standout […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — In order to win a sectional state championship, you must first qualify for the playoffs out of the group-section in which you are situated. Then, you must win a first-round game, in order to have the opportunity to reach the title contest. That’s where we’re at now, the sectional semifinals. Ten […]
CRANFORD, NJ — One of the best football rivalries in Union County that has emerged the last 15 years is Summit High School vs. Cranford High School. It might be the best. They began playing each other in 2009 and it really didn’t become a rivalry until Cranford finally beat the Hilltoppers in 2014, after […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union County will be well represented when the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association football playoffs commence this weekend. For several weeks, 10 of the 17 football-playing schools in Union County were on their way to making the grade. Now it’s official. Elizabeth–Frank J. Cicarell Academy, Plainfield and Linden high schools […]
UNION, NJ — Kean Athletics recently retired No. 16, the jersey number of Hall of Fame member and MLB pitcher Kevin Herget. He is the first baseball player and the third athlete in Kean history to receive the prestigious honor. The campus community celebrated the 2015 graduate’s remarkable journey from Kean University to the major […]