Hillside football team wins its sixth straight division title

Hillside football team wins its sixth straight division title

HILLSIDE, NJ — Since Barris Grant took over as the football team’s head coach at Hillside High School, beginning with the 2016 football season, the Comets have produced unprecedented success during that span. For example, Hillside captured three consecutive sectional state championships and also won a regional title. Hillside’s only sectional state crown that it […]

Football teams position themselves in Week Seven as season nears its end

UNION COUNTY, NJ — We’re down to two weekends to go before the start of the high school football playoffs in New Jersey. The season goes by that quickly. Perhaps the biggest winners in Union County last weekend included Summit High School out-lasting Linden High School at home in a battle of one-loss squads, Hillside […]

Teams improve positions as just three games remain in regular season

UNION COUNTY, NJ — Summer workouts are complete. The beginning of practice in August has come and gone. Games in August and September are now history. We’re down to just three weekends remaining in the regular season. October football to decide which teams make the playoffs and which squads don’t. In Union County there are […]

Union High School football is off to a 4-1 start

UNION, NJ — Union High School’s Farmers lead the Big Central Conference’s American Gold Division standings at 3-0. Hillsborough High School’s Raiders are tied for the lead atop the American Silver Division group of gridiron powers at 2-1. Both teams are 4-1 overall. Each got by their latest challenges by playing big-time defense and finding […]

Week Five finds seven football teams with only one loss

UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union County schools that were 3-1 went 3-2 last week, while teams that were 2-1 went 4-1. So that now leaves us with seven one-loss teams in the county, three at 4-1 and four at 3-1. The three 4-1 squads are Group 5 Union High School, Group 4 Linden High School […]

Week Four football preview sees 10 county schools have just one loss

UNION COUNTY, NJ — There are no undefeated football teams remaining in Union County, but that does not mean that there are not a bunch of good teams out there. Through the first four weekends of the 2023 campaign, 10 of Union County’s 17 football playing schools have just one loss. Five are 3-1 and […]

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