Linden has won Group 4 two of the last three years and five times total, beginning with first title in 2000
The Linden boys’ basketball team has won state championships before – five to be exact. The Tigers have also won consecutive state titles in the past – doing so in 2006 and 2007 (present New York Jets defensive lineman Muhammad Wilkerson was a starter as a junior and senior on both of those squads). On […]
Will next face North 1, Group 4 champion Bloomfield in March 9 Group 4 semifinal at the Dunn Sport Center in Elizabeth
LINDEN – Outside of two, brief one-point deficits, host Linden played out in front the entire game, receiving huge contributions from two seniors off the bench and playing its usual, stingy man defense to keep a high-scoring Newark East Side team at bay. Linden also made 16 of 18 free throw attempts, which helped tremendously. […]
Of the 20 wrestlers from Union County high schools that qualified for the states out of Region 4 at Union, seven went on to win medals at last weekend’s highly-competitive, season-ending NJSIAA Tournament at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Although Union County failed to produce a state champion for the sixth straight season and for […]
Tigers beat visiting Red Raiders 62-59 in OT in last year's title contest
Arguably the two best public school high school boys’ basketball teams in the state will clash for the second straight season in the North 2, Group 4 championship game. The when is the same as last year – March 7. The where is also the same – at the cozy confines of Linden High School’s […]
Just to wet your appetite before Tuesday night, March 7, here is how I reported last year’s boys’ basketball North 2, Group 4 championship game at Linden, with the host Tigers winning 62-59 in overtime. Last year’s game took place at Linden on Monday night, March 7. Enjoy: LINDEN – After Newark East Side came […]
DiProfio nets career-high 32 in 80-68 semifinal round victory at second-seeded and defending champion Bordentown
Normally this time of the year Dave Kennedy has already traded in his basketball whistle for a bat and a bag of baseballs as he makes his usual February into March transition from basketball to baseball coach at Johnson High School in Clark. That is not the case this year and for a very good […]
NJSIAA Tournament at Boardwalk Hall scheduled for March 3-5
As special a season as it could be for Nick Zuena will continue this weekend as he will proudly represent the Union High School wrestling program. The talented 152-pound standout senior grappler will be competing in the 84th annual NJSIAA Tournament that commences Friday, continues Saturday and concludes Sunday at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. Zuena […]
State tournament basketball commences today – Monday, Feb. 27 – in New Jersey. Another long winter season will wrap in two weeks. Union County has 17 boys’ and 17 girls’ basketball teams in the states. Sectional finals will be played next week, with the group finals scheduled for the weekend of March 11, 12. The […]
UNION – Nick Richards made an immediate statement by dunking home the game’s first two points just 16 seconds in. Then after being held scoreless in the second quarter and with just six points at intermission and his team ahead by only two, he took matters into his own hands when the second half commenced. […]
UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND AT KEAN UNIVERSITY’S HARWOOD ARENA IN UNION Girls’ final: Friday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. 3-Westfield (17-4) vs. 1-Patrick School (23-2) Boys’ final: Saturday, Feb. 25, 6 p.m. 2-Patrick School (21-4) vs. 1-Linden (20-3) Can the Westfield girls defeat a second straight opponent which it previously lost to twice? The […]
