UNION COUNTY, NJ — The first week of the 2023 high school football season is in the books, with four schools, Linden, New Providence, Rahway and Scotch Plains-Fanwood, all 1-0 and three other schools, Union, Elizabeth and Governor Livingston, starting off 0-1. Returning senior quarterback Tequan Thomas scored three touchdowns, including the game-winner in the […]
CLARK, NJ — Last season was a step in the right direction for the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders. It was a much-needed step. For the first time in five years, the Crusaders finished better than .500 and reached the state playoffs. Although the season ended early in the playoffs with a first-round loss […]
CLARK, Nj — When Ray Redziniak was an all-state senior football player in the fall of 1995, the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders not only went 11-0 and captured the program’s first state championship in the playoff era by winning North 2, Group 2, but the gridiron standouts from Clark also outscored the opposition […]
UNION, NJ – During the course of the past four varsity seasons for the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders, Brett Makowsky lit up the scoreboard on more than one occasion. There was a 43-yard field goal early in his junior year for his first of six career field goals in 10 attempts. On three […]
CLARK, NJ — On Friday April 14, the Arthur L. Johnson High School girls lacrosse program hosted its first ever game in program history. The girls took on Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School’s junior varsity team. Early in the first half, Ava DeMarco scored the first goal in the history of the program off of an […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — After a rocky start that did not include injured mound aces John Schmidt and Matty Diskin, the Governor Livingston High School baseball team righted its ship the last two weeks. The Highlanders took a 7-3 overall record and five-game winning streak into their scheduled Union County Conference-Watchung Division matchup at Arthur […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — In a rematch of last year’s Union County Tournament championship game at Kean University, Cranford High School hosted Jonathan Dayton High School in one of the 10 Union County baseball opening day clashes on Monday, April 3. All 19 Union County Conference schools opened on Monday, April 3, with defending UCT […]
CLARK, NJ — The Clark Recreation basketball season came to an end recently with championship games in the third- through fourth- and fifth- through eighth-grade brackets in both girls and boys. Recreation Director Ralph Bernardo extended his thanks to all those that made it possible. “None of our youth sports leagues would exist without the […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Nine weekends have passed, with some teams getting in nine games and most eight, as we begin the high school football playoffs in New Jersey in the month of October for the first time. After this weekend, next weekend and the one following it that will crown sectional state champions, there […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — This is the weekend that puts the closure on who is in and who is out — who is in the state playoffs, and who will come up short of qualifying. The sectional playoffs commence next week and then, after those three weekends, for the first time, public school group semifinals […]