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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
KENILWORTH, NJ — Union High School baseball coach Angel Navarrete continues to build, to listen, to learn, as far as making the Union Farmers one of the best baseball programs in the state. The former Cranford High School Class of 2000 and Ramapo College of New Jersey standout baseball player is not quite there yet, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Four teams in Union County won eight or more games this season. The first two were David Brearley High School (10-1) and Hillside High School (9-2), which reached state championship games in their sections. The other two were Abraham Clark High School and Westfield High School, which just completed their 2022 […]
MOUNTAIN LAKES, NJ — This is high praise from a longtime mentor and just shows you how much a player will be missed. “Matt Sims was one of the top two quarterbacks I’ve had here,” David Brearley High School head football coach Scott Miller said of his standout senior signal-caller. “He was a special player […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — David Brearley High School, sparked by the outstanding performance of Union County Player of the Year candidate Matt Sims, does not have a blemish. Hillside High School, lifted by the bulldozing running of back Kyon Simonson, is in familiar territory. For the first time in seven years, David Brearley has reached […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — It’s now down to a final four. The four Union County football teams still alive in state playoff competition are preparing hard for this weekend’s sectional semifinal matchups. On Friday night, Nov. 4, Cranford High School and David Brearley High School will be playing at home, while Westfield High School will […]
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 […]