PHOTO BY JR PARACHINI – The first basketball Union County Conference division winners for the 2016-2017 season are the Johnson boys’ repeating as Sky champs, the Patrick School girls’ repeating as Watchung winners and Kent Place capturing the girls’ Sky crown. Here are the Union County Conference boys’ and girls’ basketball standings as of Monday, […]
Here are the Union County Conference boys’ and girls’ basketball standings – and the overall records of those teams – as Monday, Jan. 23: UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE BOYS’ BASKETBALL STANDINGS AS OF MONDAY, JAN. 23: WATCHUNG DIVISION (5 schools): 1-Patrick School (4-1) 2-Linden (3-1) 3-Roselle Catholic (1-1) 4-Plainfield (1-3) 5-Elizabeth (0-3) MOUNTAIN DIVISION (4 schools): […]
The Brearley girls’ basketball team is off to one of its finest starts in some time. On Tuesday, Jan. 17 in Kenilworth the Bears produced an impressive 46-33 win over Benedictine Academy of Elizabeth in Union County Conference-Sky Division play. Brearley won its third straight to improve to 8-1 overall. The Bears also lead the […]
Here are the Union County Conference boys’ and girls’ basketball standings as of Monday, Jan. 16: UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE BOYS’ BASKETBALL STANDINGS AS OF MONDAY, JAN. 16: WATCHUNG DIVISION (5 schools) 1-Patrick School (3-0) 2-Roselle Catholic (0-0) 3-Linden (2-1) 4-Plainfield (1-2) 5-Elizabeth (0-3) MOUNTAIN DIVISION (4 schools) 1-St. Mary’s, Elizabeth (4-0) 2-Union Catholic (1-1) 3-Westfield […]
Roselle Park, with Montgomery winning crown at 113 is 2nd; 4th-place Rahway has sophomore champions in Murray at 120 and Royster at 126
UNION – “4 Baby!” Those were the first words emphatically ushered by Cranford standout senior wrestler Tom DiGiovanni immediately after he held off Summit senior Philip Angelo 2-1 to capture the 138-pound championship. DiGiovanni became Cranford’s first 4-time Union County Tournament champion Saturday en route to helping lead the heavily-favored Cougars to their third straight […]
First Cranford doubles up challenging South Jersey foe Wall 48-24 on Jan. 3. One day later Rahway has an historic 36-23 win at Roselle Park. Then Rahway, at 5-0, and Cranford, at 3-0, clash at Cranford last Friday night, with Union County’s top team – the host Cougars – coming out on top by a […]
Here is a look at this year’s returning Union County Tournament wrestling champions and the event’s only seven 4-time winners. The 42nd annual wrestling Union County Tournament is scheduled to take place this Saturday – Jan. 14 – at Union High School’s Louis J. Rettino Gymnasium. Competition will go from – roughly – 9 a.m. […]
Talk about early-season showdowns, there were two undefeated vs. undefeated girls’ basketball clashes this past week in Union County, with the road team coming out on top both times. On Saturday afternoon in Springfield it was visiting Oak Knoll coming through in the fourth quarter to pull out a 45-37 win over Dayton in a […]
Here are the Union County Conference basketball standings as of Jan. 2, with the girls’ alignment revised: UNION COUNTY CONFERENCE BOYS’ BASKETBALL STANDINGS AS OF MONDAY, JAN. 2: WATCHUNG DIVISION (5 schools) Linden (0-0) Elizabeth (0-0) Patrick School (0-0) Plainfield (0-0) Roselle Catholic (0-0) MOUNTAIN DIVISION (4 schools) 1-St. Mary’s, Elizabeth (2-0) 2-Union Catholic (0-0) […]
