SUMMIT, NJ — Summit and Linden high schools have both come a long way so far this season. Both are also coming off seasons in which they did not make the playoffs, but then made the most of their opportunities in a new setting. Both captured Regional Invitational Tournament championships last year, Linden winning North, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Winning for the first time in Week Two last weekend were Arthur L. Johnson and Roselle Park high schools on Friday night, Sept. 8, and Hillside High School on a steamy, sweltering Saturday afternoon, Sept. 9, at Hillside’s John Zappulla Field. Arthur L. Johnson won at home against Bound Brook High […]
LINDEN, NJ — Linden High School’s football team beat Elizabeth High School for the first time since 2019. The Tigers then beat Rahway High School for the first time since 2009. As a result, Linden is now 2-0 for the first time since 2021. However, that 2021 squad went 3-0 and then never won again, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union High School found a way to win in overtime to, this time, beat Bridgewater-Raritan High School in a close one. Cranford High School got off to a rousing start by venturing into Hunterdon County and coming away with a 41-0 triumph against North Hunterdon Regional High School. Linden High School […]
LINDEN, NJ – Seeking to finish with more wins than losses for the first time since 2018, the Tigers have sufficient experience back to make a run at qualifying for the state playoffs out of North, Group 4. “We didn’t lose too many players, only four seniors,” said head coach Al Chiola, at the helm […]
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 — There’s the Battle at the Beach this weekend in Ocean City. There’s the Rumble at the Raritan in Rutgers later in September. So why not some good old fashioned football right here in Union County at Kean University to kick off the 2023 season? How about something like the “Kickoff at Kean”? […]