LINDEN – Will this be the year Linden really puts it all together and has a chance to win a state championship in December? Moving its best player – senior Juwan Dolbrice – to quarterback was what seventh-year head coach Deon Candia hopes was the first step toward that lofty goal. “Juwan is a great […]
The Write on Sports camp experienced a successful expansion campaign at Roselle Catholic High School. A total of seven campers – who declared themselves The Sports-Savvy Seven by the end of the two-week experience on Raritan Road – and two teachers combined to make Write on Sports’ initial offering at Roselle Catholic nothing short of […]
Game is June 23 at Piscataway High School; North has another chance to take first series lead
PISCATAWAY – Summit senior Charlie Terry spent the fall season impressing a lot of people with his play at quarterback, leading the Hilltoppers to a perfect 12-0 record and the North 2, Group 3 state championship. Now the First Team All-County and Third Team All-State performer will get the opportunity to show what he can […]
While defending champion and top-seeded Westfield will have to wait until Monday to play its first-round game – at home vs. 16th-seeded and 7-1 Roselle Catholic – Roselle Park, Union, Johnson, Cranford and Governor Livingston all advanced to Friday night’s quarterfinals at Linden with first-round wins on Saturday. Three of the eight first-round games were […]
Defending champion Cranford, top-seeded Governor Livingston and lower-seeded Roselle Park – sparked by standout senior Luis Amaro – advanced to the baseball Union County Tournament quarterfinals with first-round wins on Saturday. The quarterfinals are scheduled to be played at the higher seeds Wednesday, with Thursday as the rain date. Cranford, which has won the UCT […]
61ST ANNUAL BASEBALL UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT SEEDS: 1-Gov. Livingston. 2-Cranford. 3-Westfield. 4-Scotch Plains. 5-Dayton. 6-Union. 7-Union Catholic. 8-Elizabeth. 9-Summit. 10-New Providence. 11-Roselle Park. 12-Johnson. 13-Oratory Prep. 14-Plainfield 15-Rahway. 16-Roselle Catholic. 17-Linden. PRELIMINARY ROUND Wednesday, April 23 Linden 11, Roselle Catholic 5 – at RC FIRST ROUND Saturday, April 26 TOP SIDE OF […]
First-round games are April 26, quarterfinals April 30, semifinals May 3 and final May 10.
The Governor Livingston baseball team has never won the Union County Tournament. The Highlanders probably never earned the top seed before either. This could be their year. GL, with an overall record of 10-1 and a Union County Conference-Watchung Division mark of 4-1, is in line to earn the top seed for the 61st annual […]
Five UnionCounty girls’ basketball teams won at least 20 games this season, with three of them also capturing Union County Conference championships. Roselle Catholic set a program record for wins in a 25-2 season that included a fourth straight Watchung Division crown and sixth consecutive league title. For the first time the Lions finished undefeated […]
Group 4 champion Tigers conclude 27-5, Non-Public, B champ Lions finish 21-10
State championship seasons – campaigns to certainly remember and cherish for a long time – came to a conclusion last Thursday for the Linden and Roselle Catholic boys’ basketball teams. In the Tournament of Champions semifinals at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, third-seeded Roselle Catholic was first edged by second-seeded Newark East Side 46-45 […]
Tournament of Champions is next for 26-4 Tigers
PISCATAWAY – Linden couldn’t make their outside shots – the Tigers missed 37 of their first 46 field goal attempts – continued to miss layup after layup and trailed almost the entire first half. Yet Linden was behind underdog Trenton by just one point at intermission. “They controlled the tempo in the first half, we […]