ROSELLE – Freshman guard Jennifer McClave scored the game’s final five points, including the game-winning shot with 8.1 seconds left, to lift Roselle Catholic to a 41-38 win over Morris Catholic in Monday night’s Roselle Catholic Tournament girls’ basketball championship game at Roselle Catholic. Both highly-regarded parochial school teams entered the contest with identical 3-0 […]
UNION – So far the pattern has been eerily similar two games into the season. Roselle Catholic’s girls’ basketball team struggles a bit in the first half and is outscored in one of the first two quarters. Then the Lions turn it on in the second half as they have limited their first two foes […]
It was a well-attended Senior Night for the Johnson High School boys’ soccer team in Clark , but a couple of Roselle Catholic soccer players enjoyed the greatest and loudest fan support that evening from the bleachers behind the visiting team’s sideline. More than two dozen relatives and family friends of the Carvalho and Sweeney […]
First win of season in 3 tries over last year's UCT finalist sparked by stellar play of Ciandella, Scheuermann, Sheehan
After falling to Westfield twice in girls’ volleyball regular season play, defending county champion Roselle Catholic received an opportunity to play the Blue Devils one more time. That was in last Friday night’s Union County Tournament championship match at KeanUniversity’s Harwood Arena in Union. Seeking to prove that last year’s title was no fluke, the […]
The Roselle Catholic volleyball team continued its pursuit of a second straight Union County Tournament title on Saturday morning with a straight set victory against the third-seeded Linden Tigers in The Lions’ Den. Behind 18 assists, 10 service points and nine digs from senior Jessica Ciandella and eight kills and five service points from Calli […]
Freshman Alivia Pitts registered a goal and an assist to help spark the Roselle Catholic girls’ soccer team to a 2-1 victory against Marist High School in Bayonne last Friday. The Lions won their third in a row and improved their record to 8-4. Kayla Whitaker and Natalie Hamlin also connected for goals for RC, […]
The Roselle Catholic High School athletic department’s pink theme continued last Tuesday. Less than 24 hours after spectators “pinked out” The Lions’ Den during the RC volleyball program’s annual Spike Breast Cancer event, the Lions’ girls’ soccer players all sported pink socks for their game against Brearley High School of Kenilworth on Chakey Field. It […]
Senior co-captain sports pink socks for meet vs. Oratory, Oak Knoll, Kent Place and Benedictine
Roselle Catholic High School senior Mike Cianci wanted more pink. The day after Cianci was a fan at the volleyball program’s annual “Spike Breast Cancer” event in The Lions’ Den – one of many shirtless spectators painted in pink – he wanted to do more to show more support for the cause. So Cianci, a […]
Dayton, Union, Johnson and Brearley were to host first 4 matches
The girls’ soccer Union County Tournament was to kick off this Saturday, Sept. 28, with four preliminary round matches. Defending co-champion Scotch Plains was awarded the top seed once again. Four first round games are scheduled to be played Wednesday, Oct. 2, with four more second round games set to take place Saturday, Oct. 5. The […]
Lions play at UCC-Valley Division foe Brearley Thursday night
Roselle Catholic junior forward Antonio Altamirano connected off an assist from freshman Billy Carvalho for the only goal in the Lions’ 1-0 boys’ soccer triumph vs. Union Catholic at Chakey Field on Tuesday. Junior goalie Anthony Milano, in his first season as a varsity starter in net, made five saves for the shutout as Roselle […]
