UNION, NJ — Kean University graduate student Kareem McKenzie played NFL football for 11 years and won two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, but he says a more challenging career is ahead of him as a licensed professional counselor. The former offensive tackle, who has worked with teens struggling with substance use, will […]
UNION, NJ – First senior right-hander Sean Woodruff put up seven zeros to keep the game scoreless going into the bottom of the seventh. Then junior Sean Riley led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. Two batters later, freshman Brayden Fry turned out to be the hero for Cranford High School. Here’s […]
UNION, NJ — The second Tip Your Cap Classic at Union’s Gordon R. LeMatty Field, raising funds for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation, features two high-profile games each on Tuesday, May 2, and Wednesday, May 3. On Tuesday, May 2, Madison High School will play New Providence High School at 4:15 p.m., followed by Millburn […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — After a rocky start that did not include injured mound aces John Schmidt and Matty Diskin, the Governor Livingston High School baseball team righted its ship the last two weeks. The Highlanders took a 7-3 overall record and five-game winning streak into their scheduled Union County Conference-Watchung Division matchup at Arthur […]
CRANFORD, NJ – Following an important comeback victory on Friday, April 14, at home against division rival Union High School, where the Cougars were six outs away from defeat for the first time this year, Cranford High School baseball veteran head coach Dennis McCaffery explained his team’s 7-0 start this way: “Our pitching has done […]
UNION, NJ — The initial week of the season was one to put up on a pedestal. For the Union Farmers, its meaning was of extremely high significance, as they were desperate to get out to a good start, following a year in which victories, only four total, were as rare as triple plays. Union […]
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 […]
UNION, NJ — A junior class that saw an abundance of playing time last year and garnered a great deal of experience has its eyes set on leading this spring’s Union Farmers baseball team to much-improved status. Among the seven seniors that excelled as juniors last year are left-handed pitcher-outfielder Aiden Baiardi and right-handed pitcher-infielder […]
UNION, NJ — With Alexa Liquori on the mound, the Union High School softball team likes its odds. Proving to be one of the top hurlers in Union County last season, Liquori, also with her bat, helped lead the Farmers to a 14-10 finish that included them reaching the Union County Tournament semifinals and going […]
UNION, NJ — Alissa Alcindor first tried her hand at field hockey, completing her second season this fall in the midfield. A teacher of woodworking at Union High School, Daniel Eberenz, UHS Class of 1974, got Alcindor’s ear and discussed the possibility of Alcindor going out for wrestling. There was a time in the 1970s […]