UNION, NJ — Sparked by the standout performance of senior college-bound catcher Elvin Espinal and some quality pitchers that he will be handling, the Union High School baseball team seems to be a prominent player once again in Union County and also in North 2, Group 4. The Farmers have produced records better than .500 […]
UNION, NJ — Shannon McMahon was a pretty good softball pitcher herself at South Plainfield High School and then Kean University. Union High School softball team’s first-year head coach also has a “pretty good” pitcher to work with and continue to show the way in junior right-hander Alexa Liquori. A prominent player for then–head coach […]
UNION, NJ — The fifth group to be inducted into the Union High School Athletic Hall of Fame has been selected. Included are athletes, teams, a coach and a special contributor. The Class of 2022 will be honored on Monday, Nov. 21, at Galloping Hill Caterers in Union. The athletes inducted this year are Donald […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey’s premier all-star football event is back. The media day for the 42nd annual Phil Simms NJ North/South All Star Football Classic will take place on Sunday, March 27, at Piscataway High School, with the players and their parents in attendance […]
UNION, NJ — After finishing with a record that showed just one win in 20 games two years ago, the Union High School girls basketball team, it could have been said, had only one way to go, and that was up. Under first-year head coach Omar Wright and with a move down to the Union […]
UNION, NJ — For a team that lost all but one of its matches and had to deal with the adversity of not being able to wrestle in its home gymnasium because of the destruction from September’s Tropical Storm Ida, the Union High School Farmers are still well represented at this weekend’s Region 4 competition, […]
UNION, NJ — The strides made during last year’s abbreviated season have manifested into the reward of qualifying for the North 2, Group 4, playoffs for the first time in five years for the improved Union girls basketball team. With a record of 7-9 through the cutoff on Saturday, Feb. 12, Union was projected to […]
UNION, NJ — A key cog to the renaissance of the once-again mighty Union Farmers, All-America selection Davison Igbinosun, one of the most sought-after defensive backs in the country, on Saturday, Jan. 8, chose to continue his scholastic football career at the University of Mississippi. Igbinosun chose Ole Miss over Kentucky, Rutgers and Tennessee. Igbinosun […]
UNION, NJ — To say that the Union Farmer wrestlers are anxious to get on the mat and rock and roll would be an understatement. If all worked out according to plan after press time, Union was to host Kenilworth’s David Brearley High School, for its first match of the season, at its smaller gym […]
UNION, NJ — If all went according to plan after press time, then the Union Farmers finally found themselves involved in a real game before 2021 turned into 2022. Hit with COVID-19 to start the season, the Union girls basketball team was scheduled to play its first game on Wednesday, Dec. 29, against Montclair in […]