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 […]
UNION, NJ — Despite an unprecedented pandemic, seven Union boys basketball seniors not only had the opportunity to play last year but were able to excel in a season that reached 13 games, even with COVID-19 setbacks and winter snowstorms. They have all graduated now, but they were an important part of the program and […]
UNION, NJ — Arguably the best nine-win Union football team ever was honored by the township on Friday, Dec. 3, for a standout season. It did not end with a state championship as the 2019 season did, but there was plenty to look back on in awe. “I think this is a legendary team, or […]
UNION, NJ — When Union football players tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, Nov. 10, Union Superintendent of Schools Scott Taylor, after consulting with the county health department, decided to cancel Union’s sectional semifinal playoff game against Paterson Eastside. Though some of the same Union players tested negative for COVID-19 on Thursday, Nov. 11, […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — Union and Cranford, the two best football teams in Union County, as expected garnered top seeds in their sections. Rahway, at the last minute, snuck in, while Scotch Plains–Fanwood fell out. In all, 10 of Union County’s 17 football-playing schools qualified for the state playoffs, which commence around the state on […]