Last year Union snapped a four-game losing streak against Westfield, including consecutive North 2, Group 5 semifinal defeats in 2015 and 2016. On Saturday the Farmers will attempt to beat the Blue Devils at Gary Kehler Stadium for the first time since 2013. One of three Mid-State Conference-Watchung Division football games on tap this weekend […]
Brearley, New Providence, Scotch Plains also triumph on Friday, Sept. 13
While Rahway and Cranford opened their 2019 seasons with double-digit Mid-State Conference triumphs Friday night, both head coaches declared that there is still plenty of room for improvement. “We had some holding penalties that resulted in touchdowns being called back, so that is just one of the things we have to clean up,” Rahway head […]
H. Goncalves puts Farmers on scoreboard in first half
UNION – Visiting Cranford did not play its brand of soccer for the first 40 minutes, but still managed to produce a one-goal halftime lead. Host Union, with far less returning starters, hung in there and matched the Cougars in field position for much of the first half. Was is just a matter of time […]
Wilson scores on 4-yard run; Senior LBs Presley and Ozurumba excel
PISCATAWAY – Union went with its strength right away – No. 11 trying to get the ball to No. 1. For the first time this year that quarterback-wide receiver combo took the field with Union down six points. The goal for the Farmers was to erase early Curtis moment as fast as they could. Mission […]
UNION – As the years move forward the number increases. Amazing to some, it’s now been 26 years since the Farmers last won a state championship. In the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s and in the early 1990s Union winning North 2, Group 4 was almost as automatic as death and taxes. None of the […]
Union opens Week Zero vs. Curtis, Staten Island at Rutgers on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 3:30 p.m. Westfield, Cranford and Summit open Week One. Cranford will host Montgomery, Friday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. Westfield will host Linden and Summit will play at Roselle – both on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 2 p.m. – JR […]
The following are the 2019 Union County high school football schedules: UNION FARMERS Sept. 7 Curtis, SI at Rutgers, 3:30 p.m. Sept. 13 at Elizabeth, 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Westfield, 1 p.m. Sept. 27 Plainfield, 7 p.m. Oct. 4 at Watchung Hills, 7 p.m. Oct. 11 at Linden, 7 p.m. Oct. 18 Hunterdon Central, […]
The following are scrimmages for the 17 Union County football playing high schools: UNION FARMERS Aug. 21 Quad at Phillipsburg, 4 p.m. P-Burb, Union, Wayne Hills, Rancocas Valley Aug. 24 Quad at Union, 6 p.m. Union, Hillsborough, Iselin Kennedy, Morristown Aug. 27 Woodbridge, 10 a.m. GAME-SCRIMMAGE: Aug. 30 Summit, 10:30 a.m. ROSELLE PARK Aug. 22 […]
Hillside's Biggins, Union's Robinson, Rahway's Bails - all standout wide receivers - lead the group
Catching the football is one thing. Beating your defender, catching it and then running for first down yardage or the end zone is another. Some of the best to do that – these athletes are among the most feared wide receivers in the state – include seniors Nahree Biggins of Hillside, Ahmirr Robinson of Union […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: He – Thurman Munson – will always be my favorite. The story that follows ran on this website 10 years ago – in July of 2009. I was fortunate enough to sit with author Marty Appel and pick his brains – one on one – for more than two hours at a book […]
