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 […]
UNION, NJ — What will it take this weekend in Atlantic City for Cranford High School sophomore 157-pounder Jordan Chapman, a first-time Region 4 champ, to become Cranford’s fifth state champion and first since senior Pat Hogan won at 171 pounds in 2006? “High pace, high speed, high intensity,” Chapman said. “Show no remorse.” Chapman […]
UNION, NJ — For the first time in three years, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, region wrestling returned to Union High School’s Louis J. Rettino Gymnasium. Representing the Farmers at this weekend’s Region 4 competition is junior Daniel Collin, who did quite well to place second at 175 pounds at last weekend’s District 14 […]
UNION, NJ — Union High School boys basketball head coach Kevin Feeley made it very clear on Saturday, Feb. 5. “We must play better defense,” the man in charge of the Farmers proclaimed. Union’s boys basketball team concluded its regular season schedule on Saturday, Feb. 5, at home with a come-from-behind 71-68 overtime triumph against […]
UNION, NJ — Last year, the Cranford High School girls basketball team started with a season-opening 39-22 triumph at home against Union County Conference–Watchung Division rival Roselle Catholic High School. This year, it took the Cougars a bit of time to reach the .500 mark and even their record, but they did so on Saturday, […]
UNION, NJ — Union High School did not finish among the top eight teams in the Union County Tournament. The Farmers did not have a grappler reach the finals. That did not mean that the Union wrestling team had a bad county tournament showing, however. In the first year that the competition took place at […]