Sports Top Stories
By JOHN MOONEY
October 30, 2025
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ – The Scotch Plains-Fanwood girls soccer team celebrated its graduating seniors on Wednesday, Oct. 22, after the Raiders defeated Roselle Park, 6-0.Shae Trenery scored a hat trick, while Duquesne commit Sadie Shapiro, Colleen Kennedy, and Olivia Erbafina each contributed a ...
LIVINGSTON, NJ — The Livingston High School field hockey team has received the No. 4 seed in the 2025 NJSIAA North Jersey Group 4 Tournament and will face No. 13 Ridge at Livingston on Tuesday, Nov. 4.First Round match-ups are as follows:No. 1 seed Phillipsburg vs No. 16 seed Mount OliveNo. 2 seed ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - On paper, Newark Central enters Friday’s NJSIAA North 2 Group 4 quarterfinal football game at Maloney Stadium as one of the most versatile offenses Phillipsburg High School will face this season. The Blue Devils (6-3) come into the game with 1,390-yards passing the ball with 16 ...
WEST CALDWELL, NJ – When the Caldwell football team opens at home against Dumont in the opening round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 2 playoffs Friday night at Bonnel Field, there might be a temptation in some quarters to dismiss the Chiefs' chances based on their .500 record.A friendly word of ...
HANOVER, NJ - The Madison boys soccer team defeated Whippany Park 3-2 in OT ending their regular season game in the win column on Monday afternoon. The Dodgers needed extra time on Monday, and senior midfielder Nolan Keane delivered it in style—burying the golden goal in overtime to secure the ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ -- Not all consolation games are built the same.While sometimes a season-ending football game between two teams that missed the sectional playoffs might include one team whose heart isn't in it, on Wednesday night, South Plainfield and Spotswood looked like two teams that had plenty ...
LAKEWOOD, NJ - Members of the Spotswood High School cross-country team not participating in the upcoming NJSIAA Sectional Championships, participated in the Future 7 Invitational at Ocean County Park on Tuesday. Six members of the Chargers girls cross-country team and 13 members of the boys ran the ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ - It was a big night for Spotswood High School's boys varsity soccer team on Wednesday. The fourth-seeded Chargers took on second-seeded Highland Park High School at Piscataway High School's stadium in the Greater Middlesex Conference Invitational finals. Spotswood defeated Highland ...
MADISON, NJ - The Madison Football team has received the No. 7 seed of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 2, Group 2 Tournament. The Dodgers will face No. 2 Bernards on Friday October 31. The match-ups are as follows: No. 1 seed Shabazz vs No. 8 seed LyndhurstNo. 2 seed Bernards vs No. 7 seed ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ - The Morristown Football team has received the No. 7 seed of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 1, Group 5 Tournament. The Colonials will face No. 2 Passaic Tech on Friday October 31. The match-ups are as follows: No. 1 seed West Orange vs No. 8 seed PassaicNo. 2 seed Passaic Tech vs ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Aniya Gerdes scored a first half goal and Giulia Buttitta and Julia Stettner connected in the second half to lead Phillipsburg High School to a 3-0 victory over host North Warren in a girls’ soccer match on Wednesday afternoon. Hope Garcia added an assist and Chelsea Brown made ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ -Joey Firetto and Santos Ciezza scored second half goals as Phillipsburg High School overcame a 1-0 halftime deficit to defeat North Warren on Wednesday in a boy’s soccer match at the Phillipsburg Athletic Complex.The Stateliners improve to 10-6-1 while the Patriots fall to 12-4-1.
SPRINGFIELD, NJ – Four-and-a-half days after its playoff bid fell one foot short of the end zone, the Dayton High School football team got the opportunity to bring the program's best season in 15 years to a more upbeat conclusion.In a recently scheduled game, Dayton closed out its campaign with a ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — The Scotch Plains-Fanwood 8th grade PAL football team, which is undefeated this season, played its final regular season game at Perry Tyson Field on Sunday, Oct. 26. The 8th graders walked away with a 28-14 win against previously unbeaten Central Youth Football.The ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Members of the New Brunswick High School football team gathered arm in arm, a band of brothers posing for a team photo under the Memorial Stadium scoreboard on Wednesday night.The Zebras were still jubilant in the minutes after beating West Windsor-Plainsboro South, 36-0, to snap a ...
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ – Elmwood Park defeated Wood-Ridge, 2-0, in a NJIC non-divisional girls volleyball match on Wednesday afternoon in Wood-Ridge. With the win, Elmwood Park improves to 15-6. Wood-Ridge falls to 3-22 with the loss.Elmwood Park won game 1, 25-17, before capturing the match with a 25-21 ...
ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team exploded for a 61-point win over Alfred University, 101-40, Wednesday night in the Reilly Center. The exhibition also gave fans their first look at 11 new faces in the Brown and White, drawing plenty of energy from a packed student ...
CHATHAM, NJ – Four days after the Morris County Tournament final won by Chatham vs. Randolph, the two boys soccer teams got together again for a regular-season rematch on Wednesday.Chatham coach Mark Maka decided to rest his starting lineup with the upcoming state tournament in mind, and it looked ...
FLANDERS, NJ – Senior forward Emma Shushansky scored four goals and her teammates, Molly Chazen and Georgia Lee, both reached career milestones in Chatham's 5-0 field hockey win vs. Mount Olive on Wednesday.Junior forward Chazen scored a goal and was credited with two assists to surpass 102 career ...
SPRINGFIELD, NJ – Four-and-a-half days after its playoff bid fell one foot short of the end zone, the Dayton High School football team got the opportunity to bring the program's best season in 15 years to a more upbeat conclusion.In a recently scheduled game, Dayton closed out its campaign with a ...
UNION, NJ -- Two football teams with first-year coaches in different stages of a rebuild met on Wednesday night when Union hosted Columbia in a recently scheduled consolation game.Union, under head coach Barris Grant, spent the season taking on a schedule full of formidable Big Central Conference ...
UNION, NJ -- Two football teams with first-year coaches in different stages of a rebuild met on Wednesday night when Union hosted Columbia in a recently scheduled consolation game.Union, under head coach Barris Grant, spent the season taking on a schedule full of formidable Big Central Conference ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - South Plainfield High School closed out the girls varsity regular season in a big way at the PAL on Tuesday. The Tigers shut out Somerset Tech 6-0 behind a hat trick from Lucia Matias. It was the first career hat trick for the freshman. Matias scored all three goals in the ...
BORDENTOWN, NJ -- The South Plainfield boys soccer team went on the road and dealt Bordentown just its third loss of the season, 1-0, on Tuesday.Allen Perez scored in the second half with an assist from Adam Sanchez for South Plainfield (7-8-2). Bordentown dropped to 15-3 with the loss.Iker ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Top plays from this junior midfielder for the Westfield High School varsity girls soccer team have set up her teammates to defend their Union County Tournament title.Junior Emilie Cadigan is this week’s Andy Heinz and The Westfield Legacy Agency’s Allstate Westfield Athlete of the ...
The Phillipsburg High School girl’s tennis team became the fourth Stateliners team to win a division title this fall with a 5-0 victory over host Bound Brook on Tuesday to clinch the Skyland Conference Valley Division championship.P’burg, under the direction of 26-year coach Alex Ostrowski, closed ...
DENVILLE, N.J. — Morristown field hockey put a signature win on its NJAC–National resume Wednesday afternoon, blanking Morris Knolls 3–0 behind a two-goal, one-assist performance from Elliott Szporn and a six-save shutout by Ella Drake.The Colonials (13–5–1, 8–1 NJAC–National) struck in three ...
ST. BONAVENTURE, NY – The Bonnies defeated the Daemen Wildcats late in the fourth quarter of their exhibition match, erasing a 12-point deficit from the first half by scoring 47 points in the second half. St. Bonaventure opened the game quickly, scoring the first points of the game on a 3-point ...
PARSIPPANY, NJ - The Brooklawn Middle School Boys and Girls Cross Country teams swept the Greater Morris Junior High School Group 3 Championships on Thursday, each bringing home the championship trophy.The Brooklawn Boys team scored 69 points, edging out second-place Central by 11 points. The Girls ...
TUCKERTON - The Pinelands Wildcats edged out their rivals, the Southern Rams, in a grueling five-set semifinal battle of the Shore Conference Girls Volleyball Tournament, securing a hard-fought victory with set scores of 23-25, 25-23, 25-15, 21-25, 15-13. The win improves Pinelands' stellar season ...