Sports Top Stories
By JAMES OLIVOLA
May 18, 2025
BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Championship season is officially here to close out the 2024-25 school year.It got off to a good start for the Bridgewater-Raritan High School boys’ and girls’ track and field teams over the weekend.Highlighted by gold medals for Bridgewater-Raritan seniors Emily Leppert and ...
EAST HANOVER, NJ - The Madison baseball team defeated Hanover Park 16-4 on Friday afternoon. Madison’s offense exploded in the third inning and never looked back as the Dodgers (15–3) overwhelmed Hanover Park (10–10–1) in a five-inning mercy-rule rout. Madison's Chris Vaughan led the charge with 7 ...
RIDGEWOOD, NJ - The Ridgewood High School baseball program celebrated a historic milestone on Monday, May 12, 2025, as Head Coach Kurt Hommen became the all-time winningest baseball coach in Bergen County history. The achievement came after the Maroons’ hard-fought 1-0 victory over Paramus at ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Michael Ramirez took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, but Columbia rallied from a two-run deficit for a 4-2 baseball victory over Dayton on Saturday.Benji Josefsberg hit a two-run double in the fifth inning for Columbia to tie the game, 2-2. Sam Maitlin's two-run double in the ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – Michael Ramirez took a no-hitter into the fifth inning, but Columbia rallied from a two-run deficit for a 4-2 baseball victory over Dayton on Saturday.Benji Josefsberg hit a two-run double in the fifth inning for Columbia to tie the game, 2-2. Sam Maitlin's two-run double in the ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The Chatham boys tennis team won two of the five Morris County Tournament championship matches and finished as the runner-up to Delbarton by just one point, 21-20, on Saturday at the Delbarton School.Garrett Feher and Aidan Wong won the MCT first doubles championship for Chatham by ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Junior Ellie Zechman was Phillipsburg High School’s top finisher when she tied for 10th place in the recent Hunterdon-Warren-Sussex girl’s golf tournament at her home course at Architects Golf Club.Play was suspended due to storms in the area and was subsequently called after six ...
MANASQUAN, NJ — The Lady Warriors lacrosse team punched their ticket to the Shore Conference quarterfinals on Monday with a commanding 13-5 win over #10 seed Toms River East. After a back-and-forth first half played under rainy skies, Manasquan erupted in the third period with seven unanswered ...
LONG BRANCH, NJ – The Long Branch Little League season continued this past Saturday with the Royals facing the Smokeaters from nearby Eatontown at Manahasset Park on a warm sunny afternoon. Parents lined up their lawn chairs along the bleachers and up against the fence to cheer on their ...
HAMILTON, NJ – Kaiden Hurley drove in four runs to lead Steinert to a 9-3 baseball victory over Jackson Liberty on Saturday.Hurley went 3-for-3 and Dom DeFrancis was also 3-for-3 with a double and three runs scored for Steinert (11-11).Jack Perelli went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI for the ...
The Phillipsburg High School baseball team wasted a plethora of scoring chances throughout the game but were saved by junior starting pitcher Nick Yaccarino who tossed a gem of a ballgame so he really didn’t need too much help.Dylan Wayne delivered P’burg’s only hit that scored a run, Mike Bracco ...
PARKLAND, FL- Colleen Bethancourt always knew she'd be a dancer. From the age of five when she first visited Disney World, Bethancourt was sure dance would be a significant part of her life. Today, she and Gee Bethancourt are the Co-Founders of Evolution X Performing Arts in the Riverstone Shoppes ...
Sophomore Adelyn Davis advanced to the NJSIAA spring track and field championships by winning the girl’s 3200-meter run and the boy’s 4x100 relay team of Elvin Decius, Luke DePaolo, Eden Jones and Blessed Atimo-Mensah did the same with a fourth-place finish at the day 1 North 2, Group 4 sectional ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ – A furious comeback bid by the Bridgewater-Raritan High School girls’ lacrosse team came up just one play short against a familiar foe.In another thrilling addition to one of New Jersey’s premier lacrosse rivalries, top-seeded and No. 11 ranked Pingry School (17-2) took a four-goal ...
Jalyn Caraballo placed second in the javelin event with a throw of 146-9 and Meya Ranges was third in the 3200-meter run in a time of 11:42.90 and eighth in the 1600-meter run in 5:35.19 to pace the Nutley High boys and girls, respectively, at the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ —Watchung Hills defeated Immaculata twice in the regular season, 6-4, and 7-1, but on Saturday night, the Spartans got revenge. Freshman left-hander Maddie Falvey delivered a stellar one-hit shutout for Immaculata, walking one and striking out eight batters as the No. 6 seed upset ...
NORTH PLAINFIELD – The New Brunswick baseball team advanced in the quarterfinal round of the Greater Middlesex Conference Ray Cipperly Invitational Tournament with a 3-1 victory over Piscataway on Saturday.Jacob Henderson and Elkin Reyes excelled on the mound to combine for the victory. Henderson ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ —Watchung Hills defeated Immaculata twice in the regular season, 6-4, and 7-1, but on Saturday night, the Spartans got revenge. Freshman left-hander Maddie Falvey delivered a stellar one-hit shutout for Immaculata, walking one and striking out eight batters as the No. 6 seed upset ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - Somers Director of Athletics Marc Hattem has announced his resignation, effective June 30. In what he dubbed “A Note of Gratitude and Transition” to the community, Hattem said it’s been a privilege to serve the Somers Central School District as a PE teacher, coach, dean of students, ...
Editor’s Note: Click here to view the photo gallery captured by Andrew of Dirty Paws Photography, a proud media partner of TAPinto Berkeley Heights.BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — On a night dedicated to honoring the Governor Livingston girls lacrosse seniors, it was a freshman who sealed the ...
CLARK, NJ -- After spending most of the spring belting around good pitching like they were playing a video game on the easiest setting, undefeated Gov. Livingston faced a real test on Saturday afternoon.The Highlanders' senior ace Matty Diskin was matched for five innings by lanky right-hander ...
CLARK, NJ -- After spending most of the spring belting around good pitching like they were playing a video game on the easiest setting, undefeated Gov. Livingston faced a real test on Saturday afternoon.The Highlanders' senior ace Matty Diskin was matched for five innings by lanky right-hander ...
Editor’s Note: Click here to view the photo gallery captured by Andrew of Dirty Paws Photography, a proud media partner of TAPinto Berkeley Heights.BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — On a night dedicated to honoring the Governor Livingston girls lacrosse seniors, it was a freshman who sealed the ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ -- Keith Mann threw 13 pitches on Thursday before the rains came, and he had to wait more than 24 hours to throw any more.Gov. Livingston's batters never even got to come to bat on Thursday before the rains came, and they had to wait more than 25 hours to take any swings.In the ...
UNION, NJ – Timely hitting and dominant pitching was once again the recipe which powered Scotch Plains-Fanwood as the Raiders punched their return ticket to the Union County championship game following a come-from-behind victory against Cranford, 11-3, on Saturday. The second-seeded Raiders will ...
HAWTHORNE, NJ – A three-run top of the first put Hasbrouck Heights in the lead early as they defeated Eastern Christian in an NJIC non-divisional game on Friday evening in Hawthorne. The Lady Aviators improved to 18-4 on the season, while Eastern Christian is 9-9. Senior Mackenzie Riordan had two ...
WAYNE, NJ – Wayne Valley’s Flag Football team is once again making a deep run into the state championship playoffs, with a 14-0 SFC South quarterfinals shutout over Ramapo at home on Saturday morning. As with any game against a “tough” and well-coached Ramapo team, nothing came easy for the ...
COLONIA, NJ -- In a pitchers' duel of contrasting styles but equal effectiveness, Colonia's Cory Pascarella and Scotch Plains-Fanwood's C.J. Bates matched zeroes until Colonia scratched out an unearned run in the bottom of the eighth inning for a 1-0 baseball victory over the Raiders on Saturday ...
VERONA, NJ – For the second consecutive season, the Livingston baseball team reached the Greater Newark Tournament championship game.For the second consecutive year, the Lancers lost to Seton Hall Prep in the final.And, for the second consecutive year, it was pitcher Marcelo Harsch who beat them.A ...
CHATHAM, NJ – Senior outfielder Pete Fodero, singled, tripled and drove across three runs for Chatham in its 19-6 baseball loss to Pennington on Saturday at CHS.Senior shortstop Wes Maksimow doubled, drove in two and scored two runs for Chatham (7-11), which received two hits, an RBI and a run ...