Sports Top Stories
By STEVE LENOX
December 9, 2024
HAMILTON, NJ - Elves have made their way back into homes all across Hamilton Township, finding their way into mischief on a nightly basis. As these annual visitors have in past years, they will also have the help of the Steinert High School Wrestling Team.The student athletes are once again hosting ...
HAMILTON, NJ -- The Hamilton West girls basketball team will open its season at New Egypt on Saturday, Dec. 14.Although Hamilton West won only five games last season, eight of their 21 losses were by seven points or fewer, and, with a number of players returning from that team, coach Robert Farina ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The longer the game went, the more intense the Chatham boys ice hockey team played in its effort to tie the game vs. Kinnelon-Jefferson-Sparta.But two goals scored 14 seconds apart in the first period gave KJS a lead it never lost in holding off Chatham, 4-3, in a Mennen Division ...
HACKENSACK, NJ – Bergen Tech bowling used its depth on Friday evening as both the boys and girls team captured titles' the 13th Annual Tom Irwin Memorial Crusader Classic at Bowler City.The boys used seven bowlers in finishing first ahead of Montville in the team standings. Delbarton was third, ...
HOPELAWN, NJ – The Bergen Tech girls bowling team finished second in the Marisa Tufaro Classic held at Majestic Lanes in Hopelawn, NJ on Saturday. Bergen Tech finished second behind defending NJSIAA Champion Howell. They qualified second by finishing second in a three-game qualifying round before ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Coming off a 7-9 record for 2023-2024, the Piscataway High School girls bowling team is off to a strong start with back-to-back wins to open this season. The Lady Chiefs won their opening match for 2024-2025 on Wednesday, shutting out Perth Amboy at home, 4-0. Freshman bowler, ...
The Southern Regional High School Ice Hockey team opened its season with a decisive 7-4 victory over Red Bank Catholic at the Winding River Skating Center in Toms River. The offensive firepower was led by Andrew Buda and Jack Capecci, who each tallied two goals and an assist.Adding to the scoring ...
POINT PLEASANT - Southern Regional Girls Swimming team opened the 24-25 season with a victory over Point Boro 137-27.Southern dominated the meet, winning every event.Top performers for Southern included:Ava Fields: Won the 200 IM and 100 Free, and was part of the winning 200 Medley Relay ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- Ben Fleischer of Scotch Plains won the Open Division of the 2024 Philadelphia Marathon and placed fourth overall with a time of 2:20.57 on Sunday, Nov. 24. William Loevner of Pittsburgh was the overall winner in 2:16:13 in a close finish. Feyissa Mulgeta of Ethiopia was right ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The 2024 season was a struggle for the Morristown Colonials but that might not be the case for very long. The Colonials were one of the youngest teams in Morris County this past season with very few seniors making an impact. That youthfulness played into a rocky season as ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The Morris Knolls-Morris Hills co-op ice hockey team opened its season on a disappointing note Friday, Dec. 6, by dropping a 6-3 decision to West Morris in a game played at the Mennen Sports Arena here.MK-MH, which won the NJSIAA Public Co-op State Championship and closed its ...
DENVILLE, NJ – The Morris Catholic High school girls volleyball team had four players named to the Northwest Jersey Athletic Conference’s All-Independence Division post-season All-Star teams as a result of voting by the division coaches. First-Team honorees include senior Cassandra Bakas and junior ...
GLEN ROCK, NJ - When Matt Beverin, the head coach for the Glen Rock High School boys soccer program, says the Panthers had ‘some good results this year’, he’s being quite modest.The Panthers had several fantastic victories on the pitch this recently concluded season.Coach Beverin mentioned the ...
HACKENSACK, NJ – Bergen Tech bowling used its depth on Friday evening as both the boys and girls team captured titles at the 13th Annual Tom Irwin Memorial Crusader Classic at Bowler City.The boys used seven bowlers in finishing first ahead of Montville in the team standings. Delbarton was third, ...
HOPELAWN, NJ – The Bergen Tech girls bowling team finished second in the Marisa Tufaro Classic held at Majestic Lanes in Hopelawn, NJ on Saturday. Bergen Tech finished second behind defending NJSIAA Champion Howell. They qualified second by finishing second in a three-game qualifying round before ...
HOPELAWN, NJ – The Bergen Tech girls bowling team finished second in the Marisa Tufaro Classic held at Majestic Lanes in Hopelawn, NJ on Saturday. Bergen Tech finished second behind defending NJSIAA Champion Howell. They qualified second by finishing second in a three-game qualifying round before ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Colonia-Woodbridge-JFK ice hockey co-op team opened its season with a 13-1 victory over South Brunswick on Friday.Senior Ray Obolsky scored four goals and assisted on three others for Colonia, which had a 6-1 lead after one period.Patrik Kuzar scored three goals and Anthony ...
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, NJ - The Morristown boys ice hockey team fell to Randolph 6-1 in thee 2024-25 season opener on Saturday night. Randolph’s Shane Melly scored the first goal of the night at just 50 seconds in. Just under a minute later, at 1:47, Randolph extended their advantage. Jack Murphy ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The Livingston ice hockey team opened its season with a 3-1 victory over Gov. Livingston of Berkeley Heights on Friday night.Egor Tarasyuk gave the Lancers a 1-0 lead with a goal just over a minute into the game with an assist from Anthony Cassese.Dylan Gibbs' shorthanded goal ...
PARKLAND, FL- The MSD Girls Soccer Team remained undefeated this week, defeated Pembroke Pines Charter 1-0 and holding tying Lourdes High School 0-0. The MSD Girls are now 4-0-3 on the season, having tied two of their last three games against Lourdes and North Broward Prep.Junior Breanna Gordon ...
DUNELLEN, NJ – It had been nearly 10 years since the Bridgewater-Raritan High School ice hockey team defeated rival Hunterdon Central Regional High School.Not only did the Panthers snap that streak on Friday night, but they made a statement in their 2024-2025 season opener at ...
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- The Robbinsville girls basketball team will open its season on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at home against Nottingham.The Ravens, who were 15-12 last season, will be a young team, but they do welcome back last season's leading scorer, guard Ava Aldarelli, a junior guard.Aldarelli averaged ...
HOPELAWN, NJ – The Bergen Tech girls bowling team finished second in the Marisa Tufaro Classic held at Majestic Lanes in Hopelawn, NJ on Saturday. Bergen Tech finished second behind defending NJSIAA Champion Howell. They qualified second by finishing second in a three-game qualifying round before ...
ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated the University at Buffalo at home Saturday night 65-55. The Bonnies (9-1) took an early 10-0 lead over the Bulls (5-5), holding UB scoreless for the entire first five minutes of the game. “I thought we got off to a great ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- The South Plainfield girls basketball team will open its season on Thursday, Dec. 19 at Perth Amboy.With four of the top five scorers returning from last year's team that finished 12-14, coach Alexandra DeVivo's Tigers could be primed for a successful winter."We are supposed ...
POINT PLEASANT - Southern Regional Girls Swimming team opened the 24-25 season with a victory over Point Boro 137-27.Southern dominated the meet, winning every event.Top performers for Southern included:Ava Fields: Won the 200 IM and 100 Free, and was part of the winning 200 Medley Relay ...
They say turnabout is fair play. It can also be heartbreaking.A year ago, St. Bonaventure defeated Brown, 15-13, on Noah Edwards’ penalty kick on the final play of the match to clinch a berth for the Bonnies in the National Collegiate Rugby Championship title game.This afternoon, Brown (11-0), ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School boys swimming team brings back a grand slam of swimmers in seniors Matt Beaney and Luke Tipton of Belvidere and the Stateliners own Nick Berger and Austin Olexa who are juniors.After that the rest of the team will be a work in progress under 16-year ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - On Friday, Dec. 6, Somers set down in the JMA Wireless Dome at Syracuse University and lifting the state championship trophy was the main itinerary. Twenty-Seven consecutive first half points seemed to have the Tuskers coming in for a landing. But the Whitesboro Warriors fought back ...
BAYONNE, NJ – The Bayonne ice hockey team opened its season with an 11-3 victory over J.P. Stevens on Friday.Alex Fiermonte scored five goals for the Bees, who opened a 4-0 lead after one period.Ryan Villavert finished with two goals and two assists, Connor Campbell scored two goals and Rohan Garg ...