Sports Top Stories
By JIM LONERGAN
December 7, 2024
WALL TWP, NJ – The Manasquan High School (MHS) Boys Ice Hockey team wasted no time reminding fans why they are a force to be reckoned with, kicking off the 2024/2025 season with a hard-fought win. After a stellar 19-6 record last season that ended in heartbreak at the State Championship against ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – The West Essex-Caldwell ice hockey co-op opened its season with a 3-2 victory over Cranford on Friday night.Patrick Devaney scored two goals in the third period, when West Essex rallied from a 2-1 deficit. Devaney tied the game, 2-2, with assists from Cale White and Connor ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The 2024 season for the Morristown Colonials was a story of “what could have been”. The program finished with a record of 4-6 for a second consecutive season with four of those losses by one possession, including the team’s state tournament one-point loss to Elizabeth. Morristown ...
COLONIA, NJ — It will be a new era for the Colonia High School girls basketball program when the season opens on Thursday, Dec. 19 at home against Piscataway.The Patriots will be under the direction of first-year head coach Jill Bachonski, who had been an assistant under Sandi Chiera, who stepped ...
MADISON, NJ – With the Madison swim season set to kick off Thursday night against Chatham, the Dodgers are hoping to make some noise this season under second-year head coach Jeff Coviello. Coviello took over late in the season last year for Madison and is now entering his first full year in charge ...
WASHINGTON, DC - The Joola 26th Annual North American Team Championships (NATT) took place at the Gaylord National Resort in Washington, DC over this Thanksgiving weekend. A total of 912 table tennis players from 226 teams around the world participated, including players from the U.S.A., Canada, ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — The Westfield boys hockey team looks to continue where they left off last year, but with a trophy to hoist.Currently No. 11 in the preseason Top 20 rankings, the Blue Devils are coming off a 19-4-2 record last season, ending in a heartbreaking 1-0 loss to Manalapan in the NJSIAA ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. - On Nov. 13, Abbey Hehman won the B final heat at the Section One swim tournament and took ninth place as a result. The honor did not end her season, though. She qualified for the state meet in Rochester on Nov. 23, and there, she put up more numbers.36th place, she said, “It ...
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, ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ - The Mountainside Elks invites young residents ages 8 to 13 to participate in its annual free throw contest. The contest will be held at Deerfield School on December 14 at 10 a.m. The Elks Hoop Shoot is a national tournament in partnership with the Naismith Basketball Hall of ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ – Seven players from the West Essex girls soccer team received recognition on the Super Essex Conference's American Division teams, including two who were selected for first team.Brooke Balzano and Logan Goldstein of West Essex were both named to the division's first team in a ...
KEYPORT, NJ -- The Keyport girls basketball team will open its season on Monday, Dec. 16 at Koinonia Academy in Plainfield (Union County).Head coach James Maguire is entering his fourth season, and last year's 11-13 record was Keyport's best mark in his three years there."We return three starters ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – The upcoming schedule promises to get much tougher for the young Chatham boys ice hockey team, but there were plenty of positives to take out of the opener as the Cougars eased into the season with a 10-0 win vs. Bernards on Friday night at Mennen Arena.Junior defenseman Nate ...
HACKENSACK, NJ – Bergen Tech bowling used its depth on Friday evening as both the boys and girls team captured titles' in 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, ...
HOLMDEL, NJ -- The Holmdel girls basketball team will open its season on Wednesday, Dec. 18 at home against Wall Township.Two standout players graduated from the team that went 14-11 last winter, Allison Cannon and Jamie DeCicco. But the players who are returning and the new additions to the ...
ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The university's men’s basketball hopes to extend its two-game winning streak on Saturday against the University at Buffalo in the Reilly Center. Series History St. Bonaventure (8-1) and the University at Buffalo (5-4) met for the first time in 1995. The Bonnies control the ...
Three of Bloomfield’s Little League baseball teams were honored at Monday night’s Township Council meeting, following championship victories in their respective age divisions.Starting with the youngest honorees, the Bloomfield-Glen Ridge under-8 Warriors team, finished an undefeated season with a ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School girls wrestling program begins its second season as a sanctioned sport in the state.Coach Brett Hyland is happy to report there were 16 candidates to sign up after having just nine wrestlers on the team last season, so they could only compete in ...
RIDGEWOOD, NJ – The 2023-24 season had several ups and downs for the Ridgewood Maroons. The team got off to a rough beginning, starting the season 1-5 before winning 11 of their next 15 games as they sat at a solid 11-9 at the end of January. However, that good stretch of play was followed by a ...
BAYONNE, NJ -- The Bayonne girls basketball program has established itself among the elite in New Jersey over the last several years, and the sky would appear to be the limit for the upcoming season.The Bees open their season on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at Union City, and there are plenty of reasons to ...
DENVILLE, NJ – Michael Safkan bowled match-highs in series (622) and game (210) when Morris Knolls opened its high school bowling season with a 7-0 victory over Morris County Vocational School at Rockaway Lanes on Thursday, Dec. 5.Safkan, a junior, was steady throughout the match, finishing with ...
DENVILLE, NJ – The Morris Catholic High School ice hockey team opened the school’s 2024-25 winter sports season Saturday, Dec. 7, with a 4-1 defeat at the hands of Mountain Lakes/Boonton in a game played at the Mennen Sports Arena in Morristown.The Crusaders’ only goal came in the first period on ...
DENVILLE, NJ – The Morris County School of Technology winter sports season got rolling on Thursday, Dec. 5, when the Devils bowling team dropped a 7-0 decision (2839-2105) to Morris Knolls in a match at Rockaway Lanes in Rockaway.David Angula had high game of 202 and high series of 182 for the ...
CEDAR GROVE, NJ - The Cedar Grove Varsity Football Team had a season to remember in 2024. The Panthers finished with an overall record of 13-1 and made a statement in the state playoffs, securing a sectional title. Cedar Grove also made it to the Final Round of the Group 1 Tournament. Several ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Senior Savannah Rutar registered a 576 series to pace the girls, and junior Marvin Jaquish produced a 648 series with a career-high 265 game to lead the boys. Both bowling teams opened up Skyland Conference play by shutting out Hunterdon Central, 7-0, on Thursday.The match was ...
MAHOPAC, N.Y.—Two players took home All-Section and All-League honors, and 11 in all earned post-season accolades to cap off the Mahopac HS football team’s 6-4 season. It was the fifth consecutive winning season for the Wolf Pac, which reached the playoffs for the fourth straight year. Mahopac lost ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - As Coral Springs moved to take over the Coral Springs Swim Club, confusion reigned around what happens next. The city commission voted on Wednesday unanimously to sever ties as of Dec. 20 with Swim Phish Inc., the company that provided coaching services to the club and that is ...
BERNARDSVILLE, NJ – Aletha Reynolds, a standout volleyball player for the Bernards High School Mountaineers, has been named the Valairco Heating and Cooling Bernards Athlete of the Week for her exceptional performance and leadership on the court this fall.Reynolds, a junior captain, has been a ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders PAL football teams recently wrapped up successful seasons. While the athletes deserve plenty of credit, the dedication and mentorship of their team's varsity coaches also deserve recognition. Raiders high school football players helped the PAL ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – After a run of disappointing seasons things seem to be turning around for head coach Diego Salas and the Morristown Colonials. From 2020-2022 the team won just 10 games and failed to win a state tournament or advance past the Round of 16 in the Morris County Tournament. The past ...