Sports Top Stories
By BOBBIE PEER
December 3, 2024
BASKING RIDGE, NJ - Ryan Turner’s name will long be remembered in high school sports for his exceptional football career and profound impact on his team and community. Selected as this week’s Valairco Heating and Cooling Ridge Athlete of the Week, Turner has consistently excelled on the field, in ...
CHATHAM, NJ - Real Good News’ Tommy Nonnenmacher recently connected with Chatham's Reid Smith, a professional snowboarder, for the story of how he got his own branded snowboard.Reid, a product of Chatham's public schools, explored various sports growing up. He played soccer, and tried his hand at ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - Spotswood High School wrestlers kick off the 2024-25 season at home this month. The Chargers season opener is on Friday, December 13 against South Brunswick High School at the Spotswood High School Gymnasium at 6 p.m. Kyle Harper returns as the Chargers head coach. It's Harper's ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - If the Phillipsburg High School football team wants to win its first overall Group 4 state championship, it’ll have a find a way to stop the offensive juggernaut that is Winslow Twp. High School.Kickoff, with the temperature expected to be just above freezing, is set for 7 p.m.
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - After coming up short in the state finals, the 2023-2024 state sectional champion Highlanders hockey team is returning to the ice for another season.Governor Livingston-New Providence will once again compete in the NJIIHL McInnis Division where they will face off against ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ - After coming up short in the state finals, the 2023-2024 state sectional champion Highlanders hockey team is returning to the ice for another season.Governor Livingston-New Providence will once again compete in the NJIIHL McInnis Division where they will face off against ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. - On Monday, Dec. 2, the winter sports season opened and the girls basketball team got the call. Tappan Zee crossing the bridge, the Wolves saw the Dutchmen come out flying, and in the end, the visitors definitely stuck the landing.After a 9-6 start, Tappan Zee proceeded to go on ...
ROBBINSVILLE, NJ -- Six members of the Robbinsville High School girls soccer team received All-Colonial Valley Conference recognition.Senior back Caileigh Guzik was named to the first team in a vote of the conference's coaches. Guzik anchored a defense that helped the Ravens shut out nine opponents ...
SOUTH ORANGE-MAPLEWOOD, NJ – Three members of the Columbia High School boys soccer team have been named to the Super Essex Conference Liberty Division First Team for 2024.Wolfe Ginsberg, Sebastian Rios-Valde and Matthew Molica of Columbia were selected to the first team in a vote of the ...
MARLTON, NJ — Four Lenape High School football players have been honored for their commitment to their teammates by a County organization dedicated to promoting athletes of the sport.Seniors James Basinait, Evan Gaddy, Derrick Hammond and Alex Jones were each honored with the Unsung Hero Award by ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL - The famed Coral Springs Swim Club, which has produced Olympic swimmers, has had a turbulent couple of years, culminating in a pending decision by the city’s elected leaders on whether to cut ties with the outfit it hired to run it. Coral Springs City Commission is scheduled to ...
BREWSTER, N.Y. - BYSNS (Brewster/Yorktown/Somers/North Salem) won its season opener against visiting Pearl River 11-2 at the Brewster Ice Arena on Dec. 1. “It felt great to win my first game as head coach alongside this team and my assistant coach, Paul Murphy,” said Coach Ryan Langkafel, who was ...
KENILWORTH, NJ - On Nov 23, three eighth grade boys representing Kenilworth on the North Team played in the New Jersey Suburban Youth Football League All- Star Game and beat the South Team 22-14. Those who represented Kenilworth on this momentous day included Andrew Capra, Dante Kopacz, and Matteo ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – There are a lot of new faces on the Chatham boys varsity ice hockey team this year and they were all on display Monday night when the Cougars scored a 5-3 scrimmage win vs. Hanover Park at Mennen Sports Arena.Chatham's first line of sophomore Charlie Dunn and seniors Thomas White ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – There are a lot of new faces on the Chatham boys varsity ice hockey team this year and they were all on display Monday night when the Cougars scored a 5-3 scrimmage win vs. Hanover Park at Mennen Sports Arena.Chatham's first line of sophomore Charlie Dunn and seniors Thomas White ...
BORDENTOWN, NJ — The season is now in the books for many sports teams in the world of Fall time college athletics. Several student-athletes from Bordentown made names for themselves for all the right reasons in their chosen athletic endeavor.Let’s take a closer look at local standouts who competed ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ – There are a lot of new faces on the Chatham boys varsity ice hockey team this year and they were all on display Monday night when the Cougars scored a 5-3 scrimmage win vs. Hanover Park at Mennen Sports Arena.Chatham's first line of sophomore Charlie Dunn and seniors Thomas White ...
RIDGEWOOD, NJ – As another winter approaches in Ridgewood so too does another basketball season for the Maroons. A year after the program won its second sectional title in three years, Ridgewood is looking to repeat as champions and cement its legacy as a dynasty in North Jersey hoops this decade.
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - The Phillipsburg High School girls' swimming team looks to repeat last season’s success, which included winning a division title and a meet in the NJSIAA tournament.And once again it’ll get a little help from its friends from Belvidere High School for the second season in a ...
DENVILLE, NJ – Senior forward Matt Klingener, the leading scorer for Morris Knolls boys soccer team this past season, has been named to the 2024 All-County Boys Soccer Team by the county’s coaches.Klingener finished the season with 24 goals and 15 assists for the Golden Eagles (12-10-2).Senior ...
YORKTOWN, N.Y.—Mark Pavella enters his seventh year as head coach at Yorktown after making it to the sectional semifinals at the Westchester County Center in White Plains for the second straight season. There, as the No. 1 seed and entering the game as the No. 10 ranked Class AA team in the state, ...
ROXBURY, NJ - Visitation and celebration of life services will take place tomorrow (Dec. 3) for Gavin Barooah, a 19-year-old Roxbury resident, and former high school hockey player, who died Thanksgiving Day in a car crash.The gatherings will be hosted by Leber-Lakeside Funeral Home in Landing with ...
ROXBURY, NJ - Visitation and celebration of life services will take place tomorrow (Dec. 3) for Gavin Barooah, a 19-year-old Roxbury resident, and former high school hockey player, who died Thanksgiving Day in a car crash.The gatherings will be hosted by Leber-Lakeside Funeral Home in Landing with ...
NORTH SALEM, N.Y. - There will be some magic in the air at the North Salem High School gym this week when the Harlem Wizards come to town. Presented by the North Salem Booster Club, the legendary basketball squad will square off with North Salem’s teachers and staff on Friday, Dec. 6. (Doors open ...
SOMERS, N.Y. - After qualifying for the states as a freshman, Julia Duzynski didn’t make the cut last year. Undeterred, by the year lapse, she didn't miss a beat upon returning on Nov. 23 at Queensbury High School. 40th to 15th place put her on the podium, and the effort obviously going to the next ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - He started playing soccer at a young age – and now the Bridgewater-Raritan High School graduate in the class of 2022 is on the Rutgers University soccer team, and, last summer, joined the Guatemalan national team.“From the beginning, it became so much more than just a sport to ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ -- Eight members of the West Essex football team were selected to the Super Football Conference's Patriot White Division first team for 2024.Three Knights were named to the First Team Offense: WR: Anthony Drago, West Essex, Sr.OL: Mikey Cerisano, West Essex, Sr.OL: Joey Russo, ...
MOUNT LAUREL , NJ – The regular season is now complete for many sports in the world of fall time college athletics and there are several local student athletes who have made names for themselves for all the right reasons in their chosen athletic endeavor.Let’s take a closer look at local standouts ...
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ - This past season, Fiona Helly became the all-time leading scorer and finished with the most goals in a season. Helly, a junior, finished the season with 28 goals scored. This brings her total to 66 in her career, which now puts her in first place all time. “Fiona is an absolute ...
The season is now over for many sports in the world of fall collegiate athletics and there are several local student-athletes who made names for themselves for all the right reasons in their chosen athletic endeavor.Let’s take a closer look at local standouts who competed at the college level this ...