Sports Top Stories
By DAWN MILLER
August 26, 2024
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The Spotswood High School varsity football team kicks off the 2024-25 season on the road on Thursday against Wood-Ridge High School at the Wood-Ridge Athletic Complex at 7 p.m. Spotswood is coming off of its first Big Central Freedom Gold Division title. The Chargers went 8-2 last ...
PARSIPPANY, NJ - The Parsippany High School Varsity Football team is ready to kick off its 2024 season with a home opener on Friday, September 6th. The game will take place at 7pm and the team will face Boonton High School. The full season schedule is listed below:
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School girls volleyball season will begin at home on Thursday, Sept. 5, against Union. The Raiders hope to have another great season after going 15-10 last year and making an appearance in the Sectional championship. Unfortunately, head ...
NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ -- The North Plainfield Lions Club will be holding its fourth annual Fiore Ciarfello Memorial Golf Outing on Monday, September 23 at Beaver Brook Country Club, in Annandale. Last year´s outing saw over 50 golfers participate with support from many local businesses and ...
ELIZABETH, NJ - The Elmora Youth League invites athletes and families to its end-of-season celebration at Hanratty Field, located at 914 E Westfield Ave. The players and families event will be held on Sunday, September 15 at 12 p.m. Food and drinks will be provided, including hamburgers, hot ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ -- The football season for Sayreville War Memorial High School is starts this week with a home-opener against Colonia on Thursday, Aug. 29. First-year head coach Mark Poore will look to build off the success of last year's 8-3 season, which also featured a Sectional seminfinal ...
UNION COUNTY, NJ — When the US Women’s Rugby Sevens team won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics on July 30, members of the Union County Lady Mudturtles were celebrating in their group chat. “It just makes me very emotional because it’s something I feel like seemed really impossible for a US ...
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Every summer in Cooperstown, NY, thousands of youth baseball players compete in one of the country's most challenging and prestigious competitions, the Cooperstown Dreams Park Baseball Tournament. Screams of excitement and tears of disappointment resonate from 24 perfectly ...
BERNARDSVILLE, NJ -- Chatham High sophomore Roger Rice represented the NJPGA for the second year in a row in the junior circuit's season-ending Jon M. Pritsch Memorial, helping the Garden State contingent bring home the cup with an 11-7 win vs. a team representing the Philadelphia section. Rice ...
ANNANDALE, NJ -- The North Hunterdon football team has been to the top of the mountain and the depths of the cellar all within the span of less than 24 months. On Friday, Aug. 30, the Lions will travel to Hunterdon Central for their opening game of the 2024 football season. North Hunterdon is ...
NORTH CALDWELL, NJ -- The West Essex High School football team will open defense of its North Jersey, Group 3 championship on Friday night with a game at Old Tappan. The Knights' 10-4 record in 2023 featured a 14-6 victory over Passaic Valley in the North 2, Group 3 final and then a thrilling ...
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ – Paul Rosiak, Class of 2003, will be inducted into the Wood-Ridge Hall of Fame on September 25 at the Fiesta in Wood-Ridge. Roziak, a multi-sport standout, is one of 12 athletes being inducted into the Hall of Fame that evening. Primarily known for his accomplishments in Track ...
WAYNE, NJ - Armed with numerous returning letter-winners from last year, the Wayne Valley football team is entering this season with high expectations. The team found itself in somewhat uncharted waters last year, finishing with a losing record (4-6), which was down considerably from 2022, when the ...
CHATHAM, NJ -- After a year of maladies that kept him from competing in cross-country and track for most of his junior year, Finn Valli decided to get an early start on the 2024 cross-country season. "I started training in May because my (track) season ended early," Valli said. "I had mono, the ...
MADISON, NJ - Leadership and sacrifice are two of the key factors for the Madison girls' tennis team for the upcoming fall season. The coaching staff have finally put together a comprehensive plan that includes a tennis program contract (student code of conduct), a vast amount of easily ...
SOMERSET, NJ -- The Franklin High School football team will open its 2024 season on Friday night at home against Trenton. The Warriors won three games last season, one of which was against Trenton, a 14-7 Franklin victory on Oct. 26. Sophomore quarterback Jah'naad Cady -- who threw four ...
CLARK, NJ — On Wednesday, August 21, the Clark Youth Football program held its annual summer clinic. The night brought together all members of Clark Youth Football (Grades 3-8), along with the coaches and student athletes of Arthur L. Johnson (ALJ) High School Crusader Football, as they trained ...
PORTLAND, ME - The Somerset Patriots defeated the Portland Sea Dogs 4-1 on Sunday afternoon to clinch a series victory in their series finale at Hadlock Field. Over the six-game series in Portland, the Patriots' pitching staff threw to a 1.91 ERA, allowing 10 ER in 52.1 IP with 27 H and 67 K. In ...
PORTLAND, ME - The Somerset Patriots defeated the Portland Sea Dogs 4-1 on Sunday afternoon to clinch a series victory in their series finale at Hadlock Field. Over the six-game series in Portland, the Patriots' pitching staff threw to a 1.91 ERA, allowing 10 ER in 52.1 IP with 27 H and 67 K. In ...
SOUTHERN OCEAN - The Stafford Roller Hockey is conducting signups on August 27, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the concession stand at the James Raylman Hockey Complex in Doc Cramer Park. You can also register online at https://www.staffordhockey.org/
SOUTHERN OCEAN - The Stafford Roller Hockey is conducting signups on August 27, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the concession stand at the James Raylman Hockey Complex in Doc Cramer Park. You can also register online at https://www.staffordhockey.org/
SUMMIT, NJ -- Kevin Kostibos is steadfast in saying that his metric for evaluating the condition of the Summit football program is not wins and losses. The veteran Hilltopper head coach considers his players’ attention to detail and day-to-day progress as greater indicators of the state of the ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The Spotswood Recreation Department's popular youth basketball program returns this fall to the Memorial Middle School Gymnasium. The co-ed program is for grades kindergarten through eighth graders and runs from Saturday, September 21 through Saturday, November 16. Games will be ...
PARSIPPANY, NJ - The Parsippany Hills High School Varsity Football team is ready for the 2024 season. The first game is away on Friday, August 30th at Roxbury High School. The first home game will be Friday night, September 6th at 7pm where they will face Mendham High School. The full ...
BERNARDSVILLE, NJ -- The Bernards High School football team, coming off its first sectional championship in school history in 2023, will open its 2024 season on Thursday, Aug. 29 against Monmouth Regional in Tinton Falls. The Mountaineers have posted six consecutive winning seasons under head ...
WHIPPANY, NJ - The Whippany Park High School Varsity Football team is ready for the 2024 season. Their first home game is also their first official game of the season. That will take place on Friday, September 6th at 7pm where they will face Glen Ridge. Their full schedule is listed ...
EAST HANOVER, NJ - The Hanover Park High School Varsity Football team is ready for the 2024 season. The first game is Saturday, September 7th at 1pm at Madison High School and the first home game is Friday, September 13th where they will host Mountain Lakes. The full schedule is ...
UNION COUNTY, NJ — When the US Women’s Rugby Sevens team won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics on July 30, members of the Union County Lady Mudturtles were celebrating in their group chat. “It just makes me very emotional because it’s something I feel like seemed really impossible for a US ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — As James DeSarno takes the helm as Westfield’s director of athletics/K-12 physical education and health supervisor this school year, he does so knowing he doesn’t know everything. A coach and teacher since 1992, DeSarno joined the Westfield Public School District in 2006 as a ...
UNION COUNTY, NJ — When the US Women’s Rugby Sevens team won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics on July 30, members of the Union County Lady Mudturtles were celebrating in their group chat. “It just makes me very emotional because it’s something I feel like seemed really impossible for a US ...