Sports Top Stories
By PETER NAMEN
July 18, 2024
PISCATAWAY, NJ - The Piscataway Elks Lodge #2414 swung into action and hosted the Elks Central District Batters Up competition at the Piscataway Little League Complex on Saturday, July 13. The Batters Up Contest is a hitting contest open to boys and girls ages 5-15 and is free. Girls have the ...
Several Fair Lawn and Glen Rock student-athletes made their mark in collegiate sports this past outdoor season. Let’s take a look at some of their accomplishments. This is the first installation: Sam Murri (Fair Lawn High School) was a senior defender and midfielder for the Kean University ...
Several local student-athletes competed in collegiate sports this past spring season in New Jersey and beyond. Let’s take a glance at their noteworthy performances. Nick Avagnano (Paramus High School) was a sophomore infielder for the Stockton University (Galloway, NJ) baseball team this past ...
LONG BEACH ISLAND REGION - The story right now for the captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association is the weather. Between those strong south winds, waves of heavy rains, and lightning storms, the boats have been staying at the docks much longer than they would like. When they have ...
HOUGHTON, NY — The Olean Oilers swept a doubleheader against the Genesee Rapids Wednesday. Back-to-back four-run innings propelled the Oilers to a 9-7 win in Game 1. The Oilers loaded the bases early in both the fifth and sixth innings. Two infield singles, a walk and a hit batter brought ...
MIDDLETOWN, NJ: The Tindall Park tennis and pickleball courts will be temporarily closed for renovations starting Monday, July 22, with a target reopening date of fall 2024. The updates are necessary to ensure that the facilities remain safe, functional, and enjoyable for everyone! According ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - On Wednesday, July 3rd, the South Plainfield Tiger Sharks hosted the Bridgewater YMCA Blue Dolphins in their first match-up of the season at the South Plainfield Community Pool. Once again, the Tiger Sharks brought a good number of swimmers to the meet with a total of 81, ...
MONTVILLE, NJ - Christian Zurawlow is a rare kind of baseball player that can play any position on the field and play it well. His impressive athletic ability allowed him to help the Montville Twp High School baseball team in many different ways. Zurawlow stormed onto the varsity baseball scene ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ - The annual Verizon 5K will be coming to Morristown this Thursday July 18 at 7:30pm. Want to participate? Register HERE Want to avoid the area, see the map of the course below:
CHATHAM, NJ -- Marco Vessecchia's walk-off RBI single in the 8th inning gave Chatham a 3-2 win vs. Cranford over the weekend, making the Chatham U13 White team the first in Chatham youth baseball history win a state championship. Chatham, 29-7-1 on the season and winner of 23 of its last 25 ...
NUTLEY, NJ - The Township of Nutley Board of Commissioners honored and congratulated the players and coaches of the Nutley East Little League, White Oak Pharmacy team for their outstanding 2024 efforts and accomplishments during the July 16 opening public meeting.
HAMILTON, NJ - Last month we brought the collegiate athletic accomplishments of several former Hamilton high school students to our reader's attention. We followed that up with some highlights from Robbinsville High School's former athletes now competing at the college level. Here are some more ...
CROSS RIVER, N.Y. - If by the unlikely chance you’ve forgotten Gerard Garofolo and his outgoing ways, let the 2023 John Jay grad remind you in his own words. “The parties were awesome. They were a lot of fun,” said the Wesleyan freshman. “I had a great time at school.” But the former lineman ...
HIGH BRIDGE, NJ - "The Schweikert," the second of four major tournaments hosted by the High Bridge Hills Golf Association, was played July 13th and 14th. During the gross and net stroke play format, players faced dramatic weather changes and extremely challenging course conditions - a combination ...
MOUNT LAUREL, NJ — The outdoor portion of the collegiate athletic season is now complete and it’s a good time to take a glance at local student athletes from Mount Laurel who made a name for themselves in sports right here in New Jersey and beyond. This is the second installation. Here is the ...
OLEAN, NY — Early pitching struggles for the Oilers proved to be too much for Olean's offense to overcome in an 11-7 loss to the Dansville Gliders Tuesday. The Oilers entered the third inning tied 2-2, and then the Gliders took control of the game. Starting pitcher Caleb Wurzer and relief ...
NEWTON, NJ—Newton High School’s wrestling alumna Eva Barry competed in the Women’s Freestyle National Championship this weekend in Fargo, North Dakota. According to the Newton High School Wrestling coach Eric Bollette, Barry started the championship as the 18-seeded competitor in the Junior 140 ...
CLARK, NJ — On Monday evening, July 15, the 2024 Pizza Run 5K took place in Oak Ridge Park. An annual "Pizza Run" had taken place in nearby Westfield for more than 20 years, at the end of which runners would receive slices of pizza. However, the race did not take place in Westfield this year. This ...
MANASQUAN, NJ - With both teams facing elimination, Milltown Little League's 12U District 10 champs and South Wall Little League's District 11 champs took the field Monday night in the New Jersey Little League's Section Three Tournament. South Wall is the host team and had already lost to ...
Sam Cavallaro's ascension to head football coach at Bloomfield High began in 1966. Cavallaro had success as head coach at Bayonne prior to his arrival at Bloomfield. That first team would finish 4-5 in '66. The next two seasons, Bloomfield had back-to-back records of 4-3-2. In 1969, the Bengals ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - For the second consecutive week, Minor League Baseball has named Somerset Patriots OF Elijah Dunham the Eastern League Player of the Week. Over five games played during the Patriots' six-game series facing the Erie SeaWolves from July 8-14, Dunham went 8-for-19 (.421) with 2 ...
BRIDGEWATER, NJ - For the second consecutive week, Minor League Baseball has named Somerset Patriots OF Elijah Dunham the Eastern League Player of the Week. Over five games played during the Patriots' six-game series facing the Erie SeaWolves from July 8-14, Dunham went 8-for-19 (.421) with 2 ...
WEST ORANGE, NJ – USA Today’s Golf Week recently rated West Orange’s Rock Spring Golf Course number four in the state, just behind Crystal Springs Resort (Ballyowen) in Hamburg, Neshanic Valley in Neshanic Station and Seaview (Bay) in Galloway. The rest of the list (in order) includes: 5.
CLARK, NJ — This summer, Crusaders Basketball Camp is available for boys and girls, ages 6-15. The camp will be held at Arthur L. Johnson High School, located at 365 Westfield Ave. in Clark, and will run from August 5-9. The directors of the program are Jeff Lubreski, a Rahway educator and the ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ - Congratulations to the East Brunswick Senior Center Pickleball Team for their WIN 5-4 of the Inaugural Invitational Pickleball Tournament hosted by South Brunswick Senior Center. Captains Mario and Subbu implemented ACE TEAM of Purush, Simon, Mony and Ronnie. ...
BORDEAUX, FRANCE -- Chatham native and Red Bull defender John "JMi" Tolkin spoke about the upcoming Paris Olympics in a Zoom call from France on Monday morning. The team began training in Bordeaux on July 10. "Once we realized it will be France in the first game, everybody, myself included, you ...
HACKENSACK, NJ - Local Dane Guerrero and owner of Combat Fitness Club in Ridgefield Park, is set to make his mark on the professional boxing world as he gears up to fight on the undercard of the Jake Paul vs Mike Perry fight - originally slated to be Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson - on July 20th, 2024 in ...
SPRINGFIELD, NJ -- the Parkway Softball League's top talent came together on Wednesday, July 3 for an evening of friendly competition at the league's annual All-Star Games. Springfield was selected as a host site for some of the games for the first time ever; Cranford hosted the balance of the ...
HOBOKEN, NJ - The City of Hoboken’s Recreation Division has announced registration for fall programs including instructional field hockey, instructional volleyball, instructional tennis, flag football, tackle football, and soccer. Registration for most programs is now open and can be found by ...
WOOD-RIDGE, NJ – The Wood-Ridge High School Hall of Fame Committee announced that they will be inducting 12 new members into the Wood-Ridge Athletic Hall of Fame on September 25th at a ceremony to be held at the Fiesta in Wood-RIdge. The Inductees are: Nicole Fleck, Class of 2012, Girls ...