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NEW JERSEY -- The NJ Baseball Coalition has organized a petition to "allow baseball to be played in New Jersey." So far, 42 baseball clubs and organizations in the state have supported the coalition, which aims to "provide a safe way to be able to reopen baseball".

Spring high school sports officially were canceled in New Jersey by the NJSIAA last week after Gov. Phil ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ — West Orange High School (WOHS) seniors Didi Mesfin and Brett Zeligson have received recognition as the school's top scholar-athletes for 2020 by the Essex County Athletic Directors Association (ECADA), and Natalie Nevins has been named a New Jersey Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) scholar. Nevins will receive a financial scholarship for this ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ ‚ The West Orange High School baseball team was one day away from its first pre-season scrimmage in March when classes were halted.

That team will never take the field this spring now that the NJSIAA has canceled the spring sports season in conjunction with Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement Monday that schools would be closed for the remainder of the ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ — As spring-like temperatures ushered in the reopening of the Rock Spring Golf Club (RSGC) in West Orange over the weekend, nearly 188 rounds of golf were played as golfers donned masks and practiced the recommended social-distancing guidelines. According to the township, RSGC is booked at 90-percent capacity for the next eight days as of Monday.

Following weeks of ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Rock Spring Golf Club will open at sunrise on Saturday after Gov. Phil Murphy signed an executive order on Wednesday allowing the reopening of state parks and golf courses with social-distancing requirements to be mandated at all facilities. 

Under the executive order, Murphy left it up to local and county officials to decide whether to open municipal and county ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ — Gustav Hall, a senior guard at West Orange High School, was named to the Super Essex Conference Liberty Division First Team for 2020.

Hall, a 5-foot-11 point guard, averaged 8.0 points per game last winter for the Mountaineers. He will attend Brown University next fall.

"Gustav is one of the hardest working guys on our team, and he has a 4.5 GPA, too," ...

WEST ORANGE, NJ -- Kiley Capstraw, a sophomore swing guard from West Orange, has been selected to the 2020 Super Essex Conference All-American Division First Team.

Capstraw averaged 21.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 2.6 steals for West Orange in the 2019-2020 season.

"Kiley was able to realize how much of a natural scorer she was and she really showed her dominance at times, ...