Union starts wrestling season with match and tournament wins
UNION, NJ — One practice at a time. One match at a time. That is how Union High School wrestlers, “most all brand new,” according to head coach Dino DeBellonia, will attempt to grab hold of success and...
View ArticleUnion High School’s new gym floor is installed in time for victorious home...
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ — Louis J. Rettino Gymnasium is back in business, perhaps better than ever. Union High School’s gym, named after the coach who won the school’s most football games...
View ArticleUnion girls basketball learns valuable lesson when facing Elizabeth
Click to view slideshow. ELIZABETH, NJ — Partway through a span of eight straight road games, the Union High School girls basketball team learned a valuable lesson when it went up against one of the...
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Union High School wrestlers place in the UCT
UNION, NJ — Union High School did not finish among the top eight teams in the Union County Tournament. The Farmers did not have a grappler reach the finals. That did not mean that the Union wrestling...
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Cranford girls basketball shows improvement
The Cranford high School girls basketball team defeated Union High School 53-31 on Saturday, Jan. 28. UNION, NJ — Last year, the Cranford High School girls basketball team started with a season-opening...
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Union boys basketball bests West Caldwell Tech 71-68, moves into UCT
Union’s boys basketball team concluded its regular season schedule on Saturday, Feb. 5, at home with a come-from-behind 71-68 overtime triumph against West Caldwell Tech. UNION, NJ — Union High School...
View ArticleUnion wrestler reaches Region 4 competition
UNION, NJ — For the first time in three years, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, region wrestling returned to Union High School’s Louis J. Rettino Gymnasium. Representing the Farmers at this...
View ArticleLocal wrestlers excel at the Region 4 competition in Union
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ — What will it take this weekend in Atlantic City for Cranford High School sophomore 157-pounder Jordan Chapman, a first-time Region 4 champ, to become Cranford’s...
View ArticleFemale wrestler from Union finishes sixth in the state
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ — Alissa Alcindor first tried her hand at field hockey, completing her second season this fall in the midfield. A teacher of woodworking at Union High School, Daniel...
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Union High School softball gets ready for new season
Second-year head coach Shannon McMahon will rely heavily on Alexa Liquori, who also led Union with 28 hits last year and was second on the team in batting average at .341, once again this spring....
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Union High School looks forward to 2023 baseball season
Union High School ninth-year head coach Angel Navarrete spoke positively about this year’s baseball team. ‘The conference and the county are really awesome this year,’ Navarrete said. ‘I think, from...
View ArticleUnion County baseball has its opening day of the season
Click to view slideshow. UNION COUNTY, NJ — In a rematch of last year’s Union County Tournament championship game at Kean University, Cranford High School hosted Jonathan Dayton High School in one of...
View ArticleUnion baseball tops visiting Elizabeth
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ — The initial week of the season was one to put up on a pedestal. For the Union Farmers, its meaning was of extremely high significance, as they were desperate to get...
View ArticleCranford baseball tops Union
Click to view slideshow. CRANFORD, NJ – Following an important comeback victory on Friday, April 14, at home against division rival Union High School, where the Cougars were six outs away from defeat...
View ArticleGovernor Livingston baseball 7-3, wins five games in a row
Click to view slideshow. BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ — After a rocky start that did not include injured mound aces John Schmidt and Matty Diskin, the Governor Livingston High School baseball team righted its...
View ArticleSecond Tip Your Hat Classic to be hosted next week
UNION, NJ — The second Tip Your Cap Classic at Union’s Gordon R. LeMatty Field, raising funds for the Tunnels to Towers Foundation, features two high-profile games each on Tuesday, May 2, and...
View ArticleCranford wins baseball UCT by defeating Governor Livingston 1-0
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ – First senior right-hander Sean Woodruff put up seven zeros to keep the game scoreless going into the bottom of the seventh. Then junior Sean Riley led off the...
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From NFL to Ph.D., former NY Giant earns doctorate in counseling at Kean...
Former New York Giants offensive tackle Kareem McKenzie, who helped the NFL team win two Super Bowls, will earn his doctorate in counseling and supervision at Kean University. UNION, NJ — Kean...
View ArticleArthur L. Johnson kicker excels in Phil Simms NJ North/South All-Star...
Click to view slideshow. UNION, NJ – During the course of the past four varsity seasons for the Arthur L. Johnson High School Crusaders, Brett Makowsky lit up the scoreboard on more than one occasion....
View ArticleUnion High School’s football team starts early again at Battle of the Beach
UNION, NJ — The Union Farmers are gearing for another August start to their football season. This time, it will be the weekend before Labor Day weekend – the second time in three years. For the second...
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