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North Jersey Female Athlete of the Week delivers her best throws to repeat as double-champion
Layla Giordano has always been an athlete. "I don't remember a time when I wasn't doing multiple sports often at the same time,'' she said. "I was in basketball in second or third grade, I played soccer, softball and even tried lacrosse for a season as a kid.'' ...
Top NJSIAA playoff daily boys lacrosse stat leaders for Friday, May 24-Saturday, May 25
Check out the lists below to see the daily stat leaders this weekend in six statistical categories: points, goals, assists, ground balls, saves and faceoffs won. *These numbers are based off stats reported by coaches to njschoolsports.com by 10 p.m. Saturday night. If you purchase a product or register for...
Husker Girls Fall to Greeley in Lax Title Game
YORKTOWN, N.Y. — Top-seeded Yorktown went against No. 3 Horace Greeley in the Section 1 Class B girls lacrosse championship game at Lakeland on May 23, looking for its 13th sectional title in its illustrious history. Yorktown, the No. 8 ranked Class B team in the state, overcame a 6-2 deficit to go up 8-7 in the third quarter but Greeley answered back with three goals to win 10-8. For Greeley, it avenged both a 9-5 regular-season loss at Yorktown in its season opener and last year’s 15-12 defeat to the Huskers in the title game at Nyack.CLICK...
Burns scores 8 unanswered runs to beat East Rutherford, return to state championship series
Burns trailed East Rutherford by five runs in the third inning, but the Bulldogs rallied to come from behind and win Game 3 of the N.C. High School Athletic Association 2A western regional championship series, 8-5. East Rutherford scored the first five runs of the game, putting the pressure on...
This Week: LAX Quarterfinals in Ridgewood
RIDGEWOOD, NJ — After Memorial Day, the Ridgewood lacrosse teams will have their quarterfinal s matuchups Monday, May 27CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER Memorial Day Tuesday, May 28 Ridgewood Zoning Board of Adjustment, 7 p.m. DOWNLOAD THE FREE TAPINTO APP FOR MORE LOCAL NEWS. AVAILABLE IN THE APPLE STORE AND THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE. Ridgewood Village Hall Wednesday, May 29 Varsity Baseball vs. North Bergen, 4 p.m. 180 Northern Parkway Lacrosse Quarterfinals: Boys Lacrosse vs. Parsippany Hills, 4:15 p.m. Ridgewood High School Stadium Lacrosse Quarterfinals: Girls Lacrosse vs. Hillsborough. 6:30 p.m. Ridgewood High School Stadium For more local news, visit TAPinto.net
North Jersey, Group 1, first round - Boys lacrosse roundup for May 24
Matty Leppard became the youngest Jefferson player to reach 100 career goals as he netted five goals for fourth-seeded Jefferson in its 16-5 win over 13th-seeded Pascack Hills in the first round of the North Jersey, Group 1 tournament in Jefferson. Calen Reid had five goals with five assists for...
Outrage in baseball state tourney: Game-tying HR waved off in 7th inning (VIDEO)
Sometimes, a nightmare can become reality. For Northern Highlands - the 10th seed in the NJSIAA North Jersey 1, Group 3 state tournament - that just happened. Trailing 3-0 on Wednesday, with two outs in the top of the seventh inning against seventh-seeded Mount Olive, Highlanders senior Beckham Stern smashed what appeared to be a game-tying home run, sending his teammates into a frenzy.
John Zisa, Legendary North Jersey Football Coach, Dies At 61
John Zisa, a football coach throughout North Jersey, died on Sunday May 19, at the age of 61, according to his obituary.Zisa was born and raised in Paterson and moved to Fair Lawn in 1974, his obituary reads. He coached for more than 26 years at Paterson Catholic, Paramus Catholic, Rutherford and W…
Bergen County Softball Tournament final is Saturday. Here's our predictions
The finals of the 50th-annual Bergen County softball tournament will be held Saturday at the Wood-Ridge Athletic Complex. To read all about the 50-year history of Bergen County softball, and meet the 50 greatest players, click here. Eileen Finnegan, the winning pitcher for Westwood in the first Bergen County softball final back in 1974,...
Lacrosse: North Jersey highlights from the opening round of the state tournament
HILLSDALE – Mia Boretti provided the early spark. Ella Saxon came up with the milestone finish. Pascack Valley leaned on the scoring from those two and others across the lineup to get past Old Tappan, 14-4, on Wednesday in the opening round of the North Group 2 girls lacrosse tournament. The Panthers dominated...
Somers Lax Falls to Greeley in Semifinals
SOMERS, N.Y. - On Friday, May 24, Somers hosted Horace Greeley in the semifinal round of the sectionals. Two versus three, the regular season 15-6 victory by the Tuskers boded well for a redo. But the Quakers did not oblige. Somers fell behind 2-0, and while keeping pace through the first half, the Tuskers never caught up in a 12-6 defeat.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER A tone that was set early, and not just by Connor Lummel’s two opening goals. Ryan Slomsky first stopped Mason Kelly on the rebound in front and then seconds later...
'Frustrating': Suffern stalls for 10 minutes to defeat Wappingers in lax section final
The Suffern Mounties are the 2024 Section 1 Class A girls lacrosse champions. Consider them also unofficial Section 1 keep-away champs. In a game that started out like it would be a Suffern rout but changed into a one-goal contest, the Mounties dared upstart Wappingers to get the ball from them.
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