By Jim Hague The Lyndhurst American Legion Post 139 baseball team has a 10-3 record right now, but it’s a mark that doesn’t surprise head coach Mike Voza, even though the team is fi lled with newcomers to the roster. “I don’t think I’m surprised with being 10-3,” said Voza, who began his second [...]

  By Jim Hague Kim McDonough-Huaranga has been a trend setter, a history maker for most of her life – even as a history teacher. As a high school basketball player at Harrison High School, graduating in 1998, McDonough became the alltime leading scorer in the history of Hudson County high school basketball – among [...]

Third time a charm, as veteran Witt coaches in last game     By  Jim Hague As the team he had coached for 22 years was winning its third straight Kearny Little League championship, Joe Witt had mixed emotions. Witt, who has been the head coach of Rick’s Auto Body, the closest thing to a [...]

  By Jim Hague Disregard the fact that the Kearny American Legion Post 99 baseball team has a 1-5 record in the early going of the summer baseball league season. Throw out the fact that Kearny is clearly the youngest squad in the Bergen County American Legion League, owning a roster with no high school [...]

  By Jim Hague When Joe Castagnetti resigned as the head football coach at Lyndhurst High School after the 2008 season, he stepped aside with his family in mind. “It was a crazy time for my wife, Jodi, and my kids and me,” Castagnetti said. “I didn’t know what my kids wanted to do. It [...]

  By Randy Neumann What’s wrong with the UGMA? Plenty. UGMA (Uniform Gifts to Minors Act) and UTMA (Uniform Transfers to Minors Act) are ugly acronyms – and poor planning vehicles as well – so why not turn ‘em in for a new model? But first, a short lesson in government and history. States, in [...]

  By Jim Hague NEWARK – The sport of boxing isn’t exactly a beauty pageant. You don’t have to look pretty in the ring or offer a soliloquy about finding a cure for a major disease while wearing boxing gloves. The most important aspects of boxing are winning and avoiding getting hurt. So Kearny resident [...]

  By Jim Hague EAST ORANGE – The Williams brothers, namely Dorion and Dorsey, have been together since birth. That’s a good thing, considering they are twins. They also played football together at Bloomfield High School. Last Monday, the Williams twins got one last chance to play high school football together – and it was [...]

Competes in wheelchair events; places in five events By Jim Hague Although he was born with cerebral palsy, Steve Koziel always wanted to compete in sports. “I was very limited to what I could do,” said Koziel, now a freshman at Kearny High School. “It was a big thing that my friends could always do [...]

Former DBP and Vanderbilt infielder gets call in sixth round   By Jim Hague As the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft entered its second day last Wednesday, Anthony Gomez wasn’t paying a lot of attention. Nutley native Gomez was with his teammates at Vanderbilt University and was in the locker room, after the Commodores [...]