By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Four weeks of the high school football season had passed and the Lyndhurst Golden Bears were saddled with a tough 1-3 record. It was not the way Danny Kesack envisioned his senior year to be like. “Once we were 1-3, I knew I had to get my game [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer When the boys’ high school soccer season began with practices in August, veteran Belleville High School coach Len Marino was optimistic that his team would be improved over last year. After all, that feat wouldn’t have been hard, considering that the Buccaneers won all of two games last [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It’s almost the least known fact in Nutley these days, but it shouldn’t. People should know that the Nutley High School girls’ volleyball team is one of the best in Essex County and boasts of a 9-1 record. In fact, the Maroon Raiders are doing so well that [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The first part of the 2012 high school football season had not gone well for the Maroon Raiders of Nutley High School. They uncharacteristically had lost three of their first four games, including a horrifying nightmare 61-0 loss to Montclair three weeks ago. Before the Maroon Raiders faced [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The last couple of years haven’t been too kind for the North Arlington High School girls’ soccer program. The Vikings won four games last year, after getting two the year before. Head coach Sharon O’Brien- Romer wasn’t used to having seasons where the Vikings struggled. Ever since she [...]

    By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer After posting just six wins in all of 2011, Lyndhurst High School head boys’ soccer coach Rob Kost was hoping to have an improved squad in 2012. It appears as if Kost is getting his wish. The Golden Bears have not reached the halfway mark of their [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Amanda Nowak was perfectly fine with being a midfielder – or so we thought. The Lyndhurst High School junior soccer standout had spent the first two years with the Golden Bears as a playmaking midfielder, a player with a monstrously strong leg who can make strong passes and [...]

    By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer After going through an 8-11-1 record a year ago, Nutley High School boys’ soccer head coach Marcellino Marra didn’t know what to expect from the Maroon Raiders this season. “I had a good sense that we could have a pretty tough team,” Marra said. “We had a [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer North Arlington High School head football coach Anthony Marck makes no bones about the way he feels about his standout quarterback/defensive back A.J. Nocciolo. “He’s as good of a football player as I’ve ever coached,” Marck said of the senior. “He’s the best player on the field every [...]

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer If there was anyone who headed to Kearny High School last Friday night and expected to see a high school football game and saw nothing instead, you weren’t mistaken. The Kearny High School Board of Education and administration decided to cancel its scheduled game with St. Peter’s Prep [...]