BIG STATE SPORTS GIRLS ICE HOCKEY ALL-STATE TEAM
*Note: This team was selected by the Big State Sports Hockey Staff* It was a brilliant season of Girls’ Ice Hockey in New Jersey. We saw a record 15 teams...
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Tribute to Fred Geffken
By Dan Cleary Fred Geffken had a big decision to make. A very big one. The then-Sparta police officer and Sparta Police Athletic League basketball coach applied to be the...
Defense Wins Championships: Camden D Forces Five Shabazz Turnovers to...
Defense was king in the finale of the 2025 NJSIAA Football State Championships at SHI Stadium on Wednesday night. The defenses of the Camden Panthers and Malcolm X. Shabazz Bulldogs...
Joe Hofmann’s End of Season Football Notes
Last week’s football notes column described how the Super Football Conference treated some schools like they were a deck of playing cards. They shuffled them. The SFC rearranged a few...
Big State Sports All Morris/Sussex-Area Football Team
Butler and West Morris won sectional titles and went about them the old-fashioned way: By pounding the rock. Game after game, opponents geared up to stop both running games but...
Hendryx, Parker Power Winslow to Group IV Championship
Winslow repeated as NJSIAA Group 4 champion behind a historic night from Jalen Parker and a three-score explosion from Quayd Hendryx, outlasting Ramapo in a wild state-final thriller.
Unbreakable Glass: Sabb, DeLecce Lead Undefeated Glassboro to Second Straight...
On a rainy afternoon at SHI Stadium, the defending NJSIAA Group I state champion Glassboro Bulldogs knew they had a target on their back. They didn’t care. The undefeated crew...
Best in the State: St. Joseph Outlasts Don Bosco 24-21...
The final of four state championships played at MetLife Stadium on Friday was perhaps the most exciting of the bunch. The St. Joseph Green Knights looked for revenge on the...
Overlooked No More! Cedar Creek Dominates Old Tappan 34-7 for...
The Old Tappan Golden Knights had been an unassailable force for nearly two full calendar years. Coach Brian Dunn’s squad entered their NJSIAA Group 3 title defense against the Cedar...
MetLife Masterclass: Robinson Ignites Washington Township to Group V Title
For two quarters, Washington Township looked like a team still searching for its spark. For the final two quarters, Jaylen Robinson became the spark, gasoline, match, and firework finale all...
Run It Back! DePaul Rolls Paramus Catholic to Defend Title
DePaul Catholic showed exactly why they’re the standard in Non-Public Group B. Behind a gutsy, legacy-building performance from senior quarterback Derek Zammit, the Spartans jumped out early and never surrendered...