TASTY TIDBITS Former Prep star Palmieri now home with Devils
Top cross country runners locally; hoop season tips off; a Royaal crowning

It’s safe to say Kyle Palmieri is loving his hockey life these days. Palmieri, the former St. Peter’s Prep standout, is in his second season playing for his hometown New Jersey Devils after five years with the Anaheim Ducks. Palmieri was raised in Montvale, N.J., just a half hour or so away from the Prudential …

Top cross country runners locally; hoop season tips off; a Royaal crowning

Lewis, Fernandez head Reporter All-Area Football Team
Prep QB secures year-end honor for second straight year

The 2016 high school football season has ended, and although there wasn’t a state championship celebration this year in Hudson County, there was plenty to be proud of. For instance, there’s the 26th edition of The Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team. That’s right, for 26 straight years, the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain has …

Prep QB secures year-end honor for second straight year

Lewis, Fernandez head Reporter All-Area Football Team
Prep QB secures year-end honor for second straight year

The 2016 high school football season has ended, and although there wasn’t a state championship celebration this year in Hudson County, there was plenty to be proud of. For instance, there’s the 26th edition of The Hudson Reporter All-Area High School Football Team. That’s right, for 26 straight years, the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain has …

Prep QB secures year-end honor for second straight year

SCOREBOARD Friars go the King Cole route
Hurley predicts senior will be ‘the best guard in the state’

It was another season to remember in a lifetime of memorable seasons at St. Anthony. Last year, the fabulous Friars posted yet another undefeated season, winning all 32 of their games, including the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions crown. The Friars won the T of C title for a record 13th time and the first time …

Hurley predicts senior will be ‘the best guard in the state’

TASTY TIDBITS UC’s Gonzalez, now at Penn State, headed to Rose Bowl
Final Hagueini tabulations; All-Area grid team next week

When Penn State offensive line coach Matt Limegrover called Steven Gonzalez into his office last month, the Union City native didn’t know what to expect. But Limegrover was going to hit Gonzalez with some great news. Gonzalez was being promoted into the Nittany Lions’ starting lineup at right guard. And the timing couldn’t have been …

Final Hagueini tabulations; All-Area grid team next week

Weehawken loses an all-time legend
Sabato belongs ‘on Mount Rushmore of Weehawken’

In the late 1980s, there was no one and nothing better than Joey Sabato. He was a three-sport superstar at Weehawken High School, the all-time leading scorer in basketball, a standout running back and defensive back in football, a sure-fire baseball player with a cannon for an arm and a bat made out of gold. …

Sabato belongs ‘on Mount Rushmore of Weehawken’

SCOREBOARD
Hudson Catholic haunted by loss last year in state playoffs

The Hudson Catholic boys’ basketball team had just defeated St. Peter’s Prep in the Hudson County Tournament finale to capture their fifth consecutive county title. That idea itself was almost too much to even fathom. Hudson Catholic had gone 37 years without winning a single county crown and now the school has won five straight. …

Hudson Catholic haunted by loss last year in state playoffs

TASTY TIDBITS Memorial’s Willis signs with Vanderbilt
Valdez on UC’s bizarre loss in playoffs; Hagueini’s final pick

Justin Willis knew about a year ago where he was going to go to college. The Memorial senior right-handed pitcher, coveted by a ton of NCAA Division I schools, had it in his mind that he was headed to Nashville and going to pitch at Vanderbilt University. So last week’s national letter of intent signing …

Valdez on UC’s bizarre loss in playoffs; Hagueini’s final pick

SCOREBOARD Special kids get chance to play soccer and win
Union City Unified Soccer team wins Shriver Cup

Ransley Suaza is a 16-year-old sophomore at Union City High School. He also loves soccer. Suaza knows all the players on the Union City soccer team and follows the progress of the Soaring Eagles religiously. “I tried to be the equipment manager last year,” Suaza explains. “But I just couldn’t do it.” His cousin is …

Union City Unified Soccer team wins Shriver Cup