Section: Sports
Athlete Of The Week: Nick Lukas
Nick Lukas of the Verona High School cross country team has been selected as the Verona Sports Boosters Senior Athlete of the Week. At the Brett Taylor Invitational at Darlington Park this past weekend, Lukas ran the 5k course in 16:16, a personal best and the fourth fastest time at that distance in Verona High [...]
Boys Soccer Advances To Playoff Quarterfinals
Facing its toughest opponent of the season, Verona High’s boys soccer team showed its mettle yesterday in Newark. The Hillbillies (11-0 and seeded No. 11 in the Essex County Tournament bracket) rallied from an early 1-0 deficit to score two unanswered goals and defeat No. 6 Newark East Side in a first-round ECT game on [...]
Scenes From A Notre Dame Road Trip
This past weekend, 60 people from Verona went to watch a football game in a stadium that seats about six times more people than we have living in town. That’s because No. 44, the inside linebacker for Notre Dame, is Verona native Carlo Calabrese Jr. Joel Martin went along for the ride and the game, [...]
Dig For A Cure
In volleyball, a “dig” is when a player makes a save out of a hard-driven ball from the other team. It’s a pretty good metaphor for what needs to be done for patients faced with a diagnosis of breast cancer. To raise money and support for breast cancer awareness, the JV and varsity volleyball teams [...]
Hillbillies Dominate Newark Academy Game
The Newark Academy Minutemen coughed up the football on the initial play from the line of scrimmage on a fumble caused by juniors Luke Sniatkowski and Frank Greco. On the next play, Greco scampered 25 yards aided by a wide open hole made by Sniatkowski and fellow junior offensive lineman Ryan Flood. The extra point [...]
Annie Calabrese Gets Her Wish: Notre Dame Beats Air Force
Annie and Carlo Calabrese Sr. go out to Indiana every weekend that Notre Dame is playing at home to see their son, Carlo Calabrese Jr., play for the Fighting Irish. But this weekend, they had a whole convoy from Verona in tow. According to Indiana TV station WNDU, 60 people from Verona traveled out to [...]
Greco Wins Fan Poll, Star Ledger Honors
High school football fans have voted Hillbillies running back Frank Greco their fan favorite of the week. Greco won with 664 vote, edging out D.J. Hamker of West Essex, who had 630 votes. But there’s more: Greco also snapped up the Star-Ledger Player of the Week award.
Boys Soccer Goes 10-0 On Season
Senior forward Chris Unis scored off a Nick Looney throw-in to break a 1-1 tie midway into the second half and the Verona boys soccer team added two more goals on its way to a 4-1 defeat of Nutley on Thursday afternoon at Centennial Field. The Hillbillies, who got seven saves from junior goalkeeper Mike [...]
Football Team Tackles Breast Cancer
The Verona High School Hillbillies take on Newark Academy today at 2 p.m. in Newark. But tomorrow, Saturday, October 8, they will tackle a far different challenge: Raising money for breast cancer research. The team will be at King’s Supermarket from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The guys, who wore pink ankle wraps in their [...]
Register For Junior Wrestling Tonight
Registration for the Verona Junior Wrestling program will take place on Friday, October 7 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday, October 15 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Both registration events take place on the second floor of the Annex building behind the Verona Community Center at 880 Bloomfield Avenue. The program is open [...]