Sports

Montclair Kimberley girls track and field team finished with 117 points, far ahead of second-place Verona, with 90 points to win the Super Essex Conference Colonial Division title on Saturday, May 14 at Schools Stadium in Newark. The Cougars boys came in fourth in the Colonial division race with 62 points, six behind Verona for third place.

An underclassmen-filled Montclair High School girls track team came close to bringing home a Super Essex Conference American Division title.

Montclair Kimberley combined timely hitting, key punch-outs by pitchers and defensive gems for its first New Jersey Prep championship since 2009.

Montclair boys lacrosse was only leading 4-3 at halftime Montclair Kimberley in the battle of the rivals on Friday, March 13. The Mounties would pull away late in the 9-4 victory over the Cougars.

Montclair Kimberley defeated Gill St. Bernard's, 8-7, in the Prep B Tournament on Thursday, May 12 as junior right fielder Nic Lembo lifted a two-out, two-run RBI single in the top of the seventh inning. The second-seeded Cougars take on top-seeded Rutgers Prep on Monday, May 16 in the Prep B final at Diamond Nation in Flemington.

“Courts” is a gallery presentation that pulls its inspiration from the daily goings-on at the temporary skate park at Rand Park.

Montclair girls lacrosse team dropped a heartbreaker 8-7, at West Essex in the county tournament championship game on Tuesday, May 10.

Montclair High School boys lacrosse dropped a 14-4 decision at Seton Hall Prep in the Essex County Tournament semi-finals. Montclair Kimberley was eliminated from the ECT in the quarterfinals with a 13-3 defeat at second-seeded West Essex on May 3.

The Montclair softball team was 12-4 overall and in first place in the Super Essex Conference Liberty Division.

Montclair High School has a new football coach and it did not have to go far to find one.