Montclair High School

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news For senior Mahki Booker, it’s going to be hard to leave the Montclair High School Mounties baseball team. Not because he isn’t excited to get to Post University to play collegiate baseball — the next step toward fulfilling his goal to play at the professional level. It’s because ...

By Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Montclair Kimberley Academy baseball’s senior first baseman Angelo Weber is having a pretty good season. How good? A .486 batting average with 17 hits, including four doubles and 12 RBIs while also playing excellently at first base, that’s how good. “ handl...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The two-seed Montclair High School Girls Lacrosse team fought hard and beat a determined 3-seed West Essex team Saturday morning, advancing to the  finals of the Essex County Tournament. The...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair High School Boys lacrosse team needed a win badly. Not just to advance past the opening round of the Essex County Boys Lacrosse Tournament, but to get themselves off the skid they'd been on for the past few weeks...

BY LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news A Montclair High School student who organized a protest over the Michael Brown shooting incident has won an award from Princeton University for her role in trying to improve race relations. Talia Evans Farkas, 18, is one of 12 students who were recognized this year by the Princeton Prize in Race Relations of Northern New Jersey...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Normally, people ask you what they can get you for your birthday, but Nora Giordano went and took care of getting her own birthday present as the Montclair High School junior attacker celebrated her 17th birthday by scoring her 100th career goal as a Mountie...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Montclair’s High School baseball team had a rough 6-4 loss to Bloomfield on April 19 but with two wins in a row following that, the team is back on track. After the tough home loss to the Bengals on a frigid Wednesday afternoon, the Mounties beat Madison 8-5 before routing Clifton 11-5 on the road. D...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair High School softball team had a rough homecoming last Thursday, as they lost to West Essex by a score of 14-1. The Mounties had been playing their home games at Grove Street Field for the start of the season due to a conflict with boys lacrosse home games...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair High School girls lacrosse team advanced in the Essex County tournament with a 20-4 win over Livingston during a drizzly Monday quarterfinal at Woodman Field. The No 2-seeded Mounties will host third-seeded West Essex in the semifinals Saturday morning, after the Knights edged MKA, 9-8, in their tournament game Tuesday...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair High School boys tennis team had a wild time at the Essex County Tournament this past weekend, including a semifinal match on Saturday that was interrupted by rain, multiple super-set finishes on Sunday when things resumed, capped by the Mounties’ first-ever appearance in the county championship match. U...