Sports
By TAPINTO SUMMIT STAFF
December 15, 2021
SUMMIT, NJ - The late Summit Police Department Detective Matthew Tarentino was an avid runner, whose goal was to break the 17-minute mark in a 5K. Since 2017, the year of his passing, the Summit High School Boys Cross Country Team has been honoring Tarentino by inducting members of their squad ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Junior Lily Spinner has been named the 'Salerno Duane Summit High School Girls Ice Hockey Player of The Week' for her performances in the week ending December 11. Spinner has been a brick wall in net for the 4-0 Maroon and White, notching two shutouts during the week -- blanking ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Junior Dylan Goldfarb has been named the 'Salerno Duane Summit High School Boys Hockey Player of The Week' for his performances in the week ending December 11. In a bounce back week for the Maroon and White -- one in which they U-Turned a 0-2 start into a 2-2 record with consecutive ...
SUMMIT, NJ - After leading his group of Hilltoppers to the summit of New Jersey state soccer, Head Coach Ben Stuart has been named the 2021 'NJ.com Boys Soccer Coach of the Year'. In just his third year at the helm, Stuart and his team captured both Sectional and Group 3 titles, the latter ...
ROSELLE, NJ - The Summit High School Girls Ice Hockey Team won their fourth straight to start the season, blanking Randolph 5-0 at the Warinanco Skating Center. Junior goaltender Lily Spinner turned away all 26 shots she faced for the shutout, her third whitewash of the young season. Senior ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Senior Chris Magovern had a goal and two assists as the Summit High School Boys Hockey Team skated to a 3-1 win over Montclair at Clary Anderson Arena. After opening the season 0-2 and getting outscored 9-1 in the process, the Maroon and White has rebounded to win two straight by ...
ROSELLE, NJ - Junior netminder Lily Spinner stopped all 23 shots she faced, and sophomore Bridget Grennon scored her fourth and fifth goals of the season as the Summit High School Girls Varsity Ice Hockey team improved to 3-0 with, fittingly, a 3-0 win over Kent Place School at the Warinanco ...
ROSELLE, NJ - Sophomore Nathan Steel had two goals and freshman goaltender Steven Louiselle stopped 23 out of the 24 pucks fired his way as the Summit High School Boys Varsity Hockey Team defeated West Essex, 4-1. The victory at the Warinanco Skating Center is the Maroon and White's first of the ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Senior Will Kein has been named the season's first 'Salerno Duane Summit High School Boys Hockey Player of The Week' for his performances in the week ending December 4. Despite a tough start to the season, which has seen the Hilltoppers drop their opening two decisions to Westfield ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Sophomore Bridget Grennon has been selected as the inaugural 'Salerno Duane Summit High School Girls Ice Hockey Player of The Week' for her performances in the week ending December 4. The Hilltoppers won a pair of games to open the season, defeating Chatham and Pingry. Last ...
ROSELLE, NJ - Junior goaltender Lily Spinner stopped 39 out of the 42 shots she faced and sophomore Bridget Grennon scored twice and added two assists as the Summit High School Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Team topped Pingry 5-3 at the Warinanco Skating Center. The Maroon and White's victory over Big ...
ROSELLE, NJ - Westfield's Matt Beke had a hat trick and an assist as the Summit High School Boys Varsity Hockey Team was defeated in its season opener, 5-1 at the Warinanco Skating Center. After a scoreless first period, Beke opened the scoring at the 13:17 mark of the second period, but Summit ...
SUMMIT, NJ -- Summit defeated Scotch Plains-Fanwood by a score of 98 to 72 at the Summit YMCA on Wednesday in their season opener on Wednesday. The Raiders won medley relay with Lily Hughes, Chloe Howell, Billie Rose Sherratt, and Julia Bonhote taking first place with a time of 1:50.23. The two ...
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, NJ - Getting off to a flying start both in the game and in the 2021 season, the Summit High School Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Team scored six first period goals, en route to a season-opening 11-0 demolition of Chatham at the Mennen Ice Arena. Junior Elizabeth Puskar had a ...
HOLMDEL, NJ - The Summit High School Boys Cross Country Team finished in 12th spot -- out of a field of 22 elite teams -- at the prestigious 'Meet of Champions' at Holmdel Park. The 22 teams competing proved their more than mettle just to get to the race, as there are 360 programs ...
CRANFORD, NJ - It was a 'Super Sunday' in Cranford for Summit Youth Tackle Football, with both the Seventh and Eighth Grade Team bringing home New Jersey Suburban Youth Football League (NJSYFL) 'Super Bowl' titles. Hilltopper Nation just missed a three-team sweep as the Sixth Grade Team fought ...
UNION, NJ - Noted philosopher Lloyd Virgil Christmas may have once said that, in Aspen, "the beer flows like wine." While that may or may not be true or even make sense, one thing is definitely certain: For the Summit High School Boys Varsity Soccer Team in the NJSIAA Group 3 Final, in Union, the ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Saving their best for the biggest meet of the season, the Summit High School Boys Cross Country Team finished second overall at the Group 3 State Championships at Holmdel Park. That result earned the Hilltoppers an auto-qualifying berth in the NJ Meet of Champions on November ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Now that the Summit High School Boys Varsity Soccer Team has ended one quasi-fossilized drought, anyone fancy putting a stop to another it's-been-wayyyyy-too-long stretch? After defeating the top seed in their Section to claim that chalice -- their first such piece of hardware since ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Hilltop City resident Lily Murphy is one of seven Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child Class of 2022 student-athletes signing letters of intent -- or in the case of the Ivy League institutions, committed to the admissions process -- to attend colleges or universities in the fall, where ...
SUMMIT, NJ - All three levels of Summit Youth Tackle Football have earned a spot in their respective championship games, also known as the New Jersey Suburban Youth Football League National Conference 'Super Bowl'. All three title tilts will be played at Cranford’s Memorial Field on November ...
CLIFFSIDE PARK, NJ - It had been 44 years since the Summit High School Boys Varsity Soccer Team held a NJSIAA Sectional Title trophy in their hands so, while the smiles were wide and the pride in their achievement was palatable, the prevalent sentiment among the Hilltoppers was that there was an ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Eleven Summit High School Class of 2022 student-athletes have declared their collegiate destinations, campuses where they will be continuing both their educatons and sporting endeavors. A ceremony -- marking the first 'National Signing Day of the school year -- was held in the ...
MOUNT ARLINGTON, NJ - Summit residents are making waves at Row New Jersey. The Hilltop City is home to head coach of -- and numerous participants in -- the rowing club, which has its home on Lake Hopatcong. Row New Jersey has grown substantially over the past 15 years, and now draws members from ...
CHESTER, NJ - The Three Little Pigs may have gotten away with standing up to the Big, Bad Wolf, but the Summit High School Varsity Football Team wasn't so lucky. Maybe that's because top-seeded West Morris Central -- the eighth-seeded Hilltoppers' opening-round opponent in the NJSIAA North ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Summit Youth Tackle Football will host three New Jersey Suburban Youth Football League (NJSYFL) playoff games at Tatlock Field on Sunday, November 7. All levels of Summit Youth Tackle Football qualified for the playoffs this season, and the program has experienced an unprecedented ...
MORRIS TWNSHP, NJ - More than 800 runners took to the streets of Morris Township in the Halloween Half-Marathon, with Summit's Megan Flynn racing to the top spot in the female division with a time of 1:22:40.79. Flynn's time was nearly three minutes ahead of the division's runner-up. The Hilltop ...
COLTS NECK, NJ - Playing in an off-season tourney for the first time in recent memory, the Summit Futures Lacrosse 5th and 6th Grade Teams enjoyed big success at 'LAXTOBER' in Colts Neck. Navigating a matrix of other youth sports schedules, Summit coaches assembled squads to enter ...
SUMMIT, NJ - Junior Jake Lowry has been named the 'Salerno Duane Summit High School Football Player of the Game' for his performance in the Summit's 45-22 setback at Somerville. The designation is Lowry's second such honor of the 2021 campaign, as he and Will Johnson were selected as Players of the ...
SOMERVILLE, NJ - Cold comfort, indeed. Despite delivering an exponentially better performance than their previous two games, the Summit High School Varsity Football Team got the same, unfortunate result -- an 'L'. While the result was unfortunate, it was also unfortunate timing that the ...