Chave died in June after a tough battle with lung cancer.
In memory of Chave's great career, there will be a Randy Chave Memorial Scholarship dinner at the Landmark Restaurant in East Rutherford on Wednesday, Dec. 5, with cocktail hour beginning at 6 p.m. and the dinner to follow.
The proceeds from the dinner will go to a scholarship to an Emerson player and a North Bergen player, after the two high schools meet on Jan. 8, 2008. On that night, Chave's jersey will be retired by Emerson High School.
Tickets for the dinner are priced at $75 and can be secured through mail, contacting Vic Sciacchetano at 182 Van Winkle Lane, Mahwah, NJ 07430.
It should be a good night for all and a great way to remember the greatness of a great guy...
Once again, the St. Anthony High School basketball team will host its annual clinic Sunday morning from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Golden Door Charter School on Ninth Street in downtown Jersey City, with both grammar and high school players welcome to attend.
St. Anthony head coach Bob Hurley, a National Basketball Hall of Fame finalist a year ago, will head the clinic, along with his son, Dan, the head coach at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark and Phil Colicchio, the head coach at Linden High School.
Registration fees for the clinic are $10 for Jersey City residents, $25 for non-Jersey City residents and teams can participate at the cost of $50.
All those attending the clinic will receive a free ticket to attend the St. Peter's College-Rutgers game at the Jersey City Armory, slated to tip off at 2 p.m.
All of the proceeds from the clinic will benefit Embrace Kids, a foundation for families with children with cancer or blood disorders. It's a worthwhile event and a chance to learn from some of the coaching greats...
Speaking of St. Anthony, Friars' girls' basketball standout Jessica Ford signed a national letter of intent to attend Felician College, an NCAA Division II school, last week. Ford was one of the key players in the Friars' state sectional championship team a year ago...
There is a sense of sadness in the fact that Emerson and Union Hill will have played its final football game on Thanksgiving Day. The two schools will be joined as one next year. But as a kid growing up, Thanksgiving meant two traditions, turkey and the local football rivalries, namely Prep-Dickinson and Emerson-Union Hill. Now, both of those traditions are history. We'll have more on the final Emerson-Union Hill game next week...
Speaking of the new Union City High School, who in the world came up with the new nickname? Soaring Eagles? When was the last time a soaring eagle was spotted hovering over Union City? There should have been someway to keep the tradition of the two schools alive, like the Union City High School Hilltoppers. The way it stands now, there is no history involved with Soaring Eagles...
However, speaking of tradition, it's great that St. Peter's College will head back to the Armory this weekend to play host to Rutgers. When one tradition dies, another is rekindled. It's going to be so good to see the Peacocks donning the floor of the old Armory once again....
Speaking of St. Peter's College, congrats to the Peacocks' soccer team for qualifying for the NCAA Division I tournament as a wild-card team. The Peacocks will play the University of Virginia over the weekend. It marks only the second time that a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team of any kind got a wild-card berth to any NCAA tourney, joining the Manhattan men's team in 1995...
Finally, we have no idea what in the world is going on with the Hudson County Youth Football League, with who is eligible and who is ineligible and who's in the playoffs and who's out.
But shame on the people who contacted me during all hours of the night last week, thinking that I had some influence to change a decision that was made in Hudson County Superior Court last week. The power of the pen might be mighty, but it doesn't change laws. And to the people who run the Bayonne Youth Football team, double shame on you for acting like complete fools at the championship games last week and then allowing your players to follow suit. The residents of Bayonne should be ashamed of these clowns who certainly disrespected the league by apparently trying to use an ineligible player, then acted like infants in winning, showing no class whatsoever. There was too much controversy involving youth football in the county last week and that's just absurd. -Jim Hague
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