with a ribbon cutting ceremony in October 2008. The baseball team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship titles in 1959, 1961, 1963, and 1964. The team won the Greater Newark Tournament in 1942, 1948, 1954, 1963, 2012, and 2019; the program's six titles were the third-most in tournament history as of 2019. The team won the Greater Newark Tournament in 2019, beating Seton Hall Preparatory School by a score of 12-1 under the mercy rule. The boys fencing team was the épée team winner in 2013, 2014, and 2016. Former Montclair High School fencing team captain (and U.S. Olympic men's fencing team alternate member) Alen Hadzic was temporarily suspended from competition June 2, 2021, by the United States Center for SafeSport, due to allegations against him of rape and other sexual misconduct, and disqualified from participating in the Tokyo Summer Olympics the following month unless his suspension is overturned; he was also formerly suspended from Columbia University for a year based on a sexual misconduct investigation against him. The girls fencing team was the épée team winner in 2016, 2017, and 2018. The girls' field hockey team won the North II Group IV state sectional title in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1990, and won the North I Group IV title in 2003, 2004, 2010, 2012, and 2014. The team won the Group IV state championship in 1980 and 1985. The 1980 team finished the season 13-3-3 after winning the Group IV title with a 3–0 win against Toms River High School North in the tournament final at Mercer County Park. The football team won the North II Group IV state sectional championships in 1983, 1994, 1996, and 2002, and won the North I Group V state title in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017. In 2014, the team won their third consecutive North I, Group V state title, with a 26–14 win against Passaic County Technical Institute in the final game of the tournament, played at MetLife Stadium. In 2017, the team won the North I Group V state sectional championship, the program's eighth state title, with a 35–14 win against Union City High School in the tournament final. In October 2008, a Montclair High School football player, Ryne Dougherty, died as a result of a brain hemorrhage in a football game. The school's football rivalry with Bloomfield High School was listed at 19th on NJ.com's