sentences:  The boys basketball team won the 2000 North I, Group III state sectional championship as the sixth seed with wins over Northern Valley Regional High School at Demarest, Pascack Valley High School and Northern Highlands Regional High School to reach the championship game and a 54–51 win over the fifth seed, Fort Lee High School in the championship game played at Passaic County Technical Institute.The boys basketball team also captured the 2004 Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association Coviello Division regular season and playoff championships while compiling an 11-0 regular season record, and then defeating Bayonne High School and Hudson Catholic Regional High School in the semifinals and finals respectively.During Union Hill and Emerson's time as Union City's two high schools, the Union Hill Hillers and the Emerson Bulldogs were rivals in athletics.