Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINThree days of athletic fury boiled down to the NJSIAAWrestling Championships held on March 14 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City and of all the top-8 placements, only 14 individuals would be able to earn the privilege of standing on the top podium. Two Cranford High School...

The Westfield High School girls ice hockey team balanced wins with losses this season but came out slightly on top to finish with a 10-8-2 record. The Blue Devil girls also finished with a 5-3-2 record in the Cohen Division.In their season opener, the Blue Devils got out-skated by Trinity Hall, 3-0,...

A pair of impressive winning streaks highlighted the AL Johnson High School boys basketball team’s success this season. The Crusader boys opened the season with a six-game winning streak then three games later added a seven-game winning streak en route to an 8-4 record in the Union County Conference...

Sophomores comprised the starting five this season for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raider girls basketballteam that finished with a 7-18 record. Of the top-eight Raiders on the squad, six were sophomores and the other two were juniors.The Raider girls began their season with three-straight losses - Un...

Featuring a very young and inexperienced team it would be quite apparent that it would be a rough ride for the Westfield boys basketball team to compete in a county that would have four or five teams constantly ranked in the top-20 and a few others clinging on the fringe. The Blue Devils had a key p...

Huge turnaround could definitely define the Cranford High School boys basketball season.After suffering with a dismal 7-19 overall record last year, the Cougars had high hopes this season and for a very good reason when they won the Union County Conference Valley Division with a 10-0 record and went...

After topping West Orange, 56-52, in the semifinal, the No. 12 Westfield High School girls basketball team’s magnificent run came to an end at the Group 4 Championship held in Jersey Mike’s Arena at Rutgers University on March 14. Lenape took a 179 lead after the first quarter then held on to secure...

Competing in Union County, particularly against Watchung Division teams that always seem to have four or five teams ranked in the Top-20, has been a difficult chore for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood boys basketball team this season. The Raider boys had a 5-2 record outside of the county and finished wit...

LANE 20 PT, 10 RB; LOGAN 17 PT, 10 RB FOR DOUBLE D’sExpecting to nearly duplicate the results of their last encounter, the second-seeded Westfield High School basketball Blue Devil girls had a high degree of confidence when they hosted the 11th-seeded Union Farmers in the semifinal round of the Nort...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINDefense at its best made it very difficult for either team to light up the scoreboard in a North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 girls basketball quarterfinal game against the fourth-seeded Cranford Cougars and the fifth-seeded Chatham Cougars at Cranford on March 2. In the end...