Not overly happy with its performance last year with an 8-4 record in the Union County Conference Watching Division and 14-11 overall record, the Cranford High School baseball team was determined to achieve higher goals this season and it certainly did. Despite having a 7-7 record in the first half ...

Very effective pitching and timely hitting allowed the AL Johnson High School softball team to be on the top side of many one-run games this season. The Crusaders won six of seven one-run games, recorded nine shutouts, won the UCC Watchung Division (11-1 record) and captured their third-straight Cen...

Getting organized after graduating a devastating 1-2 offensive punch, along with several additional scoring threats, may have taken a while for the Westfield High School (WHS) boys lacrosse team this season. As always, the Blue Devils had to battle with top-10 teams all season long, and had a bumpy ...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys volleyball team was expected to be one of the top dogs in the hunt for No. 1 but the Raiders did experience some moderate wobbling throughout the season. Any kind of wobbling, however, was stabilized in the final six games of the season and the Raiders beca...

Expectations of a battle of the “Big Cats” turned out to be more or less a one-sided affair when the thirdseeded, 4-1, Cranford Cougars 12U baseball team faced the top-seeded, 5-0 Chatham Cougars for the Cal Ripken Jr. District 12 Championship at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on June 27. While his te...

throwing error, Crofton scribbled a single up the middle and Zibel walked to load the bases. Perrotta struck out Tyler Black and got Lucas Pick to ground out back to the mound. In the Cranford second, Pick made a fabulous diving snag in centerfield to keep the Cougars off the board then the Millers ...

Long time Coming! But this season, the AL Johnson High School Crusaders baseball team had all the equipment for success. With an experienced pitching rotation and a lineup that kept plugging away, the Crusaders scored double figures in 10 games, derailed a perennial powerhouse twice, won their first...

STANDINGS: 50+ A DIVISION: A TEAMS W L T Douglas VW 14 1 Angry Joe’s Apparel 11 4 Rocky’s Bar & Grill 8 6 Phenomenal Boyz 7 750+ B DIVISION: TEAM W L Terawulf 7 8 Echo Tap & Grille 7 8 Dowling’s Tavern 6 9 Thirsty Turtle 4 10 Sonia’s BCE 2 13Dowling’s Tavern 18, Sonia’s BCE 8 Sonia’s bright spot in ...

LEAGUE STANDINGS: TEAM W L T St. Vincent 7 0 2 St. Ignatius 5 2 St. Justin 5 3 St. Sebastian 4 3 1 St. Wolfgang 4 4 1 St. George 4 5 St. Anthony 3 4 St. Francis 2 6 St. Augustine 0 7St. Justin 5, St. George 3The Thursday evening Brookside Park game saw St. Justin defeat St. George in a pitcher’s due...

60+ DIVISION: TEAM W L Swan Hotel 16 0 Awnings Galore 11 5 AJ Jersey 11 5 Deegan Roofing 11 5 Linwood Boys 9 7 Kenilworth VFW 7 9 Rocky’s Bar & Grill 6 10 Yogi’s Boys 4 12 Debellis Associates 1 15Swan Hotel 19, Awnings 11In a showdown between the league’s first- and second-place teams, Swan Hotel ov...