After trailing 30-28 entering the fourth quarter, the Summit Hilltoppers girls basketball team nearly shut down the AL Johnson Crusaders’offense to emerge with a 39-32 victory on December 19. Two days later, the Crusaders were stung by the Jonathan Dayton Bulldogs, 43-42, then on December 22, they g...

After winning their opening game of the season against Elizabeth on December 14, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School basketball Raider girls had to face their Westfield Blue Devil rivals on December 19. The Raiders were trailing the Blue Devils, 17-16, at the half but went on a second-half scoring...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys basketball team broke even with a pair of down-to-thewire games that began with a 36-34 topping of the Hillside Comets on December 16. But the Raiders then slipped to 1-2 with a 45-44 setback to the Rahway Indians on December 19.Jack Sponheimer led the Raid...

The AL Johnson High School boys basketball team opened its season with a 73-63 setback to the Brearley Bears on December 14 but bounced back to nip the Dayton Bulldogs, 5450, on December 16.Dean Yellen led the Crusaders against the Bears with a game-high 23 points, including a 3-pointer, to go with ...

The 2-1 Westfield High School wrestling team got back on the winning track with a 57-19 victory over the AL Johnson Crusaders in Clark on December 22. The Blue Devils recorded six pins, three forfeits and one decision.Beginning at 126-lbs, Blue Devil Lukas Surgent received a forfeit then at 132-lbs,...

The Cranford High School wrestling team began it regular-season with a 48-15 victory over the AL Johnson Crusaders at Cranford on December 20. The Cougars were victorious in nine of the 13 contested bouts, while the Crusaders won three bouts by decision and one by fall.In the opening bout of the eve...

BLUE DEVILS CONTI, ROTTER, SLUBERSKI, ZEMSKY WINExperience was just too much when the Governor Livingston High School wrestling team traveled to Westfield to step on the mat against a very young Blue Devil squad on December 20. The 2-0 Highlanders’ veteran squad won eight of the 14 scheduled bouts t...

Trailing 22-12 after six bouts, the Westfield High School wrestling team won the final eight bouts to claim a 55-22 triumph over the Elizabeth Minutemen in the season opener in Westfield on December 15. Seemingly inspired by a gutsy 5-3, overtime victory by Noah Neimiera at 285-lbs, the 1-0 Blue Dev...

RETURN CURANOVIC, DeLONG, DeMARCO, GRADY, LOWEEvolving into a very competitive team began midway through the season for the Cranford High School girls basketball team last year. After a very rocky beginning, winning only one in their first eight games, they began to gel and cruised with a 9-2 winnin...

DISTRICT 16 QUALIFIERS ZEMSKY, ROTTER RETURNMass graduations have opened the door for this year’s Westfield High School wrestling team to present many new faces on the mats. But despite the mass loss from a team that claimed three Union County Tournament (UCT) champions, a Region 4 champ, qualified ...