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,...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINThe Scotch-Fanwood High School boys ice hockey team posted another banner season by finishing 10-1-1 in their division, winning the Kelly Cup and finishing with a 21-3-1 overall record. Additionally the Raiders recorded 10 shutouts and outscored their opponents, 106-37.The...

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...

St. Peter’s Prep (SPP) claimed five individual champions at the Region 4 Wrestling Championships in Union on March 6-7 and five Union County matmen managed to win titles in their quest to make noise at the NJSIAA Tournament that runs from March 12 through March 14 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City ...

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...

Two Union County rivals battled for the team title at the District 16 Championships held at Cranford High School on February 28 but in the end the title was earned by the Rahway (R) Indians over the Cranford Cougars. Both teams claimed five championsin the 14 weight classes but the Indians gathered ...