The AL Johnson High School football Crusaders improved to 5-1 by squeaking past the 4-3 Delaware Valley Terriers in Frenchtown on October 10. After yielding a touchdown in the fourth quarter, the Crusaders stopped a two-point conversion of claim a 21-19 victory.The Crusaders stuck almost entirely to...

Aware of the very stiff competition they would be facing when the No. 2 West Essex Knights strutted into Gary Kehler Stadium on September 29, the field hockey Blue Devils wanted to, at least, hold their own. And they did for a while until the big Knight machine just wore them down en route to an 80 ...

The No. 9 Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys soccer team really turned up the volume to blast the 7-3 Rahway Indians, 4-0, on their own field on September 30. The very next day at the same venue, in a continuation of a game that was postponed, the Raiders went to the limit with the New Providenc...

An interception on their very first series hinted that the winds of misfortune were against them when the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School football Raiders hosted the JFK-Iselin Mustangs at Perry Tyson Field on October 3.And those winds remained in that direction while the Mustangs galloped to a 33...

Backs against the wall, playoff hopes on the line and trailing by one point with just 0:35.9 remaining in the game, the Cranford High School football Cougars had to figure out how to pull a rabbit out of their hats when they kicked off to the Rahway Indians at Memorial Field in Cranford on October 3...

Tables turned drastically on the Westfield High School football Blue Devils when they hosted the Hillsborough Raiders on “Senior Day” at Gary Kehler Stadium in Westfield on October 4. After the Blue Devils struck quickly for two touchdowns by the midpoint of the first quarter, the Raiders turned the...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINThe Montgomery High School soccer Cougars quickly found out that they were vastly outmatched when they faced the No. 4 Westfield Blue Devil girls at Gary Kehler Stadium in Westfield on September 30, and left the field with a 6-0 defeat. The 5-5 Cougars spent nearly the ent...

Just one day after suffering its first loss of the season in three games (26.24, 24-26, 25-22) to the Governor Livingston Highlanders, the Westfield High School girls volleyball team was taken to three games but prevailed, 18-25, 25-16, 25-14 over Sparta on September 19. The Blue Devils were expecti...

The St. Thomas Aquinas Trojans (STA) gymnastics team repeated as the team champion of the 23rd Annual Cougar Invitational held at Cranford High School on September 25. The team won with a meet record score of 111.850. The record was previously set in 2009 by the Westfield Blue Devils at 111.20.The T...

As the noise from the sidelines and stands descended into silence, senior Emma Schwarzenbek stepped up to take the corner with the game on the line. With one breath, Schwarzenbek took the shot, but after a scramble at the goal, she managed to find another gap that sent the ball to the back of the ne...