Heavy artillery began early from one team and continued throughout in a shortened baseball game between the Summit Hilltoppers and the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders at Scotch Plains on May 4. All the firepower, including four home runs, a triple and two doubles, came off the bats of the Raiders in a...

Six unanswered goals which led to a 9-1 second-quarter run, extinguished any thoughts of a possibly stunning upset when the sixth-seeded Cranford boys lacrosse team faced the thirdseeded Westfield Blue Devils in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament (UCT) at Gary Kehler Stadium in We...

Total dominance on the part of the Union Catholic Viking girls and boys had a number of teams scrambling for second place in the Union County Tournament Track & Field Championships at Hub Stine Field in Plainfield on May 7-8. The Viking girls finished with a total of 221 way ahead of the Cranford Co...

A rough start of this past week for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood baseball team began with losses to the visiting Roxbury Gaels (6-5) on April 27 and the hosting Oratory Prep Rams (9-3) on April 28, but things smoothed out well when the Raiders romped over the Rams (11-2) at home on May 1 then shut out ...

Winning the Waterman Division was not much in question when the No. 6 Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys lacrosse team entertained the Warren Hills Blue Streaks in Scotch Plains on April 29. Within a few minutes of the first quarter, it became quite apparent that it would be a rout as the 12-1 R...

The Cranford baseball Cougars preferred to score in pairs when they hosted the St. Mary (Rutherford) Gaels at Memorial Field in Cranford onApril 27. The Cougars scored twice in the first, third, fourth and sixth innings to pull out an 8-5 victory. The next day, the 9-7 Cougars came up on the better ...

Sizzling pitching blazing out of the right hand of junior pitcher Maddie Bogart was just too much for the Westfield Blue Devils, who visited Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School for a softball showdown on April 28. Out of the 21 outs recorded, Bogart faced only 22 batters, retiring the first 10 Blue De...

A very disappointing start made it appear that the Cranford High School boys lacrosse team would suffer a humiliating defeat when it hosted the Hillsborough Raiders at Memorial Field in Cranford on April 27. Trailing 4-1, the Cougars scored four unanswered goals in the first quarter then poured it o...

The No. 10 AL Johnson High School softball Crusaders defeated the Jonathan Dayton Bulldogs, 8-5, on April 21. Winning pitcher Cassie Conforti recorded eight strikeouts, while losing pitcher Julie Santangelo recorded nine strikeouts. Two days later, the 12-1 Crusaders stopped the Westfield Blue Devil...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINThree Top-8 ranked boys lacrosse teams battled it out for supremacy at Gary Kehler Stadium in Westfield on April 22 and April 25. First the No. 8 Westfield Blue Devils came within one goal of No. 1 Summit early in the fourth quarter but got outdistanced the rest of the way...