Three’s a charm! And it certainly was for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School girls basketball team when the AL Johnson Crusaders marched into Scotch Plains on February 21. The 8-16 Raiders just could not miss from long range and battered the basket with nine of their 10 3pointers in the first hal...

The top-seeded, No. 16 New Providence High School girls basketball team jumped to a 33-19 lead heading into the forth quarter but had to withstand a valiant surge by the secondseeded Westfield Blue Devils to earn its third Union County Tournament Championship in four years with a 41-37 victory at Ke...

second period, Berardi escaped, took Gonzalez to the mat and pinned him in 2:35.Berardi, recalled, “I pumped up to 113 to wrestle him at the beginning of the season. He was long, so I was ready for cradles but he wrestled like passive. It seemed like he wasn’t really ready but I was ready to go.’In ...

Warming up with an easy victory over the JP Stevens Hawks set up the second-seeded Westfield Blue Devils swim team with another annual showdown against the top-seeded Bridgewater-Raritan Panther boys for the North Jersey, Section 2, Group A Championship. First, the Blue Devils sank the Hawks, 116-54...

Three individual milestones were attained on February 10 when the top-seeded Cranford High School wrestling team hosted Morris Hills, Roxbury and West Essex for the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 Tournament. The Cougars routed eighth-seeded Morris Hills, 76...

Two-peat was within grasp and twopeat was what they got when the topseeded, No. 18 Cranford Cougars squared off center mat with the second- seeded South Plainfield Tigers for the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 3 Championship in Cranford on February 12. After the first five bouts, Cranford made the 1...

The top-seeded Westfield High School girls swim team had a relatively easy time defeating the fourthseeded Columbia Cougars, 98-72 ( registered score), in the North Jersey, Section 2, Group A semifinal meet at Wallace Pool in Westfield on February 10. The journey was much bumpier in the championship...

The second-seeded Westfield High School girls basketball team made easy work out of the Linden Tigers with a 52-20 thrashing in the first round of the Union County Tournament in Westfield on February 12. The quarterfinal round held at AL Johnson High School in Clark on February 15 had the 19-5 Blue ...

The Westfield High School boys and girls indoor track teams won their respective North Jersey, Section 2, Group 4 titles at The Bubble in Toms River on February 16. The Blue Devil boys finished with a total of 81, while Elizabeth was second at 72. The Blue Devil girls had a total of 76, while Elizab...

The fifth-seeded, No. 19 Westfield High School boys basketball team was hemmed in for one quarter by the 13th-seeded Summit Hilltoppers but came out firing in the second quarter en route to a 58-36 victory in the first round of the Union County Tournament (UCT) in Westfield on February 13. The Blue ...