Handling the big man, 6-10, 255-lb Na Jai Hines turned out to be a very difficult chore for the Westfield High School basketball Blue Devils when they hosted the No. 13 Plainfield Cardinals at Westfield High School on January 7. The 5-4 Blue Devils did, however, manage to hold Hines at bay in the fi...

A visit to Cranford High School did not turn out very well for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raider girls basketball team on January 7. The Cougars pounced on the Raiders right off the bat with a 19-6, first-quarter lead and cruised to a 43-26 victory. Two days later, the Raiders gave it a go at Dunn Ar...

The No. 9 Westfield High School boys ice hockey team made it five straight after defeating Summit, 3-1, on January 9 and crushing Glen Rock, 10-0, on January 11. After the Blue Devils victories over the Summit Hilltoppers and Glen Rock, their record rose to 10-2.Against the 6-5-1 Hilltoppers, Aidan ...

The Westfield High School wrestling team put it together to knock off the Governor Livingston Highlanders, 48-29, in Berkeley Heights on January 8. The Blue Devils have won four straight matches to improve to 64, while the Highlanders, who just came off a 46-31 loss to Hanover Park, slipped to 4-4.B...

A competitive meet was expected since the Westfield High School girls swim team rested its two best swimmers, Jane Kavanagh and Brooke McAndrew, in a meet with the Cranford Cougars in Cranford on January 9. As things turned out, the meet was more competitive than expected and the Cougars came up wit...

The Cranford High School wrestling team moved into the Top-20 after a strong performance at a quad match with Phillipsburg, Ridge and Old Bridge in the previous week then on January 8, the Cougars rejected the ALJ Crusaders, 60-17. The next day, the Cougars ran the table in the last five upper weigh...

Out-rebounding, out-stealing and out-defending, along with more success in setting up the offense, placed the Westfield High School girls basketball team in the driver’s seat against the Morris Hills Scarlet Knights in Westfield on January 2. The Blue Devils found immediate success in their short ga...

The Cranford High School wrestling team hosted a very tough quad match on January 5 and managed to come up with a pair of victories and one loss. The Cougars dropped a 3827 match to the 5-0 Phillipsburg Statelines then followed up with an impressive win over the 7-2 Ridge Red Devils (47-26) and the ...

The Westfield High School wrestling team hosted a quad meet and game up big by winning all three matches on January 4. The Blue Devils withered Bloomfield, 43-33, trounced Teaneck, 62-17, then squeezed past West Orange, 36-34.The Blue Devils won eight of the 14 bouts against Bloomfield and at 126-lb...

So far in the season, the Raiders reeled out five straight victories with shutouts over Roselle Park, Westfield, Union Catholic, Elizabeth and Cranford before falling in a 5-2 thriller to the then 6-0 Linden Tigers on December 22.With each team winning a game, the outcome of the match with Linden ca...