WF’S IVES, LABIN 2 HITS EACH; CR’S BENDERT 2 HITSLate inning errors added plenty of suspense in the showdown between the Cranford High School baseball team and the Westfield Blue Devils at Bob Brewster, Sr. Field in Westfield on April 24. Trailing 4-3 entering the top of the seventh inning, the Coug...

ALJ - CONFORTI 10 K’S, YANNI 3-4; WF - PUGLISE 2-4Effective pitching has guided the AL Johnson High School softball team on the right path recently. While visiting the Blue Devils in Westfield on April 16, a very strong seven-inning, 10 strikeout effort on the mound by Cassie Conforti, along with so...

MARSHALL KEY TAKEAWAYS; COYLE, LAM, GERNE ON ‘O’One Top-5 ranked team after another plus a few others strutted into Gary Kehler Stadium this season and every one stumbled out with a loss. On April 4, the Blue Devils stunned the Summit Hilltoppers, 5-3, knocked off then No. 1 Seton Hall Prep, 10-9, o...

WF - SULLIVAN, CESTERO, IVES; SPF - BELLISTRI ON ‘O’It sure did not come easy when the Westfield High School baseball team hosted the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders at Bob Brewster, Sr. Field in Westfield on April 16. Trailing 4-2, the Raiders showed that they had plenty of Moxie by plating two runs ...

WF’S DEMETER, HYLAND, O’BRIEN, SCHEINER MAKE NATIONALS IN 4X100; DEMETER WINS HIGH JUMP AT 5-6The Union Catholic boys broke a meet record in the triple jump and the Viking girls shattered the meet record in the shuttle hurdles and the 4x100 at the Blue Devil Classic Relays at Gary Kehler Stadium in ...

Winning pitcher Joe Paccione recorded six strikeouts in five innings as the Cranford High School baseball team bounced the Bayonne Bees, 102, on April 16. But one day later, it was the Oratory Prep Rams, who stung the Cougars, 7-2, in Cranford.Against the 4-4 Bees, Brayden Fry whacked a home run, si...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team rolled with its fourth-straight win with a 16-0 rejection of the Union Catholic Vikings on April 16. The next day, was quite different as the Raiders bowed to the Brearley Bulldogs, 9-1, but on April 18, they rebounded to stop the New Providence Pi...

TheAL Johnson High School baseball team plated six runs in the second inning en route to a 9-0 shutout of the Roselle Catholic Lions on April 17. Winning pitcher Nick Donofrio recorded 11 strikeouts. and Justin Zdeb went 4-for-4 with two RBI, while Rob Gallagher went 2-for-3, with a walk, three runs...

The Parsippany Hills High School boys lacrosse team handed the AL Johnson Crusaders their first loss of the season, 13-8, on April 17. Parsippany Hills improved to 2-3, while the Crusaders slipped to 6-1.Rob Tyra led the Crusaders with four goals and an assist. Matt Robertazzi finished with two goal...

Having ceded five goals in the third quarter, the Westfield High School girls lacrosse team answered with five goals to edge Immaculate HeartAcademy, 9-8, on April 16. On April 18, the Blue Devils fell to the Madison Dodgers, 12-10, but rebounded to defeat the North Hunterdon Lions, 11-5, on April 2...