The Union County Senior Softball League is planning their 2024 season. We are always looking for new players. We have 50+, 60+ and 70+ age divisions with nearly 500 players participating. For information on the league and how to register, please contact League Commissioner Marty Marks at martinmarks...

The Westfield High School girls and boys swim teams got another golden opportunity to mix in various combinations when the Blue Devils traveled to Union to face the Farmers on January 10. The 5-1 Blue Devil girls glided to a 139-27 victory while the 6-0 Blue Devil boys cruised to a 130-20 victory.Be...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys basketball team defeated the Cranford Cougars, 53-38, in Scotch Plains on January 11. Three days later, the Montgomery Cougars, trailing 37-34, outscored the Raiders, 14-6, in the fourth quarter to salvage a 48-43 victory at Kean University.Against Cranford...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders placed several competitors in the top-6 at the Group 3 Relays held at The Bubble in Toms River this past weekend. In the boys 4x55 hurdles, Chase Hagler, Justin Larkin, Ameen Zubair and Ian Hopkins finished second at 31.87. Hopkins, Blake Jackson, Larkin and Zubair ...

The Pioneer Academy boys basketball team from Clifton visited the Westfield Blue Devils on January 11 and after being battered in the first quarter managed to leave with a 6453 defeat. Three days later, January 14, the Blue Devil boys got a good lead on the South Plainfield Tigers then managed to li...

SLUBERSKY, McDERMOTT, ROTTER & BERARDI WINBad news for the Westfield High School wrestling team arrived early and continued when the Blue Devils hosted the undefeated Rahway Indians on January 5.An injury default by one of the Blue Devils’ best wrestlers in the very first bout allowed the 7-0 Indian...

DALY, CONNORS, MULLER, CHAPMAN WIN VS P-BURGCompeting against some of the best became quite an experience for the No. 19 Cranford High School wrestling Cougars when they hosted a trimeet involving the No. 9 Phillipsburg Stateliners and the Old Bridge Knights in Cranford on January 6. The 5-1 Cougars...

POLLACK 14 PTS (TRIP 3’S), HUNTER 12 PTS (TRIP 3’S)A three-point barrage that began in the third quarter and seeped into the fourth quarter totally turned the intense rivalry game between the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys basketball team and the Westfield Blue Devils in favor of the visitor...

CURANOVIC POURS IN 16 PTS; LOWE, DeLONG 4 ASSTSSolid defense and effective inside passing put the Cranford High School girls basketball team on the direct path to an overwhelming victory over the Linden Tigers in Cranford on January 3. The 4-4 Cougars’ defense allowed the 3-6 Tigers very little oppo...

The 7-1 Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School girls basketball team rebounded from its only loss of the season to the Roselle Catholic Lions by overrunning Montville, 55-37, on January 6. Amanda Baylock led the charge with 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers, while Marin Pecarsky contributed 14 po...