Scotch Plains - The JCC of Central New Jersey has three swim programs. The Barracudas Swim Team (ages 618) is the competitive team; the Mini-Barracudas (ages 5-8) introduces children to the swim team program, and the IntraCudas (ages 8-18) is the intramural program. The Barracudas are beginning thei...

LEAGUE STANDINGS: TEAM W L T St. Anthony 8 2 St. Vincent 5 4 St. Ignatius 5 4 St. Francis 4 4 St. Sebastian 5 5 St. Justin 4 5 St. George 4 6 St. Wolfgang 2 7St. Ignatius 10, St. Francis 9 A 9-9 tie in the seventh inning was broken by Lou Fraguas’ game-winning walk-off double. Fan-favorite Tony Perc...

Playing the best teams week after week paid dividends for the Westfield High School boys lacrosse team this season. The Blue Devil boys faced seven teams that finished in the Top-10, beat five of them, captured the North Jersey, Group 4 crown, the Group 4 crown and competed in the Kirst Cup champion...

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team really opened the eyes of its opponents this season. The Raiders knocked off a number of tough teams, played in the Union County Tournament (UCT) Championship game and finished with an 189 record.The Raiders opened their season with a 4-2 victory o...

Any hopes of making the playoff round for either team rested on which team would be the victor when the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders matched skills with the Westfield Blue Devils in the qualifying round of the Cal Ripken, Jr. 12U District 12 Tournament at Gumbert Field 1 in Westfield on June 19. Th...

Expectations were very good for the Westfield High School baseball team this season with the return of an entirely capable pitching staff plus an experienced batting order. The Blue Devils lived up to expectations and nearly took it to the limit by winning 12 of their first 13 games, competing in wi...

Perhaps a 13-11 record was not the most glorious season like in the past several years but the Cranford High School baseball team remained very competitive and were involved in a number of games that were decided by one or two runs, which included an 8-7, nine-inning thriller in the Union County Tou...

The Westfield High School softball team found itself on both sides of blowout games and very tense down to the final inning games this season. In a season that featured any one of six teams that were capable of winning the Union County Tournament (UCT) title, the Blue Devils gave it a good shot and ...

Fire power was immense in the early round of the Cal Ripken, Jr. District 12 Tournament when the Westfield 12U team hosted the Cranford 12U squad that was the reigning 10U and 11U champs. The very hard-hitting Cougars banged out 22 hits, including a towering threerun home run off the bat of Ryan Fee...

Team turnover through graduation had created an opportunity for many hungry underclassmen to fill the vacant slots for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood boys lacrosse team this season, so the primary concern of the coaches was to see how the team would evolve facing a schedule that featured some of the stat...