Opportunities knocked twice for the Jonathan Dayton softball Bulldogs and they managed to capitalize on the second one, which was just enough to slip them past the hosting Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders, 42, in a regular-season game on May 7. The victory boosted the defending Union County Champion Bu...

The second-seeded Westfield High School boys lacrosse team defeated the third-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders, 8-4, in the semifinal round of the Union County Tournament (UCT) at ALJ High School in Clark on May 8. Two days later, the 12-5, No. 10 Blue Devils stunned the top-seeded, No. 4 Summit...

No mercy was allowed when the third-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys lacrosse team hosted the sixth-seeded Cranford Cougars in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament at Wexler Field in Scotch Plains on May 5. The Cougars had previously defeated seventh-seeded Oratory Prep...

Darby Revock went 5-for-5 with a pair of triples, three RBI, a stolen base and two runs scored to lead the Westfield High School softball team past the Brearley Bears, 13-7, on May 7. A game against the No. 14 Columbia Cougars on May 8 turned out to be a pitchers’ duel in a 2-0 defeat.Against the Be...

The third-seeded, No. 10 Westfield High School girls lacrosse team ousted the sixth-seeded New Providence Pioneers, 18-8, in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament (UCT) in Westfield on May 5. On May 7 in Clark, the Blue Devils had a battle with the second-seeded, No.3 Summit Hilltopp...

The AL Johnson High School softball team recorded its fourth-straight shutout in a row and eight straight win after dropping a 5-2, 10-inning thriller to the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders on April 25. After knocking off the Woodbridge Barrens, 5-0, and the Elizabeth Lady Minutemen, 10-0, the Crusade...

The second-seeded Westfield baseball Blue Devils swamped 15thseeded Rahway, 17-0 in the first round of the Union County Tournament on May 10. The fifth-seeded Cranford Cougars ousted 12th-seeded New Providence, 8-1, and the ninth-seeded AL Johnson Crusaders ousted eighthseeded Summit, 10-0. The seve...

The No. 17 fourth-seeded Kent Place Dragons girls lacrosse team defeated the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders, 14-4, in the quarterfinal found of the Union County Tournament on May 5. In a regular-season game on May 6, the 9-7 Raiders wound up on the short side of a 16-6 decision to 9-6 Mount St. Mary....

Wet field conditions in Westfield had the Westfield baseball Blue Devils hosting the Cranford Cougars at Memorial Field in Cranford on May 6. The change of venue certainly did not affect the Blue Devils as they turned up the volume offensively in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to claim a 9-2 vi...

Competition got more intense when all the Union County Conference teams competed at the Union County Track & Field Championships held at Hub Stine Field in Plainfield on May 8-9. The Union Catholic Viking boys with 107 points and girls at 207 points took top team honors, while the Blue Devil boys pl...