Patience paid off for the Branchburg (B-burg) 12U baseball team in its third game of Pool B play against Berkeley Heights during the Cal Ripken, Jr. State Tournament at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on July 9. Trailing 3-1 when rain halted the game in the bottom of the second inning on July 8, B-burg...

Early on in the Cal Ripken, Jr. 12U State Tournament, the Branchburg Bulldogs looked to be the team to beat and entered the playoff semifinal round with the only unbeaten record to face the Westfield Blue at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on July 10. The Bulldogs definitely proved that they planned to...

Two teams, the Marlboro Mustangs from PoolAand the Branchburg Bulldogs from Pool B, managed to successfully battle through stiff competition to meet face-to-face for the Cal Ripken, Jr. State Championship at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on July 12. A pair of key defensive plays and a three-run outbu...

60+ DIVISION: TEAM W L T Linwood Boys 12 1 Swan Hotel 13 2 AJ Jersey 10 4 Deegan Roofing 60 7 5 Kenilworth VFW 8 6 Rocky’ Bar & Grill 7 7 Awnings Galore 5 7 Yogi’s Boys 4 11 Angry Joe’s Apparel 1 13 DeBellis Associates 0 11Rocky’s Bar 13, Yogi’s Boys 8 In a game that was threatened by rain Rocky’s B...

Pool play for the Cal Ripken, Jr. 12U State Tournament hosted by the Westfield Youth Baseball League began with a game between the Westfield Blue and the Marlboro Mustangs at Gumbert Field 2 on July 5. The Westfield Blue held a 2-0 lead until the Mustangs reared up and scored seven runs in the botto...

Few opportunities existed when the Cranford Blue 12U baseball team and the Marlboro Mustangs were involved in an intense pitchers’ duel during Round 2 of Pool A play of the Cal Ripken, Jr. State Tournament hosted by the Westfield Youth Baseball League at Gumbert Field 1 on July 6. Neither team could...

Competition this season in Union County softball was particularly very tough but the Cranford Cougars under first-year Head Coach Brianna Capece jumped into the action, had a number of close games, recorded a few impressive wins and finished with a 12-15 record.But adjusting to a lineup without four...

Competition may have been stiffer but the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys volleyball team still managed to assert its dominance in Union County as well as in its section. The Raiders won their seventhstraight Union County Tournament (UCT) title, handed the No. 1 team in the state its only def...

TEAM STANDINGS: TEAM W L T St. Ignatius 6 2 St. Wolfgang 6 2 St. George 5 3 2 St. Anthony 5 4 St. Justin 4 4 St. Sebastian 4 5 1 St. Vincent 2 6 1 St. Francis 2 8St. Ignatius 10, St. Anthony 2 Anthony’s Brian ‘Action’ Jackson tripled in both runs in the first inning. The dynamic pitching duo of Ed F...

History repeated itself for the AL Johnson High School softball team. The Crusaders repeated as Central Jersey. Group 2 champions by defeating the same team and dropped a wild one to the same team in the Group 2 semifinal to finish their season with a 26-4 record.Last year at ALJ High School in Clar...