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...

Strong performances earned the Cranford High School girls the Mountain Division crown at the Union County Conference (UCC) track & field championships in Berkeley Heights on May 1-2. But other strong performances earned the Cougar boys a second place, the Blue Devil girls a second in the Watchung Di...

No team seems to be a shoo-in for the top seed in the upcoming Union County Tournament (UCT). Coming off two of its biggest victories of the season, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood softball Raiders found themselves in a pitchers’ duel and came out on the short end to the Westfield Blue Devils, 3-2, in Wes...

Devastating offensive clout has come to light recently from the Governor Livingston High School baseball team. The No. 3 Highlanders, who have amassed 35 runs in their past two outings, jumped their threegame total to 47 runs when they rumbled over the Westfield Blue Devils, 12-0, in five innings in...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINExpecting perhaps a competitive game with the Old Bridge Knights, who walked into Gary Kehler Stadium in Westfield on April 28 with a 10-0 record, the Westfield Blue Devils decided to pour it on immediately and recorded a 19-1 triumph. On May 2, the Blue Devils traveled to...

The Sparta girls lacrosse team came to Memorial Field in Cranford on April 30 and delivered a 14-5 defeat upon the Cranford Cougars. In the first round of the Union County Tournament on May 2, the seventh-seeded Cougars delivered a 15-3 setback to the 10th-seeded AL Johnson Crusaders in Cranford.The...