It may have taken 46 years to get back on the top rung but the fourthseeded ALJohnson High School baseball Crusaders did it in style against the second-seeded Union Catholic Vikings at Kean University in Union on May 18. The 18-4 Crusaders got a one-hit, two-walk, two strikeout performance from Vinc...

The Westfield High School girls lacrosse Blue Devils got a golden opportunity to give their reserve players plenty of playing time when they hosted the 13-6 Princeton Tigers at Kehler Stadium in Westfield on May 21. The Blue Devils stuffed five goals in the first quarter and did the same in the seco...

Two very different outcomes happened when the Westfield High School softball team hosted the No. 12 Watchung Hills Warriors on May 18 then traveled to Livingston to face the Lancers on May 20. The highly powered 21-3 Warriors scored 11 runs within the first three innings then tacked on another to cl...

Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINWorking overtime paid off only to the visitors when the Morristown Colonials squared off with the Westfield girls lacrosse Blue Devils at Gary Kehler Stadium in Westfield on May 12. With the score knotted, 66, the Colonials struck gold in the first overtime to claim a 7-6 ...

Containing the firepower of their first two batters would be key for the sixth-seeded Westfield High School baseball Blue Devils when they hosted the 14th-seeded Union Farmers in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament in Westfield on May 13. Blue Devil sophomore pitcher Ian Dickey was...

Panthers from Bridgewater-Raritan arrived in Westfield ready to pounce and discovered they needed that early jump on May 16. The Panther softball team scored three runs in the top of the first inning, three in the third and two more in the fourth to take an 8-2 lead but had to limit a Blue Devil com...

An early scoring jump turned out to be necessary for the Cranford baseball Cougars when they faced the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders in Scotch Plains on May 14. The Cougars, who defeated the Raiders, 4-0, at Memorial Field in Cranford two days earlier, scored six runs in the first two innings but ha...

Junior Maddie Bogart has been a terror on the mound for the past two weeks and not much has changed when the fourth-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team hosted the fifth-seeded Cranford Cougars in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament in Scotch Plains on May 12. Bog...

Warming up with a somewhat modest 3-0 first-quarter lead, the thirdseeded Westfield High School girls lacrosse team caught fire in the second quarter with a 7-1 run and just cruised to a 17-2 victory over the sixth-seeded Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders on May 4. The game was actually contested at Sco...

Union Catholic sophomore pitcher Brooklyn Daikalo went the distance and limited the eighth-seeded Westfield softball Blue Devils to seven hits and one walk, while striking out nine to lead the ninth-seeded Vikings to a 7-1 victory in the second round of the Union County Tournament in Westfield on Ma...