The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys volleyball team was expected to be one of the top dogs in the hunt for No. 1 but the Raiders did experience some moderate wobbling throughout the season. Any kind of wobbling, however, was stabilized in the final six games of the season and the Raiders beca...

Expectations of a battle of the “Big Cats” turned out to be more or less a one-sided affair when the thirdseeded, 4-1, Cranford Cougars 12U baseball team faced the top-seeded, 5-0 Chatham Cougars for the Cal Ripken Jr. District 12 Championship at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on June 27. While his te...

throwing error, Crofton scribbled a single up the middle and Zibel walked to load the bases. Perrotta struck out Tyler Black and got Lucas Pick to ground out back to the mound. In the Cranford second, Pick made a fabulous diving snag in centerfield to keep the Cougars off the board then the Millers ...

Long time Coming! But this season, the AL Johnson High School Crusaders baseball team had all the equipment for success. With an experienced pitching rotation and a lineup that kept plugging away, the Crusaders scored double figures in 10 games, derailed a perennial powerhouse twice, won their first...

STANDINGS: 50+ A DIVISION: A TEAMS W L T Douglas VW 14 1 Angry Joe’s Apparel 11 4 Rocky’s Bar & Grill 8 6 Phenomenal Boyz 7 750+ B DIVISION: TEAM W L Terawulf 7 8 Echo Tap & Grille 7 8 Dowling’s Tavern 6 9 Thirsty Turtle 4 10 Sonia’s BCE 2 13Dowling’s Tavern 18, Sonia’s BCE 8 Sonia’s bright spot in ...

LEAGUE STANDINGS: TEAM W L T St. Vincent 7 0 2 St. Ignatius 5 2 St. Justin 5 3 St. Sebastian 4 3 1 St. Wolfgang 4 4 1 St. George 4 5 St. Anthony 3 4 St. Francis 2 6 St. Augustine 0 7St. Justin 5, St. George 3The Thursday evening Brookside Park game saw St. Justin defeat St. George in a pitcher’s due...

60+ DIVISION: TEAM W L Swan Hotel 16 0 Awnings Galore 11 5 AJ Jersey 11 5 Deegan Roofing 11 5 Linwood Boys 9 7 Kenilworth VFW 7 9 Rocky’s Bar & Grill 6 10 Yogi’s Boys 4 12 Debellis Associates 1 15Swan Hotel 19, Awnings 11In a showdown between the league’s first- and second-place teams, Swan Hotel ov...

One very competitive showdown after another certainly kept the Westfield High School girls lacrosse team on its toes this season. The Blue Devils kept jockeying for positions with numerous top-10 teams, winning some crucial ones and losing some crucial ones; but in the end, they won the Stars & Stri...

Lessons learned well paid off for the third-seeded Cranford 12U baseball Cougars in their rematch against the second-seeded Millburn Millers in the Cal Ripken Jr. District 12 semifinal game at Gumbert Field 2 in Westfield on June 24. Unlike their previous 8-6 loss to Millburn on June 20 when they yi...

Shades of glory and shades of disappointment highlighted the Westfield High School baseball team’s season. The Blue Devils had a promising five-game winning streak early on but were dampened with a five-game losing streak then traded wins with losses to finish 5-7 in the Union County Conference Watc...