Photos at goleader.com Ballhoo Sports Control of the face-offs definitely put theAL Johnson High School boys lacrosse team in the driver’s seat during a game against the Cranford Cougars at Memorial Field in Cranford on April Fools Day. However, it was no joking matter despite having the lion’s shar...

History in the making was on tap when the 15th-ranked Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys lacrosse team marched into Gary Kehler Stadium to match “sticks” with the 11thranked Blue Devils in Westfield on March 28. Initially the outcome seemed as if it were going to be the same as in the past but t...

The guns were loaded and ready to fire in the season opener between the Westfield High School baseball team and the AL Johnson Crusaders in Westfield on March 28. But all the ammunition on this day belonged to the Crusaders, who bombarded the Blue Devils with 14 hits en route to a 14-0, five-inning ...

Intense desire and the return of the proper offensive and defensive tools, along with two very solid mound aces could guide the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team to success once again this season. Two years ago, the Raiders came oh so close to winning the Union County Tournament (UCT) ...

A “nothing is going to stop me now” attitude paid off for the Westfield High School girls lacrosse team last season. Despite the graduation of two super athletes, Abi Mokrzycki and defender Erin Hazard, the attitude remains and the Blue Devils are looking to have another great season.Last season, th...

Achieving all of their goals was a little more difficult for the Cranford High School wrestling Cougars this season. With a vacancy at 106-lbs and a temporary vacancy at 215-lbs, the Cougars had to make up ground in their other slots and still managed to claim their 11th-consecutive Union County Tou...

Misfortune from the start had the Westfield High School wrestling team scrambling to figuring out how to make the best of some gaps in the upper weight classes. With the loss due to a football injury of senior Stevens Tech bound Jake Zemsky, who placed eighth at 190-lbs in the NJSIAA Tournament at A...

AL Johnson High School girls basketball Head Coach Joe Marino has been named Union County Conference “Coach of the Year”. Two Union County teams finished in the New Jersey top-20 with the New Providence Pioneers ranked 11th and the Westfield Blue Devils ranked 14th.Marino headed the Crusaders for 10...

Aidan Luccarelli hit the jackpot, going 4-for-4 with a triple, double, RBI, two runs scored and two stolen bases as the Scotch Plain-Fanwood High School baseball team unloaded on the Union Farmers, 9-3, on March 28. Winning pitcher Alex Bolton in five innings, allowed six hits, three runs, three wal...

Operating in high gear from the start may be the very jump start that the Westfield High School softball team would need this season to be successful in a county that will, once again, be loaded with a number of very competitive teams.Last year, four freshmen and a sophomore were inserted into the s...