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...

Heavy artillery began early from one team and continued throughout in a shortened baseball game between the Summit Hilltoppers and the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders at Scotch Plains on May 4. All the firepower, including four home runs, a triple and two doubles, came off the bats of the Raiders in a...

Six unanswered goals which led to a 9-1 second-quarter run, extinguished any thoughts of a possibly stunning upset when the sixth-seeded Cranford boys lacrosse team faced the thirdseeded Westfield Blue Devils in the quarterfinal round of the Union County Tournament (UCT) at Gary Kehler Stadium in We...

Total dominance on the part of the Union Catholic Viking girls and boys had a number of teams scrambling for second place in the Union County Tournament Track & Field Championships at Hub Stine Field in Plainfield on May 7-8. The Viking girls finished with a total of 221 way ahead of the Cranford Co...

A rough start of this past week for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood baseball team began with losses to the visiting Roxbury Gaels (6-5) on April 27 and the hosting Oratory Prep Rams (9-3) on April 28, but things smoothed out well when the Raiders romped over the Rams (11-2) at home on May 1 then shut out ...

Winning the Waterman Division was not much in question when the No. 6 Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys lacrosse team entertained the Warren Hills Blue Streaks in Scotch Plains on April 29. Within a few minutes of the first quarter, it became quite apparent that it would be a rout as the 12-1 R...