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...

Entering the Union County Tournament with a 9-1 record - no losses in the county - the Westfield High School boys tennis team definitely held the upper hand with four of the five top seeds and a second seed. The Blue Devils made good on all four top seeds and placed third in the other to claim the U...

The Westfield baseball Blue Devils blasted St. Benedict’s, 17-0, in five innings on May 1 then passed Summit, 6-3, on May 2. Winning pitcher Jack Doherty tossed four innings against St. Benedict’s and allowed one hit, while striking out three. Brendan Kelly pitched the final inning and struck out th...

The St. Bart’s Old-timers Softball League held its annual player draft on April 14. In a tradition dating back to the formation of the league, captains selected players from a hat. This format makes it easy to meetplayers from other teams, in what sometimes seems more like a fraternity than a softba...

Recovering well from their 10-inning loss to Scotch Plains-Fanwood on April 25, the AL Johnson High School softball Crusaders edged Colts Neck, 2-1, in the Black & Gold Invitational on April 27 and the Bayonne Bees, 6-1, on April 28. The next day, the Crusaders shut out the Westfield Blue Devils, 7-...