The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School girls volleyball team upped its record to 10-5 with a pair of victories on October 1 and October 2. First, the Raiders down the New Providence Pioneers, 27-17, 25-14, then they outlasted the 8-4 Edison Eagles, 25-22, 23-25, 25-21.Maddy Byrne finished with 12 kil...

The Hillsborough Raiders football team held back the Westfield Blue Devils, 19-13, in Hillsborough on October 4. With the score tied, 7-7, at the half, the Raiders added a touchdown in the third quarter and split touchdowns with the 2-3 Blue Devils in the fourth quarter to even their record to 3-3.Q...

The No. 7 Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School gymnastic team improved to 6-0 with a 105.475-104.375 victory over the 5-2 Westfield Blue Devils on October 1. On the same day, the 2-2 Cranford Cougars defeated the Union Farmers, 103.97594.075.Blue Devil Katherine McDermott recorded the highest all aroun...

The AL Johnson High School football team upped its undefeated record to 5-0 with a convincing 41-13 rout of the 2-4 Governor Livingston Highlanders at Berkeley Heights on October 5. The Crusaders amassed 318 yards rushing on 36 carries, including four touchdowns, while the Highlanders totaled 136 ya...

The No. 5-ranked Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys soccer team elevated its record to 9-0 with a 2-0 shutout of the 2-7 Oratory Prep Rams on September 30. On October 5, the 10-0 Raiders finally found the mark when they went two overtime periods to burn Freehold Township, 1-0.Senior forward Coli...

Leading 14-0 at halftime, the Cranford High School football team’s offense went silent while the hosting Rahway Indians’ offense attempted a second-half comeback at Rahway River Park in Rahway on October 4. However with the score at 14-13, the Cougar defense managed to block the extra-point attempt ...

The Westfield High School boys took first in the Varsity A race at the Shore Coaches Invitational crosscounty meet at Holmdel on October 5. The varsity boys totaled 49 points, while Cherokee was second at 65, followed by Cherry Hill East (CHE) at 68.Lukas Disko (Bridgewater-Raritan) finished first w...

Kent Place was odds on favorites to win its sixth straight Union County Tournament championship but the Summit (S) Hilltoppers and the Westfield (W) Blue Devils still had hopes of pulling off an upset at Donald Van Blake Courts in Plainfield on October 2. Although there was one minor upset, the Kent...

The 7-1 Westfield High School girls soccer team scored two first-half goals to shutout the 4-4-1 Union Catholic Vikings, 2-0, on September 30. However, without a key player in the lineup on October 5, the No. 17 Blue Devils had to battle back from a 2-0 deficit early in the first half to squeeze by ...

Holding up against the returning Union County Tournament champions was an enormous task for the Cranford High School girls soccer Cougars when they hosted the Summit Hilltoppers at Memorial Field in Cranford on October 1. Constant shelling from the Hilltoppers, especially in the first half, yielded ...