After yielding two runs in the bottom of the first inning, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team got very stingy with its pitching, scored twice in the fourth inning and twice in the sixth to emerge with a 4-2 victory over theALJohnson Crusaders in the season opener on April 1. Raider ...

The season opener on April 2 did not work out so well for the Cranford High School boys lacrosse team when the Livingston Lancers inflicted a 162 drudging at Memorial Field in Cranford. Two days later, Montclair Kimberley stopped the Cougars, 1511, then the Summit Hilltoppers topped the Cougars, 17-...

TheArthur L. Johnson High School baseball team offered a Little League Baseball clinic to its future Crusader baseball players on March 29. The clinic, organized by the ALJ Baseball Coaching Staff, was a huge success as baseball players from all ages came together at the state of the art facility to...

MOUND - DOYLE, QUINONES, BATES, BYRNE, CAPOZZOLOThis season the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School baseball Raiders are expected to return all but two of their starting batting lineup and the bulk of their pitchers so a more promising year seems to be directly in front of them.Last year, hovering aro...

LAM, COYLE RETURN ON ‘O’; CARAMANGO IN THE PITMass graduation from last year’s team swings the door wide open for the Westfield High School boys lacrosse team this season. With a schedule that features one Top-20 team after another every year, the Blue Devil boys need to evolve very quickly if they ...

Every season there are approximately 27 varsity sports among the Westfield, Scotch Plains-Fanwood and Cranford High Schools let alone varsity sports at AL Johnson High School.Many of these varsity events occur on the same days and the same times, so it would be impossible for all to be covered by ou...

CESTERO KEY ON MOUND; DAVIS, TRAJKOVSKI ON ‘O’Expectations may be even higher for theWestfieldHighSchoolbaseballteam this season and for a very good reason. The Blue Devils return their entire starting pitchers’ rotation, nearly their entire group of relievers and all but two of last year’s starting...

FAIRWEATHER, McAULIFFE, WALL KEY ON OFFENSETeam turnover through graduation has created an opportunity for many hungry underclassmen to fill the vacant slots for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood boys lacrosse team this season. Although the Raiders do return some key offensive and defense players, they are ...

Cranford, NJ - Congratulations to the UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJ Women’s BasketballTeam who will be competing in the 2024 National Junior Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division II Women’s Basketball Championship. UCNJ defeated Niagara County Community College on March 9 with a score of 72...

CURANOVIC LED PTS, RBS, BKS; LOWE ‘CHIEF THIEF’Vast improvement and the ability to take a lead and keep it worked out well for the Cranford High School girls basketball team this season. Last year, the Cougar girls blew several leads after going into deep scoring slumps and finished 12-13, but this ...