Sophomore righty Feeney - in a 4-inning effort - earns the mound victory in relief
ROSELLE PARK – Heading into the bottom of the seventh of Saturday’s Roselle Park Dad’s Club Baseball Invitational clash against South Jersey power Steinert, Cranford had batter Nos. 6, 7 and 8 due up. Up to that point they were a combined 0-for-6. If the Cougars, down three runs, were to pull off a […]
Starter Kimmel earns win to improve to 2-0; Lashuk picks up a save
SPRINGFIELD – The baseball season is like a blur. Games played on consecutive days blend into each other with a bit more important ones in between soon forgotten with the next day’s first pitch. So we stop for a brief moment to acknowledge two teams off to 5-0 starts, the leaders of the Mountain Division […]
BERKELEY HEIGHTS – After having lost twice in two games to New Providence last year in clashes that right hander David Gelormini pitched, host Governor Livingston kind of expected somewhat of an uphill battle Sunday against the visiting Pioneers when facing Gelormini once more. The GL baseball team managed to score three runs off Gelormini, a senior, […]
Highlanders have downed Plainfield and Elizabeth so far
So far so good for a Governor Livingston baseball team that has the highest aspirations this season. Goal No. 1 would be to play up to its capabilities. GL began Wednesday with a matter-of-fact 12-1 win at Plainfield and then followed that up Thursday with a more-than-convincing 16-1 Union County Conference-Watchung Division home triumph over […]
After somewhat surprisingly reaching the North 2, Group 1 championship game last year after a rocky 3-7 start, the RosellePark baseball team has aspirations of winning the section again this year – which would be for the first time since 2011. A major stumbling block is Dayton, with RosellePark falling to the Bulldogs in last […]
Five UnionCounty girls’ basketball teams won at least 20 games this season, with three of them also capturing Union County Conference championships. Roselle Catholic set a program record for wins in a 25-2 season that included a fourth straight Watchung Division crown and sixth consecutive league title. For the first time the Lions finished undefeated […]
UnionCounty boys’ basketball was well-represented, once again, among the best hoops in the state of New Jersey. For the first time in seven years and for the sixth time overall UnionCounty had two of the six state champions in the Tournament of Champions and for the first time neither was the Union County Tournament champion. […]
Group 4 champion Tigers conclude 27-5, Non-Public, B champ Lions finish 21-10
State championship seasons – campaigns to certainly remember and cherish for a long time – came to a conclusion last Thursday for the Linden and Roselle Catholic boys’ basketball teams. In the Tournament of Champions semifinals at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, third-seeded Roselle Catholic was first edged by second-seeded Newark East Side 46-45 […]
PISCATAWAY – Linden couldn’t make their outside shots – the Tigers missed 37 of their first 46 field goal attempts – continued to miss layup after layup and trailed almost the entire first half. Yet Linden was behind underdog Trenton by just one point at intermission. “They controlled the tempo in the first half, we […]
Public school state championship games are Sunday at Rutgers
Win and advance. Celebrate briefly and then move on and prepare for your next challenging opponent. That’s the case for Union County boys’ basketball teams Linden, Roselle Catholic and the Patrick School of Elizabeth as all three seek to stay alive Tuesday night. Linden advanced to the North 2, Group 4 final for the second […]
