New Providence, Dayton, Roselle Park, Union Catholic and Roselle Catholic still alive in state tournament play
WESTFIELD – A game that took exactly five minutes less than two hours came down to two pitches. The home team produced on the first one, while the visiting team just missed wrecking the contest on the second. A two-out, RBI-single by Jake Greenberg in the bottom of the fourth scored Liam Devin with the […]
Highlanders and Blue Devils captured one-run semifinal victories Satrurday
38th ANNUAL SOFTBALL UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT FINAL AT KEAN UNIVERSITY’S COUGAR FIELD SUNDAY, MAY 19, NOON 2-Gov. Livingston (14-7) vs. 1-Westfield (17-5) GL pitcher: Senior RH Jordan Robbins (11-5) Westfield pitcher: Junior RH Elena Scarano (12-2) Saturday’s Semifinal Scores at Kean Governor Livingston 4, New Providence 3 Westfield 5, Johnson 4 UNION – Governor […]
Cougars improve to 17-0 with Sunday's victory at Kean
The Cranford baseball team never won the Union County Tournament until 1999. The year before, the Cougars reached the final for the first time in 20 years and fell to Summit. Since 1999, Cranford can’t lose. On Sunday in the 60th annual baseball Union County Tournament championship game at Kean University’s Jim Hynes Class of […]
The Governor Livingston baseball team competes hard every day to put its best product on the field. The Highlanders also care more about just the game. An example of that will be on display Saturday morning at 11 when they host Union County Conference-crossover foe Rahway at Snyder Park in Berkeley Heights in a game that […]
Cranford 15-0 as of Thursday and also ranked second in the state
UNION – Question No. 1: How will Westfield hit Ryan Williamson? Question No. 2: Is Cranford capable of providing Williamson a bit more run support than they have in the past? With Williamson on the mound Cranford’s offense usually doesn’t need to produce a whole lot. In six games Williamson has given up just two […]
Top-seeded Cougars will face 3rd-seeded Westfield in Saturday's title contest at Kean
ELIZABETH – Jack McCaffery slugged a home run in the title contest to help lead Cranford’s JV team to a county championship at Williams Field a year ago. Twelve months later he found himself crossing home plate at Williams Field again – this time for the game’s only run in the bottom of the eighth […]
All 4 Watchung Division squads won their Wednesday quarterfinal games at home
Three games were decided by one run. Two of them went right down to the wire, with the home team scoring a single run to snap a tie and win in its final at-bat. Let’s hope the semifinals are exciting as the quarterfinals were. The 60th annual baseball Union County Tournament moves on to the […]
Sites are Cranford, Scotch Plains, Westfield and Elizabeth, with winners advancing to next weekend's semifinals
If Union Catholic is going to reach the Union County Tournament semifinals for the first time in a long time, the eighth-seeded Vikings will have to knock off top-seeded, state-ranked and undefeated (at the moment) Cranford at Cranford’s Memorial Field to do so. It’s a difficult task, but one that’s not impossible. Just ask Union […]
New Providence is the 3rd seed, Johnson the 4th and Rahway the 5th; After 5 prelim games are completed this week, the 8 first round games are Saturday, May 4
Westfield, seeking its first county championship in 15 years, is the top seed for the 38th annual softball Union County Tournament. The last time the Blue Devils won the title was in 1998 when they were led by senior pitcher Shannon Wagner. Eight years later in 2006 Wagner, as Shannon Norton, guided Cranford to its […]
Union, the sixth seed, hosts 11th-seeded Johnson in one of four games from the bottom side of the bracket
The 60th annual baseball Union County Tournament will continue Saturday with eight first round matchups at the higher seeds. Call school athletic directors for the accurate starting times. The three preliminary round games that must be completed by Thursday or Friday’s rain date include: 19-St. Mary’s, Elizabeth at 14-Roselle Catholic 18-Hillside at 15-Oratory Prep 17-Plainfield […]
