This season’s Union County Conference baseball champions included a repeat state champion, a first-time sectional champ and a team that finished with the second most wins in Union County. Cranford won the Watchung Division for the third straight season and finished with a Union County-best 25-1 record. The Cougars also repeated as North 2, Group 3 […]
Stengel, Benedict, Rettino Jr. in attendance
SPRING LAKE – Get a bunch of guys together in a room at a football reunion and you find out about such things as: “the missed tackle,” “the play” and what player had the prettiest girlfriend, among other stories a bit less appropriate for publication. However, the common thread Saturday night at Spring Lake Manor […]
Williamson tosses 5-hitter to finish 11-0; Bottom order of lineup sparks 3-run 5th inning rally
TOMS RIVER – Down by a run heading into the bottom of the fifth against the biggest underdog in Toms River, there was no way Cranford was going to be denied another state championship. “If we didn’t win this game I probably wouldn’t have lived it down,” said Cranford pitcher Ryan Williamson. While Cranford’s top […]
Because of heavy rain that began Thursday and is expected to continue past Friday night, Saturday’s state champi0nship baseball games involving Cranford and Westfield have been moved to Sunday at Toms River East High School and Toms River North High School in Toms River. Cranford will play Burlington Township in the Group 3 final at 12:30 […]
The Summit and Oak Knoll girls’ lacrosse teams saw their outstanding 2013 state championship seasons conclude Wednesday in the Tournament of Champions semifinals at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. It was third-seeded Summit, the Group 2 champion, falling to second-seeded Shawnee (19-2), the Group 4 champ, 13-12 in overtime in the first semfinal. Then top-ranked […]
Cranford's Grant and Hunter third and fourth in triple jump; Rahway and Roselle among Top 6 teams in boys' 1,600-meter relay
Standout Union sophomore track and field performer Haisha Bisiolu excelled in another Meet of Champions event Wednesday at Frank Jost Field in South Plainfield. The Union County indoor track athlete of the year as chosen by The Star-Ledger, Bisolu placed second in one girls’ event and third in another. Bisiolu was second in the 100-meter dash in 12.12 […]
Cougars, Bulldogs, Blue Devils one win away from reaching Toms River
Westfield was there for the first time two years ago. Cranford has been there four times since 2003. Dayton is seeking to get there for the first time. Where is there? There is Toms River to play for a state championship. Union County baseball will be well-represented in Tuesday’s group semifinals, with three schools coming […]
Bulldogs will next face Pompton Lakes Tuesday at William Paterson in a Group 1 semifinal
SPRINGFIELD – The first time Dayton had two baserunners on, No. 8 batter Robert Kinloch was ready to rev up the Bulldog offense once more. With runners on first and second and one out in the bottom of the second, the lefty-swinging Kinloch hit a shot to the gap in left off Roselle Park lefty […]
Will next face Paramus Tuesday at East Brunswick Tech in a group semifinal
CRANFORD – Going into the sixth inning you could have described the game as bordering on a classic. A low-scoring contest saw the score still tied after both teams survived fifth inning errors. Then after each led off their sixth innings with singles, it was a matter of one not getting the bunt down and […]
Oak Knoll softball falls in Non-Public, North B semifinals
Cranford baseball repeated as North 2, Group 3 champions Friday and won the section for the third time in the past four seasons, while Westfield captured North 2, Group 4 for the second time in three years after not winning it since 1988. On Saturday at Ruby Field in Springfield it will be fourth-seeded Dayton […]