CRANFORD, NJ – It’s been a week now since North Hunterdon High School sophomore right-hander Chris Sand ended one of the greatest seasons Cranford High School Cougar baseball ever had. Although the defending champion Cougars, who finished 26-1, fell just one game shy of reaching the North 2, Group 3 sectional state championship game for […]
CRANFORD, NJ — When the Cranford High School and Governor Livingston High School softball teams, the two best in Union County, took to their home fields on Wednesday, May 31, they were both seven innings away from playing for a sectional state championship. Second-seeded Cranford, with a record of 24-4 that included an eight-game winning […]
CRANFORD, NJ — If Cranford High School baseball won Tuesday, May 30, and the odds were heavily in favor of the undefeated Cougars, then they will be making their third straight appearance in the North 2, Group 3 sectional state championship game. That contest is scheduled to be played Friday, June 2, at the higher […]
UNION, NJ — Sometimes it’s not as difficult to win when you’re the team everyone is looking to beat. Sometimes the pressure of being considered the best team and earning the No. 1 seed in a tournament is too much for teams to go on and win when expected. But that was not the case […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The quest to repeat as North 2, Group 3 sectional state champs and then win the program’s first Group 3 state championship in a decade continues for the Cranford Cougars baseball team on Thursday, May 25. Cranford High School took care of business in its first state tournament game on Monday, May […]
UNION, NJ – First senior right-hander Sean Woodruff put up seven zeros to keep the game scoreless going into the bottom of the seventh. Then junior Sean Riley led off the bottom of the seventh with a single. Two batters later, freshman Brayden Fry turned out to be the hero for Cranford High School. Here’s […]
CRANFORD, NJ — In order to reach this weekend’s Union County Tournament championship game and have the opportunity to win it for the third straight year, the Cranford High School softball team needed to get past Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School on Monday, May 15, and then either Elizabeth High School or Jonathan Dayton High School […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Who was the last repeat baseball Union County Tournament champion? The Cranford Cougars. That was in 2011, when Cranford High School defeated Governor Livingston High School 14-1 in a final at Kean University that simply got away from the Highlanders, who at the time were still seeking their first UCT crown. Cranford […]
CRANFORD, NJ — When the softball Union County Tournament gets seeded in the upcoming days, expect to see two-time defending champion Cranford High School where it has been in recent years. On top. Cranford, the two-time defending champion, began the week at 12-2 and was still the only Union County school that had not lost […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Cranford High School captured the Union County Tournament championship last year en route to a 25-5 season that also saw the Cougars claim the North 2, Group 3 sectional state crown. What was special about winning the program’s 10th county championship was that it was the first time since 2015 that Cranford […]