UNION COUNTY, NJ — The two teams in the lead for the top seed in this month’s 68th annual baseball Union County Tournament, Cranford and Governor Livingston high schools, are both scheduled to play a team they lost to the first time around. Cranford is scheduled to host New Providence High School on Thursday, May […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — The gold standard in Union County baseball for some time now has been set by Cranford, Governor Livingston, Westfield and Scotch Plains–Fanwood high schools. Since 2009, only those four schools have been able to capture Union County Tournament championships. The 68th annual UCT is scheduled to be seeded on Monday, May […]
CRANFORD, NJ — While its brand of baseball has not reached the brilliant bar yet, Cranford High School’s baseball team began the week with a 4-0 record as it continued Union County Conference competition. The Cougars, defending Watchung Division champions, improved to 5-0 overall and 3-0 in the Watchung Division after defeating Arthur L. Johnson […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The Cranford High School softball team, coming off an outstanding 24-6 season that included the program’s first Union County Tournament championship since 2010, will find out a lot about what kind of team it has this week. The Cougars, who challenged state power Immaculate Heart Academy in the LaRezza Invitational at Immaculate […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The present and future of Cranford High School wrestling ventured south to Atlantic City as some of the best wrestlers in New Jersey. It was a fitting tribute to another highlight-filled season for the Cougars, one that included a seventh-straight Union County Tournament championship, another Union County Conference–Watchung Division title and a […]
CRANFORD, NJ — How challenging will Region 4 wrestling be at North Hunterdon High School? Nine Cranford grapplers will make the field that much more difficult. Cranford High School continued a highly successful season by placing four champions, two second-place finishers and three third-place qualifiers at the District 13 competition that took place last weekend […]
CRANFORD, NJ — For the second time in 15 days, Cranford High School junior wrestler Dylan McDonald came through with a big win against the same Westfield High School opponent, senior Sergio Cabrera. On Saturday, Feb. 5, in front of a packed house in Westfield’s gymnasium, it was McDonald beginning the 215-pound bout with a […]
CRANFORD, NJ — In the past quarter of a century, there have been three Union County wrestling dynasties. The third one continues to roll along, escaping the clutches of all who attempt to grab the headlines away from it. On Sunday, Jan. 23, in Clark — at the two gymnasiums housed at Arthur L. Johnson […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Denied an opportunity last year due to the pandemic to attempt to join Brearley (2006-2011) and Roselle Park (1997-2003) as the only wrestling teams to win the county championship seven straight seasons, Cranford is still hoping to win the county title for the seventh consecutive time. While COVID-19 pinned down last year’s […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Basketball teams can’t wait to play that first game in December, the week before the holidays, after a long first month of practice. Because COVID-19 put Cranford on hold all of last week, it must have seemed like a trip back to the preseason for the Cougars, who got five games in […]