CRANFORD, NJ — When the baseball and softball Union County Tournaments are seeded for baseball next week and for softball the following week, both defending champions should be garnering the top seeds. Those would be the Cranford High School baseball and softball squads. The 69th annual baseball UCT has a tentative date of being seeded […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The first two weeks of the season were near perfect for Cranford High School softball. A Union County-best 8-0 start, that includes a leading 3-0 record in the Union County Conference’s Watchung Division, saw the Cougars outscore their first eight opponents by an impressive 70-5 margin. Cranford allowed runs in just four […]
CRANFORD, NJ – Following an important comeback victory on Friday, April 14, at home against division rival Union High School, where the Cougars were six outs away from defeat for the first time this year, Cranford High School baseball veteran head coach Dennis McCaffery explained his team’s 7-0 start this way: “Our pitching has done […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The past two seasons, after capturing the Last Dance Tournament in August of 2020, following no baseball season at all that year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cranford High School baseball concluded highly successful campaigns with a bad taste in their mouths. Two years ago was the controversy regarding the suddenly missing […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — In a rematch of last year’s Union County Tournament championship game at Kean University, Cranford High School hosted Jonathan Dayton High School in one of the 10 Union County baseball opening day clashes on Monday, April 3. All 19 Union County Conference schools opened on Monday, April 3, with defending UCT […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Jordan Chapman got to the podium. Only two more names were announced after his. He’s that close to obtaining his No. 1 high school athletic goal, which is winning a state wrestling championship. The Cranford High School sophomore could become his program’s fifth state champion and first since 2006. With two years […]
CRANFORD, NJ — The Cranford Cougars proved to be just as dominant in the District 13 competition at Cranford High School on Saturday, Fen. 18, as they were at last month’s Union County Tournament at Kean University. Once again, Cranford had 12 of its 14 wrestlers place, with the dozen moving on to this weekend’s […]
UNION, NJ — Last year, the Cranford High School girls basketball team started with a season-opening 39-22 triumph at home against Union County Conference–Watchung Division rival Roselle Catholic High School. This year, it took the Cougars a bit of time to reach the .500 mark and even their record, but they did so on Saturday, […]
UNION, NJ — The Cranford High School wrestling team had six county champions en route to a record-breaking eighth straight team championship. However, without the efforts of grapplers Dylan Jones and Quentin Connolly, who placed third; Michael Tona, fourth; and Alex Mueller, fifth, the Cougars might not have been able to beat out upstart Governor […]
CRANFORD, NJ — For the first time, the Union County Tournament for wrestling will take place at Kean University’s Harwood Arena in Union. Also for the first time, when this competition is complete, a school may have won the team championship for the eighth straight year. Seven-time defending champion Cranford High School, along with undefeated […]