UNION COUNTY, NJ — The first week of the 2023 high school football season is in the books, with four schools, Linden, New Providence, Rahway and Scotch Plains-Fanwood, all 1-0 and three other schools, Union, Elizabeth and Governor Livingston, starting off 0-1. Returning senior quarterback Tequan Thomas scored three touchdowns, including the game-winner in the […]
CRANFORD, NJ — When you’re talking about one of the most consistent football programs, not only in Union County, but in the entire state of New Jersey for more than a decade, you’re talking about the Cranford Cougars. Cranford High School has produced 13 consecutive winning seasons, 2010 to 2022, and has qualified for the […]
UNION COUNTY, NJ — There were two Union County Conference baseball crossover games this season where the top of the seventh inning proved to be quite crucial. Eventual Mountain Division winner Summit High School was three outs away from handing eventual four-peat Watchung Division champ Cranford High School its first loss on Wednesday, April 19. […]
CRANFORD, NJ — There was simply nothing that this year’s Cranford High School softball team could not do, accomplish or achieve. The Cougars repeated as the Union County Conference’s Watchung Division champion. Cranford then captured a third straight Union County Tournament championship, pulling off the feat for only the second time in program history and […]
CRANFORD, NJ — Winners of the Union County Conference’s Watchung Division title for the second straight season and the Union County Tournament champion the past three years, the Cranford High School Cougars softball team was out to make history this week. After capturing the North 2, Group 3 sectional state championship for the second time […]
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 […]