Game taking place at Woodbridge for the first time
When discussing Cranford football the past two seasons many people were aware of the accomplishments of lineman Will Fries and quarterback Jack Schetelich. The 2016 graduates have moved on to the next level, playing in the next state west of us now, with Fries at Penn State and Schetelich at Villanova. However, a lot more […]
The myCentralJersey.com Snapple Bowl XXIII is Thursday, July 21 at 7 p.m. at Woodbridge High School, with the annual All-Star Football Game between Union County and Middlesex County just-graduated gridiron standouts taking place at Woodbridge for the first time. Middlesex County has won the last four games and nine of the last 10 and leads […]
The Benedictine Academy softball team produced its best season this year, reaching a state championship game after capturing the program’s first sectional title. The Green Bees, coached by Johnson 2012 graduate Alison Meagher, won the Non-Public, South B championship by beating the third seed (Wardlaw-Hartridge), the second seed (Mater Dei) and the top seed (Wildwood […]
One of his team's bright spots in June 20 Underclassmen Game at Kean
UNION – Summit junior left hander Will Schaffer was someone that head coach Kevin Zaleski counted on this season. His efforts on the mound and at the plate helped the Hilltoppers produce another winning season at 14-11, while Summit also won the Union County Conference’s Valley Division championship for the third time in four years, […]
MOPs are Essex County infielder Anthony Giachin of Newark Academy and Union County catcher Dan Baroff of Governor Livingston
UNION – After six and a half innings the Union County All-Stars were down by nine runs. Essex County scored three in the top of the third and then two more in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. Union County finally broke through for two runs on errors in the bottom of the seventh to […]
The 7th annual Essex-Union Underclassmen All-Star Baseball Game is set to be played tonight – Monday, June 20 – at Kean University’s Jim Hynes Class of 1963 Stadium in Union. Two players have been added to the Union County roster, including pitchers Vin Doren of Governor Livingston and Tim Geissel of Scotch Plains. Doren, a […]
What will most likely be the No 1 goal for the Johnson and Benedictine softball teams next year? That would be to try their hardest not only to get back to state championship games, but come out on top next time in 2017! Highly-successful and quite memorable championship-filled seasons came to a conclusion for both […]
UNION COUNTY BASEBALL (1 team) STILL ALIVE IN SECTIONAL PLAYOFFS: PLAYING ON FRIDAY, JUNE 3 PUBLIC FINAL NORTH 2, GROUP 3 (1): Cranford 4-Cranford at 2-Somerville UNION COUNTY SOFTBALL (4 teams) STILL ALIVE IN SECTIONAL PLAYOFFS: PLAYING ON THURSDAY, JUNE 2 OR FRIDAY, JUNE 3 PUBLIC FINALS NORTH 2, GROUP 1 (2): […]
Here’s a look at all of the baseball Union County Tournament champions and the pitchers of record and also the Greater Newark Tournament championship scores: UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS: 2016: Governor Livingston 3, Scotch Pains 2 WP: Vin Doren. LP: Marc Occhipinti. 2015: Cranford 3, Gov. Livingston 1 WP: Pat Knight. LP: Ethan Frohman. 2014: […]
The baseball and softball Union County Tournaments have reached the semifinal stage, with softball set to compete first. On Saturday, April 30 at Linden’s Memorial Fields (Flanagan Field complex) the semifinal games will be played at the same time – 3 p.m. – on the two fields. On the top side of the bracket it […]