A highly anticipated showdown between the visiting Governor Livingston Highlanders and the Westfield High School baseball team went in favor of the Blue Devils, 125, at Bob Brewster, Sr. Field on April 26. The very next day the visiting, No. 13, 11-1 Blue Devils scored five runs in the top of the fi...

St. Bart’s begins its 46thSeason The St. Bart’s Old-timers Softball League held its annual player draft on April 5. In a tradition dating back to the formation of the league, captains selected players from a hat. This format makes it easy to meet players from other teams, in what sometimes seems mor...

After dropping a very close, 5-4, decision to Westfield, the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School baseball picked up it seventh straight victory with an 11-1, leveling of Glen Ridge in Scotch Plains on April 27 after a 13-4 drudging of Union City on April 25. Two days before, the Raiders nipped the New...

DiSALVO FANS 8; BOGART 3-3, ROOF 2 RBI; DeMARCO HRScotch Plains-Fanwood High School junior pitcher Olivia DiSalvo had work cut out for her when she faced a formidable Cranford Cougar lineup in Scotch Plains on April 26. She did her job well by recording eight strikeouts, while her teammates proved t...

WF’S IVES, LABIN 2 HITS EACH; CR’S BENDERT 2 HITSLate inning errors added plenty of suspense in the showdown between the Cranford High School baseball team and the Westfield Blue Devils at Bob Brewster, Sr. Field in Westfield on April 24. Trailing 4-3 entering the top of the seventh inning, the Coug...

ALJ - CONFORTI 10 K’S, YANNI 3-4; WF - PUGLISE 2-4Effective pitching has guided the AL Johnson High School softball team on the right path recently. While visiting the Blue Devils in Westfield on April 16, a very strong seven-inning, 10 strikeout effort on the mound by Cassie Conforti, along with so...

MARSHALL KEY TAKEAWAYS; COYLE, LAM, GERNE ON ‘O’One Top-5 ranked team after another plus a few others strutted into Gary Kehler Stadium this season and every one stumbled out with a loss. On April 4, the Blue Devils stunned the Summit Hilltoppers, 5-3, knocked off then No. 1 Seton Hall Prep, 10-9, o...

WF - SULLIVAN, CESTERO, IVES; SPF - BELLISTRI ON ‘O’It sure did not come easy when the Westfield High School baseball team hosted the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders at Bob Brewster, Sr. Field in Westfield on April 16. Trailing 4-2, the Raiders showed that they had plenty of Moxie by plating two runs ...

WF’S DEMETER, HYLAND, O’BRIEN, SCHEINER MAKE NATIONALS IN 4X100; DEMETER WINS HIGH JUMP AT 5-6The Union Catholic boys broke a meet record in the triple jump and the Viking girls shattered the meet record in the shuttle hurdles and the 4x100 at the Blue Devil Classic Relays at Gary Kehler Stadium in ...

Winning pitcher Joe Paccione recorded six strikeouts in five innings as the Cranford High School baseball team bounced the Bayonne Bees, 102, on April 16. But one day later, it was the Oratory Prep Rams, who stung the Cougars, 7-2, in Cranford.Against the 4-4 Bees, Brayden Fry whacked a home run, si...