Sports Top Stories
By TAPINTO TRI-BORO STAFF
April 9, 2026
BUTLER, NJ - The Butler Bulldogs amassed their first victory of the season on Wednesday, defeating Rutherford in a 11-1 offensive explosion. Kara Morgan led the way for Butler, going 2-3 at the plate with three runs scored and two RBIs. Anabella Cole also went 2-3 at the plate with two runs and two ...
MADISON, NJ - Madison baseball erupted for eight runs in the first inning and never looked back, rolling to a 16-0 shutout win over Hanover Park on Wednesday afternoon.Madison set the tone immediately, sending eight runs across in the opening frame. The Dodgers added four more in the third inning ...
SPOTSWOOD, NJ - The start of the 2025-26 softball season was an exciting one for Chargers pitcher Mikayla Ott. Ott threw a perfect game in the Chargers season opener against Metuchen High School on March 31. Then, in her next start, the senior picked up her second victory against South Brunswick ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ – After leading the Bombers softball team to a perfect 3-0 week, Josephine Vanore has been named the TAPinto Raritan Bay Athlete of the Week.Vanore was dominant in the circle across all three games, tossing complete games in each outing. She opened the week with a strong performance ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ — Baseball is a sport that's full of redeeming features.Ed Budzinski and Chris Loniewski both benefited from the opportunities for redemption that the game offers.Budzinski's two-out RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning gave South Plainfield a 4-3 victory over ...
CEDAR GROVE, NJ - Cedar Grove Baseball Team extended its win streak to four games on Wednesday, defeating Newark Academy 5-2. With the win, the Panthers improve to 5-1. Jack Velonas and John Tzavlakis each had two RBIs. Velonas, Marcus Kuilan, Dominic San Giacomo, Jake Scirica, and Chris Halbert ...
MADISON, NJ — Madison's girls golf team remained unbeaten with a 187-209 victory over Morristown in an eight-hole stroke-play match on Wednesday afternoon.The Dodgers improved to 2-0 with the win, while Morristown dropped to 0-2.Played on a par-36 course in stroke format, the match saw Madison put ...
WASHINGTON, NJ — Watchung Hills continued its dominant start to the season, improving to 5-0 with a commanding 17-4 victory over Warren Hills on Thursday.“We have to continue to stack good days and clean up some things,” said WHRHS head coach Justin Salton. “I thought we did a tremendous job of ...
WASHINGTON, NJ — Watchung Hills continued its dominant start to the season, improving to 5-0 with a commanding 17-4 victory over Warren Hills on Thursday.“We have to continue to stack good days and clean up some things,” said WHRHS head coach Justin Salton. “I thought we did a tremendous job of ...
FANWOOD/SCOTCH PLAINS, – Dayton pitcher Julianna Santangelo gave up just two first-inning runs and struck out 15 batters while hurling a complete game on Tuesday. A performance like that usually ends with a win. But Scotch Plains-Fanwood's starter, Maddie Bogarts, was even better. He also gave up ...
SUMMIT, NJ — A rematch with Westfield awaits Summit on Thursday afternoon, and the Hilltoppers are leaning on resilience forged in a string of early-season nail-biters.“This team has a lot of fight in them,” head coach Kevin Zaleski said prior to the teams’ first meeting earlier this week. “These ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — Sophomore Maggie Quinn reached a milestone in the circle as Governor Livingston rolled to a 16-7 softball victory over Westfield on Tuesday.Quinn recorded her 100th career strikeout and fanned 10 batters over five innings of relief to earn the win. She allowed nine hits and ...
MATAWAN, NJ - Spotswood High School's golf team's three-game winning streak to start the season was stopped on Wednesday by Old Bridge High School. The Chargers lost a tight match to the Knights 174-181. Spotswood's Tyler Jackson tied for the top of the leaderboard with Old Bridge's Jake Babst.
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Junior Connor Blum shot a three-over par 39 to take match medalist honors and senior Eddie O’Neil carded a 41 to finish second to pace Phillipsburg High School to a 169-174 victory over Rutgers Prep in a Skyland Conference boy’s golf match on Tuesday at Quail Brook Golf Course in ...
LITTLE FALLS, NJ - Passaic Valley’s softball team came alive Wednesday, piling up 19 hits in a 16-7 win over Wayne Hills. The Hornets improved to 3-1 overall by scoring in six of seven innings and breaking the game open with a five-run fifth inning. Passaic Valley also added three runs in the sixth ...
COLUMBUS, NJ – Emma Reeves scored five goals to lead Robbinsville to a 10-9 girls lacrosse victory over Northern Burlington on Wednesday.Reeves also won six faceoffs for Robbinsville (3-2), which led, 8-4, after three quarters.Kinsley Franke, Alyson Klinger and Kaitlyn Franke each collected two ...
HOBOKEN, NJ – In a game that was halted after 2 ½ innings, Hoboken's baseball team came away with a 14-0 victory over American History Charter on Wednesday.Mason Blaskewicz, who pitched a scoreless inning, had a hit, drove in two runs and scored one. Jared Pena and Mike Casazza each had a hit and ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Sophomore attacker Kayla Hikade scored a career-high four goals in a game for the second time this season and senior midfielder Lena Carpernter scored twice and added two assists to lead Phillipsburg High School to a 10-6 victory over Immaculata in a Skyland Conference girl’s ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — Near perfection is the only way to describe the opening week of the season for Michael Basile, the senior catcher at Gov. Livingston High School, who has been named the Valairco Heating & Cooling Highlander Athlete of the Week after powering the Highlanders’ 5-0 start ...
SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — The Scotch Plains-Fanwood boys volleyball program delivered on and off the court Tuesday, April 7, by earning a pair of straight-set victories over Millburn at the varsity and JV levels while hosting its first-ever “Blue Out” game in recognition of Autism Awareness ...
BINGHAMTON, NY - The Somerset Patriots were swept by the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in a doubleheader at Mirabito Stadium on Wednesday. The Rumble Ponies won game one by a score of 11-3, while Binghamton’s Jose Ramos hit a walk-off solo home run in the seventh inning to beat the Patriots 2-1 in game ...
BINGHAMTON, NY - The Somerset Patriots were swept by the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in a doubleheader at Mirabito Stadium on Wednesday. The Rumble Ponies won game one by a score of 11-3, while Binghamton’s Jose Ramos hit a walk-off solo home run in the seventh inning to beat the Patriots 2-1 in game ...
HACKETTSTOWN, NJ — The energy at Morrison Field was palpable on Tuesday, April 7th, as the Hackettstown High School girls flag football team hosted its first-ever game on home turf. While the visiting Morristown squad took the win with a final score of 24-7, the evening was a landmark celebration ...
MADISON, NJ — Madison baseball erupted for eight runs in the first inning and never looked back, rolling to a 16-0 shutout win over Hanover Park on Wednesday afternoon.Madison set the tone immediately, sending eight runs across in the opening frame. The Dodgers added four more in the third inning ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ — West Morris baseball broke the game open with a five-run third inning and a five-run fourth to defeat Morristown, 14-2, on Wednesday afternoon.The loss dropped Morristown to 1-4, while West Morris improved to 4-1.West Morris took control right away, scoring three runs in the first ...
SOUTH RIVER, NJ – Carteret rallied from a three-run deficit after five innings and came back for a 5-4 baseball victory over South River on Wednesday.Jose Parra hit a two-run home run in the top of the sixth inning to get the Ramblers back to within one, 4-3.In the top of the seventh, down to their ...
ANNADANLE, NJ – Sandwiched in between a pair of divisional matchups against Ridge, the Hunterdon Central baseball team squeezed in a 5-4 non-division victory over rival North Hunterdon on Wednesday afternoon.Ryan Ganguzza drove in the first run in the second inning on a squeeze bunt, then Nick ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ — Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School graduate Will White is taking the next step in his hockey career, signing a professional contract with the Fayetteville Marksmen of the Southern Professional Hockey League. In doing so, he is believed to be the first player in the program’s ...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, NJ – Hasbrouck Heights defeated Rutherford, 3-2, in a NJIC Meadowlands boys tennis match on Wednesday at the Neal McCarthy Courts in Hasbrouck Heights.Laquan Archibald and Carter Spittle picked up singles victories, while the Second Doubles team also picked up a match victory. ...
CRESSKILL, NJ – A five-run third inning broke open a 3-3 game as Cresskill defeated Hasbrouck Heights, 9-4, in an NJIC Colonial baseball game in Cresskill on Wednesday. Hasbrouck Heights falls to 2-3 overall, 0-2 in the Colonial. Cresskill is now 4-2 overall, 2-0 in the Colonial.Down 3-0 after one ...