Author: BOB NUSE, Sports Editor

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor For much of its history, the Ivy League’s top basketball rivalry was between Princeton and Penn — on the men’s side. The two programs combined to win all but two league championships from 1970 through 2009. Now it appears that same sort of rivalry is developing on the women’s side.…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Abbey Berloco was much more relaxed heading into this year’s Meet of Champions at the Gloucester Institute of Technology. “I think last year I was more nervous,” the Princeton High sophomore said. “I didn’t know what to expect. This year I was really looking forward to it and had more…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Just over two years into the sport, Annie Hathaway’s progress as a diver has taken her to the top amongst her peers in New Jersey. A freshman at Montgomery High, Hathaway finished second at the NJSIAA state diving championships with a score of 425.05, which trailed only Sophia Peifer of…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Nick Maher was confident heading into the District 5 wrestling tournament last weekend. The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South senior will take that same confidence to Atlantic City for the state championships, which begin tonight at Boardwalk Hall. At last weekend’s Region 5 tournament at Hunterdon Central, Maher defeated Connor Mills…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South track and field program has been tremendously successful throughout its history. Yet throughout that success, no one had ever done what Christina Rancan accomplished last weekend at the NJSIAA Indoor Meet of Champions. Rancan became the first Pirate to repeat as a champion in an…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor In the early years of the program, Johanna Snedeker could only dream of this sort of success for Montgomery High girls fencing. “When we started we had one win a year,” the Montgomery coach said. “This is our 10th anniversary year and each year we have built and built and…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor The West Windsor-Plainsboro High South girls track and field team knew it would need every possible point it could muster to win the Group III state championship. So the Pirates made sure to score just enough to edge Winslow, 38-37, for the state title. “It was a good finish,” said…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor With a year of experience under his belt, Dylan D’Amore heads into this weekend’s Region 5 tournament a different wrestler than he was a year ago. “Last year, to be honest, I walked in and had a big gulp and had an ‘Oh, no’ moment where the crowd was pretty…

By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor When he looks down his bench this year, Mitch Henderson knows he has a luxury a lot of coaches in the Ivy League don’t have. “We have a group between Devin (Cannady) and Myles (Stephens) and Alec Brennan and Jackson Forbes, who gave us solid minutes tonight, we have a…