Category: sports/hillsborough_beacon

RAIDER ROUNDUP by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    Hillsborough High girls’ basketball coach Jim Reese is making a habit out of reaching milestones.    Prior to last week’s home game vs. Watchung Hills, the team honored Reese for accumulating 300 career victories as a varsity head coach. Reese won his 235th game as the HHS girls’ head…

YOUTH BASKETBALL    The sixth-grade Raiders boys’ A travel basketball beat undefeated Westfield in the Montgomery League. The team has won their last 14 games earning a record of 14-1.    The team traveled to North Brunswick and Montgomery and came away with two great wins, especially beating an undefeated team from Westfield. Westfield came to extend…

Davia, Carnes, Ksiezopolski, girls’ relay win by John Beisser, Sports Writer    Both the Hillsborough High boys and girls turned in third-place finishes in the Skyland Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships last Sunday at Lehigh University.    The boys’ team had aspirations of going home with the title, but absorbed a blow when Jason Walton won…

GYMNASTICS NEWS    The Paramount USAG Level 8 and 9 optional teams continued their competition season at the Winter Bowl Invitational at Atlantic Coast Gymnastics in Sewell on Jan. 27.    The Hillsborough Level 8 teammates had another fantastic meet winning the first place team award with a score of 110.125. Competing from Hillsborough were Amanda Curry,…

HHS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK by John Beisser, Sports Writer    For the past two years, Angela Davia was dwarfed by the giant shadow cast by Taryn O’Connor, one of Somerset County’s best female throwers ever. For the past two years, she finished second in the Skyland Conference Championships, with O’Connor taking home first place medals.…

Team regroups to make playoffs by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    The Hillsborough High wrestling team missed a great chance to make history last week. Thanks to a dominant performance in Saturday’s quad meet at Emerson, the Raiders will get another chance to produce a new milestone in the Central Jersey Group 4 playoffs.    Hillsborough (13-8)…

Team suffers earliest exit in over a decade by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    The streak is over.    For the first time in 13 years, the Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team will not reach the Somerset County Tournament semifinals. It’s been quite a run for veteran head coach Jim Reese and his program, which has appeared…

Team enjoys first win streak of season by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    The Hillsborough High girls showed Saturday that even when they’re not having their typical dominant basketball season, they’re still dangerous and effective in the Somerset County Tournament.    Playing a preliminary round game for the first time in head coach Jim Reese’s 14-year tenure,…

HHS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK by Rudy Brandl, Sports Editor    Kaitlin Capriccio has been the one steady force on this year’s Hillsborough High girls’ basketball team.    The Lady Raiders haven’t enjoyed their usual successful season, but the HHS senior power forward has remained consistent. Capriccio has hit double figures in four of her last six…