Category: sports/hopewell_valley_news
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WEST WINDSOR: Mercer rowers excel at Royal Canadian
The Princeton National Rowing Association’s Mercer Rowing Club won nine gold medals in Saint Catherines, Ontario at the 133rd Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, the premier summer event for amateur rowers in North America. The club’s performance topped last year’s five gold medals in junior events and was an appropriate send-off for Ted Sobolewski, PNRA/Mercer program…
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HOPEWELL: Hopewell’s Shvets sets a new standard for youthful success at Cryan tournament
In the biggest tennis tournament in the Middle States Region, residents of Hopewell Township came up big. The James Cryan Memorial Tennis Tournament at Mercer County Park features over 360 entries, and Hopewell Valley produced two champions and three finalists. Rising sophomore Brianna Shvets, who has already made her mark as a Colonial Valley Conference…
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HOPEWELL: Player of the Year Cook leads Pennington girls’ soccer honorees
Pennington School alumna Alana Cook, defender on the School’s girls’ soccer team and a member of the recently-graduated Class of 2015, has been named the All-American Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Formerly a boarding student at The Pennington School and hailing from Far Hills, N.J., Cook received the…
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PRINCETON: Cryan celebrates 50 years of success
By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor Jim Cryan didn’t have much time to get to know his father, but playing in and then helping to organize the James E. Cryan Memorial Tennis Tournament helped catch him up. “It was one of the opportunities where I’d get to hear about my father,” said Cryan, who lives…
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PRINCETON: Unlikely duo captures Cryan men’s doubles
By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor Chris Hoeland and Kamala Kannan met for the first time when they were about to play their first doubles match together. Five matches later the two were Men’s Open Doubles champions of the James E. Cryan Memorial Tennis Tournament. “I grew up around the tournament and watched and played a…
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HOPEWELL: E-H 14s fall victim to tie-breakers in Babe Ruth regionals
By Rich Fisher, Packet Media Group The Ewing-Hopewell Babe Ruth 14-year-old All Stars had a great run end on a high note in one sense, but a low note on the other. On Sunday, E-H won its final game of pool play in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Tournament with a 10-4 win over Piedmont, NY. Unfortunately…
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American Legion Post 339’s season end at state tournament
By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor EWING — Sunday wasn’t a day to recap the weekend for the Hopewell Post 339 baseball team. It was a day to look at the big picture. It was a tough weekend for Hopewell, which was eliminated from the New Jersey American Legion State Tournament when it dropped a 6-1…
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Ewing-Hopewell 15s fall just short of Babe Ruth World Series
By Rich Fisher, Sports Editor In the end, the pitching just ran out. In coming within one victory of a trip to the Babe Ruth World Series, the Ewing-Hopewell 15-year-old All-Stars fell tantalizingly short after dropping a 7-3, eight-inning decision to West End, Pa., in Tuesday’s Mid-Atlantic Regional title game in Albany, N.Y. In just…
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HOPEWELL: Ewing-Hopewell 15s Babe Ruth SNJ state champs!
By Rich Fisher, Packet Media Group When pushed to the limit, Ewing-Hopewell pushed back. The result was the first Babe Ruth SNJ State championship since the two leagues combined last year, as E-H defeated West Windsor-Plainsboro 3-1 in a winner-take-all game at West Windsor last Friday. Ewing-Hopewell grinded out close wins throughout the tournament. After…