Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Rivals get revenge

    Knights top Pirates for first MCT lax crown By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    ROBBINSVILLE — The West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys lacrosse couldn’t have scripted their first Mercer County Tournament title any better.    The Knights not only became champions of the first-ever MCT Monday at Robbinsville High, but they did so by avenging their last…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Knights capture first CJ III tennis crown

    First-doubles’ three-set win keys win over Hopewell By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    A good year got even better Monday for the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys tennis team.    The Knights captured their first sectional title when they knocked off Hopewell Valley, 4-1, at Mercer County Park. They advanced to take on North Jersey Group III,…

  • MONTGOMERY: Jumpers on track for MHS

    Package deal has Cougar boys doing well By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Zoran Milich likes to think he got Dane Hagemann and Franny DiMeglio as a package deal.    And what a package it was.    Hagemann and DiMeglio are both seniors at Montgomery High who did not start with the boys track team until their junior…

  • MONTGOMERY: Cougars win first CJ IV crown

    Second doubles delivers critical point By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    The Montgomery High School boys tennis team took the lead from its second doubles team in a 3-2 win over Hillsborough for the program’s first Central Jersey Group IV championship on Monday.    Christian Aurup and Shehab Saad trailed, 5-4, with Hillsborough serving to capture…

  • PRINCETON: Karandikar, PDS tennis win Prep

    First singles seals fifth straight By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Neil Karandikar had been in this situation before, but being at first singles made it just a little bigger.    The Princeton Day School junior won his third Prep B championship – his first at first singles — when he defeated Solomon Schecter’s Ari Smolyar…

  • MONTGOMERY: Athlete of the Week

    Butler leads MHS boys to SCT title By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Rudy Butler was one of the veterans reassuring the Montgomery High School boys lacrosse team that it would be fine if it just got back to the Somerset County Tournament final.    Butler more than followed through to lead the Cougars to a…

  • PRINCETON: Boys lacrosse puts it together

    Hughes leading PHS lax’s transition By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Nick Hughes doesn’t have many games left with the Princeton High School boys lacrosse team.    The co-captain is one of the seniors who will lead the fifth-seeded Little Tigers up against No. 4 West Morris Mendham today in the Group II state tournament quarterfinals.…

  • PRINCETON: Girls lacrosse teams fall in state quarters

    WW-P North, South face off to finish today By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Mondays can be tough enough, and it was especially tough for three area girls lacrosse teams as they were eliminated from the state tournaments.    Princeton High School got off to a slow start, but closed strong. The fourth-seeded Little Tigers came…

  • MONTGOMERY: Cougars claim tennis sectional

    MHS boys edge Hillsborough in rubber match By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor The Montgomery High School boys tennis team won its first Central Jersey Group IV championship Monday with a 3-2 win over rival Hillsborough. The Cougars won the bottom three flights to claim their first sectional title since 1999. Since that Group II…