Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Senior’s moment caps win

    Kenkelen’s goal boosts North lax By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Senior Day couldn’t have gone much better for Alex Kenkelen and the West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls lacrosse team.    Kenkelen scored the final goal in the Knights’ 19-7 win over Wayne Valley in the North Jersey Group III state tournament opener Saturday. The sixth-seeded Knights…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates are MCT champs

    Chudzik leads softball to first title By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    EWING — Liz Chudzik spoke a little bit like her toughest pitches — hurriedly and jumping from point to point — that had so baffled Allentown.    The senior pitcher was trying to describe the meaning of West Windsor-Plainsboro High South’s first Mercer County…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Knights time on Monday

    Boys lacrosse, tennis take championships By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor West Windsor-Plainsboro High North captured two big championships in a matter of hours Monday. First, the Knight boys tennis team captured its first sectional title when it won the Central Jersey Group III final over Hopewell Valley, 4-1, at Mercer County Park. Barely three…

  • WEST WINDSOR: MHS, Knights baseball fall for titles

    WEST WINDSOR: MHS, Knights baseball fall for titles

    Montgomery High shortstop Mike Friel makes a throw to first during the Cougars’ 4-0 loss to Watchung Hills in the Somerset County Tournament championship game. Photo by Robert Gleason

  • MONTGOMERY: MHS softball wins SCT title

    MONTGOMERY: MHS softball wins SCT title

    Cougars hope to ride second crown into state run By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Just three days before the Somerset County Tournament final, Taylor Zahn delivered a walk-off single for a 2-1 win over Robbinsville on the Montgomery High School softball team’s Senior Night.    Zahn again connected in the bottom of the eighth inning…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Borup has winner in state win

    sick sophomore lifts Pirate girls By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Kendal Borup may not have cleared up whatever she has, but scoring a game-winner certainly had her in better spirits.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro South sophomore missed school two weeks ago, then struggled to make it through the last couple of days. She was sent…

  • WEST WINDSOR: MHS, Knights baseball fall for titles

    WEST WINDSOR: MHS, Knights baseball fall for titles

    Dominant pitchers fell finalists By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Bob Boyce and Peter Mueller had similar weekends. And each would have liked to have it go a little better.    Boyce, the West Windsor-Plainsboro High North baseball coach, saw his team get to play in a minor league ballpark on Friday night. But the end result…

  • MONTGOMERY: MHS boys lax sticks with tradition

    Cougars win third straight SCT By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Greg Ives couldn’t break from tradition.    The Montgomery High School senior scored two goals and fellow senior Rudy Butler made 13 saves for Most Valuable Player honors in the Cougars’ 5-4 win over Bridgewater-Raritan on Sunday for their third straight Somerset County Championship. It…

  • WEST WINDSOR: North volleyball returns to states

    By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    As turnarounds go, they don’t get a whole lot bigger than the West Windsor-Plainsboro North boys volleyball team, and it isn’t done yet.    The eighth-seeded Knights will host No. 25 Wall today in its South Jersey state tournament opener. The Knights were 6-13 last year.    ”I thought we were…