Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates’ Twamley met high expectations

    WEST WINDSOR: Pirates’ Twamley met high expectations

    Running back helped South finish 10-1 By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    At the end of the 2006 football season, West Windsor-Plainsboro High South football coach Todd Smith knew he had a huge hole to fill with the graduation of record-setting running back Ryan Lupo.    He also knew he had a perfect candidate in mind to…

  • PRINCETON: Hun’s Ellis provides spark off bench

    PRINCETON: Hun’s Ellis provides spark off bench

    Raider girls remain unbeaten after latest big win By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Sporting one red sock and one white sock, Jah-Leah Ellis checked in for the Hun School girls’ basketball team in its Mid-Atlantic Prep League opener against Lawrenceville on Tuesday.    In an instant, the senior forward’s socks were a whir of pink.…

  • PRINCETON: Hun’s Ellis provides spark off bench

    PRINCETON: Hun’s Ellis provides spark off bench

    Hun School senior Jah-Leah Ellis drives to the basket for two of her 13 points during the Raiders’ 75-27 win over Lawrenceville on Tuesday. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • PRINCETON: Recreation Basketball Results

    PRINCETON DILLON    Brian Gurski scored 15 points to pace the Mavericks to a 30-25 win over the Warriors in the 4th/5th Grade Boys Division of the Princeton Recreation Dillon Youth Basketball League. Andre Cole and Kevin Kanter added six points in the win, while Michael Dowers had 16 points for the Warriors.    In other games, Sam…

  • PRINCETON: Rossi to face Young in Princeton’s Greatest final

    Nina Rossi, the holder of four Princeton High School girls’ swimming records, has advanced to the finals of the Princeton High’s Greatest Athlete contest, where she will take on former basketball and football star Darius Young. In a contest with record-setting voter turnout, Rossi received 59 percent of the vote to defeat former basketball star…

  • MONTGOMERY: Fox is playing big role

    MONTGOMERY: Fox is playing big role

    Montgomery High’s Matt Fox (left) battles Hillsborough’s Chris Korenozuk for the puck during the Cougars’ 10-0 win on Friday. Staff photo by John Keating

  • WEST WINDSOR: Knights look for lift from Taneja

    Senior dealing with injury By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    The West Windsor-Plainsboro North girls’ basketball team figured to have a different look after graduating 1,000-point scorer Kathy Ruiz, top shooter Megan Pisani and top defender Danielle Parisi.    There’s no way the Knights also wanted to make do without Deeksha Taneja.    The senior guard’s surgically…

  • MONTGOMERY: Fox is playing big role

    MONTGOMERY: Fox is playing big role

    Junior assists MHS offense By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Matt Fox figured that the Montgomery High School ice hockey team would have more offensive success this year, but 19 goals in two games?    ”I didn’t think we’d score this much,” said Fox, a junior center who scored a goal in the Cougars’ 10-0 win…

  • WEST WINDSOR: Pirates counting on junior duo in sprints

    Dixon-Anderson, Huang look ready By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    If the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys’ swim team is to contend for Mercer County and Colonial Valley Conference titles, it will have to have new contributors in the sprints.    The Pirates graduated Hugh Le and Steve Park and Alex Lee transferred to Peddie. A pair…