Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • Legion playoffs just out of reach

    Ewing has WW-P’s number By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    HAMILTON — In the end, the better team won.    But West Windsor-Plainsboro made the most of its American Legion baseball season before finally seeing it come to an end on Saturday with a 9-3 loss to Ewing in a playoff game for the league’s sixth and…

  • Rec league celebrates beginning Saturday

    Snyder, Johnson impressed by hoops growth By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Doug Snyder and Dave Johnson were both there from the beginning.    Actually, they were there before the beginning.    ”I remember Mike Riddick coming up to me and asking if there was anywhere for adults to play basketball in a league other than having to…

  • C-P 11s fall inning shy of districts upset

    Baseball team turns corner despite late-game loss By Bob Nuse and Rich Fisher, Sports Editors    What started as a debacle turned into a devastation for the Cranbury-Plainsboro Little League 11-year-old all-stars.    OK, devastation might be too strong a term. But the 11-7, seven-inning loss that C-P suffered to Nottingham on Wasco Field Tuesday night was…

  • Rally gives WW 10s win

    Ignite in final at bat to advance in district By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Jake Nieschmidt was relaxed as he stood at the plate.    He might have been the only one in West Windsor green that wasn’t a little anxious. The 10-year-old all-stars had left six runners on base up to that point, and…

  • Bigger is best for Cal Ripken finalists

    Bigger is best for Cal Ripken finalists

    Andrew Corazza allowed just one hit as the Montgomery 12-year-old Cal Ripken all-star team opened the state tournament with an 11-0 win over Waretown on Friday. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • Bigger is best for Cal Ripken finalists

    Bigger is best for Cal Ripken finalists

    Montgomery 12s stay alive in states By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Montgomery’s two biggest players helped carry them back to a state final.    At 5-foot-11, 200 pounds, D.J. Nozza is already as big as his father. His strength showed in a two-run home run in the first inning for the Montgomery 12-year-old all-stars’ first…

  • Tsos are double trouble for C-P

    Tsos are double trouble for C-P

    West Windsor’s Kyle Siegler slides in safely into home while Cranbury-Plainsboro catcher Austin McGinley waits for the ball during the first inning of West Windsor’s win in the District 12 tournament on Saturday. Photo by Dennis Symons, Jr.

  • Monty bats go quiet in Ripken state loss

    Monty bats go quiet in Ripken state loss

    Greg Kocinski slides safely into second ahead of the tag of Waretown’s Cody Barbato with a stolen base in Montgomery’s 11-0 win to open the Cal Ripken Southern New Jersey State Tournament on Friday. Staff photo by Frank Wojciechowski

  • C-PLL 11s all-stars’ rally comes up short

    Face challenges of losers’ bracket By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Jim Caracappa knows he has a better Cranbury-Plainsboro team than the one that opened District 12 bracket play in the 11-year-old Little League baseball tournament with a 12-7 loss to Bordentown.    ”We made some mental mistakes that could have limited the damage in the early…