Category: sports/the_princeton_packet

  • Balanced effort gets C-PLL off to 2-0 start

    Balanced effort gets C-PLL off to 2-0 start

    Dalton Sekelsky picked up the win as Cranbury-Plainsboro improved to 2-0 in pool play with a 13-3 victory over North Trenton on Wednesday. Photo by Dennis Symons Jr.

  • WW-P players help earn Carpenter Cup split

    Mercer softball team goes 2-2 in all-star event By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Liz Chudzik and Liz Huttner share more than nicknames.    The West Windsor-Plainsboro South teammates were also members of the Mercer County all-star team that competed in the Carpenter Cup, and both have plenty of softball left this summer and beyond.    Both…

  • Decision to turn pro still has right feel to Garrison

    Decision to turn pro still has right feel to Garrison

    Marvin Pfeiffer Hun School graduate Steve Garrison was just named the Texas League Pitcher of the Week after posting back-to-back wins. Photo courtesy of San Antonio Missions

  • Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year

    Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year

    Caroline Passano helped Stuart Country Day School win the state Prep B championship with strong play on both ends of the lacrosse field. Staff photo by Mark Czajkowski

  • Relaxed Princeton puts together 9-0 win

    Three homers back Dyevich pitching By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    TRENTON — Paul Taylor was confident his team would shake off a tough opening loss in the District 12 Little League baseball tournament.    The key was just to get his players to relax.    One night after suffering a 19-2 loss to Sunnybrae, Princeton looked like…

  • Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year

    Girls’ Lacrosse Player of the Year

    Passano’s all-around play lifted Tartans By Justin Feil, Assistant Sports Editor    Caroline Passano had an idea she was ahead of her Princeton-area peers on the lacrosse field when she moved from Baltimore in fifth grade.    One of her first questions to her new friends at Stuart Country Day School was if anyone played the sport.…

  • Balanced effort gets C-PLL off to 2-0 start

    Balanced effort gets C-PLL off to 2-0 start

    Bats break out in a 13-3 victory By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    YARDVILLE — What Dave Benerofe likes more than anything else about his team is its depth.    And the depth of the Cranbury-Plainsboro 12-year-old all-stars was evident Wednesday night as nine different players scored runs in a 13-3 win over North Trenton in a…

  • Post 218 holds on for needed victory

    Legion team snaps losing skid By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor    Tommy Parker knew his team was desperate for a win.    So once Princeton Post 218 built an 11-1 lead by the fourth inning of Saturday night’s game with Broad Street Park, Parker couldn’t help but feel good.    But, by the time the seventh inning had…

  • Charnin-Aker heading to the ‘big meet’

    Charnin-Aker heading to the ‘big meet’

    David Gonzales West Windsor resident Josh Charnin-Aker, shown here during Stan´ford University’s win over California, will compete in the U.S. Olym´pic swim trials beginning Saturday. Photo by David Gonzalez/Stanford Athletics