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The Franklin Township Baseball League ushered in the 2014 season – its 62nd – April 5 with the annual parade from Pine Grove Manor School to the baseball complex on Dekalb Street. Players and their parents marched along Highland Avenue and Franklin Boulevard behind the banners of their respective teams as onlookers cheered from the sidewalk.

Online registration for Franklin Township Pop Warner football and cheer programs has opened. Early Bird discounts, payment plans and sibling discounts are available.

Picture a sport that’s a combination of ice hockey, field hockey and soccer, played in a hockey rink, without skates. That’s broomball.

Parents and players in the Franklin Youth Basketball program got to know each other Dec. 3 at a pre-season “meet-and-greet” pizza party held at the Eternal Life Christian Center, Franklin Boulevard, Somerset. The event was designed to show the participants that the league is “more than just the team your kid is on,” said Ron Jordan, the league’s founder.

The final evaluations for the Spring, 2014 Franklin Township Baseball League are set for 4-7 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Rutgers Preparatory School’s lower gym, 1345 Easton Ave. in Somerset. Participation in baseball and softball is open to residents of Franklin, South Bound Brook and Piscataway.

The weekend of Nov. 22-25 is going to be a busy one for Franklin Township Pop Warner supporters. On Nov, 22, the organization will celebrate its 40th anniversary with an “adults only” evening from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Bridgewater Manor, 1251 Route 202/206, Bridgewater.

Two girls’ teams in the Franklin Township Soccer League won their divisions on Oct. 19 in the North Brunswick Soccer Club’s Spookarama soccer tournament. The league’s The Force (U12) and the Lightning (U13) won their two-game flights in the tournament, in which the athletes dressed in Halloween costumes.

Middlebush Park was hopping Sept. 15 as the township’s Pop Warner Football teams played their first games on the parks turf fields.

Time is almost up to register for the Franklin Township Baseball League’s Fall Ball season. Registration forms have to be in by Aug. 31. The program begins on Sept. 14, and runs through Nov. 2.