High School Sports

Junior Keona Schenck scored her 1,000th point Feb. 19 in the Lady Warriors’ 51-39 win over Gil St. Bernard’s. The contest was the quarter-final game in the Somerset County Tournament. With the win, the Lady Warriors continue their undefeated season to 24-0. The Lady Warriors’ next match-up in the tournament will be against Ridge High School on Feb. 21. Franklin …

Call her “The Heartbreaker.” For the second time in two years, Franklin High School’s Kennady Schenck on Feb. 15 used buzzer-beating heroics to break the hearts of her opponents and snatch a meaningful victory for the Lady Warriors basketball team. The first time came in 2017, when all the then-freshman did was grab a rebound and sink a corner shot …

Senior Diamond Miller’s 22 points powered the Franklin High School Lady Warriors to their 22nd win over Ridge High School on Feb. 13. Miller was perfect in her six trips to the foul line, and added five field goals and two 3-pointers to lead all scorers in the Lady Warriors’ 69-36 victory. Junior Keona Schenck contributed 18 points in the …

The Franklin High School Lady Warriors basketball team – ranked first in the state and 25th in the country – continued its undefeated ways Jan. 31 with a 75-25 drubbing of Watchung Hills Regional High School’s Warriors. The game got away from Watching early on, with Franklin building up to a 24-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. …

With one milestone still just within reach, Franklin High School Lady Warrior Diamond Miller on Jan. 24 reached another when she was picked to play in the 2019 McDonald’s All-American High School basketball game. Miller was named to the girl’s All-Star team representing the East and is the only girl picked of 24 nominees from New Jersey. The All-American game …

The Lady Warriors basketball team upped their early season record to 7-0 Jan. 10 with a 75-22 drubbing of the Immaculata Spartans. The closest the Spartans came in the game was in the first minute or so, when it was tied 2-2. But a 3-pointer by senior point guard Diamond Miller, followed by her field goal soon after, put the …

Dec. 18: The state Division on Civil Rights has been notified of the incident by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, an organization spokesman said. The NJSIAA has also asked officials in both schools, plus the officials at the game, to “submit incident reports,” spokesman Mike Cherenson said in an email. “NJSIAA has notified the Division on Civil Rights …

It wasn’t the prettiest of wins, but a win it was as the Franklin High School Lady Warriors opened the 2018-19 campaign Dec. 14 with a dominant 52-29 over the Red Devils of Hunterdon Central High School. From the moment senior guard Tiana Jackson opened up the scoring early in the first quarter with a jumper from just outside the …

Five individual athletes, a former coach and a team are the members of the Franklin Township High School Warriors Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2018. The honorees were feted during a Nov. 24 luncheon at Franklin High School. This is the second consecutive year that a HOF class has been inducted. Prior to last year, the only year a …

The undefeated Superchiefs of Piscataway High School continued their winning ways in the annual Thanksgiving Day game against the Warriors, besting the home team by a score of 45-14. The game may be the last Thanksgiving Day game played by the two teams, thanks to an expanded playoff schedule instituted by the NJSIAA. Franklin last won the annual holiday matchup …