High School Sports

The Franklin High School Lady Warriors basketball team took another step toward defending their state championship March 1 with 74-31 drubbing of the Piscataway High School Lady Chiefs. The win sets up a March 3 matchup against Bridgewater-Raritan for the Section II Group IV semifinals at Bridgewater. The closest Piscataway came to the Lady Warriors was in the opening minutes, …

Franklin High School Junior Diamond Miller did something in three years that took her older sister, Adreana, four: set the all-time scoring record for Warrior basketball. The younger Miller hit that milestone early in the third quarter of the Lady Warriors’ first-round TOC game against East Orange, at FHS on Feb. 27. The Lady Warriors romped over the Lady Jaguars, …

The Franklin High School Lady Warriors basketball team crossed “county championship” off its to-do list Feb. 24 after a drubbing of crosstown rival Rutgers Prep. And they made made history in the process. The Lady Warriors took the program’s first-ever Somerset County Championship with the 68-49 victory over the Argonauts at home. It was also the first time a public …

The Franklin High School Lady Warriors’ basketball team kicked off the 2017-18 campaign with a heartbreaking loss to cross-town rivals, Rutgers Prep. The defending state champions fought until the end, but Rutgers Prep was able to squeak by with a 47-44 win. The win was something of a payback for the Argonauts from last season; Franklin was the only team …

PISCATAWAY – The Franklin High School Warriors football team fell to the Piscataway Superchiefs Nov. 23 in the two teams’ 53rd Thanksgiving Day match-up here. Piscataway dominated the contest, winning by a comfortable 40-14 margin. The Superchiefs scored 33 of those points in the first half. Senior wide receiver Tykey Reinberry supplied Franklin’s only real electricity in the game with …

Camille Gray, an integral part of the Franklin High School Lady Warriors’ 2017 girls’ basketball state championship team, on Nov. 8 signed a letter of intent to attend LIU-Brooklyn. Surrounded by family, friends and her teammates, a smiling Gray signed the document in the FHS library in-between stopping for the many picture requests. Gray said she picked the Brooklyn, NY …

The Bridgewater-Raritan High School Panthers scored on their first possession in the Oct. 20 game against the Warriors, and never looked back. By the time it was over, three Warriors left the gridiron injured, and the Panthers secured a 35-7 victory. The Panthers built a 14-0 lead in the second quarter when Franklin scored on a 30-yard pass from Daley …

A little luck and some tough late-game defense led to the second win of the season Oct. 13 for the Franklin High School Warrior football team, who beat a tough Union High School 14-13. The game boiled down to about the last 1:46, after Franklin’s Dalen Merricks scampered into the end zone from the 2 yard line to give the …

The Franklin High School football Warriors put up a good fight for three quarters of their Sept. 22 game against Westfield High School, but could not overcome the damage done by several costly penalties. The Westfield Blue Devils extended their unbeaten streak to 28 games in the 23-7 win over Franklin, a score that doesn’t do justice to the Warriors’ …

The Franklin High School football Warriors exacted a bit of revenge Sept. 15 in their 42-12 blowout win over the Montgomery High School Cougars. Franklin lost a 13-point lead in a controversial, 1-point loss to the Cougars last year in Montgomery, and it was apparent early on that the Warriors were intent on not letting that happen again. Franklin struck …