The season ended March 19 for Lady Warriors basketball, but it took the best team in the state to do it. Franklin fell to the Warriors of Manasquan High School 62-52 in a NJSIAA Tournament of Champions semi-final contest, a game that saw the Lady Warriors hold their only lead – by a slim 4 points – for only a few minutes. In …
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Senior Adreana Miller gave a clinic in shooting three-pointers March 17 as she led the Lady Warriors in a 66-38 Tournament of Champions quarter-final blowout of Middletown South in Pine Belt Arena, Toms River. Nearly half of Miller’s 33 points came via the long-distance shot, mostly during the first half. It was back-to-back three-pointers by Miller and Tahira Scott when …
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The Franklin High School Lady Warriors basketball team made history March 15 with an NJSIAA Group 4 championship, the program’s first. The senior-dominated starting five showed the tenacity that now has them in the Tournament of Champions, battling back from several deficits to finally best the Shawnee Renegades, 54-48. That effort was led by senior guard Alexandra Jackson, who scored a career-high …
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It looked bad with 22 seconds left in the 4th quarter. Within the course of about two minutes, the Lady Warriors had blown a 15-point lead in the Group 4 semifinals game against East Orange in Union High School March 12. With 22 seconds left in the game, the Lady Warriors were down 62-61 and the momentum was clearly with …
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The Franklin High School Lady Warriors repeated as the NJSIAA Section 2, Group 4 champions March 10 with a 79-43 victory over Piscataway High School. Three Warriors broke double digits in the win – Adreana Miller with 24 points, Jaeda Wildgoose with 16 points and Mary Trossi with 12 points. The game’s end was marred by a brief altercation between Piscataway’s …
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UPDATE: The sectional finals game against Piscataway has been moved to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, at FHS. The Lady Warriors advanced to the NJSIAA Group 4, Section 2 finals March 6 with a decisive victory over the Westfield High School Blue Devils, 67-56. The Lady Warriors led by as many as 17 points. The Blue Devils were able to cut …
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Coach Audrey Taylor could see the tension in the faces of her Lady Warriors as they stood court side before the Feb. 28 Somerset County championship game against Rutgers Prep. The team had been in this position each of the previous three years and had come up empty. Now, they were playing for a county championship on their home court. “(It …
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She’s already the highest-scoring girls’ basketball player in Franklin High School history, but senior Adreana Miller isn’t finished. “The sky’s the limit,” Miller said Jan. 9 during a break in practice. By the end of just the seventh game of the season on Jan. 8, Miller recorded her 1,066th point, breaking the all-time girls’ record of 1,059 set in 2012 by …
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The Franklin High School boys’ varsity basketball team snapped a 29-game losing streak Dec. 19 with a come-from-behind 48-44 win over Phillipsburg. At one point down by 6, the Warriors fought back in the second quarter to end the half down by 2, 29-27. The second half was all Franklin, with the Warriors outscoring Philipsburg 21-16. The game didn’t have …
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The Piscataway High School Superchiefs extended their Thanksgiving Day winning streak to eight Nov. 27, blanking the Franklin HIgh School Warriors 28-0 on a snowy holiday morning. The Chiefs took the 50th meeting between the two teams in a game marked by a number of personal foul and unsportsmanlike conduct calls against Piscataway. And then there was the snow. The white stuff …
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