High School

The Franklin High School freshman football team ran all over the Immaculata Spartans Nov. 7, notching a 30-12 win. The win brings the team’s record to an even 4-4, with arch rival Piscataway looming next week. Coach Jamon Dunn credited the win to a total team effort. “It was a team win,” he said. “It was all aspects of the …

The Franklin High School football Warriors scored first in their season-opener against Hillsborough Sept. 12, but the Raiders scored 31 unanswered points in their 38-23 victory. Naj’ear Brown stretched out in the end zone after a 3-yard run to put the Warriors up 7-0. But two long passes and a setup after a blocked Warrior punt led to three scores …

The Franklin High School varsity boys soccer team grabbed its first victory of the season on Sept. 11 with a 1-0 double overtime victory over the visiting Phillipsburg squad. The winning goal came with 7:15 left in the second OT period when junior defensive midfielder Patrick August battled through several defenders and found the net on a point-blank shot. “I …

Kim Kenny, who for the last five years has been the high school and middle school athletic director, has resigned. Kenny said she is taking a position in the Passaic school district. A departure date has not yet been set, Kenny said. In a July 31, 2014 letter to Brian Bonnano, the district’s manager of administrative services, Kenny said her …

Three members of the Franklin High School boys’ and girls’ track teams and a high school wrestler were honored June 2 at the FHS Winter/Spring National Signing DayCelebration. Girls’ track team members Christina Abiola, who will attend LongIsland University; Danielle Delgado, who will attend Syracuse University and boys’ track team member Joshua Lockhart, headed to the University of Connecticut, as …

Members of the Franklin High School 1994 football team gathered May 24 at the Imperia on Easton Avenue to relive their state championship season. The event was organized by Robert Edmond and Dwayne Chiles, and featured members of the team’s coaching staff, including head coach Joe Goerge. The 1994 team’s success was all the more sweet for the players because they …

The Franklin High School freshman baseball team was on both ends of lopsided games over the past few days. On May 5, the Warriors crushed Delaware Valley Regional High School 13-1, but was on the receiving end in a 10-0 loss to South Plainfield High School on May 2. In the May 5 contest, the Warriors blew open a 3-1 …

The Franklin High School girls’ basketball team on May 1 finally received their trophy for winning the NJSIAA North Jersey, Group IV Section II state championships. They also received a game ball – which they will all sign – a net from one of the goals in the high school gym and certificates attesting to their accomplishment. “Those certificates are huge,” …

Franklin High School’s freshman baseball team suffered its first loss of the season April 28 at the hands of the Bridgewater-Raritan squad, 5-4. But they didn’t go quietly. Down by three runs when they came to the plate in the bottom of the 3rd inning, the Warriors got on the board when Patrick Pallay scored on a Kenny Millman single. Pallay …

Can anyone stop that Franklin High frosh baseball squad? The freshman team, to date, has defeated Ridge 7-0 and 10-6, Somerville 3-0 and 13-12, Delaware Valley 12-5, Voorhees 21-7, Piscataway 9-3, and, on April 25, Union, 12-2. The freshman squad dominated Union from the start of the 5-inning game. In the first inning after Patrick Pallay reached on an error …