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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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