Sports

Well, at least the weather was nice. There’s no gentle way to put this, we got whomped. 31-0 was the score when the final whistle blew. The guys played hard, but this just wasn’t their day. Here are some sights of the game.

Middlebush Park was hopping Sept. 15 as the township’s Pop Warner Football teams played their first games on the parks turf fields. Mayor Brian Levine conducted the coin toss for the 11:30 a.m. Midget game, in which Franklin’s Warriors faced the Piscataway Chiefs. More than 300 children participate in the township’s Pop Warner program, making it the largest such program …

Members of Franklin PBA Loca 154 and the five teams of the Senior Softball League faced off in Inman Park Sept. 15 for a charity game benefiting the Franklin Township Food Bank. The PBA team repeated its winning ways from last year, besting the seniors by a score of 21-6. After the game, both sides and their supporters sat down …

Varsity football coach Lou Solomon and co-captain Jameer Outsey give us a two-minute breakdown of how they think the upcoming season will go, starting with the Sept. 12 game against Hunterdon-Central.  

Time is almost up to register for the Franklin Township Baseball League’s Fall Ball season. Registration forms have to be in by Aug. 31. The program begins on Sept. 14, and runs through Nov. 2. Manager and coach volunteers are needed in each division, according to the league’s Web site. Games are played on Saturdays, and practices are scheduled by …