CENTRAL JERSEY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Local high school sports news from The Times of Trenton

• Koschek not only measured by wins
Her reign has transcended the eras from when the programs were being born through to today's thriving girls soccer scene. Sandy Koschek was there at the beginning and 400 wins later she is still here.

• Twamley picks Penn football
The lure of matriculating at one of the most prestigious business schools in the country sold West Windsor-Plainsboro South senior tailback Dave Twamley on attending the University of Pennsylvania.

• Dudeck, Coleman lead Hun past L'ville
FOOTBALL

• Felcone finds 'Cure' in Ewing win
FIELD HOCKEY

• Lebak's late tally lifts Peddie past Steinert
GIRLS SOCCER

• WW-P North boys take eighth
ROUNDUP

• WW-PN's Rosa sets state mark
HOLMDEL -- Joe Rosa was warming up for his race when he and his teammates jogged to the finish line to catch a glimpse of Brett Johnson's winning time as he came across.

• Leone sets record in Notre Dame win

• Bound Brook rallies past Robbinsville
FOOTBALL

• Dearden helps Ewing gain first triumph

• GIRLS TENNIS LEADERS

• GIRLS TENNIS SPOTLIG HT
Head coach Joan Nuse never knows who will show up for her Hun School tennis team. This year, she was pleasantly surprised by two international students, who fit right into the second- and third- singles positions.

• Hopewell Valley scores early in victory
BOYS SOCCER

• ND, Hightstown in scoreless tie with Clark, Byrne
GIRLS SOCCER

• Nottingham blanks Hightstown

• Peddie is its own worse enemy
HIGHTSTOWN -- After a while, missed opportunities are no longer missed opportunities.

• Yeh-Katz help key WW-PS sweep
ROUNDUP

• Nation's top team rolls to win No. 8
PENNINGTON -- The members of The Pennington School girls soccer team have put their spin on an old idea. For the Red Raiders, it's better to give and receive.

• Balanced attack leads Notre Dame victory
BOYS SOCCER

• FOOTBALL LEADERS

• L'ville-Hun rivalry 'special'

• ND's Koschek gets 400th win
LAWRENCE -- Haley Langton compiled three goals and an assist and Samantha Rosa and Rachel Clark combined to make three saves to give coach Sandra Kos chek, in her 32nd season, her 400th career victory for Notre Dame as the Irish defeated Nottingham, 6-0, yesterday afternoon.

• Notre Dame picks up seventh win vs. PDS, leads division race
FIELD HOCKEY

• PDS not satisfied with shutout win

• Antala's three goals lift Hopewell Valley

• Balance keys PDS girls soccer victory; WW-P South boys win
ROUNDUP

• FIELD HOCKEY SPOTLIG HT
The Ewing High field hockey team was hoping to partake in an event which many people throughout the country participate in around this time of the year:

• Lawrenceville rolls by PDS
FIELD HOCKEY

• SCHOOLS
FLORENCE -- They couldn't blame the downed power lines that snarled traffic in Burlington County but the Florence High girls soccer team was suffering from an energy crisis yesterday. Although the Flashes showed flashes of their former greatness, it was Maple Shade the pulled out a 2-1 double-overtime victory over Florence.

• Allentown's Morolda saw a need and returned to line

• BOYS SOCCER SPOTLIG HT
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Princeton High goalkeeper Steven Hellstern doesn't know what it is like to lose a regular-season game.

• Paul powers Stuart tennis
ROUNDUP

• Scotties win sixth behind Creegan
SOCCER

• Winless TCA seeks a spark amid setbacks
HAMILTON -- It didn't matter to Matt Everette that there was not one substitute on the Trenton Catholic Academy bench to provide any players a rest.

• Peddie shakes up rankings

• BOYS CROSS COUNTRY LEADERS

• GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY LEADERS

• Montgomery tied for second at SCT
ROUNDUP

• No stopping pain-free Provost

• On the rise, Notre Dame hands Stuart first loss

• Princeton boys improve to 6-0
SOCCER PRINCETON BOROUGH -- Anastcio Perez scored off a pass from Corey Marsh with 21:25 remaining in the second half and Princeton High's unbeaten boys soccer team held on for a 2-1 win over Pennington yesterday.

• Vanderhoff nets 3 in ND's sixth win
FIELD HOCKEY

• Weight lifted, Allentown confident for more wins
One would think it would be almost pointless for a team that had lost 29 consecutive games entering this season to practice the victory formation.

• WW-P North is no longer a Sleeper

• Laurenti family is soccer-rich
Not every family could have two of its members participating in the People to People Sports Ambassa dor Program at the same time. However, the Laurenti family of Chesterfield is no ordinary group.

• Donahue, Savage key win for L'ville
FIELD HOCKEY

• Ferrara helps Caruso gain first Steinert win
HAMILTON -- Pat Ferrara usually plays on the offensive side of the football for Steinert High. Yesterday, on the Spartans' Homecoming Day, he didn't, but made the biggest offensive play of the game.

• Gordon's 85-yard TD run sparks Princeton
PLAINSBORO -- Backed up on its own 15-yard-line in the final seconds of the first half yesterday against West Windsor-Plainsboro North, the Princeton High School football team would have been content just to run out the clock and head to the locker room.

• Hawkey notches 300th career win
GIRLS SOCCER

• Leffler's two TDs spark Hun win
FOOTBALL

• McKenna's grab leads Notre Dame

• Montgomery's Prentice shines at Old Bridge
CROSS COUNTRY

• Pearson carries blueprints for Lawrence win
HAMILTON -- He dreams of a career as an architect. But in the meantime he is helping the Lawrence High football team create another successful campaign.

• SCOREBOARD
FOOTBALL CVC Lawrence 42, Hamilton 27

• Smuckler's goal enough in Princeton Day triumph
BOYS SOCCER

• WW-PS uses hot start to steamroll Trenton
TRENTON -- The West Windsor-Plainsboro South football team began yesterday's Colonial Valley Conference game at Trenton with one thing in mind: attack.

• Allentown runs past Ewing to end slide at 31

• Kley, Hopewell tackle R'ville

• PDS pulls even with George victory
SCHOOLS ROUNDUP

• Potash to coach at Sciences
BASKETBALL

• Princeton's Cen quickly makes mark
The Mercer County Tournament, which concluded on Wednesday, could have been the coming- out party for the new Colonial Val ley Conference freshmen and even the start of a friendly high school rivalry.

• Wins coming for Hamilton
HAMILTON -- Everything ap pears to come at a premium for the Hamilton High field hockey team.

• Robbinsville rolls to seventh straight

• Williams gives HoVal a kick
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP -- There is a theory that says the en trants in a spelling bee never forget the word they misspelled.

• Borajkiewicz goal lifts Lawrence
UPPER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP -- Lawrence High head soccer coach Dave Boggs likes to ro tate his captains before each game.

• Fitzgerald, Steinert too much for R'ville

• Greb's goals lead Robbinsville past Steinert
GIRLS SOCCER

• HIGH FOOTBALL LEADERS

• Hopewell Valley stymies Lawrence
FIELD HOCKEY HOPEWELL -- Katelyn Pagano, Anne Rosenblatt and Cassidy Straniero each struck for a goal and Alexis Walker picked up an assist to lead Hopewell Valley to a 3-0 win over Lawrence in field hockey action.

• Kotowski lifts Princeton to win in 2OT
BOYS SOCCER LAWRENCE -- Senior forward Sam Kotowski converted a pass from Chris Bechler in the second overtime to break the tie for Princeton in a 2-1 boys soccer vic tory over Notre Dame yesterday.

• Lawrence outlasts Robbinsville in girls tennis
ROUNDUP ROBBINSVILLE -- Jen Barrett and Eva Szyszko won a close first set before pulling away in the second set at first doubles, and Anna Janusz and Carmen Chan edged their opponents in two close sets at second doubles to help Lawrence outlast Robbinsville 3-2 in Colonial Valley Conference girls tennis action.

• The Black Sheep defense
It always bothered C.J. McKenna that most of the talk concerning the game of football re volved around the offensive aspect of the game.

• WW-PS tops Peddie in overtime
HIGHTSTOWN -- As the West Windsor-Plainsboro South boys soccer team discovered yesterday, some overtime periods within the borders of Hightstown are more profitable than others.

• MCT GIRLS TENNIS
WEST WINDSOR -- When Carla Crawbuck assumed the girls' tennis coaching position at West Windsor-Plainsboro South this season, some surprises were in store for her. Two seasoned freshmen -- Ammu Mandalap and Sahana Ja rayaman -- joined the team, and the Pirates won the Mercer County Tournament team title yesterday at Mercer County Park. Princeton Day School came in second place followed by Hun, which won the title the past seven years. Princeton and Hopewell tied for fourth place.

• FIELD HOCKEY SPOTLIG HT
What was a messy divorce ap pears to have blossomed into a new relationship.

• Florence wins behind Milosovici
BOYS SOCCER

• Lawrenceville sweeps past powerhouse Moorestown
LAWRENCE -- Emma Levy, Alison Rooney and Betsy Eder-Shile each won their singles matches in straight sets for Lawrenceville as the Big Red defeated Moorestown, 5-0, yesterday in girls tennis in a showdown of arguably the two best teams in New Jersey.

• SCOREBOARD
BOYS' SOCCER PREP Lawrenceville 3, Malvern Prep (Pa.) 2

• Silver moments on the sidelines
BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP -- He's not ready for the gold watch that some employers give to long-term workers. And, he cer tainly isn't ready for the rocking chair.

• Soles' goal lifts New Egypt in overtime
PLUMSTED TOWNSHIP -- Patti Nicholson just rolled her eyes when told how her New Egypt High field hockey team is the benchmark for teams in the divi sion.

• Sorrentino lifts Pennington to win

• Allentown laps up first win of season
HAMILTON -- Much to her chagrin, the 800-meter run is the track and field event in which Christa Bonham has the most suc cess. "It's so long," the Allentown High junior said. "It's like finally, my last lap. And it seems like the whole race is an all-out sprint. But, it's what I'm best at."

• BOYS SOCCER LEADERS

• Hightstown 4-for-4 in shutouts
WEST WINDSOR -- With the tandem of Christa Laustsen and Marissa Segal nullifying West Windsor-Plainsboro South's big scoring threat, Hightstown's main offensive weapon eventually got her chance to make a difference.

• Lawrenceville plans to build off first win
WEST WINDSOR -- It took the Lawrenceville School's football team seven weeks to break into the win column last season.

• Lieb, Keim give PDS key wins
TENNIS

• Mitchell's pair leads Robbinsville past ND
FIELD HOCKEY

• ND's York makes up for lost time

• Notre Dame follows Foley's lead
CROSS COUNTRY HAMILTON -- Shaun Foley ran 16:00 to finish first and lead Notre Dame High's boys cross country team to two victories yesterday at Veterans Park.

• Princeton gains first win behind Davis, Vukasin
GIRLS SOCCER HAMILTON -- Hannah Davis scored unassisted six minutes into the second half and Gabby Vukasin made four saves as the Princeton High girls soccer team beat Not tingham, 1-0, for its first win yesterday.

• SCOREBOARD
BOYS' SOCCER CVC Hamilton 1, Allentown 0

• Steinert collects third victory
BOYS SOCCER

• WW-PN girls' depth worthy of a photo
WEST WINDSOR -- A week after West Windsor-Plainsboro South High's girls cross country team flexed its muscles against five other teams at Mercer County Park's 5-kilometer course, it was WW-P North's turn.

• WW-PN keeps the success rolling

• WW-PS putting pieces together
WEST WINDSOR -- The West Windsor-Plainsboro South High field hockey team continues to befuddle people.

• WW-PS sweeps WW-PN
ROUNDUP

• WW-PS tied up at Hightstown
HIGHTSTOWN -- At the end of yesterday's game at Hightstown High, Brian Welsh didn't look like a happy camper.

• Florence, Partyka top stubborn TCA

• Following the footsteps

• Hopewell's super soph
When last fall's cross country season ended, Hopewell Valley High School boys coach John Zalot sat down with Charlie Yu to discuss 2008.

• R'ville's Statz flops to shutout
FIELD HOCKEY

• Temeh, Vicente key Trenton's third win
SOCCER

• WW-PS volleyball victorious
WEST WINDSOR -- Amy Greenberger recorded nine assists; Andrea Echeverri had five digs, and Deborah Brodsky added three kills and three blocks as the West Windsor-Plainsboro South High volleyball team beat Cinnaminson, 25-19, 25-22 yesterday.