Zac Troxell scored the Phillipsburg baseball team a big victory Saturday, hitting a two-run walkoff single in the bottom of the seventh to complete a 10-9 comeback win over Hunterdon Central in the Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex quarterfinals. The No. 3 Stateliners will play No. 7 High Point, a 4-1 winner over No. 2 Voorhees, in next Saturday's semifinals. Troxell's game-winner scored Frank Stettner and Alex Lahey, who had driven in the first run of the frame with another single. No

After struggling to pick up divisional wins over the last five years, the Phillipsburg baseball team had a golden opportunity Thursday when it took an 8-2 lead on North Hunterdon in the third inning. It nearly slipped through the Stateliners’ fingers, but then it fell into the glove of a diving Nick McAuliffe. Clinging onto a one-run lead with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, the junior pitcher laid out to snag a squeeze bunt just before it could hit the ground. T

The Phillipsburg baseball team had a flare for the dramatic on Thursday. It was all tied up with North Hunterdon in the top of the seventh when Garrett DuPont scored from third after the Lions threw to first on a dropped third strike. Then, in the bottom half of the inning, North Hunterdon put the tying run on third with one out when Peter Kane laid down a squeeze bunt. Stateliners pitcher Nick McAuliffe leaped from his spot on the mound to snag the bunt just before it hit th

In each of the last four seasons, it took the Phillipsburg baseball team double-digit games to record its fourth win. The Stateliners hit the four-win mark in their 22nd game in 2016, 11th game in 2015, 18th game in 2014 and 16th game in 2013. On Friday morning, in its fifth game of the 2017 campaign, Phillipsburg moved to 4-1 in style. Karrick Stansberry homered, Garrett DuPont and Tom Mandry turned in fine defensive efforts and Nick McAuliffe tossed a complete game four-hit

https://youtu.be/u-7AuiulbtQ Tom Mandry may have a knack for getting hit, but not like this. The Phillipsburg senior shortstop was plunked three times in his first three at-bats against Warren Hills Friday morning, taking the last pitch off the helmet -- in a game that featured a whopping total of eight hit batters. “We’ve been getting hit by a lot of pitches this year," Stateliners coach Dylan Sapir said. "We try to tell our guys don’t be running out of the way — you can’t d

The Phillipsburg baseball team has only played one game so far this season, but Sean Morro has already turned in the heavy favorite for the play of the year. In the Stateliners' opener Wednesday against Immaculata, the junior left fielder chased down a deep fly ball to the warning track, left his feet and made an incredible full-extension diving catch to rob the batter of extra bases. He crashed into the bottom of the fence at the end of his dive, but Morro -- a linebacker on