HILLTOPPER STATE SECTIONAL RUN ENDS IN CHATHAM IN A 3 GAME SLUGFEST

#5 Barringer @ #4 Summit

Summit took care of Barringer 25-10, 25-17 in the Quarterfinals of the N2G3 Tournament.  The win meant that SHS was going to be in the Semifinals for only the third time in their history.

Summit overpowered Barringer from the start, out-killing the Blue Bears 15-2 for the match and held an 18-7 advantage in aces.  In total, Summit out scored Barringer 34-9. 

Game 1 featured the serving attack of Gabbie Guidetti and Meghan Tarashuk who combined for 7 aces and served at a 2.57 rating.  SHS gave up only 1 ace in the game.  The team still hit for 9 kills with Olivia Lawlor and Sara Maldonado hitting for 3 apiece, Erin Vostal for 2 and Annabella Yorio for 1.  

Game 2 was more of the same until the squad got to an insurmountable 20-10 lead and it let up in intensity and execution.  Barringer went on a 7-0 run that saw SHS get called on 1 ball-handling errors and 3 hitting errors to fuel an otherwise ineffective offensive Blue Bear offense.  Summit was forced to call a time out and SHS went on a 5-0 run to close out the match.

Vostal and Kiera Stocks hit for 2 aces apiece and Tarashuk ripped 7 game 2 but the squad gave up 6 aces while only putting up one 3 pass as the team found it difficult to maintain a high level of play.  Vostal hit for 3 of the team’s 6 kills in game 2 while 3 others (Maldonado, Catherine Eldridge and Vivian Roberts) added 1 each.  The win was historic as it had been 9 seasons since the Hilltoppers were last in a state sectional semifinal.  The away trip was to be a short one as their opponent was none other than the Chatham Cougars. 

#4 Summit @ #1 Chatham

Summit knew that the Chatham offense has one of the best hitters in the area and would rely on the junior to carry the offense.  Summit knew that if Kasey Walsh, who has been stellar as the team’s setter running the offense, was in the front row against that hitter, the matchup would not favor Summit.  Enter the player who was originally slated to be the front row setter until a basketball quarantine threw a wrench in the plans,  Olivia Lawlor. The 6’2” junior would provide needed cover against Chatham’s talented hitter and would be setting the most efficient hitters in the rotations so the game plan was set.  Adding the switching of the service rotations to favor the highest scoring athletes from the service line (Meghan Tarashuk and Gabbie Guidetti) was the last piece to a simple plan:  put pressure on their serve receive, touch as many balls as possible with the block defense and run our diverse offense to force them to not be able to key in on any one hitter with their experienced defensive crew.  Summit did not need to out hit them, just needed to force them into errors and easier attacks for our defense to handle.  

In game 1, plan worked to perfection.  Summit only got 7 kills to the Cougars’ 11 but SHS forced Chatham into 6 hitting errors and tallied 1 block while out serving the Cougars to a 3-1 ace count.  The serve receive was outstanding, out passing Chatham 1.92-1.82.  The Hilltoppers also benefited from 5 service errors from their opponents which negated any kill advantage Chatham had held.

Guidetti and Tarashuk pressured the Chatham serve receive with 2 aces and forced numerous errant passes that led to hitting errors.  The block had hands on 6 attacks, blocked 1 and forced other numerous errant attacks.  The net tally between kills earned and opponent hitting errors was 13-13 which, combined with the ace and block advantage for SHS negated the offensive Chatham threat and saw the Hilltoppers stun the home team with a 25-18 game 1 victory. 

Five different hitters tallied at least 1 kill (Vivian Roberts and Annabella Yorio, 2 each), and although the team had difficulty scoring (kill percentage of 25%),  the team was efficient at .179.  The other piece of good news was that although the Cougars were keeping many Hilltopper attacks off the ground, SHS only committed 2 hitting errors the entire game.  Would game 2 be more of the same or would the Cougars improve their serving and hitting error rate? Could Summit continue to play at a near error free rate?

At the conclusion of game 2, SHS was out-gunned 16-6 and in game 2, only 4 Chatham hitting errors appeared on the scoreboard. Summit tallied 2 blocks and hit for another 2 aces which were also matched by Chatham.  Chatham also dropped their error rate to 1 on serves while Summit tallied only three.  Despite the serving numbers, Summit out passed Chatham by a 2.05-1.82 rate, a reflection of the efficacy of the serve receive adjustment made by flipping the rotations but the Chatham defense was up to the task and thwarted 28 of the Hilltopper attacks!  Offense was not the problem, terminating through the Cougar defense was the issue.  

Summit was only able to get as close as 8-11 in game 2 after starting 1-6 but Chatham re-established their dominance late and even though the Hilltoppers got to within 5 after a Walsh ace,  the writing was on the wall as Chatham closed out the game on a 5-3 run for a 25-18 win.  

Game three for the finals of the N2G3 Section.  One game to 25, the continuation or end of a season for Chatham and Summit.  

Tarashuk opened the game with an ace which the Hilltoppers hoped to be a sign of things to come.  A Chatham kill and an ace with a Summit hitting error had the Cougars up 3-1.  An attack rejection by Summit led to a free ball return error and another tough serve forced Chatham into a hitting error to knot things up at 3.  With the score 5-5,  Chatham got a tip kill, an outside kill, and 2 Summit hitting errors to begin to take control 9-5.  Summit responded with a Robert’s kill and a Walsh ace which  lifted the Hilltopper spirits and had SHS again within striking distance.  Despite another kill by the Chatham OH star,  the Hilltoppers struck for an Eldridge kill and forced another Chatham hitting error thanks to a Brennan serve.  Unfortunately, two Summit errors gave Chatham a 12-9 lead but yet again Summit responded, forcing a Chatham hitting error and a huge block by Eldridge saw the Top crawl to within one at 11-12. 

Although the squad fought hard, the tipping point of the game occurred at this point because Chatham grabbed control of the game with a 4-0 run (2 tip kills and an ace by the Cougars, hitting error Summit). The Hilltoppers called a time out and a Chatham serving error followed which led to a Vostal block and kill as the senior captain did everything she could to extend the season.  Score, 14-16.

A net error by SHS reversed a point earned which was followed by a down ball hitting error and Chatham extended the lead to 18-14.  A Chatham attack error forced by a Vostal spike attempt that was saved by the Cougar defenders had SHS back to within three at 15-18 but the Cougars benefited from 4 consecutive errors by Summit under huge pressure to fuel a 7-0 run that closed out the game and match, 25-15. 

Chatham only got 9 kills in the game and Summit forced 5 errors but unfortunately SHS comitted 5 errors as well and could only muster 3 kills of their own.  Both teams scored 4 points on blocks and aces but Summit only received 3 points from Chatham on serving/free ball errors and faults while Chatham was gifted 7.  In the end,  Chatham’s star hitter got 7 of the 9 kills in game 3 and Summit could not break through the Chatham defense.  An outstanding effort against this great team which earned a victory over the Hilltoppers with a career high 18 kill performance by their outstanding OH and out-killed Summit by a 36-16 margin. Summit negated some of this advantage with a 12-7 edge in aces and block totals, specifically with a 5-1 block advantage and a 7-6 ace tally.  

SHS out passed the Cougars 1.95-1.81 for the match.  Chatham avoided serving to Stocks and targeted other passers throughout the match. Stocks only saw 6 serves the entire match while Tarashuk was targeted for 18 (17/18 safe passes, 2.0 rating), Brennan for 10 (9/10 safe, 1.80) and the star was Guidetti, who passed safely 12/12 receptions and had a perfect pass in 8 of those for a team and match leading 2.42 rating. 

The flipping of rotations worked really well with Tarashuk, Guidetti, Vostal and Walsh combined for 45/46 in serving attempts with 6 aces and the team combined 2.07 rating. 

Roberts had 5 of the team’s 16 kills and Eldridge had an insane day with 4 kills on only 8 swings against her toughest defense to date. Seven Hilltoppers notched at least 1 kill and the team generated a season high 91 attack attempts but they were stymied by a tremendous Chatham defense that saw their top three defenders notch 43 digs and their team close to 70.  

What a match, what an effort, what a season! So proud of these girls! So going to miss these seniors! Loved this ride! And it was an unexpected ride! 

To be honest, I did not know this season was going to happen or if it was going to last the entire time.  More to say but I will save it for the celebration. Suffice it to say, I loved everything about this season with you all! And I could not be more appreciative of you, the parents.  THANK YOU!

IRVINGTON BLUE KNIGHTS NO MATCH FOR HILLTOPPERS IN ROUND 1 OF N2G3 TOURNAMENT

The Hilltoppers had a 20-1 kill advantage and an 18-3 ace advantage in a 25-10, 25-8 match victory that propelled the Summit squad to the Quarter-Final match at home on Wednesday versus Barringer High School.

Despite a 22-2 scoring advantage in game 1, the Hilltoppers got out to a slow start and trailed 5-1 at the start after giving up an ace and tallying 4 consecutive hitting errors.  After that auspicious start however,  SHS started to find its rhythm and outscored the Blue Knights 24-5 to wrap up game 1.  Meghan Tarashuk and Gabbie Guidetti led the onslaught with 7 aces and Vivian Roberts and Erin Vostal combined for 8 kills from 9 swings with 0 errors to lead the Maroon and White to a game 1 victory.

Game 2 was more of the same with the Hilltoppers dominating play from the service line and getting outstanding production from their offensive players in route to a 25-8 score.  Summit opened up an 8-2 lead early and never looked back as Irvington could not get any closer than 8-4 before Summit embarked on a 9-2 run that had the Blue Knights reeling down 17-6.  Despite a Hilltopper service error,  the Top closed out the match on another 8-1 run and,  appropriately enough,  ninth grader Zoe Zacharias closed out the match on 2 consecutive aces.  

Zacharias and Vostal led the way from the service line with 6 aces on 11 attempts and only 2 errors and Vostal joined teammate Eva Oberhuber offensively with a combined 6 kills on 9 attempts with 0 errors.  The team was error free in game 2 from an offensive perspective and had 8 total kills on just 13 attempts!  

Kasey Walsh had an outstanding game 1, tallying 12 assists to 5 different players before giving way to the game 2 setting tandem of Zacharias and Olivia Lawlor who tallied for a combined 6 assists.

Erin Vostal again led the Hilltoppers in points with 10 and had a net point total of 9 to lead the Top and 7 other players ended at a positive net point result for the match. 

Next up, Quarter-Finals, Barringer, 5:15pm, Summit High School Gym, Wednesday the 14th of April.

TWO LOSSES BUT TWO STEPS FORWARD AS A PROGRAM

 Varsity went 0W-2L against Union Catholic and Governor Livingston this week.  Despite the results, a lot of positives came out of each match as the squad is going through the process of learning to win in big moments.

The UC Vikings and GL Crusaders came in with numbers and individuals that seemed to indicate that they would have better offensive production than the Hilltoppers and therefore the matches were billed as the experience, talent and depth of UC vs. the multi-pronged offense and size of SHS while the GL match was billed as a matchup of the First Team All-County outside hitters of the Crusaders vs. the multi-pronged offense of the Hilltoppers.  

The underlying message was the same in both cases, the media and the opponents believed that the Hilltoppers would need to prove they could stay with the more talented offensive pool of their opposition.  As the dust settles on both those losses, one thing is clear.  Summit more than held their own from the offensive side of things and from a defensive perspective.  

In total,  SHS struck for 38 kills and UC and GL only for 31.  Summit got 9 blocks and UC/GL got 5 blocks.  The only detrimental number was the ace number,  6 aces for SHS and 14 for UC/GL.  In summary,  the Hilltoppers scored 53 points in the losses while their opposition 50 points.  From a serve receive perspective, despite the ace disadvantage,  Summit passed at a 1.69 rating while UC/GL at a 1.67, nearly identical.  The difference in both matches,  although from different areas of the game,  was the error rate.  UC/GL had 10 hitting errors, 4 service errors and 5 faults called on them, giving the Top 19 points over the 2 matches.  The Lady Hilltoppers had 21 hitting errors, 11 service errors and  9 faults whistled against them, giving their opposition 41 points.  

Gabbie Guidetti and Erin Vostal led the way with 2 aces apiece from the 5 and 6 serving slots and had the highest serve ratings on the team (Vostal 2.36 / Guidetti 2.09).  Guidetti, Kiera Stocks and Sarah Brennan had the bulk of the serve receive work, attempting 67 passes of the 94 total the team faced.  The three defensive specialists passed at a 1.88 rating.  Brennan led the trio with a 50% perfect pass (3.0/3.0) result (12/24) as, combined, the three passers gave Kasey Walsh perfect passes on nearly 42% of all pass attempts allowing the offense to flow in system more often than not,  allowing the senior Setter to tally 36 assists (her highest 2 match total this year) against her toughest opposition.  

The offense was multi-pronged and effective as 6 hitters tallied at least 10 attack attempts in both matches.  The squad hit for 38 kills in both matches combined at a kill rate of 31%.  The efficiency was the issue as the error numbers were also high creating a mere 0.098 efficiency rating.  Summit was led by OH Sarah Maldonado with 12 kills,  Vivian Roberts with 9 kills and Vostal with 8 kills to account for 29 of the team´s 38 total kills.  Maldonado and Vostal were particularly effective for Summit as they hit at not only a high kill % (Vostal - 42.1%, Maldonado - 41.4%) but were also the most effective hitters with their low error rate, earning an efficiency rating of .310 (Maldonado) and .263 (Vostal).  

Defensively,  it is hard to ignore the numbers put up by Stocks who stymied talented offensive players with career performances against the UC/GL offensive stars.  The senior Libero tallied 24 of the teams 72 digs and was accompanied in her defensive efforts by Walsh and Guidetti who combined for 25 digs as well.  

The SHS size was a factor in both matches and forced talented offensive players to have sub-par days as 5 different Hilltoppers had at least 1 block to their name and the block party was led by Catherine Eldridge who,  playing in only one of the two matches,  tallied a team leading 6 blocks for the week.  

From a scoring perspective,  the kill numbers are the easiest path to scoring points,  followed by aces and then blocks.  That fact alone means that the offensive players need to be a net positive in the way of point scoring (points earned vs. points lost) and will score the most points on the team.  The net point total for each player will then determine the most impactful front row player.  By definition then,  setters and especially defensive players will be the least likely to produce points or have a plus number in terms of net point totals so their goal is to have as low of a negative number as possible or possibly be a plus number if they serve.  

The top 3 point earners for the Top for the week against the toughest competition of the year were Maldonado (15), Roberts (13), Vostal (10).  The best net point producers were Maldonado (+8) and Vostal (+7).  There were three players with +1 to follow these two players. Maldonado and Vostal accounted for 41.7% of the total points the team earned but only 12.8% of the points lost.  Outstanding!

In the course of the two matches the three most efficient serve rotations (net points) were rotations five, six and one (Guidetti, Vostal and Walsh servers)  and the most efficient serve receive rotations were rotations four, five and six (Setter in the front in all three) which feature the best 3 passers in receive. 

In summation, when looking at all the errors or faults a team may generate,  the Hilltoppers committed 78 of those errors while the opposition combined tallied 64, a -14 point swing which accounted for the losses in 3 of the 4 games in the 2 matches.

Union Catholic (11-25, 22-25)

                            US                    THEM

Kills                    16                       17

Blocks                 7                         2

Aces                    2                         7

POINTS              25                       26

***Game 2 SHS out-scored UC 17-13 and out-passed them 1.84 to 1.58***

Governor Livingston (21-25, 19-25)

                         US                    THEM

Kills                 22                      14

Blocks              2                        3

Aces                 4                        7

POINTS           28                      24

***SHS had its worst serving day of the season, serving at an 80.5% clip with 8 misses, 7 in first game of the match (68.7% game 1) and ace percentage of only 9.8% (SHS in prior 10 matches: 91.7% with ace percentage of 19.4%) ***

***Summit had 3 players with the same amount of kills as GL´s First Team All-County OH and Maldonado/Roberts had more kills than the entire GL Squad***

In conclusion,  the Hilltopper offense has proven it can score on the toughest teams on their schedule.  Maldonado has found her form from last year and hit 12 kills on 29 attempts for a .310 efficiency and a kill percentage of 41.4% this past week.  Vostal has emerged as an effective offensive option out of multiple locations for the Top and is 2nd on the team over the last 2 matches with a .263 efficiency and a team leading kill percentage of 42.1%.  Vivian Roberts continues to show flashes of the player she may become if she gets more consistent as the young OH was 2nd on the squad with 9 kills in the past 2 games.

Vostal and Kasey Walsh continue to be table setters for the squad from the service line,  almost automatic with a serving percentage of 100% and 94.7%, respectively.  Along with Gabbie Guidetti,  Vostal and Walsh serving rotations have won nearly a combined 51% of the points from the service line.  Meghan Tarashuk, Guidetti and Vostal led the team with a 2.09, 2.09 and 2.36 serve ratings and hitting for 5 of the team´s aces this week.  

The team´s state sectional run will begin on Monday at 5:15 and with Mendham, Chatham, Millburn in the section,  the team´s ability to minimize errors in the late stages of the match and off the service line if they are not producing aces will be key in their long term success.  

The team is good enough to attack and defend against anyone (72!!! digs versus UC and GL) with Stocks anchoring a very effective defense with 24 digs last week.  Can it put everything together and believe in the team they can and have been throughout this season?

We will find out in the next week.

9th GRADERS AND JUNIOR VARSITY END BANNER SEASON ON WINS

 The 9th Graders ended their season on April 5th on the road against an experienced Governor Livingston squad.  The 7-0 Hilltoppers were looking for the perfect season and they achieved it in style in a close hard fought victory over the Crusaders, 25-23, 25-22, the last game coming back from 21-17 down to go on an 8-1 run to cap off the perfect season.  

Congrats to the Lady Hilltoppers and Coach Gutierrez who took a group of fairly inexperienced young athletes and implemented a system that maximized the athletes´ currrent skills and technical abilities against teams that at times had much more playing experience and a better skill set than our young volleyball players.  What an amazingly surprising season and an incredible performance by the squad!!

Congrats all!!!

The JV bounced back rather nicely after their classic 3 game battle against Scotch Plains-Fanwood on the road against a motivated and hungry Crudsader squad this past Saturday.  The Hilltoppers earned their 8th win of the season with a sound 25-12, 25-19 victory that ended an incredibly successful and impactful season that saw this experienced group get the highest seed ever in the county tournament and reach the semis of said tournament for only the third time ever, the first time hosting a semi.  The future looks bright as these young women will bring the 3 ingredients key to any team´s success in volleyball: tough serving, solid passing and team chemistry.

HOME AND HOME WITH CRUSADERS TO CLOSE SPRING BREAK BRING SUMMIT TO 9W-0L

 Opening the Spring Break Week with a rival match against the Cranford Cougars on the road was intense and satisfying after celebrating a big win but the meat of the schedule was the home-and-home matchup with the ALJ Crusaders as this would be the 2nd and 3rd time the teams would have met in a mere seven days.  

In the opening match-up at SHS,  a 25-19, 25-5 win, the Hilltoppers won the key points late in game 1 and dominated from the service line in game 2 to finish off the match.  Summit out-killed ALJ 20-4 and had an 11-5 advantage from the service line in aces to establish a 33-11 overall scoring advantage over ALJ to win the match.

In match #2,  the Crusaders were looking to improve on their second game performance in match #1 as the squad clearly proved in game 1 they could compete with the Maroon and White but could not cope with the serving barrage of the Hilltoppers in game 2.  Summit yet again swept match #2 with a 25-10, 25-13 score line which seemed to indicate that the match 1 game 1 score was the aberration,  not the norm.  Again,  Summit held a kill advantage in the match, 22-9, but only hit for 5 aces.  However, the Top still held a commanding 28-12 scoring advantage but ALJ had cut the Hilltopper advantage by 6 in just 1 match.  The Summit serving attack was the difference despite only hitting for 5 aces as it rated a 2.19/4 (4=ace) for the match but it kept the ALJ squad from being in system most of the match.  In this match, Vivian Roberts and Captain Erin Vostal were unstoppable in the front with a combined 15 kills out of 24 attempts and only 2 errors (62.5 kill % and a .541 efficiency) while 6 different Hilltoppers had at least 1 kill.  Captain Kiera Stocks and Gabbie Guidetti anchored the serve receive with a flawless 8/8 reception rate with 5/8 perfect passes and a combined 2.625 pass rating.  Could the Crusaders improve more in a mere 24 hours?  Would they have a game plan to slow the SHS offense?  

Match #3 in Summit´s main gym was the most meaningful of the three matches as a Quarter-Final berth was up for grabs, the first since 2016 for the Hilltoppers as SHS had seen first round exits in the tournament on a consistent basis since then. Summit again relied on a powerful serving attack and a steady offensive output from multiple sources to generate a 17-12 scoring advantage which carried the team to a 25-16 game 1 win.  But the warning was clear, ALJ had figured out that if they could not stop the Summit offense at the point of attack, they would force Summit´s Conference Player of the Week Kasey Walsh to play defense and eliminate the quarterback as much as possible.  Walsh was the team leader in digs at the end of the match, a reflection of the game plan employed by ALJ.  The result was clear early,  Summit could still score but ALJ was getting more opportunities to do the same and converting more.

ALJ and SHS were locked in an early close battle as the teams traded points and serves and the Crusader game plan was unfolding.  At 5-5,  Summit found reliable Sarah Maldonado on the OH for a kill which sparked a 7-0 run behind Meghan Tarashuk´s serving.  In the run,  SHS had 2 aces by Tarashuk and one more kill by Maldonado.  ALJ used its own serving attack later in the game to climb out of a 14-8 hole to within 3 at 14-11 but Vivian Roberts put down a thunderous kill to relieve the pressure and followed up with another one in transition to give Walsh an opportunity to score on an ace and the 6 point lead was re-established at 17-11.  Again the Crusaders climbed back to within 3 but an untimely service error -from an ALJ perspective- gave the ball back to Summit at 18-14 which allowed Sarah Brennan to rip off 3 consecutive aces and put the Crusaders on life support at 21-14.  Catherine Eldridge got into the mix late with a dump kill and a spike out of the middle which had SHS at the doorstep of the game 1 win which was capped off appropriately enough by a Maldonado kill for a 25-16 game 1 win.

Game 2 was much of the same but ALJ was able to hang in with the Hilltoppers longer than in game 1 and actually saw their squad lead 9-8 at the end of 5 rotations.  But a short rally later saw Alexis Barnes dig a perfect ball in transition that ended at the hands of Eva Oberhuber for the kill and that began a 5-0 run behind Vostal´s serving which had Roberts tally another 2 kills and Vostal hit for an ace.  At 15-10,  Summit looked to be in control but 2 hitting errors by the Maroon and White and a kill by ALJ saw the lead dwindle to 2 at 15-13.  A ball handling error called on the Crusaders broke the momentum but another hitting error by the SHS offense had ALJ close, down only 14-16.  Maldonado came to the rescue again as a kill by the Captain led to a Stocks´ ace and despite another SHS hitting error, Summit held an 18-15 lead.  

Perhaps the defining rally of the match occurred at this point with ALJ serving and having to win the game to stay alive and to keep the pressure on the Hilltoppers.  A tough serve was handled by Stocks and Eldridge was able to put it in play although the Crusaders dug it up.  Maldonado passed the ensuing free ball and ripped an attack on the return pass that once again the Crusaders kept alive and sent over as a free ball.  Stocks sent a perfect pass that was set to Vostal for an attack to no avail but again the pass - set - combo repeated itself off the subsequent free ball and this time the relentless pressure was too much and Vostal ended it for a 19-15 lead.  

Tarashuk stepped up to serve and the pressure on the ALJ serve receive led to a free ball return error, 2 aces and 2 kills by Maldonado and Vostal which all but wrapped up the game at 24-15.  What looked like a game ending attack by Maldonado was called an over the net error and that threw the SHS squad into a minor tailspin, allowing the Crusaders to come back to within 4 at 24-20 despite a Hilltopper time-out.  The game ended anti-climactically with an ALJ service error but the test they posed was passed with flying colors by the Summit squad.

Summit continued to serve at a blistering pace (93.9%) and had an ace percentage of 22.4% which led to the team scoring on 61.2% of their serves!  Summit allowed only 6 aces in the match but did have a high error rate of 24.2%.  Summit again was lethal as a team with a 30.2% kill percentage which kept their high errors to 19% for a .111 efficiency for the match.  Six players again had at least 1 kill but Maldonado (.417 efficiency), Roberts (.273 efficiency) and Vostal (.273 efficiency) provided the positive stability the team needed throughout the match.  Walsh, playing the entire first game but only front row in the second game, had a phenomenal outing with 16 assists despite being targeted on defense.  9th grader Zoe Zacharias, playing only in game 2 from the back row, added 3 more as she continues to gain valuable experience as one of the future setters for this squad. 

Summit will have the long weekend to rest and be ready for their only practice in preparation for their Quarter-Final matchup against the Vikings of Union Catholic, in Scotch Plains-Fanwood, at 5:15 on Tuesday, April 6th.