Sports

Livingston Senior, Youth, and Leisure Services (SYLS) will begin accepting open registration on Monday, August 20, for its kiddie and pre-school sports programs. Registration forms for the sports activities are available at the SYLS offi ce in the Senior/Community Center at 204 Hillside Avenue.

Kiddie Soccer

The Kiddie Soccer Program is an age-appropriate soccer program for boys and girls ages 3½ through six. The eight-class sessions will meet at Monmouth Court on Fridays from September 21 through November 9. Sessions are offered for one hour each at 4 p.m. Additional sessions will meet at the upper Hillside School field on Sundays, September 16 through November 4. These one-hour sessions will be offered at 9:30, 10:30, and 11:30 a.m.

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Livingston Neighbors Helping Neighbors (LNHN) will hold its first community event, a Women’s Doubles Tennis Tournament, on Tuesday, September 25, in an effort to raise money for its emergency fund. The tennis tournament will be held at the Northland Tennis Courts on Jefferson Court in Livingston from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

LNHN is currently encouraging registrations. “Interested participants do not need competitive tennis experience to participate, as long as they are familiar with the game rules and scorekeeping, and are able to serve,” said Rebecca Lederman, LNHN board treasurer and tournament co-director.

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NEW PICKLEBALL COURTS ARE OPEN: More than two dozen “pickleballers” were playing on the new pickleball courts at Heritage Middle School on Wednesday morning, August 8. “They are 99 percent complete and playable,” said Ron Barbella, athletics supervisor in the township’s Senior, Youth and Leisure department. Creating the new pickleball courts and refurbishing the tennis courts was a project between the Township of Livingston and the Board of Education, and the Board is also putting in a new walkway.

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The Livingston 11U Williamsport All Stars Little League baseball team won the Section 2 Championship on Sunday evening with a nail-biting 4-3 victory over a tough Belleville Squad at Ironbound Little League Field in Newark.

Jared Levine pitched his second consecutive complete game against Belleville, and the offense turned a 1-0 lead into 4-0 with a three-run outburst in the bottom of the fifth inning.

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Two Livingston residents recently completed a 140.6-mile Ironman triathlon in Lake Placid, New York.

Brandon Minde and Barry Janay competed in the Ironman Lake Placid race on Sunday, July 22. The race included a 2.4-mile swim in Mirror Lake, a 112-mile bike ride through the area’s surrounding mountains and towns, and a 26.2 marathon run through the Village of Lake Placid.

“Competing in a full Ironman was always on both of our bucket lists,” Minde said. “Both of us have competed in past NJ State Triathlons, although those are much shorter distances.”

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LITTLE LEAGUERS WIN TITLE: The Livingston Little League 9-10U team captured the District 8 title, defeating a tough Nutley American team by a score of 6-4 on Wednesday, July 11. The boys went 4-0 in their bracket to get to the finals, defeating Ironbound, Nutley East, Caldwell and Northward soundly.

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Former Livingston resident Leslie (Sher) Gold and her husband, Jeffrey, completed a 60-day cross-country bicycling trip that began on Saturday, March 24, in Long Beach, California, and ended in Livingston on Tuesday, May 22.

As per cycling tradition, the couple dipped the rear wheels of their bicycles in the Pacific Ocean at the start, and the front wheels in the Atlantic Ocean, at Asbury Park, at the end.

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TRIATHLON COMPETITOR: Mackenzie Parke, a member of the Livingston High School class of 2000, recently completed her third New York City Triathlon in three hours, 11 minutes. The triathlon consists of swimming a mile in the Hudson River, biking 25 miles, and running six miles. Parke, who works for QBE North America, has also completed nine marathons.

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The Sanskriti Premier Cricket League of Livingston saw men’s, women’s, and children’s action this past weekend.

Men’s Cricket

The League held its traditional leather ball Sanskriti Premier League game this weekend on the Turf ground.

Batting first, the Mumbai Indians could manage just 95 runs in their allotted 16 overs. After a good opening start by Sunny Khatkate and Hardik Mhatre, the Mumbai Indians could not capitalize and put up a big score.

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Senior bowler Louis Farer was honored this spring as the recipient of the Essex County Athletic Directors Association Scholar Athlete Award.

This award honors a senior athlete each year who excels both in athletic competition and in the classroom.

As a captain on the bowling team, Farer was one of Essex County’s best, leading the Lancers to a second place fi nish in the Essex County Tournament. In the tournament, he rolled a 625 series which was good enough to qualify him for the County Individual Championships where he placed seventh. His leadership and performance were instrumental in leading the Lancer bowlers to multiple championships throughout his career, said athletic director David Cohen.

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