UNION TOWNSHIP (Union) – The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School softball team surprised, even, itself last season when it went to the Union County Tournament final as the No. 8 seed, coming within a seventh-inning walkoff homer of calming the championship, falling to No. 2 Dayton.
Fast-forward 12 months and it was the second-seeded Raiders who came in as a favorite over an eighth-seeded upstart, and after tasting what it was like to walk off the Kean University field in defeat last spring, experienced SPF knew it had what it took to claim its first county title in 48 years.