East Brunswick High School athletics · Sunday, Sept. 6 – Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026
The Bears packed twelve varsity contests into three days this week — four on Tuesday, one on Wednesday and seven on Thursday alone.
The overall ledger reads five wins and seven losses, and both halves of that number have a story in them. The wins were emphatic in their own ways: girls tennis went 3-0 to reach 5-0, field hockey won its third straight game without conceding a goal, and gymnastics opened its season with a victory on the road. The losses came against a brutal slate — six of the seven were against teams that had not lost a game all season — and inside them are some of the week’s best individual numbers.
Here’s how it went, sport by sport.
Girls Tennis: Five Matches, Five Wins, and Two of Them 3-2
Cory Widmaier’s team played three matches in three days and won all three. East Brunswick is 5-0, and 4-0 in the GMC Red.
The lopsided one came Wednesday. Highland Park visited and won one game all afternoon. The Bears took the match 5-0, 60 games to 1, and nine of the ten sets were 6-0. Arya Joshi, Aiona Cheng, Kaitlin Wang and Prisha Patel, and Andrea Baraian and Kelsey Zhao all won 6-0, 6-0; Kaylynn Mossi gave up the only game of the match on her way to a 6-1, 6-0 win at third singles.
The other two matches were a different kind of test. Against South Brunswick on Tuesday and at J.P. Stevens on Thursday, East Brunswick won 3-2 both times. In a five-court match that is the narrowest winning margin there is, and both times the Bears found their three wins from three different places in the lineup.
Two things were constant in both of those close matches.
Kellyanne Mossi won in both — and she has now lost one game all season. She beat South Brunswick 6-0, 6-0 at second singles, then went back to third singles at J.P. Stevens and won 6-1, 6-0. Add the two double bagels from the opening week, and Mossi has won 48 games to 1 across four matches, taking all eight sets she has played. That is an extraordinary start to a season.
So did the first doubles team of Kaitlin Wang and Prisha Patel, who won 6-1, 6-1 against South Brunswick and won again at J.P. Stevens. Wang and Patel are 5-0 at first doubles — they have won in every match East Brunswick has played.
Aiona Cheng matched Mossi’s week game for game. Cheng won 6-0, 6-0 against Highland Park and 6-1, 6-0 at J.P. Stevens — 24 games to 1 in two matches, exactly the same count as Mossi’s 6-0, 6-0 and 6-1, 6-0.
The rest of the lineup kept adding wins. Kaylynn Mossi won twice in two different spots — at second doubles with Andrea Baraian against South Brunswick, 6-2, 6-4, and then at third singles against Highland Park. Arya Joshi won 6-0, 6-0 at first singles on Wednesday and pushed J.P. Stevens’ top player to 7-6 in the second set on Thursday. Kelsey Zhao took South Brunswick’s third singles player to 7-5 in the first set on Tuesday.
Eleven of fifteen flights won this week, and 21 of 25 on the season. Old Bridge visits Sept. 15.
Field Hockey: Three Games, Three Shutouts
Danielle Bradley’s team finally played a close one, and handled it exactly the way it handled the blowouts: nobody scored on them.
After opening the season 7-0 and 8-0, East Brunswick won 1-0 at Metuchen on Thursday. Logan Hooper scored in the first quarter, set up by Rachel Gerould, and that was all the Bears needed.
The scoreline was narrow. The shot count wasn’t. East Brunswick put ten shots on goal to Metuchen’s three and earned seven penalty corners to one. Metuchen’s goalkeeper made nine saves — the Bears generated the chances all afternoon and ran into a goalkeeper with a very busy day.
Reagan Umbach made three saves for her third shutout in three starts. Across those three games, East Brunswick’s opponents have put four shots on goal in total, and none of them have gone in. The Bears are 3-0, 2-0 in the GMC Red, and have outscored opponents 16-0.
Hooper has now scored in all three games. Gerould’s assist gives her a hand in five of the sixteen goals — four scored, one set up.
The Bears are at Old Bridge on Sept. 15.
Girls Soccer: Hannah Cheraibi Puts the Bears on the Board
Kevin Brady’s team is still looking for its first win, but Tuesday at Monroe produced its first goal — and another remarkable afternoon in goal.
Monroe scored twice in the first half. Hannah Cheraibi answered before halftime, with Samantha Baker supplying the assist — East Brunswick’s first goal of the season. Neither team scored in the second half, and Monroe held on to win 2-1.
Caylin Docherty made 12 saves, stopping 12 of the 14 shots Monroe put on target. It was the second straight match in which she made twelve. Across her three games this season, Docherty has faced 35 shots on target and saved 30 of them. That is a goalkeeper keeping her team in games.
On Thursday at Metuchen, Keira Smith was in goal and made five saves in a 2-0 loss; Metuchen scored once in each half.
The Bears are 0-4 and host Old Bridge on Sept. 15.
Gymnastics: A Winning Start
Allyson McMahon’s team opened its season Thursday at Piscataway and won, 96.575 to 94.825.
A road meet, a first meet of the year, and a margin of 1.75 points — and East Brunswick came away 1-0.
The Bears are at Old Bridge on Sept. 17.
Boys Soccer: Two Unbeaten Opponents, Both on the Road
Terry McKibbin’s side spent the week away from home against two teams that had not lost all season.
Tuesday at Monroe was scoreless at halftime before Monroe scored four times in the second half to win 4-0. Goalkeeper Rosario Volino made eight saves in that game.
Thursday at Scotch Plains-Fanwood was far tighter. The hosts scored once in the first half, East Brunswick kept them off the board after the break, and the final was 1-0. Volino stopped four of the five shots Scotch Plains-Fanwood put on goal.
That is twelve saves in two games for Volino, against two opponents who have yet to lose. East Brunswick is 1-3, and New Brunswick visits Sept. 15.
Girls Volleyball: A Hard Week Against Two Unbeaten Division Teams
Andrew Chup’s team drew two teams unbeaten in the GMC Red — Old Bridge and J.P. Stevens — both on the road, and lost both in straight sets. East Brunswick is 0-5.
At Old Bridge on Tuesday (9-25, 10-25), the Bears’ defense did a great deal of work. Eva Munoz recorded seven digs — 41 percent of the team’s 17. Gwyneth Macke led the attack with three kills, Addyson Danchak put up two blocks and Gabriella Pagan added two kills.
Zoe Holeman did a little of everything: four of the team’s six assists, three digs, a block and the Bears’ only ace. Across East Brunswick’s first four matches, Holeman has set up 28 of the team’s 37 assists — about three of every four.
J.P. Stevens won Thursday’s match 25-12, 25-10. The Bears host Notre Dame on Monday, Sept. 14.
Football: A Division Opener Against Unbeaten Piscataway
Zack Gega’s team opened Big Central National Gold play at home on Thursday, and unbeaten Piscataway won 42-7.
East Brunswick is 2-1 after outscoring its first two opponents 77-19. The Bears go to Monroe on Friday, Sept. 18.
Also on the Bears’ Calendar
Boys and girls cross country compete in the GMC Division Championship on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Thompson Park.
The Week in Full
| Sport | Result | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Girls Tennis | W 3-2 vs. South Brunswick (9/8) · W 5-0 vs. Highland Park (9/9) · W 3-2 at J.P. Stevens (9/10) | 5-0 |
| Field Hockey | W 1-0 at Metuchen (9/10) | 3-0 |
| Gymnastics | W 96.575-94.825 at Piscataway (9/10) | 1-0 |
| Girls Soccer | L 1-2 at Monroe (9/8) · L 0-2 at Metuchen (9/10) | 0-4 |
| Boys Soccer | L 0-4 at Monroe (9/8) · L 0-1 at Scotch Plains-Fanwood (9/10) | 1-3 |
| Girls Volleyball | L 0-2 at Old Bridge (9/8) · L 0-2 at J.P. Stevens (9/10) | 0-5 |
| Football | L 7-42 vs. Piscataway (9/10) | 2-1 |
Go Bears.
