Perth Amboy’s season for the ages comes to an end with loss to Union in North 2, Group 4 quarters
In its fourth season under head coach Donnie Reid, a Perth Amboy native who starred across the victory bridge at Cardinal McCarrick in South Amboy, the Panther basketball program reached heights it had not seen in a long time. They won the GMC White American Division title, going 12-0 in division play, for their first…
Boys’ Basketball Roundup: Top-seed Colonia cruises, while Somerville, South Plainfield, Middlesex, Manville, Timothy Christian all win first round games in state tourney play
Six of 14 boys’ basketball teams in the Central Jersey Sports Radio coverage area won their opening round NJSIAA state tournament games Friday night, after waiting two days to play due to the aftermath of this weekend’s blizzard. (We’re still waiting on a Non-Public North B score from the Wardlaw-Hartridge game against Pioneer Academy, which…
Girls’ Basketball Roundup: High seeds Somerville, Colonia, Bound Brook, South Amboy advance; all lower seeds knocked out
It was a lighter schedule on Day 2 of the NJSIAA state tournament for Central Jersey Sports Radio area teams, with all four higher seeds advancing, and all of the lower seeded teams going home. Overall, four of the 13 teams from the CJSR coverage area advanced, while nine saw their seasons end. Here are…
Bound Brook girls roll past Dayton, 54-26, in Central Jersey Group 1 first round
First round matchups with high seeds aren’t always tight matchups. The 15th-seeded Dayton girls’ basketball team is young, with a new coach, with Marissa Liberty promoted from her assistant post in the off-season, in her first year leading a program. And they play in a brutally tough division in the Union Conference with the likes…
Boys’ Basketball Roundup: St. Joseph hits the century mark, two-time defending CJ4 champ Montgomery rolls, Ridge upsets Elizabeth, Perth Amboy takes buzzer-beater as state tourney opens at long last
It was a two-day wait to start the NJSIAA state high school basketball tournament for public schools in Groups 2 and 4, but for eight schools from the Central Jersey Sports Radio coverage area, it was well worth the wait. CJSR-area squads went 10-10 on the opening day of the three-week tournament, with two non-publics…
Girls’ Basketball Roundup: Bernards’ Reynolds grabs 1000th rebound, Woodbridge wins first state game in 12 years as NJSIAA state tourney opens – finally!
First the blizzard, then the aftermath, and a long two-day wait. But the NJSIAA state high school basketball tournament finally got underway Thursday night with 23 Central Jersey Sports Radio coverage area teams in action in public Groups 2 and 4 and Non-Public Group A. Overall, eleven moved on, while a dozen saw their seasons…
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