Heady Montgomery point guard Ethan Lin repeats as CJSR Somerset County Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year
Basketball is a team sport, but without Ethan Lin, it’s highly likely Montgomery isn’t Central Jersey Group 4 champions three years running. The smart, skilled, and unflappable point guard was the Central Jersey Sports Radio Somerset County Boys’ Basketball Player of the Year in 2024-25, and now he’s repeated the feat in 2025-26. Last season,…
Jimmy Kreie’s first-year success earns Franklin girls’ mentor CJSR’s Somerset County Girls’ Coach of the Year honors
Franklin girls’ basketball is a program built on tradition and plenty of winning, benchmarks set not too long ago in the 2010s. Former coach Audrey Taylor had the Warriors rolling, with four group state titles and two Tournament of Champions trophies, including the famed 34-0 2018-19 squad. After a six-year hardware drought, Franklin brought back…
St. Joseph’s Aidan Carter helped lead Falcons to the top of the heap, named GMC boys’ basketball Player of the Year
There are a lot of good boys’ basketball players in Middlesex County. Some, you’ll see at the end of this article. But one in particular got all the hype in the preseason, and it turns out none of it was hot air. Injuries hobbled Aidan Carter last year at St. Thomas Aquinas, which had some…
Addy Platt earns CJSR Somerset County Girls’ Player of the Year honors, while her Gill St. Bernard Knights are Team of the Year after sectional title win
Outside of Gladstone, New Jersey, it looked like the Gill St. Bernard’s girls basketball team may have been headed for a retooling year. Five seniors graduated, and all played college basketball this season as freshmen at the next level. With a solid stable of underclassmen returning, there was a relative unknown with the Knights. On…
East Brunswick’s Travis Retzlaff named CJSR GMC Girls’ Basketball Coach of the Year
First came the recognition from the league’s coaches, now from everyone else. Or at least, in this case, Central Jersey Sports Radio, which has named East Brunswick’ Travis Retzlaff its GMC Girls’ Coach of the Year for 2025-26. The Bears had a special season, winning 23 games, its best season since Keith Lane’s squad went…
Smooth sailing in winter championships welcome for NJSIAA, with more experiences at Rutgers to come
Someone will always complain about something – a seed, a snow day – but on the whole, things seemed to go quite swimmingly these last few weeks in the state tournaments for the NJSIAA. After some hot controversies over the last couple of years, it’s welcome news. There was Manasquan-Camden’s controversial ending in basketball two…
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