Rutgers Prep players gather around head coach Matt Bloom during a timeout in a Non-Public South A semifinal game on March 7, 2022 in Edison. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
They will meet at least twice this year, both times on the back-end of a girls’/boys’ doubleheader.
Both should be real humdingers, with the potential of a third in the Somerset County Tournament
The first of the two clashes takes place tonight when No. 2 Rutgers Prep (5-3) travels to Gladstone to take on No. 3 Gill St. Bernard’s (5-2) for a game not only critical for the Skyland Conference Delaware Division title, but potentially the top seed in the Somerset County Tournament.
Both teams have prepped themselves with challenging out-of-conference scheduling. For the Argonauts, they lost a game to Bergen Catholic on New Year’s Day, plus two games to Pennsylvania squads before and after Christmas: Devon Prep and Cardinal O’Hara.
Trouble is, while they picked up a win against Neumann Goretti, senior Cameron Piggee got banged up, and is now day-to-day with an ankle. (Although most would take a Piggee at 80-percent over most others.)
The teams have split their last two meetings, with Prep winning a regular season game in February 2020 by six, while Gill won their meeting in last year’s Somerset County Tournament Final 84-63.
This year, though, they go from occasional foes to division rivals, as the Argonauts move up from the Raritan Division to the Delaware.
Click below to hear Mike Pavlichko of Central Jersey Sports Radio talk with Rutgers Prep head coach Matt Bloom about tonight’s 7:00 matchup at Gill St. Bernard’s:
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