Middlesex girls don’t run deep, but can run up and down the floor and put it in the hoop

The rotation employed by Middlesex girls’ basketball coach Kevin Harper in his sixth season with the Blue Jays isn’t deep. It never really has been at such a small school, which seemingly teeters every year on the edge between Group 1 and Group 2.

But it hasn’t kept Middlesex from having success moving up to the Greater Middlesex Conference’s White Division.

Nor has the graduation of a slew of players who contributed significantly a season ago, namely Mackenzie Marsh, Madison Robel, and Kaylin Nepton, among others.

And despite having a 50-game divisional winning streak snapped with a loss to Edison back on January 3rd (with 47 of those coming in GMC Blue play over the past several years), the Blue Jays just keep on keepin’ on.

The vast majority of the offense has come from two players who average a combined 38.1 points per game, on a team scoring just under 63 per contest, and they nearly split it down the middle.

One is a senior Neysa Aguilar, who’s averaging 19.9 points per game, and gets to the foul line a lot, for a team-leading 55 attempts. the other bodes well for the future: sophomore Jess Devine. She contributed as a freshman last year, but has been asked to pick up her scoring this year, and obliged to the tune of 18.2 points per game. But she can also dish it out, and take it – as in the following two team-leading stats: 109 assists, and 111 steals.

That leaves Middlesex ranked No. 10 this week, with an overall record of 14-3, 11-3 in the GMC White, tied for second place with No. 8 North Plainfield, which has identical records, and which they will play tonight in a game that can be heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio. Tuesday’s tip-off time is 5:30 pm , with pregame set for 5:15. Mike Pavlichko will call all the action. Click here to listen.

A win will determine the second-place team behind Edison in the White Division, an Eagles team which the Lady Canucks beat earlier this year, handing Edison its only division loss this season.

Click below to hear Mike Pavlichko talk with Middlesex head coach Kevin Harper: