Ethan Lin – shown here in a win over Bridgewater-Raritan on December 29, 2023 – led all scorers with 25 in a huge victory over College Achieve Asbury Park on January 21, 2024. (File photo: Mike Pavlichko)
As with many high school basketball games across the state the past few weeks, the results have been counter to the old post office motto. You know the one: ”Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow…”
Yeah, all of that has messed with the schedule the last few weeks.
But Montgomery head coach Kris Grundy is quick to thank all those that enabled his Cougars to keep their date with College Achieve Asbury Park, the Dave Boff-led charter school that was ranked tenth in the state this week.
All of those efforts, from the principal, buildings and grounds, down to football coach Zoran Milich taking the mic on PA on a rare Sunday afternoon, paid off for the Cougars, the No. 6 team in the latest Bellamy & Son Paving Top Ten.
After getting off to a slow start, allowing College Achieve a 9-0 run to start the game, the Cougars got back into it, and saw a tight game until the fourth quarter, when they outscored Achieve 28-11 to come away with a double-digit 78-62 home victory.
If no one was paying attention to Montgomery basketball before, they will now.
Ethan Lin led all scorers with 25 points, while Jack Fromelt added 24 – including six treys – and Steve Donahue chipped in 19, with three more from downtown.
The Cougars are now 11-1, their best start since the 2013-14 team that went 27-2 with an undefeated regular season. Their only losses that year were to Hillsborough in the Somerset County Tournament semifinals, and to Trenton in the Central Jersey Group 4 title game on their own home floor.
Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk about the win with Montgomery head coach Kris Grundy:
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