East Brunswick head coach Mark Motusesky talks to his team in the huddle during a timeout in a GMC Red Division game against Monroe on January 18, 2024. (Source: EBTV on YouTube)
Just like their season, 12th-seed East Brunswick got off to a slow start Thursday night in its Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament first round game at fifth-seed Old Bridge.
But just as the Bears are playing their best basketball late in the season, according to head coach Mark Motusesky, they rallied and held on to beat the Knights in an old-fashioned “Battle of Route 18,” 51-50, to advance to Saturday’s GMCT quarterfinals.
Times for Saturday’s games – all to be played at Piscataway High School – will be determined after all of Thursday night’s games are done, as the league plans to stagger times for schools whose boys’ and girls’ teams are both in action that day.
Cam Vick finished with 18 for East Brunswick – including two key foul shots down the wire – while Matt Mikulka added 16, including three treys.
The win makes it four straight victores for East Brunswick (12-12), which now faces 4-seed St. Thomas Aquinas (13-9) Saturday. The Trojans won the only meeting between the teams this year, 66-47, back on January second.
Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with East Brunswick coach Mark Motusesky about the Bears’ GMCT first-round win:
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