Photo by Pixabay on Mother Nature was relatively kind to the winter sports season this year, so in the end, maybe we were due.
Either way, the snowstorm that raced through New Jersey early Tuesday and into the afternoon in some places cancelled school all across the region, and led to the postponement of ten county tournament games locally, eight in the Somerset County Tournament quarterfinals – four each on the girls’ and boys’ side – and the two GMC Tournament semifinals.
Tuesday night would have had second-seed Colonia playing 14th-seed Middlesex at 5 pm and 5th-seed Monroe taking on top-seed and four-time defending champion St. Thomas Aquinas tipping at 7 pm at Monroe Township High School in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament girls’ semifinals. With snow wiping out those games, they’ll be played at the same time on Wednesday evening, but at Spotswood High School, which also hosted the GMC.
Monroe High School will be occupied with the boys’ semifinals, featuring second-seed Colonia and 6th-seed South Plainfield in the 5 pm opener, and top-seed St. Joseph-Metuchen against four-seed St. Thomas Aquinas, the GMCT winner three years’ running.
Central Jersey Sports Radio will broadcast both of the boys’ games, with Mike Pavlichko calling all the action. Plus, we’ll have an extended pregame starting at 4:15 pm as Alec Crouthamel reports live from the girls’ semis in Spotswood, including pregame interviews with all four coaches. Click here to listen. We’ll also carry Friday’s finals, with the girls at 6 pm and the boys at 8 pm.
As far as the Somerset County, all four games on both sides were moved to Wednesday, but that means they will play back-to-back nights this week, and three games in five days, with the semifinals still on Thursday night at higher seeds, and the championship doubleheader Saturday at Montgomery, with the girls at 1 pm and the boys at 3. Central Jersey Sports Radio will broadcast the finals live as well.
Immaculata Athletic Director Tom Gambino – who runs the tournaments – says the decision was made to keep Thursday’s and Saturday’s games where they are mainly due to the availability of officials.
SCT BOYS’ QUARTERFINALS:
- (8) Pingry at (1) Rutgers Prep, 7 pm (following the girls’ game)
- (5) Ridge at (4) Hillsborough, 6:30 pm (following the girls’ game)
- (6) Franklin at (3) Watchung Hills, 6 pm
- (7) Gill St. Bernard’s at (2) Montgomery, 6 pm
SCT GIRLS’ QUARTERFINALS
- (8) Ridge at (1) Rutgers Prep, 5 pm
- (5) Franklin at (4) Pingry, 5 pm
- (6) Mount St. Mary at (3) Hillsborough, 5 pm
- (7) Somerville at (2) Gill St. Bernard’s, 5:30
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