St Thomas Aquinas and Piscataway do battle in a GMC Red Division game in Edison on January 4, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
For the years Bob Turco was the head coach at St. Thomas Aquinas, they were a boys’ basketball program intent on pressure, defense, rebounding and transition basketball.
He’s at Piscataway now, but when the No. 8 Chiefs visited Turco’s old school Saturday afternoon, they looked more and more like the teams he used to coach in North Edison.
Solid rebounding and transition play – especially in the fourth quarter – helped give the Chiefs to a 62-46 win over No. 4 St. Thomas Aquinas.
Sophomore Landon Pernell led the Chiefs with 14, including 7 of 9 from the foul line, and he had seven points in the decisive fourth quarter, which saw Piscataway lead by as many as 15, their biggest advantage of the game.
The Chiefs improve to 6-2, 2-1 in the GMC Red Division.
St. Thomas was led by St. Joseph transfer Dan Jennings with 13. The Trojans drop to 4-2, also 2-1 in the Red Division.
Click below for postgame reaction from Piscataway sophomore Landon Pernell and head coach Bob Turco, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:
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