Bound Brook and Bernards play in a Skyland Conference crossover game on January 13, 2023. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
To start a season 6-3 isn’t by any means terrible. But when one considers the success Bound Brook has had under head coach Anthony Melesurgo, their standards are set a bit higher.
Some losses have been tight, including Thursday night’s, a buzzer-beating one-point loss to Bernards, always a tough out.
But Melesurgo makes no excuses. And when rival Somerville comes to town Saturday afternoon for a 1:00 Skyland Conference Valley Division game – which you can hear on Central Jersey Sports Radio – he has an expectation: to win.
Mike Pavlichko and Justin Sontupe will call all the action. Tune in at 12:45 for pregame; click here to listen.
The big difference between the two teams right now, with Somerville 6-2 – a similar record – is that the Pioneers are 2-0 in the Valley Division, and the Crusaders are 0-2, looking for that first win.
The Brook returns Jackson Morrison, who cracked the 1,000-point milestone last year and is the team’s leading active scorer at 1,237 points, averaging over 26 per game and nearly eight boards per contest. New this year is junior forward Dorian Roundtree, averaging just under 17 a game and more than eight rebounds per.
One of the issues for the Crusaders has been taking care of the basketball, an issue that will need to be corrected Saturday against a good Pioneer club led by some ball-hawk football standouts from their Central Jersey Group 3 championship team this fall, including Brady Scheier – the team’s leading scorer – as well as Brendan Pacheco and Josh Rodriguez.
Click below to hear Bound Brook head coach Anthony Melesurgo talk about the Crusaders with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko:
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