St. Thomas Aquinas with its 2025 GMC Tournament girls’ championship banner. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
In the end, it was just like about every other game St. Thomas Aquinas played this year. It starts close, with a few buckets by both teams. Then they start to pull away, then they sprint away.
Top-seed Aquinas – which hasn’t lost in its last 67 games against Greater Middlesex Conference competition – beat second-seed Monroe on the Falcons’ home floor Friday night to win the 2025 GMC Tournament title, its sixth straight, as heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio.
Those wins span six three coaches. Brittney Griffin won the first two in 2019 and 2020. Joe Whalen won the next two, in 2022 and 2023, and now current coach Tim Corrigan has two.
The game also was a big milestone for Trista Whitney, the junior who came to STA after her freshman year at Edison. She scored her 1,000th point on a drive to the hoop in the second quarter. She finished with 15 and was named the game MVP.
Lauryn Downing and Leah Crosby each had 16 to pace the Trojans, who also got 13 from Leah Kearney.
The game got messy in the second quarter, when a hard foul led to an ejection, and a technical foul, giving Aquinas ultimately six foul shots. Crosby took them all, and hit five of six.
The win improves Aquinas to 22-6 on the season, while Monroe falls to 17-8.
Click below for a postgame recap with comments with MVP Trista Whitney and head coach Tim Corrigan, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:
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