Hillsborough celebrates its Group 4 championship after the final horn at Jersey Mike’s Arena in Piscataway on March 16, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
For the past two years, the Hillsborough girls’ basketball team has been rewriting the record books.
Last year, they won the program’s first-ever state sectional title. Last year’s team finished 21-9, and beat Elizabeth in a surprise North 2, Group 4 title game at home, thanks to upsets elsewhere in the bracket.
This year, they rewrote more history. Cesci Schrio became the all-time leading scorer in school history, girls or boys. The won another sectional title, this time as the No. 1 seed, and this time in Central Jersey Group 4, beating the No. 2 team in the Greater Middlesex Conference, Monroe, in the finals.
And for good measure, they had more up their sleeve. After topping Cherokee in the Group 4 semifinals, they went to the state Group 4 championship game and faced a familiar opponent: a West Orange team they’d beaten on the road, 58-54, less than a month earlier.
And they won again, this time by three, to finish as Group 4 champions, the No. 1 public school in the NJSIAA’s group of biggest schools in the state.
Where they finish in the state rankings is irrelevant. They went from start to finish, to the last game of the entire season in the state, and brought home another piece of hardware.
Hope they’ve got a bigger budget for the trophy case.
Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with Hillsborough’s three key seniors – Cesci Schiro, Maya Loniewski, and Reghan Bice – as well as head coach Courtney Tierney:
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