Aidan Carter scored a game-high 24 points while Joel Patrick grabbed 14 rebounds to send No. 1 seed St. Joseph-Metuchen to the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament title game for the first time since 2019, with a 63-51 win in the semifinal round over fifth-seed St. Thomas Aquinas.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Vin Ebenau call all the play-by-play from Monroe Township High School on February 18, 2026.
Donald Nwaigwe scored 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds, while Izayah Brown added 16 and went 10-of-11 from the charity stripe in a 64-61 win for second-seed Piscataway over third-seed Colonia, sending the Chiefs back to the GMC Tournament title game for the second straight year.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Vin Ebenau call all the play-by-play from Monroe Township High School on February 18, 2026.
Junior Lauryn Downing scored 22 points – including six triples – to lead top-seed St. Thomas Aquinas to a 76-56 win over fourth-seed Colonia in the GMC Tournament semifinals, bringing the Trojans back to the title game for a chance to win their seventh straight championship.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Dylan Allen call all the play-by-play from Monroe Township High School on February 17, 2026.
Sophomore Ava Catanho scored 13 points while junior Mia Figueroa added another 11 second-seed East Brunswick clinched its first GMC Tournament finals berth in a decade with a 52-38 win over third-seed Piscataway.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Dylan Allen call all the play-by-play from Monroe Township High School on February 17, 2026.
Top-seed Rutgers Prep got 11 points from Hailey Benbow and 10 from Natalia Valdez in a 55-49 win over fifth-seed Bound Brook in the Somerset County Tournament semifinals, sending them back to the title game.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Chris Tsakonas call all the play-by-play from Franklin High School in Somerset, NJ on February 14, 2026.
Second-seed Rutgers Prep held off a late push from third-seed Montgomery for a 66-57 win in the semifinal round of the Somerset County Tournament behind 20 points from Will Brunson and 15 from Nicholas Nsenkyrie.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Chris Tsakonas call all the play-by-play from Franklin High School in Somerset, NJ on February 14, 2026.
Fifth-seed Immaculata got 23 points from Riley Gorman and another 20 from Tyler Burns as they erased a 10-point halftime deficit to beat fourth-seed Pingry, 72-68, in the quarterfinal round of the Somerset County Tournament.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko call all the play-by-play from The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, NJ on February 7, 2026.
It may be January, with the high school football season two months in the rearview mirror already, but there was plenty to talk about this week, and we dive into it on a special “offseason” edition of Gameday with Marcus Borden.
On Thursday, February 5, Immaculata announced it was parting ways with head football coach Mike Columbo, and announced the hiring of alum Dallas Whitaker (IHS ’11), along with Jeff Vanderbeek as football program director. Vanderbeek resurrected the Somerville football program in the mid-2010s and handed the keys to Whitaker a few years later.
Whitaker stepped down in 2021 to spend more time starting a family and on his burgeoning real estate career, but says he “got the itch” again pretty quickly, and now, he’s leading his alma mater as the only the fifth coach in school history.
Mike and Marcus take a look at the hire from multiple angles, including what it’ll mean on the football field and off.
Click below to listen to the “off-season” edition of “Gameday with Marcus Borden”:
Third-ranked Gill St. Bernard’s got a career high 31 points from senior guard Addy Platt – all but three of which came in the second half, 14 each in the third and fourth quarters – to beat No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas, 67-62, in a GMC-Skyland Conference crossover game.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Chris Tsakonas call all the play-by-play from Gill St. Bernard’s in Peapack-Gladstone on February 3, 2026.
Middlesex got 13 points from Kaylee Devine and another nine – plus ten steals – from Alyssa Young, as the Blue Jays defeated Dayton 42-32 in a GMC-Union County crossover game.
Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Chris Tsakonas call all the play-by-play from the Middlesex High School on January 31, 2026.
