Montgomery used another career night from senior co-captain Steve Donahue en route to a 88-46 win over visiting Bridgewater-Raritan Friday afternoon in the finale of the 2023 Cougar Classic.

Donahue – who will play his college ball at Franklin and Marshall – only played the first three quarters, with his team up 68-31 at that point. But he finished with a career high 27 points – matching his effort in a win at Morris Knolls on December 27th – and a new career best six from downtown.

Monty improved to 6-0, going 2-0 in this year’s round robin event, and is the last remaining Skyland Conference team with an unblemished record. And they’re already more than halfway to last year’s win total of eleven, in an 11-14 season for head coach Kris Grundy’s club.

They beat the Panthers with solid defense on one end of the floor, making the BR look flustered, and with a half-court offense that was humming like a well-oiled machine. 

They also found good looks for a ton of treys – 14 total in the game – and when they drove to the basket, drew contact and got to the foul line, for more buckets, building up to a 43-17 halftime lead.

Ethan Lin and Miggy Aguilar each finished with 10, with Aguilar scoring eight in the first quarter alone, erasing an early 5-0 Bridgewater lead to go up 22-12 after one quarter.

The 88 points scored by the Cougars was not only a season high, but the most they’ve scored against a Somerset County opponent since Kris Grundy became the head coach in 2005-06.

Bridgewater-Raritan dropped to 4-3 on the season. Ramses Binns finished with 11 and Matt Lyne with 10 to lead the Panthers, with Lyne hitting twice from beyond the arc in the game.

Click below for postgame reaction with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen: