HACKENSACK BLOWS OUT PASSAIC COUNTY TECH! MYERS AND MARSHALL REACH 1,000 POINT PLATEAU!

Hackensack Middle School, Hackensack,N.J…. Playing on a neutral site due to wrestling in their home arena, #1 Seed Hackensack made it’s middle school home as they turned a 9-9 1st quarter into a 91-49 rout over Passaic County Tech in the quarterfinals of the Group 4 North States! Junior Rashard Figures started the explosion by scoring 15 of his 19 points in the 1st half! Hackensack took a 33-22 halftime lead and took off in the second half outscoring Tech 58-27 in the 2nd half! During the process of the game, Hackensack had two players reach milestones! Senior Chris Myers(bottom left) scored his 1,000th point in the 2nd quarter and his teammate Senior Eugene Marshall(right) scored his 1,000th point early in the 4th quarter! Marshall finished with 28 points and Myers finished with 10 points,9 assists and 4 steals! Hackensack got bigtime play from Senior Jason Smith who came off the bench to score 8 points,grab 11 rebounds and dished out 4 assists! the Comets even got little used Senior joey Diaz in the game late and he responded with 13 points with 3″triples” that brought the fans to their feet! PCT was led by Senior guard Isaac Williams with 16 points and Junior Victavious Mitchell with 10! Hackensack will meet Kennedy Friday night in a semifinal machup!