Over the last couple of weeks, their have been a couple of recent accomplishments in the area! We have a few new 1,000 point scorers in the area that we are aware of:

JOEL HERNANDEZ  SR. —TEANECK – Joel  became a 1,000 point scorer for the Highwaymen as he scored 28 points against Pascack Valley in the third game of the season!!!! 

JOSH MARQUEZ  SR.—- DEPAUL—- Josh got his 1,000th point Dec. 22nd against St. Joseph in scoring 26 points!

RASHARD FIGURES   JR.—-HACKENSACK–As a Junior, Rashard scored 21 points against Tenafly to go over 1.000 points in Hackensack’s 87-54 win

Little Falls,N.J……Passaic used a balanced attack from Senior’s Rashaan Johnson, Marquise Stephens, Aziah Miller and Gervon Williams to beat Passaic Valley  64-59! Johnson(#4) scored 15 points,grabbed 13 rebounds, blocked 4 shots and had 4 steals, Stephens(#3) led the scoring with 18 points, including 4 big”triples” in the contest, Miller(#2) finished with 16 points and went 5 of 6 from the line down the stretch to ice the game and Williams(21) ran the offense enroute to an 11 point,8 assist night! The game was close, but Passaic seemed to take control at the end of the 3rd getting ahead by as much as 14 and finishing the quarter up 50-39! But Passaic Valley which is a scrappy team would not go away in the 4th and closed the lead to two 58-56 on a layup by Freshman guard Jihad Wright with 1:27 left in the game! Miller hit two free throws to give Passaic a 60-56 lead with 1:00 left and after a Valley miss made two more free throws to give the Indians a 62-56 advantage with 44.7 left! Passaic Valley was led by Junior Stefan Minic with 15 points, Senior Ian Hanley with 10 and a double-double 10 point, 10 rebound game from Sophomore Shawn Ulrich! Passaic is now on a 4 game winning streak and play Dickinson in the Coaches vs Cancer Event Saturday at Kennedy H.S. while Passaic Valley will go up against Bergen Catholic in the same event! 

Jersey City,N.J…… Hudson Catholic 6’7 Sophomore Sammy Friday (pictured) had the toughest assignment of the night,which was to guard 6-10 Fordham commit Manny Suarez of Marist and keep him occupied! While Suarez wasn’t bad he was held in check by Friday! Not only did Friday hold Suarez to 12 points,but he scored 14 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and blocked 4 shots to help the Hawks beat Marist 61-39! Georgetown commit Reggie Cameron led Hudson Catholic with 18 points, while Senior Kyle McLeggan finished with 15 and Robert Morris commit Kavon Stewart dished out 10 dimes! Hudson went on a 21-4 run to start the contest and never was behind! Suarez had 12 boards to go with his points! Senior point guard Jaron Smith led Marist with 15 points and 7 steals while Senior Tony White finished with 11!Tonight marked the debut of Senior Jared Hall, who transferred from Newark Tech to start the season