West Orange H.S., West Orange, N.J…….The 2nd day of the Hoop Group Showcase had the best game of the weekend in St. Joe’s Metuchen overtime win over Teaneck in overtime! The other games were won by Hudson Catholic, Roselle Catholic, St. Anthony, St. Benedict’s and Plainfield!

                                                      ST. JOE’S(METUCHEN)  67           TEANECK 66    O.T.

                        In a game that was tight wire to wire St. Joe’s Outlasted Teaneck in overtime 67-66! Junior Wade Baldwin (right)scored 27 points and Kentucky commit Junior Karl Towns scored 18 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to overcome the play of Senior Joel Hernandez 19 points and 7 rebounds and Shakir Lindsey’s 16 points and 7 assists! With the St, joe’s up two with 7 seconds left, Lindsey(left) went endline to endline before finding Junior Myles Mcleod underneath for the tying bucket! Baldwin was clutch in the overtime scoring 5 of St. Joe’s 9 points including the final two free throws, after Joe’s had missed 6 in a row in regulation that might have sealed it early! Junior Marques Townes added 13 points for St. Joe’s! Teaneck has a lot to look forward to as players that had never been in this situation as players rose to the occasion! Junior Lavrone Green-Reels made three huge”triples” in the game, Junior Myles Mcleod scored that key layup and played tough defense down low! Senior Marcus Fulmore was very tough on the boards with 8 and can also hit the”triple”! Senior Devaunte Locadia was solid defensively and had a couple of strong finishes, and Sophomore Ceasar DeJesus looks to be the next bigtime Teaneck player of the future!

OTHER SCORES:

                                                                                    HUDSON CATHOLIC  64      ST.PETERS PREP  46

             Hudson Catholic made a potentially tough game into a laugher as they dismantled St. Peters Prep 64-46! The Hawks had four players in double figures led by Robert Morris commit Kavon Stewarts 17 points and  Georgetown commit Reggie Cameron’s 14 points and 8 rebounds! Senior Kyle McLeggan scored 14 points and Sophomore Adam Traore added 11! Hudson Catholic held St. Peters Prep to 2 second quarter points to take a 25-10 1st half lead! The play of the night came on a Stewart(right) dunk down the lane that lit up the gym! St.Peters College commit Trevis Wyche was the only light for the Marauders by scoring 22 points!

                                                               ROSELLE CATHOLIC  71      POPE JOHN 58

Syracuse commit Tyler Roberson(right) scored 22 points and grabbed 9 rebounds as Roselle Catholic  overcame a slow start and the outstanding play of Freshman sensation Bryce Aikens! Pope John started by making the first 10 points of the contest and took a 39-26 lead into the half!  Roselle Catholic took control in the 3rd quarter, taking the lead on a Malachi Richardson bucket and a Roberson layup! Aikens was a problem scoring 24 points, dishing out 5 dimes and causing Roselle Catholic to finally guard him with  the 6’5 Sophomore Richardson!

                                                                        ST. ANTHONY  64               NEPTUNE  28

              Temple commit Josh Brown(right) scored 17 points to lead St. Anthony to a easy victory over Neptune! Oregon St. commit added 8 points in the laugher! Senior Spencer Hubbard scored 12 to lead Neptune!

                                                  ST. BENEDICTS  57     WILBRAHAM & MONSON 39

Syracuse commit Tyler Ennis(right) scored 20 points and Sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe added 17, as St. Benedict’s rolled past Wilbraham &Monson of Massachusetts 57-39! Benedicts took a 15-5 1st quarter lead and never looked back! Junior Karem Kanter led W&M with 11!

                                                                       PLAINFIELD 37              WEST ORANGE 24

Senior Denzel Christian(right) scored 13 points to lead Plainfield to a 37-24 victory! The low scoring game had a 14-12 halftime lead for Plainfield! They held off West Orange in the 2nd half and never lost the lead! Junior Isaiah Scott led West Orange with 13 points!

West Orange H.S.,West Orange, N.J…… Don Bosco Prep and Hackensack each played tough in the Hoop Group Showcase Saturday but unfortunately neither was able to come away with a”W”! Senior Jake Newman scored 18 points and Joshua McGilvy and Fergus Duke each added 12 to give the Hun school a 56-51 win over Hackensack! The Comets were game and kept it close the entire contest! Junior Rashard Figures led Hackensack with 14 points, while Senior Chris Myers scored 12 points and Senior Gene Marshall added 10! In the Prep game, trailing by 2 Senior Cairo Brown(13 pts) of Linden hit a buzzer beating “triple” to beat D.B.P. 61-60! Junior Quadri Moore led Linden with 16 points! Don Bosco Prep got a superior effort from Junior Tom Sweeny(right) who scored all 16 of his points in the second half!

In Other Hoop Group Games:

                                                                    PATRICK SCHOOL  58          GILL ST. BERNARD 38

   St. Joe’s commit DeAndre Bembry(right) scored 28 points and was a problem the entire night as he dominated the interior as the Patrick School beat Gill St. Bernard 58-38! in Gill’s defense 6’9 forward Austin Colbert( Illinois commit) and wing Chris Jenkins(Florida Atlantic commit) are not eligible yet as they have to sit 30 days due to their tranfers! Senior Chris Regus scored 9 points and dished out 4 assists for the Patrick School! Freshman Tyus Battle led Gill St. Bernard with 14 points and showed why his future is so bright, while Northwestern commit Jaren Sina who struggled shooting the ball all night added 9!

                                                                              SETON HALL PREP   58            COLUMBIA   48

             Princeton commit Spencer Weicz(right) scored 21 points and Senior Tom Lacey added 11 points as Seton Hall Prep outscored Columbia 20-10 in the 4th quarter to win 58-48! Columbia was led by Sophomore Michael Runcic with 14 points! Freshman Temple Gibbs also displayed a strong presnce handling the ball late in the game! Says alot about putting the ball in the hands of a freshman to finish the game! 

Eastside H.S. Paterson,N.J…… The characters continue to change, but the Kennedy-Eastside game remains the same! Always one of the hardest fought games in the State! Tonight was no different as the smaller Kennedy team scrapped their way all night before falling to Eastside 69-61. The two new characters were Eastside’s St. Patrick transfer guard Tommy Rivera(top right) and Kennedy’s Freshman guard Alphonso Gee(bottom right)! Rivera scored 19 points, dished out 4 dimes and had 7 steals, including two late that helped Eastside’s last run to pull off the win! Kennedy’s Gee was dead in the mix as he scored 21 points and made 3 steals and was ice at the foul line going 14 for 15 from the stripe! The game was intense from the start with Kennedy playing the underdog role to perfection! When it seemed as if Eastside had control of the contest, the Knight’s would make a run to keep it close! Eastside was led by Senior guard Jetor Brown(left) who played a poised game and made clutch plays throughout!  He finished the game with 25 points, 4 dimes and 4 steals! Gee’s primary help came from Senior guard Hassan Towns who scored 13 points, with 4 assists and 4 steals and was always making the extra play for the Knights! The outcome was still in doubt late in the 4th as Eastside held a 60-59 lead with under two minutes left! That’s when as well as Kennedy had played, everything began to unravel! Rivera made a steal and scored on a layup, Brown caused another steal and scored on another layup, then Rivera had another strip and dished to Brown for the layup plus a foul! That 7-0 run proved to be the difference! Both teams showed alot of upside for the rest of the year! Eastside’s Quattier Jackson, Selwyn Rodriguez, Quincey Jones and Asem Johnson all had big contributions for the Ghosts, while Shervon St.Louis, Justin Kinchen, Aalim Jones and Janarie Morris were key contributers for the Knights!