Paterson Charter Paterson,N.J… The Paterson Charter Holiday Classic saw Union Catholic and Teaneck reach the finals of the Holiday Classic and also had Passaic County Tech and North Bergen win their contests! The Championship will be Sunday!

Don Bosco Tech Academy Paterson, N.J…. Exciting basketball was played today at the Playaz Basketball Club sponsored Jingle Bell Jubilee! Montclair Immaculate and Gill St.Bernard reached the Finals and Ramapo and Paterson Eastside got exuberant wins!

                                           MONTCLAIR IMMACULATE  89      RUTGERS PREP  85   2 OT

In a Highschool Classic, Montclair Immaculate outlasted Rutgers Prep in Double Overtime 89-85 to advance to the  Jingle Bell Jubilee Championship game! Immaculate took a 51-41 lead into the 4th quarter and lost it all as Sophomore sensation Trey Patterson stole a pass off a rebound and his bucket plus the foul with 8 seconds left tied the score at 63 and sent the game into it’s first overtime! Immaculate seemed to have the game in hand when Sophomore Noah Harris hit a “triple” at the buzzer to send the game into it’s second overtime at 76! There were a crew of heroes in this contest and none bigger than I.C.’s Junior Elijah Everett(pictured) and Junior Zion Bethea! The 6’10 Everett was a terror in the post as he finished with 27 points and pulled down 14 rebounds and his two free throws in the last O.T. gave IC its final lead that it would not relinguish! Bethgea scored 28 points, including a big “triple” that help send the game into it’s second overtime! Patterson was just as good for Prep as he finished with 29 points! Harris(pictured) scored 17 points with 5 “triples” and Penn commit Jonah Charles added 161 Immaculate got 14 points and 6 assists from Sophomore Jayden Brown and 8 points and 12 rebounds from Junior Nick Jourdain! 

                                                   GILL ST. BERNARD  79          PATERSON KENNEDY  63

Rutgers commit Paul Mulcahy(pictured) had a triple double scoring 21 points,dishing out 11 assists and pulling down 12 rebounds and Freshman Denver Anglin scored 20 points, including 4 “triples” to lead Gill St.Bernard to a 79-63 win over Kennedy and advance to the Jingle Bells Jubilee final! Junior Zach Martini finished with 14 points with 11 rebounds and Junior Will Soucie added 10 points! Gill St.Bernard took a 20-16 1st quarter lead and extended it to 38-21 at the half! Senior Jahmir Tyrell led Kennedy with 19 points and Senior Germir Robinson added 14 points!

                                                             RAMAPO  76      HACKENSACK  61

Ramapo pulled away from Hackensack late enroute to it’s 76-61 win! Lafayette commit Neal Quinn(far right) scored 24 points with 7 rebounds and Senior K.C. Hunt(right) added 16 points to lead Ramapo! Junior Max Pernetti finished with 12 points for Ramapo Junior Seth Brown led Hackensack with 17 points, Freshman Shawn Reckley added 12 and Junior Kevin Mateo chipped in 11 points!

                                                     PATERSON EASTSIDE  72       DWIGHT-MORROW  68

Senior Anthony Dunbar(far right) scored 18 points and pulled down 13 rebounds to lead Eastside to a rousing 72-68 win over Dwight Morrow! Sophomore Levi Holton(right)) and Senior Gody Jeannys each scored 16 points and Junior Daizon Pauldo(middle) added 12 points with 5 assists and 3 steals! Dwight Morrow was led by Senior Owen Roberts with 24 points, Senior Jihad Edmond who scored 15 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Sophomore Chris Dark who added 13 points!

Don Bosco Tech Academy Paterson, N.J…..The Playaz Basketball Club sponsored Jingle Bells Jubilee had four tough games with Gill St.Bernard, Immaculate Conception, Rutgers Prep and Kennedy all reaching the Semifinals!