Bergen Catholic And Passaic County Tech Advance To Indian Hills Holiday “Chip “!

Oakland……..Bergen Catholic and Passaic County Tech will battle Sunday in the 24th Annual Indian Hills Holiday Festival with impressive wins! P.C.T. advanced by hanging on in a 73-66 win over St. Joseph’s, while Bergen took advantage of Englewood’s lack of depth coasting to a 91-52 win!

                          Bergen Catholic  91       Englewood  52

      Senior Steve Ferreri came off the bench to score 17 points on 5’triples”to lead a balanced attack for Bergen Catholic as they took advantage of Englewood’s lack of depth due to missing two players! Senior Eric Flanagan scored 16 with 4 “triples” and Senior Mark Richards(pictured) proved to be the hardest man to handle in the game by scoring 15 points,grabbing 8 rebounds with a blocked shot and demanding attention throughout the contest! B.C. also got a strong game off the bench from Sophomore P.J. Reid who added 10 points and 6 boards! Bergen had 11 players score and took a 20 point lead at 44-24 at intermission and never looked back! Englewood got 11 points from Joel Berliner and 10 apiece Brandon Lee and Bruce Richardson!

                          Passaic County Tech 73      St. Joseph’s 66

  Passaic County Tech led by as much as 20′ but had to hang on to a 73-66 win as St. Joe’s put on a furious rally that came up short! Senior Xavier Nieves(right) kept poised down the stretch to lead Tech to the win! Nieves scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, with 5 assists which helped offset the 26 point effort by St. Joes Senior guard Michael Pelham(left)! Sophomore guard Isaac Williams(bottom) came off the bench to give Tech a much needed 14 points and 3 steals! Brandon James added 12 points, while Joe Bennett and Washon Franklin finished with 9 points apiece! Sophomore Terrance McNair finished with 14 points for  St.Joe’s, while Senior Nick Gardner grabbed 10 rebounds with 6 on the offensive boards! St. Joe’s outscored Tech  27 to 14 in the 4th quarter and cut the lead to as low as 5, but Nieves layup and Williams free throws iced it! 

                      Hackensack  67          North Bergen  57

          Freshman Rashard Fiqures(pictured right) scored 22 points, grabbed 6 rebounds dished out 4 assists and 2 blocks to give Hackensack a 68 – 57 win over North Bergen in a Indian Hills Holiday Festival consolation game! figures got support from Junior guard Mershon Monroe(left) who scored 14 points! Figures scored 11 in the 1st half as the Comets never trailed! North Bergen was led by Sophomore guard Alex Gil with 19 points and Senior guard Peter Ramanand with 10! 

                                  Memorial  75          Indian Hills  55

      Memorial looked very impressive in their win as 4 players scored in double figures! David Almonte and Luis Perez scored 17 points apiece, while Kermy Amparo scored 15 and Alex Carpino added 12! Adam Menner led Indian Hills with 17!