Roxbury……..Senior David Burgos looked like a Division 1 point guard tonight as he led Eastside to the finals of the North 1 Group 4 State Sectionals with a 55-41 win over Roxbury! Roxbury was the higher seed at #4 and went into the 2nd quarter with a 9-8 lead! But the #9 seeded Ghosts locked down defensively in the 2nd as they held Roxbury to 1 point in the quarter and took a 16-10 lead into the half! Eastside controlled the game the rest of the way as Burgos(right) took over the game and was a true floor general scoring a game high 17 points,dished out 7 assists and getting 4 steals! He took total control of the game! Najee Seabrooks added 10 points and Ky’re Jackson chipped in 9! Eastside will now play it’s cross town rival Eastside for the 4th time this season!

Jersey City……… Ex Paterson Catholic teammates met in the quarterfinals of the Non-Public North B State game and the big brothers took their baby brothers to school! Senior Myles Mack and Junior Kyle Anderson showed Hudson Catholic Sophomore’s Reggie Cameron and Kavon Stewart what it is like to play on the big stage! Anderson(right) scored 14 points and Mack(left) scored 11 as St. Anthony humbled Hudson Catholic 68-35! Cameron and Stewart were held to 4 and 5 points respectively in the contest! Senior Lucious Jones scored 14 points and grabbed 7 rebounds for St. Anthony while Junior Grant Ellis led Hudson with 14 points and Sophomore Raekwon Kelly added 9! With the win by St. Patricks it is getting closer to the mythical showdown with St. Anthony! St. Pat’s will play Gill St. Bernard and St. Anthony will face Oratory in the semis!

West Orange……Junior Dallas Anglin and Senior Sterling Gibbs combined for 53 points in their North Non Public B State game win over Paramus Catholic 86-77! The Maryland bound Gibbs led the 1st half onslaught by scoring 19 of his 25 points in the stanza and when Paramus Catholic made a 2nd half run it was Anglin who made big shots to stem the tide! Anglin(right) scored 16 of his game high 28 points in the second half, including back to back”triples” that sent P.C. on their heels! PC. trailed by as much as 20 points, but slowly chipped away, cutting the lead to 70-58 going into the 4th quarter! The Paladins were getting a strong effort from 6’8 Senior Justin Harris, Senior Manny Hernandez and Sophomore Tommy Rivera who never backed down from the challenge of going against Gibbs! They cut the lead to as low as 6, but Anglin with the help of 6’6 Junior Stephon Mosley kept making big plays in crucial moments! Gibbs also had 7 assists and Anglin had 4 steals! Mosley added 18 points and grabbed 6 rebounds! Harris finished with 27 points and 14 rebounds, Rivera scored 19 points and dropped 5 dimes and Hernandez added 16 points! Seton Hall Prep will now meet Union Catholic in the Semifinals Saturday!

NOTES: Hoop Journal would like to say farewell to two of our favorite people! Senior’s Justin Harris and Manny Hernandez have played their last highschool games for Paramus Catholic and believe me, they will be missed! Harris(bottom right) who will be on a profile in a few days became a 1,000 point scorer this season and went out like a champion in their loss to Seton Hall Prep! Harris is a Division 1 player and you can be sure to hear from him in the future! Hernandez(top right) has a special place in the heart of the Journal as he is a kid that’s been known to this writer since boyhood! Manny is a quality player and kid who has a strong family foundation! The sky is the limit for him on the court,but especially off of it! Good luck to both of these scholar athletes, they will be missed by this site !