Montvale…….Junior Jared Shill(pictured) led a Pascack Hills come from behind victory over Manchester 43-42 to stay undefeated and improve to 19-0! Down most of the contest and by as much as 9 points, The Cowboys slowly chipped away as Manchester’s top player, 6’5 Taquese Franklin picked up his 4th foul midway in the 3rd quarter!Pascack Hills picked up the defensive intensity and held Manchester to 16 points in the 2nd half! Shill and Sophomore Brian Horn each made big shots late in the game to give Hills it’s first lead since early in the 1st quarter! Senior Steve Zurich played big down low with 14 rebounds and 3 blocked shots and was a force contesting shots! Shill finished with 11 points to lead Pascack Hills, while Horn added 10 including the”triple” that gave them the lead for good! Franklin finished with 11 points and 7 rebounds and Senior Zhimir Butler scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Manchester!

Paterson……… You could not shoot the ball any better than Teaneck did in the 1st half of their 86-65 win over Eastside! Teaneck hit 7″triples” in the half and outscored the Ghosts 48-25! Sophomore Joel Hernandez(22pts) and Junior Chris Jones(20pts,pictured) combined for 42 points in the contest and 5’5 point guard Shakir Lindsey put on a dribbling clinic while scoring 12 points and dropping 10 dimes! Senior Danta Davis finished with 14 points and 8 rebounds! Eastside’s Senior David Burgos gave a great effort finishing with 20 points and 6 assists and Junior DeAndre Noble added 15 points and 8 rebounds, but Eastside’s inconsistent perimeter shooting combined with the play of Teaneck proved to be the key to the contest!

Wayne……It took Wayne Valley an entire game to tie the score at 70 and it took Sophomore Josh Marquez 40 seconds to make it short lived as his short jumper in the lane was the game winner in a DePaul 72-70 victory! DePaul had control most of the game in the 1st half behind the play of Junior Davon Jacobs,who finished with 21 points and 5 steals, Freshman Kiy Hester(11pts) and Marquez(18pts,7rebs,6asts), but Wayne Valley kept fighting back behind the play of Sophomore Andrew Keane who had a career high 23 points and 10 rebounds, Senior Tom Larranga(13pts) and Junior Jay Mustafa who finished with 11 points and 11 assists! Down 10 at the half, Valley kept inching closer only to be matched by DePaul’s Mas Aronson who scored all 12 of his points in the 2nd half! But Valley made one final push and finally tied it when Senior Andrew Herasimtchuk drained a “triple” from the corner to put it at 70! That set the stage for Marquez’s heroics! With about 40 seconds on the clock, DePaul pulled it out and without calling a timeout ran the clock down when Marquez(pictured) made a spinning move in the lane and hit a short jumper to send them home! This game was another example of why the Passaic County Tournament is wide open!