Passaic County Tech, Wayne, NJ…….  Eastside forced three late turnovers to hold on in a 55-46 win over Passaic County Tech! The Ghost held the lead the entire 2nd half as Senior Tommy Rivera(right) constantly made key plays, but P.C.T continued to fight back behind the play of Senior Isaac Williams and Junior Nesto Regaldo(left)! Regaldo’s “triple”cut the lead to 45-40 with 2:20 left but Eastside was the more discipline team late as Tech lost their poise when they lost Williams who fouled out! rivera was the catalyst for Eastside, finishing with 18 points with 6 assists! Senior Jetor Brown scored 10 points and made a couple free throws late to help hold P.C.T. off! Eastside also got a good effort from Senior forward Selwyn Rodriguez who scored 8 points but more importantly grabbed 7 rebounds and played strong defense down low! Williams finished with 15 points, while Regaldo had a coming out party with 22 points, including 5″triples”!

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Kean University, Union, N.J…… In the Scholarship Fund For Inner-City Children Basketball Festival Roselle Catholic and St. Anthony walked away big winners!

                                          ROSELLE CATHOLIC  80       SETON HALL PREP   61

Roselle Catholic trailed 28-27 at the half, but shot 69% from the floor in the second half to pull away from Seton Hall Prep 80-61! Syracuse commit Senior Tyler Roberson(right) finished with 16 points,8 rebounds and 3 blocked shots! Senior Hakim Santil scored 12 points as did Sophomore Stud Malachi Richardson(left) to go along with his 5 dimes! Roselle Catholic outscored Seton Hall Prep 27 -10 in the 3rd quarter to pull away! Seton Hall Prep got 19 points from Princeton commit Spencer Weisz, 13 points and 8 rebounds fromSophomore Kelly Hogan and 12 points from Freshman T.J. Gibbs!

                       ST. ANTHONY 61            CURTIS H.S. STATEN ISLAND 31

Temple commit Josh Brown(right) scored 19 points on 8 for 11 from the floor and Oregon St. commit Hallice Cooke(left) went 6 for 7 from the floor in scoring 15 points as St. Anthony dominated Curtis HS of New York! the Friars defense caused Curtis much trouble as they were unable to run their offense which kept their Rhode Island commit Hassan Martin from getting the ball! he finished with 3 points! St. Anthony outscored Curtis 17-4 in the 2nd quarter and took a 30-12 halftime lead! Senior Jermaine Anthony-Huff led Curtis with 15 points!!! St. Anthony will play Newark Eastside in the New Years Jumpoff next January 6th!!

Kean University, Union , N.J……. In the Scholarship Fund For Inner-City Children Basketball Festival, St. Benedicts and Hudson Catholic came away big winners in their games Friday night!!

                     ST. BENEDICTS      104               LIFE CENTER  49

Pittsburgh commit Mike Young(right)scored 25 points and grabbed 6 rebounds, Sophomore sensation Isaiah Briscoe(left) had 20 points and 6 dimes and Syracuse commit Tyler Ennis scored 17 points with 7 dimes as Benedicts manhandled Life Center 104-49! Senior Johnathan Williams added 13 points, including a rim shaking two hand dunk, Junior Tyrell Green added 11 points and Senior Denzel Taylor chipped in 10 points with 8 rebounds as Benedicts had 6 players in double figures! After leading big in the 1st half, St. Benedicts exploded for 31 3rd quarter points to put the game well out of reach! Senior Lincoln Samuels scored 18 points for Life Center and Senior Felipe Rocha added 10!

                         HUDSON CATHOLIC  82                           CARDINAL McCARRICK  49

      Georgetown commit Reggie Cameron(right)scored 29 points and grabbed 8 rebounds to lead Hudson Catholic to a 82-49 win over Cardinal McCarrick!  Robert Morris commit Kavon Stewart(left) added 10 points and 8 dimes, Senior Kyle McLeggan scored 15 points with 7 rebounds and Sophomore Sammy Friday had a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds! Hudson Catholic trailed at the end of the 1st quarter 16-12, but outscored McCarrick 28-5 in the 2nd quarter and never looked back! Cardinal McCarrick got all their points from three players led by Senior Jaquantee Madden with 24 points and 7 rebounds! Junior Sky Harris scored 14 points and Junior Aaron Lewis finished the scoring with 11 points with 7 dimes!