Plainfield Shows Who’s Best! Down Teaneck 84-62 In North 1 Group 3 Semifinals!

East Orange Campus, N.J…….. It was no secret, Teaneck wanted to play Plainfield! After their heartbreaking lost last year they wanted revenge! But no one, especially Teaneck thought they were going to get this! Plainfield gave Teaneck a shocking beatdown 84-62 in the North 1 Group 3 Semifinals! Plainfield jumped out to a 12-4 lead and finished the 1st quarter up 20-8 as Teaneck came out cold and shot 4 for 14, while Plainfield shot 8 for 17 including 2″triples” from Senior guard Sekou Harris! That was just the beginning as Plainfield played a near flawless 2nd quarter to take a 42-19 lead at intermission! It was over right there! Harris(above right) was spectacular scoring 24 points with 9 assists, but he was not by himself as Senior Dijon Allen-Jordan also scored 24 points, grabbed 7 boards and had 2 blocked shots, Yale bound Senior Justin Sears(right)scored 12 points with 12 rebounds and an impressive 6 blocked shots and Junior Jamal Lane added 12 points! Plainfield was in control, start to finish as Teaneck just came out flat! Besides the great play of Junior guard Shakir Lindsey who finished with 29 points no other Teaneck player could get it going! Pittsburgh bound Senior Chris Jones finished with 13 points, but most came late in the game when the game was out of reach! Junior Joel Hernandez added 12 points for the Highwaymen! Plainfield improved to 27-3 and will meet Neptune in the Group 3 final, while Teaneck finishes the year at 31-1 and the most wins in a season for any squad ever to play there!

NOTE: Hoop Journal would like to acknowledge Seniors Ricky Everett and Siddiq Patterson on their highschool careers! Everett was a very good athlete who contributed off the bench for the highwaymen, while Patterson was an integral part of the lineup and more times than not covered the toughest offensive player on the other team! His future seems to be on the gridiron as he is a bigtime football player!

Special acknowledgement has to go to Senior Chris Jones! Chris has developed into one of the best players in the State and despite his disappointing game has been as good a Teaneck Highwaymen as the school has ever had and has had as good a career as any player to lace them up there! Chris is not only a superior basketball player, but a quality individual who is just as good off the court as he is on it! He will continue his basketball career with Pittsburgh University and the one thing you know is they got a class individual! A special thanks goes out to Chris and his family who have done a great job! You should be proud! Hoop Journal wishes nothing but the best for Chris for the future!