Teaneck And Hudson Catholic Advance To Jingle Bells Chip! Passaic Valley And Scotch Plains Also Win!
Jersey City……The Playaz sponsored Jingle Bells Holiday Tournament has come to this! A young Hudson Catholic team advanced against another talented young squad in Teaneck Highschool! The Hawks are going to the “Chip” because they handled a tough gritty Passaic H.S. team that came ready to play, while Teaneck advanced by beating a game Kennedy H.S. squad! Passaic Valley and Scotch Plains also get play in the fifth place contest with wins!
Hudson Catholic 55 Passaic 40
Passaic had the game the way they wanted through alot of the contest as they put pressure on Hudson Catholic defensively, getting up in their chest! The Indians led at the half 26-22 and controlled the game most of the 3rd quarter until the Hawks decided to change the tide by turning up the pressure on Passaic! That, and the 4th quarter of Sophomore Reggie Cameron put the game out of reach! The Hawks pressed and created turnovers and got two big 3’s from Junior’s Michael Alford and Grant Ellis, with Alford’s giving Hudson Catholic their first lead of the game, Ellis(pictured below) also had 2 beautiful assists in the run! Cameron(pictured right) scored 10 of his 19 points in the 4th quarter and helped his squad finish off Passaic by outscoring them 22-8 in the final stanza! Guard Travis Flagg added 10 points while Kavon Stewart scored 7 and dished out 4 assists despite being in foul trouble the entire game! Cameron also finished with 12 rebounds for a double, double! Guard Darien Giles led Passaic with 15 points, while Senior Andre Dixon who had a good defensive game added 9!
Teaneck 63 Kennedy 49
Senior Duquan Russ(pictured) came off the bench to score 15 points and Neville Fincher(below) made his presence felt with 12 points, 10 rebounds and 6 block shots to give Teaneck the win over Kennedy! The Highwaymen kept a slight lead during most of the game but Kennedy, behind Jahmir White(20pts) and Dawon Lighty(14 pts,5stls) was not going away! The Knights created 17 turnovers in the game which kept them in it, but by only going with a 6 man rotation, Kennedy ran out of gas! Sophomore guard Shakir Lindsey( 12pts) and Junior guard Kris Hargraves kept the tempo up for Teaneck. the Highwaymen got 9 points from Joel Hernandez who also had 4 steals and Chris Jones who scored 8 points even though he spent the majority of the game in foul trouble! Junior Sammy Singletary and Kaheem Davis each gave great efforts! Singletary finished with 6 points,8 rebounds and 5 steals while Davis went head to head with the 6’8 Fincher and grabbed 10 rebounds!
Passaic Valley 66 Newark Tech 55
Passaic Valley took a 15 point halftime lead and held on in the 2nd half behind Senior Nick DiCristina’s 18 points,including 4 “triples” and Olumide Onajide’s 12 points and 10 rebounds! The Hornets had to overcome the shooting of Sophomore guard Jared Hall who scored 23 and 6’7 Senior Eric Anderson who scored 12 points and grabbed 8 rebounds! Passaic Valley got big help from Senior’s Tom Gaccione(11 pts) and Dave Clough( 8 pts, 8rebs) as Tech came all the way back and took the lead on a Hall jumper! But DiCristina(pictured) answered with a “3” to put P.V. back ahead for good!
Scotch Plains 58 St. Peters Prep 56
In a very entertaining game, Scotch Plains outlasted St. Peters Prep behind the play of Senior Charles( Rifleman)Oliver(pictured) who scored 20 points and help hold off the play of St.Peters Prep trio Kevin Walker( 21pts), Stephon Wyatt( 15pts, 7rebs) and Chase Fluellen( 11 pts,11rebs)! Scotch Plains Senior guard Patrick Dougher knocked down 4 big “triples” in the contest and Junior forward Matt Jegede stayed active on the offensive and defensive ends with 6 points and 11 rebounds! The contest didn’t get decided until Wyatt missed on a long three to end the game!
Friday’s schedule:
12:00pm Passaic Valley vs. Scotch Plains
1:45pm Kennedy vs. Passaic
3:15pm Hudson Catholic vs. Teaneck (Chip)
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