A number of Greater Middlesex Conference boys' basketball teams claimed their own tournament titles on Monday, as things start to wrap up before the New Year. Here's a closer look at who won what in Monday action. Sayreville sweeps Battle at the Bomb Shelter... In their own Battle at the Bomb Shelter tournament, No. 10 Sayreville took the title, culminating with a 53-51 overtime win over Union Monday afternoon in Parlin.

Lancaster Country Day was a year ahead of schedule. A lineup with three juniors and two sophomores isn’t supposed to play in mid-March.

Riley Messinger was asked which moment he’d like the best. A go-ahead field goal, a game-winning save, a last-second shot or a walkoff homer.

In perhaps the biggest revamping of divisions in any sport since the formation of the Greater Middlesex Conference in 1985, the league is moving to six divisions, and altering the rules for seeding of the county tournament. For both girls' and boys' basketball, starting next season there will be six divisions, with an American and National division in the Red, White and Blue Divisions, eliminating the Gold and Silver entirely.

When Adrian Rodriguez mentioned he was joining McCaskey’s basketball team for the first time, it led to some follow-up questions.

Like every high school basketball team everywhere, seniors graduate, new players come in. That's the nature of the beast. For Colonia, the names have changed over the last several years, but one thing remains the same: they consistently have success. Colonia - which won the GMC's top "pod" in the COVID-shortened 2021 season - broke out last season and won the GMC Tournament, beating St.

Union County has been doing it, the Skyland Conference began using it this year, and the Greater Middlesex Conference has adopted it for 2025-26. The GMC's Athletic Directors Thursday night voted to institute a running clock rule that the NFHS has allowed as an option since the 2022-23 season. It will begin next year in the GMC for both girls' and boys' basketball.

Stellar defense - particularly in their full court press after taking a double-digit lead - and 31 points from Aiden Derkack helped No. 1 Colonia to a 69-53 home win over St. Thomas Aquinas Thursday night, in a GMC Red Division game heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio. Derkack scored 29 of those points in the final three quarters, while Zach Smith - the team's lone senior - added 14 on Senior Night, with junior R.J.

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Starting out a season, there can be multiple goals. Win your division. Win your county. Win a state title. Only ten teams will get to play in the last game of the year. And this year, the Montgomery boys' basketball team was one of them. But that wasn't all. The Cougars checked off the box next to division champs, winning the Skyland Conference Raritan with a 10-0 record.

In a game with two coaches in Bob Turco of Piscataway and John Wojcik of Sayreville who have a combined 617 wins, it was the players that decided this one. In the opening GMC Tournament semifinal game at Monroe High School Tuesday, heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio, presented by the George Street Playhouse, the Chiefs made all the big plays in the final minute plus.

Acknowledgment, in and of itself, can be a reward for a hard day’s work. Or a hard season’s — or career’s — work.

The high school basketball season has been going strong for the last couple of weeks. There will be plenty of excellent teams to look at, including defending state champions Vashon, Principia and Webster Groves. Some of the other teams to look at this season are East St. Louis, DeSmet, Chaminade, McCluer North and many others. […]

Rocky Mack watched the seventh-grade games wearing khakis and holding a scorebook. He was the manager.

It was thirteen years ago, the last time East Brunswick got off to a start like this. That one got off with a bang, as the Bears won their opener at rival St. Joseph-Metuchen, beating a Falcon squad with a young, spindly freshman named Karl Towns. (There was no "Anthony" yet, at least not publicly.) That team won its first 15 games of the season, beat St.

Senior Jalen Fleming scored 34 points - one of four players in double figures - as the Tigers beat Edison 74-37 to win their first-ever GMC Blue Division title. Senior Chukwudi Raphael-Mamah recorded a triple double, with 13 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists. Click below to listen to all the action as called by Mike Pavlichko on Central Jersey Sports Radio on February 6, 2025, from Timothy Christian School in Piscatway, NJ.