Basketball

TOMS RIVER - For most girls basketball teams, reaching the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions final is an accomplishment to savor. For Manasquan star Marina Mabrey, the celebration can wait. The McDonald's All-American and Gatorade New Jersey Player of the Year has drilled it into her teammates' heads all season that there is only one goal...

Non-Public B Roselle Catholic 56, St. Anthony 52 Kentucky recruit Isaiah Briscoe led four scorers in double figures with 17 points to go with four assists and the Lions (26-4) won a thriller over the Friars (28-2) to capture their third straight Non-Public B title in a game where neither team led by more than five points the entire way...

TOMS RIVER - St. John Vianney spent the day before Saturday's NJSIAA Non-Public A final against Immaculate Heart Academy watching the tape of last year's loss to IHA in the same spot, vowing not to have a repeat of last season's disappointment...

TOMS RIVER - St. Rose senior guard Kat Phipps has all the key attributes of a talented scorer - deep range, a quick release, the ability to get into the lane off the dribble and perhaps the most important one - a short memory. After a tough shooting night in the sectional final, Phipps got back to lighting it up from all over the floor in the Purple Roses' biggest game of the season...

JACKSON - Thanks to the spark from a freshman off the bench and the veteran poise of senior standout Jess Louro, St. Rose's girls basketball team defended its NJSIAA Non-Public South B title with a 45-34 win over Roselle Catholic on Wednesday night at Jackson Liberty...

MANASQUAN - Senior Kyle Bradshaw has taken some good-natured joking from his Manasquan teammates all season about the fact that he has never played in the state playoffs in his career until this year. Bradshaw was part of a Monmouth Regional program that did not qualify for the postseason for his first three years, including a one-win season last year, before transferring to Manasquan as a senior.

Notre Dame-bound Manasquan star Marina Mabrey and Christian Brothers Academy senior Jack Laffey are this year's recipients of the prestigious James J. and Margaret M. Kerwin Memorial Awards, the Kerwin family announced on Sunday. Six members of the Kerwin family of West Long Branch select the most outstanding girls and boys players in the Shore Conference for an award that has been given out every

MIDDLETOWN - Even at a basketball program with a storied history like Christian Brothers Academy, the first half turned in by the Colts in Wednesday night's Shore Conference Tournament semifinals had the most veteran CBA observers shaking their heads and saying they had never seen anything like that before...

The 2015 Shore Conference Basketball Tournaments wrapped up in thrilling fashion with the Manasquan girls repeating as champions and the 11th-seeded Rumson-Fair Haven boys stunning No. 1 Christian Brothers Academy for their first SCT title in history...

WALL TOWNSHIP - In a game where it missed its first 10 shots of the fourth quarter and one of its best players suffered a frustrating shooting night, Wall's defense was the reason the Crimson Knights were only seconds away from a rare trip to the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals on Thursday night...

Monmouth-Marist Photo gallery by Mark Brown of B51 Photography Monmouth University rode a strong second half by Justin Robinson, who scored all 20 of his points after the break, to a 69-65 win over Marist in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game on the Hawks' home floor Monday night...

TOMS RIVER - Just the sight of the other team wearing gray jerseys with "East" on them would normally be enough motivation in itself for Toms River South, but there was some extra incentive for the Indians on Thursday night. Not only could they pick up a win at the expense of an old rival, they also had the opportunity to bounce the Raiders from contention for a Shore Conference Tourname