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Boys Shore Conference Tournament Bracket  No. 25 St. John Vianney at No. 1 Toms River South, 3 p.m. St. John Vianney’s run hasn’t quite reached improbable status yet, but the Lancers are one win away from, arguably, the most unlikely trip to the semifinals since the tournament expanded beyond 16 teams...

SCT Schedule and Brackets  Like a few of the teams playing in Saturday’s round of 16, I’ll be working on a short turnaround, thus a slightly abbreviated version of the picks. Throw in the fact that my first-round picking performance left plenty to be desired and there is not too much you are likely to figure out by reading the words below...

The Shore Conference Tournament kicks off with 14 first-round games, all of which are scheduled to be played on Thursday, should Mother Nature allow it. Last year’s tournament saw very little in the way of upsets, and based on the picks below, upsets will not be a major theme this year either...

The Shore Conference Boys Soccer Tournament is scheduled to begin Thursday afternoon, weather permitting, and this year’s field is packed with a whopping 30 teams. While it remains to be seen if more teams means more upsets, it does technically (and obviously) make for more potential champions...

The Shore Conference Boys Soccer Tournament is scheduled to begin Thursday afternoon, weather permitting, and this year’s field is packed with a whopping 30 teams. While it remains to be seen if more teams means more upsets, it does technically (and obviously) make for more potential champions...

The Shore Conference Boys Soccer Tournament is scheduled to begin Thursday afternoon, weather permitting, and this year’s field is packed with a whopping 30 teams. While it remains to be seen if more teams means more upsets, it does technically (and obviously) make for more potential champions...

The 30 teams that have qualified for the Shore Conference Tournament will be seeded on Monday and yes, there is no clear-cut order for the top-five seeds. Shore Regional appeared to have an inside track at the No. 1 seed, but a tie against St...

Freehold Township boys soccer coach Todd Briggs has seen Division I talent pass through his program and although he did not know for sure if his diminutive, freshman goalkeeper from 2011 would ever amount to the level of his high-profile players, Briggs knew he had something special...

Long Branch senior Guilherme De Novaes knew long before Sept. 5 that his surgically-repaired left knee was healed and healthy enough to handle the demands of a soccer game, specifically one played by a dynamic striker with the ball at his feet...

All eight of the teams from the Shore Conference Class A South division played at the Toms River North Kick-Off Classic this past weekend, and yet the division everyone wanted to talk about in Toms River was Class B North. The unofficial winners of the weekend gathering at neighboring Bey Lea and Oak Parks, at least among Shore Conference teams, were Wall and Ocean, according to a consensus Shore

Follow Matt Manley on Twitter for Scores and News from Around the Shore The best teams in the Shore Conference, at least according to what the Shore Conference Tournament revealed, play in the NJSIAA Central Jersey brackets, so it stands to reason that if the Shore Conference has a sectional champion this year, it will be in one or more of Central Jersey Group I, II, III or IV...

Follow Matt Manley on Twitter for Scores and News from Around the Shore Some reshuffling in Group classification has split up the Toms River schools and adds another dangerous Shore Conference team to the South Jersey Group III mix. Toms River South, despite finishing behind Toms River North, Jackson Memorial and Lacey in Class A South, may have the best chance to win a sectional title of any Ocea