Mater Dei Prep

Shore Conference Tournament Semifinals Tuesday, Feb. 21 At Pine Belt Arena, Toms River No. 1 Mater Dei Prep (22-3) vs. No. 4 Toms River North (24-1), 6 p.m. If anything might have cast any doubt that we will be gearing up for Ranney-vs...

TOMS RIVER - A matter of minutes after scoring the 1,000th point of his high school career, Mater Dei Prep senior Elijah Barnes was reflective about the achievement and all of the stops he has made along the way. Prior to Barnes' milestone basket in the final minute of Mater Dei's 80-55 win over Manasquan in the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals on Sunday, another Monmouth County native an

Each week, Shore Sports Network nominates a group of players as the Shore Sports Network Player of the Week, sponsored by Orthopaedic Institute of Central Jersey, and the SSN readers will have a chance to pick the winner. Below are the players of the week from the six Shore Conference divisional, plus two wild card candidates from which to choose for this week's honor...

Shore Conference Tournament Bracket Shore Conference Tournament Seeds 1. Mater Dei Prep 2. Ranney 3. Freehold Township 4. Rumson-Fair Haven 5. Toms River North 6. Marlboro 7. Middletown North 8. Point Beach 9...

Thanks to everyone who voted in this past week's Shore Sports Network I'm Possible Top Plays Poll. Here are your top five plays from the last voting period. 5. Manasquan sophomore Lola Mullaney beats the buzzer and gets the bounce to beat RBC in a girls basketball thriller...

TINTON FALLS - For 25 days, the Mater Dei boys basketball team had to live with a harsh, new reality: for the first time since the core of the team had been together, they were no longer the best team in the Shore Conference. Monday at the Ranney School, the Seraphs - the No...

Every now and again, the schedule-makers look like they know exactly what they are doing. The final week of the Shore Conference regular season is overflowing with huge games, great matchups and potential de facto division championship games...

After three years leading the Shore Conference’s premier boys lacrosse program and taking it to new heights, Andy Eastwood has a new challenge in front of him. Eastwood resigned as head coach at Rumson-Fair Haven in November, and after a couple months weighing his options decided to go to a place where he could start from scratch...

Each week, Shore Sports Network nominates a group of players as the Shore Sports Network Player of the Week, sponsored by Orthopaedic Institute of Central Jersey, and the SSN readers will have a chance to pick the winner. Below are the players of the week from the six Shore Conference divisional, plus two wild card candidates from which to choose for this week's honor...

MIDDLETOWN - As much as Mater Dei Prep and Ranney have grown into rivals during their respective two-year meteoric rises, the two had yet to play the kind of classic, down-to-the-wire game that is an essential part of any rivalry. Thursday at Mater Dei, the rivalry between the Seraphs and the Panthers reached the next level and so did Ranney...

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 At Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College   2017 Lineup (Click on the game to read a preview) Game 1: No. 10 Rumson-Fair Haven vs. Marlboro, 12 p.m. Game 2: No. 4 Toms River North vs. No....

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College Game 3: No. 1 Mater Dei Prep vs. Patrick School, 3:20 p.m. Saturday’s Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase game between the No. 1 team in the Shore Sports Network top 10 and the No...