Mater Dei Prep

Each week, Shore Sports Network will nominate 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 five players from Shore Conference teams who were recognized as holiday tournament MVP's last week, so they are the five nominees for this installment of the Pl

By Ella Brockway SSN Correspondent LITTLE SILVER - Mater Dei head coach Ben Gamble did not panic as he watched his team’s lead, which had at one point been 14, shrink to one as the opposing Sayreville Bombers staged a comeback with 7:16 left in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s Buc Classic championship game...

LITTLE SILVER - The first-two rounds of the Albert E. Martin Buc Holiday Classic have looked more like a tune-up than an exhibition for the No. 1 team in the Shore Sports Network Top 10, but for Mater Dei Prep senior Elijah Barnes, the Buc Classic has been a trip down memory lane...

The emergence of Ranney and Mater Dei Prep last year turned B Central from a division of small school Davids into the division of Goliath, at least considering the top teams in the division. Not only are Ranney and Mater Dei Prep again loaded to the brim with talent heading into the 2016-17 season, but Point Beach and St...

Five teams bringing home state titles, two stunning upsets and an incredible finish highlighted the final weekend of the Shore Conference football season. Rumson-Fair Haven, Manasquan, Asbury Park, Mater Dei Prep and Wall took home coveted NJSIAA sectional championship trophies with resounding victories...

UNION - Even after Mater Dei Prep senior Eddie Lewis dashed into the end zone for an incredible last-second touchdown that gave the Seraphs their first state championship in history, it was hard for him to believe what had just happened. With 15 seconds left in the game on Saturday, Mater Dei junior quarterback George Pearson hit junior wideout Kyle Devaney with a short pass, and then he flipped i

Both quarterbacks have been starting since their freshman year and piling up accolades along the way. Now they look to add a state championship to their sparkling resumes. Middletown North senior Donald Glenn and Mater Dei Prep junior George Pearson, who play at schools separated by less than a mile on Tindall Road in Middletown, will now look to add some team hardware by leading their respective

Of all the Shore Conference teams remaining in the state playoffs, the chance to make the biggest statement across New Jersey belongs to St. John Vianney and Mater Dei Prep. Both squads will be taking on traditional non-public powerhouses that have a long history of success in the state playoffs...

Mater Dei Prep senior Elijah Barnes remembers being a sixth-grader who loved playing basketball but, as he put it, could "barely run in a straight line without tripping over my own two feet." Barnes is an example that become a basketball talent is still more about work than about being the tallest kid in the class and Barnes journey from aspiring basketball player to Division I athlete a

After a week that featured two huge nondivisional matchups between ranked teams along with several key divisional battles, Week 5 in the Shore Conference is sort of the calm before (and after) the storm. The action really heats up over the next two weeks with division games that will have major title implications, as well as a monster nondivisional game between the top two teams in the Shore... Re

KEYPORT - Mater Dei Prep has never won a division title in program history, yet with the talent and coaching staff it imported in the offseason, making a run at the Class B Central championship this fall was almost a foregone conclusion. In their first real test of the season, the new-look Seraphs showed the breadth of their arsenal in rolling past Keyport 35-7 on Saturday afternoon to improve to

Don’t look know, but after this week’s games most teams will be about 40 percent of the way through their seven games that count toward playoff seeding. At the same time, there’s still a long way to go before anything is decided, but through two weeks some questions are being answered...