Mater Dei Prep

Mater Dei Prep boys basketball coach Ben Gamble played the point guard position for a man considered to be the best high school basketball coach in the country while under the watch of Bob Hurley at St. Anthony, so to say he emphasizes point guard play at his current program would be an understatement...

Alexander Rice endured a commute of more than an hour to learn basketball from the most revered high school basketball coach in the country, even though he had a Division I head coach living under his own roof. The son of Monmouth University coach King Rice made the trek to St...

Class B Central has traditionally been St. Rose’s division to lose and while the Purple Roses have usually made good on those expectations, there have been some teams to spoil the party over the years. Point Beach has been that team and Mater Dei most recently won the title in 2015...

*Click here for a photo gallery of the boys Senior All-Star Game by Ray Richardson* TOMS RIVER - It's the Super Team That Never Was. Two years ago, Central Regional's boys basketball team featured a stellar sophomore class that included guard Maks Gruszecki, center Elijah Barnes, swingman Jaden Rhoden and rugged forward Denis Corbin under former coach Steve Zengel...

Mater Dei Prep has hired Lance Bennett as its new athletic director, the school announced in a press release. Bennett had been the interim athletic director since November when Denis Tobin resigned. He joined the school last year as part of head football coach Dino Mangiero’s staff...

Last season, the Mater Dei Prep boys basketball team put together a championship run that would have been unimaginable just one year earlier. Now an established Shore Conference contender, the Seraphs had the weight of expectations coming into this season and last week, they lived up to them...

Mater Dei Prep linebacker Juwan Mitchell ended his college recruitment by signing a letter of intent with Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

The Mater Dei boys basketball team earned another chance to play the No. 1 team in the state by beating Gloucester Catholic, 79-53, Wednesday in the NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public B first round, but the Seraphs will have to take on the Patrick School Friday without their best player...

WEST LONG BRANCH - On a team loaded with talent, Mater Dei Prep senior Elijah Mitchell plays a crucial role that is especially magnified in the postseason. Someone needs to be the player doing the dirty work of defending the opponent's top threat, grabbing rebounds, generating some offense and generally subverting his ego to do whatever is necessary to get a win...

WEST LONG BRANCH - For about three quarters of the Shore Conference Tournament championship game against defending champion and top-seeded Mater Dei Prep, the Marlboro boys basketball team put itself in position to complete an improbable run to its first ever Shore Conference Tournament title...

Shore Conference Tournament Championship Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m. At Ocean First Bank Arena, Monmouth University No. 1 Mater Dei Prep (23-3, 12-2) vs. Marlboro (17-5, 11-3) Note: Listen to the game live on 1160/1310 AM or streaming on the Shore Sports Network...

Click Here for Information on SCT Final Tickets TOMS RIVER - The Mater Dei boys basketball team is no stranger to Shore Conference Tournament comebacks and in order to preserve their latest high-wire act Tuesday in the SCT semifinals against No...