Sean Barksdale

TOMS RIVER - Lakewood senior Sean Barksdale narrowly missed out on a number of distinctions at the end of his accomplished three-year varsity basketball career. He finished with 999 career points, missed out on playing in an NJSIAA sectional final when his team lost a significant fourth-quarter lead in its final game of the season, and - on a lighter note - was not voted to participate in Wednesda

LAKEWOOD – Lakewood senior Sean Barksdale is approaching the 1,000-point milestone and with his team on the way to a win Wednesday night against Long Branch in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III Playoffs, he tried to chip away at the difference before the final buzzer sounded and his focus and that of his teams shifts back to winning on Friday...

LAKEWOOD - For the last five years or so, Lakewood was the team the rest of the boys basketball teams in the Shore Conference Class B South circled on their calendar, but for the first time in a long time, the Piners found a division foe worthy of circling on their own calendar...

MANCHESTER TWP. - Four separate times during its Shore Conference Class B South home showdown with Lakewood on Tuesday, the Manchester boys basketball team looked like it would fall victim to an all-too familiar script against the them that the Hawks - and every other team in Lakewood's division for that matte - have been trying to catch up to over the last five years...

ROSELLE - Both the Lakewood and Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball teams looked to be no match for their respective opponents at one point during the Primetime Shootout Sunday at Roselle Catholic, but neither Shore Conference school went down without a fight...

Shore Sports Network basketball blogger Tim “Nep84″ McCollum gets ready for the 2014-15 season, which includes a new coach, Joe Fagan, at his alma mater, Neptune, after Fagan came over from Jackson Memorial.  I went to my son’s winter concert at Neptune High School the other day...