Boys Basketball – Player of the Week: Week One Winner

Orthopaedic Institute of Central Jersey Boys Basketball Player of the Week

Steve Geis, Jr., Wall

In four games, Geis is averaging 22.7 points to begin what appears to be breakout season for the junior. He scored 27 points in the opener against Monmouth, 21 in a WOBM Classic win over Toms River East and later put up a career-best 29 in a loss at RBC - which accounted for the majority of Wall's 48 points. Geis also scored 11 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter of a come-from-behind win over Middletown South on Tuesday. Wall began the season 3-0 before losing to RBC to go into Winter Break.

Barnegat junior Carson Francisco finished second with more than 20 percent of the vote and Colts Neck junior Danny Gaines was the other candidate to finish with more than 10 percent of the vote (13.76 percent). The Shore's leader scorer - Manasquan junior Devin Jensen (31 points per game through four games) - finished fourth in the voting.