St. Rose saved its most dominant performance of 2023-24 for the final game, dismantling Montclair Immaculate for its first NJSIAA Non-Public B title since 1977.
Red Bank Catholic caught fire in the second quarter and never looked back, routing Pope John and capturing its first NJSIAA Non-Public A title since 2017.
Aidan Hamlin-Woolfolk continued his hot shooting, while Brian Tassey and Christian DiGiso carried Freehold Boro to the finish line vs. Mainland to send the Colonials to the Group III final.
Freehold Boro is in search of its first ever trip to an NJSIAA Group III championship game and will have to get past a 26-win Mainland squad to get there.
Griffin Linstra scored before the final buzzer sounded, but the officials overturned their initial call, giving Camden a stunning, controversial win over Manasquan.
St. Rose buried Bishop Eustace for a second straight year and will now head to Rutgers for the Non-Public B championship game as the favorite to win its first state title since 1977.
St. Rose has been steamrolling toward a 2024 Non-Public B championship since it lost in the 2023 final. Can Bishop Eustace cook up a legitimate challenge to the Purple Roses?
Manasquan scored the final 13 points of the game in a span of two minutes to stun Rumson-Fair Haven and win its fifth straight NJSIAA sectional title in a classic.
It has been multiple decades since either of the two NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III finalists won a sectional title. For one of Red Bank and Freehold Boro, the drought ends Saturday.