Alex Klatsky

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - To the four returning sophomore starters on the Ranney boys basketball team, Friday night was just another game playing with each other and fellow AAU teammate and current classmate, Ahmadu Sarnor. For the Ranney program, coach Tahj Holden and for the rest of the Shore Conference, it was the debut of an upgraded and still up-and-coming Shore Conference power...

TINTON FALLS - Ranney freshman Alex Klatsky has been playing with classmates Scottie Lewis and Bryan Antoine for nearly four years now, and the early success of his two teammates can overshadow the fact that for most basketball players, playing varsity basketball as a freshman is difficult...

Mark Brown contributed to this article. View his complete photo gallery here. TINTON FALLS - Despite the enormous preseason hype surrounding a team of four freshman starters, the Ranney School boys basketball team exceeded any reasonable expectation during the regular season and Thursday night against Freehold Township in the Shore Conference Tournament round of 16, the Panthers reached one of the

LITTLE SILVER - When playing against a senior-laden team like the Red Bank Regional squad they faced in the Albert E. Martin Buc Holiday Classic final Wednesday, Ranney freshmen Bryan Antoine and Scottie Lewis are literally boys among men...

With everything he accomplished as an amateur basketball player, Tahj Holden is not one to run away from high expectations. At the high school and college levels, he has played on teams with the highest of goals and went on to meet every one of them...

With every 360 dunk and every effortless 3-pointer by eighth-grader Scottie Lewis, the buzz grows louder about the future of boys basketball at Ranney School. A program that has been a Shore Conference afterthought during its entire existence may soon become a local power given the talent on the way next season...