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RED BANK - Zach Howarth was not especially preoccupied with walking out of the gymnasium at Red Bank Catholic High School Saturday with a career milestone in hand, but in the end, he made a point of reaching it so he and his St. John Vianney boys basketball team could move on to more important things next time the Lancers take the floor...

RUMSON - On Thursday against a Raritan team that only recently lost its first game to a Shore Conference opponent, the Rumson-Fair Haven boys basketball team showed they could be dominant without senior Brendan Barry shooting the ball well...

LITTLE SILVER - The Long Branch boys basketball team finished tied for last place in the Shore Conference Class B North division during 2014-15. After pulling out another divisional win on Tuesday, the Green Wave are looking more and more like the second B North team in as many years to climb from worst to first...

TOMS RIVER - Like its opponents from Brick Township High School Thursday night, the Toms River East boys basketball team has been waiting quite some time to be a winner once again. With another sparkling Raiders performance Thursday night, it's hard to envision that wins were ever hard to come by...

STAFFORD TWP. - After trailing heading into the fourth quarter, the Toms River North boys basketball team - ranked No. 5 in the Shore Sports Network Top 10 - rallied to beat Southern Regional, 74-67, to pick up a key Shore Conference Class A South victory while pursuing a second straight division championship and third in four years...

RUMSON - After watching its opponent, Rumson-Fair Haven, show a flair for the dramatic during the fourth quarter and overtime Wednesday night in the finale of the Bulldawg Classic, the Colts Neck boys basketball team showed it can do drama as well...

COMPLETE SJV-RUMSON PHOTO GALLERY BY ROB SAMUELS With the reigning Shore Sports Network Player of the Year sidelined by a hand injury, the door is open for the rest of the Shore Conference Class A Central division to jump out to the front of the pack in the division title race...

Photo Gallery by Sports Pix NJ LINCROFT - From the beginning of the season, the Christian Brothers Academy basketball team has believed it is good enough to win an NJSIAA South Jersey Non-Public A championship, and one bad second-half performance a week prior to its Friday sectional semifinal against Gloucester Catholic was not enough to change the Colts' collective mind...

Photo Gallery from Matawan-North Plainfield by Sports Pix NJ The Matawan boys basketball team has had its share of ups and downs while trying to find itself during the season, but when it comes to the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II Tournament, the Huskies have played like what they are: defending champions...

Photos by Mark Brown, B51 Photography Two of the eight boys basketball Shore Conference Tournament round-of-16 games on Thursday featured Red-Bank-area rivals squaring off, one a pair of local non-public powers and the other two neighbors just down the road from one another...

Photo Gallery at Sports Pix NJ Shore Conference Tournament Bracket   FREEHOLD TWP. - The Freehold Township boys basketball team spent 32 minutes chasing one player around on the defensive end during Thursday's Shore Conference Tournament Round-of-16 game, but ultimately needed to score in the final minute in order to advance to the SCT quarterfinals for the first time in eight years. ...

*Photo Gallery at Sports Pix NJ* Juniors Grant Goode and Zach Howarth scored 17 points apiece and St. John Vianney (9-7, 4-5) beat Raritan (9-10, 3-7) to climb to two games above the .500 mark. Goode returned from an ankle injury after a three-week absence, which began when he sustained the injury in a Jan...