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MIDDLETOWN - A 35-point loss on opening night could be a demoralizing experience for any basketball team and for a few hours, at least, Point Pleasant Beach felt that way about their opening-night rout at the hands of Ranney. Within 24 hours, however, the Garnet Gulls turned that loss from a demoralizing blow to their early-season psyche into motivation and it has helped fuel them ever since... Re

MIDDLETOWN - Senior Jaden Rhoden and junior Travis Holland were not on the Toms River North varsity boys basketball team in February of 2015, but both witnessed first-hand the most lopsided loss the program has suffered during the successful six-year tenure of head coach Rory Caswell...

Tweets by @Matt_Manley // Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase At Brookdale No. 10 Rumson-Fair Haven 49, Marlboro 44 Junior Teddy Sourlis scored 15 points on five three-pointers, including the go-ahead three-pointer with 1:30 left in the game as the Bulldogs (7-0) edged the Mustangs (6-2) to remain unbeaten...

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 At Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College   2017 Lineup (Click on the game to read a preview) Game 1: No. 10 Rumson-Fair Haven vs. Marlboro, 12 p.m. Game 2: No. 4 Toms River North vs. No....

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena at Brookdale Community College Game 5: No. 5 Point Beach vs. No. 6 Manasquan, 6:40 p.m. The 2016-17 season could not have started much different for Point Pleasant Beach than it did for Manasquan – the two teams that will square off against one another in Tuesday’s Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase at Brookdale Community College... Read M

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena at Brookdale Community College Game 2: No. 7 CBA vs. No. 4 Toms River North, 1:40 p.m. The last time the Toms River North and Christian Brothers Academy boys basketball teams shared the floor of Collins Arena on the campus of Brookdale Community College, CBA subjected Toms River North to one of the most humbling losses in the history

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena at Brookdale Community College Game 4: No. 2 Ranney vs. St. Anthony, 5 p.m. For a group of 15 and 16 year-olds, the five sophomore starters on the Ranney boys basketball team have played in high-level tournaments against some of the best amateur talent in the country – a body of work that rivals that of most incoming college freshmen.

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College Game 3: No. 1 Mater Dei Prep vs. Patrick School, 3:20 p.m. Saturday’s Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase game between the No. 1 team in the Shore Sports Network top 10 and the No...

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena, Brookdale Community College Game 1: No. 10 Rumson-Fair Haven vs. Marlboro, Noon At the beginning of last year, the current members of the Rumson-Fair Haven boys basketball team got an early glimpse of what life would be like without Brendan Barry and the results might have made head coach Chris Champeau drop his figurative crystal ba

LONG BRANCH - Manasquan junior Devin Jensen is a first-year starter for the Warriors and one thing that has stood out to him about his team is that they don't seem to ever worry about losing. Not because it wouldn't bother them, but more because they never let it happen...

LONG BRANCH - The Neptune boys basketball team has proved to be a second-half team during the early part of the 2015-16 season, but Saturday at the Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase, the Scarlet Fliers faced a second-half buzzsaw. Mater Dei Prep, ranked No...

Tweets by @Matt_Manley // Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase At Long Branch No. 2 Mater Dei Prep 62, No. 7 Neptune 48 Senior Kyle Elliot scored 18 of his game-high 22 points in the second half and the Seraphs (6-1) pulled away to beat the Scarlet Fliers (3-5) in the Boardwalk opener...