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It took an entire season for a young, inexperienced and injury-stricken Long Branch boys basketball team to win three games in 2014-15, a campaign that will go down as one of the most forgettable in the proud history of the Green Wave program...

When Ben Gamble accepted an offer to become the Mater Dei Prep head boys basketball coach in June, he brought a lot with him to the program – more than a decade of experience as an assistant under Bob Hurley at St. Anthony, a one-year turnaround of the Cardinal McCarrick program, and nine transfers who wanted to play for Gamble and be part of a Seraphs turnaround...

The Annual Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase returns to Long Branch High School Saturday and all five scheduled games will feature at least one Shore Conference team while two of North Jersey's top teams also join the festivities. St. Anthony, Neptune, Christian Brothers Academy, Manasquan, Point Beach and host Long Branch have all become regulars at the event, which was formerly called the Battle on

By Bobby Klatt Shore Sports Network Correspondent The Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase has been known to bring in big names from around the state to take on Shore Conference teams, but often forgotten are the marquee matchups between conference rivals...

In each of the last three years, the Christian Brothers Academy basketball team has spoken of its annual showdown with St. Anthony as more of a measuring stick than a game. The Friars – currently the No. 1 team in N.J. according to NJ.com – are the standard for high school basketball in the state and while CBA would have loved to send shockwaves through the state, the expectations were always more

Rumson-Fair Haven senior Brendan Barry has very little to prove as a high school basketball player, but on Saturday at the Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase, he will continue his quest to convince college coaches that he can play at the Division I level...

LONG BRANCH – Dozens and dozens of ambitious high school basketball players have sacrificed hours upon hours of sleep and after-school free time to jump on a train and commute to play at St. Anthony High School for Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley...

LONG BRANCH – Missing two starters in one of its more challenging games to date, the Manasquan boys basketball team operated with the rallying cry “all hands on deck” in order to stay with Matawan in the final game of Saturday’s Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase...

By Bobby Klatt - Shore Sports Network contributor LONG BRANCH - After struggling to close out wins against high-level opponents early this season, Neptune halted that trend by jumping out early and never looking back in upsetting one of its oldest rivals, previously undefeated Lakewood, 50-44, at Saturday's Boardwalk Hoop Group Showcase...

LONG BRANCH - In the middle of torching Point Beach at the Boardwalk Hoop Group Showcase on Saturday, Rumson-Fair Haven junior guard Brendan Barry sat on the bench and sensed something wasn't right with his left eye. After poking around, he realized he had been wearing two contact lenses on the same eye for a chunk of the game after he thought he had lost one and put another one in...

LONG BRANCH - Senior Dan Largey continued his outstanding start to the season by dropping in a game-high 25 points to help Shore Regional cruise to a 58-36 nondivisional victory over winless Long Branch in the first of the five-game Boardwalk Hoop Group Showcase on Saturday...

Tweets by @Matt_Manley // Class A South No. 4 Southern 78, Toms River South 55 Junior Peyton Wejnert scored a career-high 39 points and the Rams (5-3, 2-2) rolled to a win over the Indians (3-4, 1-2). Senior Jake Logue also poured in 17 points for Southern, while senior Tymere Berry led Toms River South with 19 points...