Bobby Weise

FREEHOLD TWP. - The Freehold Township boys basketball team has not made it this far into the 2016-17 with one loss by relying on one single player, but when leading scorer Steve Staklinski went to the bench with two fouls during the Patriots' Class A North game at Marlboro Tuesday, the going got tough...

NEPTUNE - Freehold Township junior Ja'zeem Foster was all set to take over a bigger role on the unbeaten Patriots when sophomore starter Greg Billups injured his ankle at the end of a win over Marlboro on Jan. 13. One game later, Foster joined Billups on the injured list with a left wrist injury...

FREEHOLD TWP. - The Freehold Township boys basketball team entered Friday's game against Class A North division rival Marlboro with a 10-game winning streak to open the season and at no point during that run has a game been in doubt in the final seconds...

TOMS RIVER - Most teams facing a scorer like Manasquan's Devin Jensen have to alter the gameplan to contain him or pick out a designated defensive stopper to shadow him while on the floor. Freehold Township did neither of those things against the Shore Conference's leading scorer in Thursday's WOBM Christmas Classic semifinals...

MIDDLETOWN - The Freehold Township boys basketball team marched into Christian Brothers Academy Thursday with an experienced squad ready to join a very short list of Patriots teams that won a road game against CBA. Senior experience might have been the Patriots most important ally against a young CBA team, but it was not their x-factor...

FREEHOLD TWP. - It is never unusual to look at the Shore Conference standings and see Freehold Township sitting atop all of the Class A North public school teams, and in that sense, this year's Patriots team is nothing out of the ordinary. On the other hand, only one starter and one other regular off the bench returned from last year's NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV runner-up team that won 21 game

TOMS RIVER - Most high school basketball coaches cringe at the site of one of their players attempting a shot seven feet behind the three-point line, let alone encourage their players to do it. The list of players Freehold Township boys basketball coach Brian Golub has implored to shoot the ball from that kind of distance is two players long...