Chris Tawiah

ABERDEEN TWP. - When the bleachers emptied into a raucous celebration at midcourt after host Matawan won its first NJSIAA sectional title since 1957 on Tuesday night, it was not just a historic moment. It was a sales pitch. For the first few years of head coach Tom Stead’s seven-year tenure with the Huskies, keeping homegrown talent in Matawan’s hallways was often a challenge...

ABERDEEN TWP. – Matawan’s history as a boys basketball program ranges from uneventful to painful, and current head coach Tom Stead has already been part of two torturous moments in Huskies basketball history. Tuesday, in front of a raucous home crowd at Matawan High School, Stead and his team finally brought Matawan basketball its moment of triumph...

Shore Conference Tournament Semifinals Wednesday, Feb. 26 Brick Memorial High School   No. 1 Point Beach vs. No. 4 Matawan, 6 p.m. For 23 games, Point Beach looked like a team that would not only win the Shore Conference Tournament, but reach the NJSIAA Group I semifinal without an opponent so much as sniffing defeat. The...

*Shore Conference Tournament homepage* *Matawan-Manasquan photo gallery by Cliff Lavelle* Standing alone in the gleaming white hallway at Long Branch High School outside his team’s locker room on Sunday, Matawan boys basketball coach Tom Stead took a deep breath and thought back to how far everything had come in his seven seasons with the Huskies...

ABERDEEN TWP. – When it comes to winning in the Shore Conference, no public school boys basketball program has the track record that Neptune High School has, certainly not current Shore Conference Class B North rival Matawan. Prior to Saturday’s meeting between the B North foes, it had been 49 years since Matawan had won a division title, a period during which a Neptune championship and a Matawan

LONG BRANCH - The Matawan boys basketball team – ranked No. 3 in the Shore Sports Network Top 10 – took another step toward winning its first division title in nearly 50 years by beating No. 4 Long Branch, 40-37, Thursday to sweep the season series with the Green Wave...

NEPTUNE – Myles Mooney and his Neptune boys basketball teammates knew the comeback was coming because it always does. The Scarlet Fliers not only have played close games throughout their season, but on Monday on their home floor, they played a Shore Conference Class B North division opponent that had erased many a deficit during an 11-game winning streak...

ABERDEEN TWP. – Not many guards in the Shore Conference are as good at getting their own shot as Matawan juniors Joe Piscopo and Jason Dunne, but when senior teammate Chris Tawiah gets on one of his rolls, the two juniors become pass-first point guards...

Player of the Week Peyton Wejnert, So., Point Boro The sophomore sharpshooter averaged 28 points and a little fewer than eight rebounds in Point Boro’s three wins this week over Central, Barnegat and John F. Kennedy Iselin. That schedule is not exactly a murderer’s row of competition, but Wejnert exhibited marvelous consistency in the three games...

ABERDEEN TWP. – Matawan senior Chris Tawiah came into this season wanting to exhibit more confidence as Matawan’s third scoring option alongside two breakout sophomores from a year ago, juniors Jason Dunne and Joe Piscopo. Armed with the boost in confidence, Matawan’s No...