Dara Mabrey

TOMS RIVER - Any team in the NJSIAA Group II bracket that might have breathed a sigh of relief that two-time defending group champion Manasquan was losing a McDonald's All-American to graduation after last year got a rude awakening when they ran into the Warriors this season...

Monroe, NJ- It took a little bit for Manasquan to get into Thursday nights game against Sterling, but once they did there was no holding the Warriors back from reaching their third straight Group 2 Championship game. Sterling jumped out to an early 6-0 lead before Manasquan finished the quarter on an 11-0 run...

MANASQUAN - For anyone that might have thought that the Manasquan girls basketball team's run on top of the NJSIAA Group II Tournament and among the Shore Conference elite was ending after last year's Tournament of Champions victory, the Warriors sent another message in Tuesday night's NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II final: We're just getting started...

TOMS RIVER - When it comes to big game heroics, the Manasquan Warriors all had a part in a come-from-behind, 61-58, win over Rumson-Fair Haven Monday at the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River. None was bigger than sophomore Dara Mabrey, who buried a three pointer with 5...

MIDDLETOWN -  Manasquan opened its Shore Conference Tournament Championship title defense in convincing fashion Thursday against Donovan Catholic and continued it with a hard-fought, 47-36 quarterfinal win over Red Bank Catholic (18-6 overall, 13-1 B-North)...

TOMS RIVER - During most of Tuesday's WOBM Christmas Classic semifinal game against Sayreville, the Manasquan girls basketball team was giving away height at four positions but the rebounding numbers - and ultimately the final score - showed the Warriors played much bigger...

TRENTON - A valiant effort by St. Rose, a seesaw game that came down to the final minute on Monday night, it was all a prelude to a simple, immutable fact: Marina Mabrey was not going to let Manasquan be denied an NJSIAA Tournament of Champions title...

TOMS RIVER - For most girls basketball teams, reaching the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions final is an accomplishment to savor. For Manasquan star Marina Mabrey, the celebration can wait. The McDonald's All-American and Gatorade New Jersey Player of the Year has drilled it into her teammates' heads all season that there is only one goal...

*Manasquan-St. Rose photo gallery by Sports Pix NJ* WEST LONG BRANCH – When Marina Mabrey submitted her paperwork to transfer from Point Pleasant Beach High School back to Manasquan High School in early January of last year, the Manasquan players and coaches knew they were getting the player they needed to push the program to the top of the Shore Conference...

Shore Sports Network basketball blogger Tim “Nep84″ McCollum gets ready for the 2014-15 season, which includes a new coach, Joe Fagan, at his alma mater, Neptune, after Fagan came over from Jackson Memorial.  I went to my son’s winter concert at Neptune High School the other day...