Dom Uhl

The NJSIAA Tournament tips off a day late due to (the threat of) snow on Monday, so Tuesday will feature a full slate of games, with only Non-Public A waiting until Wednesday to join the party. There has been an overriding sentiment among observers that the Shore Conference is down this year, but that sentiment might be somewhat misguided...

From the minute basketball practices began in early December, Point Beach was expected to accomplish a feat that it had never achieved in the 77-year history of the Shore Conference Tournament.

*Follow Scott Stump on Twitter* BRICK – Top-seeded Point Beach entered the Shore Conference Tournament as perhaps the Shore’s most explosive offensive team, a star-studded group dazzling crowds with dunks, long-range shooting and pinpoint passing...

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...

Photo Gallery by Cliff Lavelle LONG BRANCH – A dream season and a multi-year renaissance for the Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball team nearly began its downward spiral Sunday at Long Branch High School the same way it began its meteoric rise...

Check out Point Beach senior and University of Iowa recruit Dom Uhl throwing down a nasty putback dunk in Thursday's win over Southern in the Shore Conference Tournament Round of 16. (Video by NJSportsScene)    

ROSELLE – The Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball team had been so dominant during its 18-0 start to the season that the starters were rarely on the court for any of the fourth quarters this season. Sunday at the Primetime Shootout at Roselle Catholic High School, the Patrick School wore down those starters in the fourth quarter and beat Point Beach, 54-52, to hand the Garnet Gulls their first lo

POINT PLEASANT BEACH – Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball coach Nick Catania admits he does not take losses well, but he takes them better than senior point guard Matt Farrell. For the past 11 months, Farrell and the Garnet Gulls have been sitting on a loss to Lakewood in last year’s Shore Conference Tournament final and Saturday in their home gym, the Gulls took another step toward a championsh

POINT PLEASANT BEACH – Matt Farrell started in the Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball program as a role player who knocked down the occasional shot and worked hard on both ends of the floor while the team’s top player threw down dunks and garnered most of the attention...

LONG BRANCH – Jackson Memorial was the first opponent of the Point Pleasant Beach boys basketball team that had size to match the Garnet Gulls, according to Point Beach senior guard Matt Farrell. Ironically enough, it was Farrell – the smallest player on the court at six feet – who made the biggest impact against the Jaguar giants...

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Four Shore Conference boys basketball standouts and a now-former Shore girls star were announced as nominees for the prestigious McDonald's All-American Games on Tuesday. The Point Beach tandem of guard Matt Farrell and forward Dom Uhl, Jackson Memorial center Eric Carter, and Southern senior forward Mike Gesicki were part of the 984 total players on the boys and girls side from across the country