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MANCHESTER TWP. - Four separate times during its Shore Conference Class B South home showdown with Lakewood on Tuesday, the Manchester boys basketball team looked like it would fall victim to an all-too familiar script against the them that the Hawks - and every other team in Lakewood's division for that matte - have been trying to catch up to over the last five years...

BAYVILLE – Like many of his teammates, Manchester junior Jordan Torney loves to see an opposing defense focus on stopping one of his boys basketball teammates, because the Hawks believe choosing a Manchester player to stop is choosing one’s own poison...

Follow Matt Manley on Twitter Manchester-Toms River South Photo Gallery by Bill Normile Jackson-Freehold Twp. Photo Gallery by Bill Normile TOMS RIVER – A team with three sophomores in the starting lineup figures to endure its share of hard lessons during the course of a season, and Saturday served the Manchester boys basketball team one of those lessons at the WOBM Christmas Classic against third