Jason Dunne

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...

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...

*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...

*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...

*Click here for a Matawan-Manasquan photo gallery by Cliff Lavelle* LONG BRANCH - When Matawan won on Thursday to book a return trip to the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals and set up a showdown with Manasquan on Sunday, the Huskies' players and coaches were being celebrated for a job well done as if the job was finished...

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

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...

Alex Thomson, Sr., Keyport Other players had good games against better competition, but regardless of the competition, it’s hard to top 40-point games on consecutive nights while reaching the 1,000-point milestone in one of those nights...

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...

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...