Joe Piscopo

*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

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...

Matawan junior Joe Piscopo helped ignite a second-half comeback by sending his team into the halftime locker room with this heave from the opposite three-point line. Piscopo finished with 14 points and Matawan overcame a nine-point first-half deficit to beat Red Rank, 64-50, and extend its Shore Conference-best winning streak to 10 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...