College Achieve of Asbury Park completed a dominant run to the Group I championship in its first year as a varsity boys basketball program. What does year two have in store for the Knights?
Aidan Hamlin-Woolfolk continued his hot shooting, while Brian Tassey and Christian DiGiso carried Freehold Boro to the finish line vs. Mainland to send the Colonials to the Group III final.
Freehold Boro is in search of its first ever trip to an NJSIAA Group III championship game and will have to get past a 26-win Mainland squad to get there.
Despite recent success for both teams in Group II, Camden and Manasquan will meet Tuesday night at Central for the first time since 2015 and a trip to Rutgers is on the line.
St. Rose got within closing distance of its first NJSIAA sectional title since 2004 and turned to 6-foot-8 star Matt Hodge to finish off Bishop Eustace.
Saint John Vianney's Anthony Knox, Rumson-Fair Haven's Sonny Amato, Southern's Matt Henrich, and Brick Memorial's Harvey Ludington won boys state titles while Howell's Kylie Gudewitz, Middletown South's Thea Rowland, and Central's Liliana Alicea won NJSIAA state titles on Saturday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.
Two years after going 0-21, Freehold Boro won its first NJSIAA sectional championship in 51 years by upending No. 1 seed Red Bank Saturday in the Central Group III final.
It has been multiple decades since either of the two NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III finalists won a sectional title. For one of Red Bank and Freehold Boro, the drought ends Saturday.