Scottie Lewis

*This article has been updated with information on the Shore Conference's all-time leading scorer and Antoine being the first sophomore from the Shore to ever reach 1,000 career points. TOMS RIVER - Bringing the ball up the middle of the floor against Middletown North on Sunday, Ranney sophomore guard Bryan Antoine took a quick dribble to his left, stutter-stepped and then effortlessly drained a

They are the type of players who create a buzz in the crowd when they get a step on a defender while slashing in the lane or get out ahead of the defense on the break. The best dunkers have that mixture of power and explosiveness that make them more than worth the price of admission at a Shore Conference basketball game...

TINTON FALLS - For 25 days, the Mater Dei boys basketball team had to live with a harsh, new reality: for the first time since the core of the team had been together, they were no longer the best team in the Shore Conference. Monday at the Ranney School, the Seraphs - the No...

MIDDLETOWN - As much as Mater Dei Prep and Ranney have grown into rivals during their respective two-year meteoric rises, the two had yet to play the kind of classic, down-to-the-wire game that is an essential part of any rivalry. Thursday at Mater Dei, the rivalry between the Seraphs and the Panthers reached the next level and so did Ranney...

MIDDLETOWN - Senior guard Joe Mahoney remembers what Ranney's boys basketball games used to be like only two seasons ago, before the Panthers became a must-see show in the Shore Conference. "My sophomore year, we probably had four or five Ranney fans in the stands,'' he said before smiling...

MIDDLETOWN - In a battle between the state's most prestigious high school basketball program and a team of five sophomore starters who are essentially starting a program from scratch, it was indeed a sophomore from Monmouth County who made the game-deciding shot...

Hoop Group Boardwalk Showcase Saturday, Jan. 7 At Collins Arena at Brookdale Community College Game 4: No. 2 Ranney vs. St. Anthony, 5 p.m. For a group of 15 and 16 year-olds, the five sophomore starters on the Ranney boys basketball team have played in high-level tournaments against some of the best amateur talent in the country – a body of work that rivals that of most incoming college freshmen.

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - To the four returning sophomore starters on the Ranney boys basketball team, Friday night was just another game playing with each other and fellow AAU teammate and current classmate, Ahmadu Sarnor. For the Ranney program, coach Tahj Holden and for the rest of the Shore Conference, it was the debut of an upgraded and still up-and-coming Shore Conference power...

All Video Courtesy of Adam Tormollan, Stretch Originals. Email: stretch922photos@gmail.com Instagram: @Stretch922 Ranney School freshman Scottie Lewis might have been the favorite as an eighth grader if there were a Shore Conference Slam Dunk Contest last year, so there was no question who the favorite in the first ever competition was Wednesday night at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River...

TINTON FALLS - The best boys basketball season in Ranney history ended Thursday at the hands of of a team the likes of which the Panthers hope to chase down in the not-so-distant future. Defending NJSIAA Tournament of Champions winner Roselle Catholic rolled into Ranney the No...

TINTON FALLS - Ranney freshman Alex Klatsky has been playing with classmates Scottie Lewis and Bryan Antoine for nearly four years now, and the early success of his two teammates can overshadow the fact that for most basketball players, playing varsity basketball as a freshman is difficult...

Mark Brown contributed to this article. View his complete photo gallery here. TINTON FALLS - Despite the enormous preseason hype surrounding a team of four freshman starters, the Ranney School boys basketball team exceeded any reasonable expectation during the regular season and Thursday night against Freehold Township in the Shore Conference Tournament round of 16, the Panthers reached one of the