team of the week

The Rumson boys basketball team opened its 2016-17 season short two returning starters (Elijah McAllister and Mike O'Connor) due to injury while also tasked with replacing the program's all-time leading scorer, Brendan Barry. Faced with those immense odds, the Bulldogs have not only survived; they've thrived...

With none of its five starters returning from last year's team, the Ocean Township boys basketball team was already facing its fair share of challenges. Then the Spartans saw their schedule. Ocean opened up the season with Manasquan, Long Branch and Middletown North - the first two of which were in the Shore Conference Tournament quarterfinals last year and the other a roster chock full of experie

A victory of any kind in Saturday's Shore Conference Tournament championship game against Christian Brothers Academy would have been a landmark accomplishment for the program, but the Mater Dei boys basketball team made sure to win their first ever SCT title in an improbable fashion befitting of their story...

The Manasquan and Rumson-Fair Haven boys basketball teams have developed one of the Shore Conference's best rivalries over the past four years as members of the Class A Central division, but during those handful of seasons, the two never met in a postseason setting...

Head Coach Randy Holmes and his Lakewood Piners boys basketball team accept the Army Strong Team of the Week from Staff Sgt. Caroline Thiel. (Photo by Ry Richardson) Before being named the Shore Sports Network Army Strong Team of the Week for its efforts last week, the Lakewood boys basketball team played a key role in another team winning the award just three weeks earlier...

In a season with plenty of great weeks and perhaps some even better weeks to come, the Mater Dei Prep boys basketball team had its most accomplished stretch of the season from Jan. 31 to the end of last week. That stretch was worthy of the week six Shore Sports Network Army Strong Team of the Week award of the season...

From the very first night of the season, the Colts Neck boys basketball team was playing from behind in the Shore Conference Class B North division race. The Cougars dropped an opening-night decision on the road to Long Branch, which ignited a fast start to the division schedule for the Green Wave and left the rest of the division chasing...

The Manchester senior trio of Jordan Torney, Shavar Reynolds and Israel Almestica has played upwards of 100 high school games with one another since all three were varsity letter-winners as freshmen, but there was one maor void on their collective career resume...

A 20-win 2014-15 season that included a trip to the Shore Conference Tournament semifinals and the No. 1 seed in the NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV playoffs came to a screeching halt for Toms River North in the South Jersey Group IV quarterfinals against a formidable, eighth-seeded Rancocas Valley...

Prior to its 67-42 win over Raritan Thursday night, the Rumson-Fair Haven boys basketball team accepted the second Shore Sports Network Go Army Team of the Week Award of 2016, sponsored by the U.S Army. From Jan. 2 to Jan. 9, the Bulldogs went 4-0, with wins over Freehold Township, Shore Regional and Holmdel to open the week and a resounding, 17-point win over Gill St...

Beginning this week, Shore Sports Network will be presenting the Army Strong Team of the Week - awarded to the Shore Conference boys basketball team that had the most noteworthy performance during the prior week. The first honor of the season goes to Ranney, which is off to a school record 7-0 start behind a starting lineup that includes four freshman...

Every week this fall during the regular season, Jersey Mike’s and Shore Sports Network will be selecting a Team of the Week based on its performance over the past weekend. The Jersey Mike’s Team of the Week for Week Nine is Shore Regional, which defeated  Asbury Park 20-7 to clinch the outright Class B Central title for the third straight season and run its program-record winning streak to 16 game