Tom Stead

After leading Matawan to the greatest heights its program has seen in 50 years, boys basketball coach Tom Stead said Wednesday that he has stepped down after eight seasons with the Huskies. "I am looking to do other things with my career,'' Stead said...

LITTLE SILVER – When it comes to the health of a high school athlete, no coach is more sensitive than Red Bank boys basketball coach Scott Martin. The 14-year coach of the Bucs watched one of his players lose his life while playing in a preseason game a little more than two years ago, so when he saw two more coping with troubling ailments on Tuesday night, his mind was not on his team’s resounding

NEPTUNE - Coming into this season, the main question mark surrounding Matawan was how much the three new starters around star guards Jason Dunne and Joe Piscopo would be able to contribute or whether those two would have to do all the heavy lifting in big games...

When Tom Stead took over the Matawan boys basketball program after an exceedingly successful tenure as the head coach at Holmdel, he and those familiar with his work figured better days were ahead for the Huskies program. That turned out to be true, but not before the Matawan boys basketball team and Stead endured their worst days together...

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 Shore Conference boys basketball coaches have made their selections for All-Shore and All-Division. All selections were made by voting from the coaches.  Player of the Year Matt Farrell, Sr., G, Point Beach (unanimous) Coach of the Year Tom Stead, Matawan All-Shore First Team Dom Uhl, Sr...

*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...

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

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...