Top 10

It's time for the annual crapshoot known as the Shore Sports Network preseason football Top 10 rankings, which once again will be led by Red Bank Catholic at No. 1, but certainly features plenty of debates after the Caseys. RBC has gone wire-to-wire as the No...

In the opinion of some, 2014 was supposed to be a “down year” for the Shore Conference. After two months of baseball, that now seems like a head-scratching assessment. Not only did the Shore Conference capture three NJSIAA Group championships for the first time in history, it also featured a host of committed Division I arms and two sophomores who appear on their way to hearing their names called

Just when the top 10 appeared to stabilize a little bit this week, the two teams with the inside track for the top two spots in the rankings lost out-of-division games on Saturday. Wall lost a 15-inning classic to Freehold Township for its first loss of the season, while Jackson Liberty stunned Jackson Memorial thanks to a late grand slam by Howard Taylor and another big-game performance from Dan

More than any other sport, baseball results tend to take a turn toward the bizarre early in the season and this week was a prime example. As an example, last week’s No. 2 team, St. John Vianney, entered the week 3-0 and came out of it 3-3...

Follow @ASM_Lax on Twitter for scores and news from around the Shore.   Shore Sports Network Lacrosse Top 10, 4/8/14   1. Rumson-Fair Haven (4-0): The Bulldogs are off to a 4-0 start with conference wins over Holmdel and Jackson Memorial along with nonconference wins over Caldwell and Notre Dame. After wi...

The beginning of the baseball season is usually good for some upsets, both because teams are not always up to speed due to various factors – weather, youth, etc. – and because we don’t necessarily know who the real favorites are yet. During the first five days of the season, only four of the preseason top 10 teams had a perfect week, another is still technically unbeaten because of a tie, and anot

With the start of the season just hours away, the theme to this year’s top 10 is that the usual suspects are still at large. One look at the division previews will tell you that this writer sees all six defending division champions defending their titles this year, and while that will be reflected in the following rankings, the top 10 should also provide a look at just how strong the depth in Ocea

While the names might be a little different, the final top 10 is a lot like the rest of the top 10 lists this year and it’s that way for three reasons: 1) Only one team has been No. 1 all year; 2) The top four or five teams are pretty clear-cut; 3) everything below No...

There’s not much to say that hasn’t already been said. One team in the Shore Conference appears far superior to the rest while a handful of other teams appear close to one another, but far behind the favorite. Perhaps some team emerges as a clear No...

So far, the Top 10 this season has been a tale of two halves: The teams in the top five have remained rather consistent, while there has been a whole lot of turnover in the bottom of the field. The top five teams in this week’s ranking were all ranked in the preseason and four of those teams were ranked in the top six...

The first couple of top 10 lists were based on the premise that there were three teams that stood above the rest and that the rest of the Shore Conference was chasing. Not so any longer. Long Branch took down defending Shore Conference Tournament champion Lakewood and after that, plus some attrition at the bottom of the top 10, the top 10 seems a little more wide-open...

By Tim McCollum, a.k.a. “Nep84” Welcome to the ShoreLine! It’s great to be here on the Shore Sports Network. Even though I wrote a football post earlier in the year before I officially came out of hibernation, the heart and soul of the ShoreLine is basketball...