South Jersey Basketball: Sunday, June 4, 2000 By Gregory "Graig" White On the day when the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trailblazers were fighting it out in game seven, the Atlantic City Seagulls and Washington Congressionals of the USBL were gettin' it on. Throughout the game, the Seagulls played with an intensity that was noticeable from the open tip. Raphael Edwards was a man amongst boys. He went over, around and on a couple of occasions through defenders with impunity. On his way to a box score that was pretty decent, he finished with 28 points 10 rebounds and 6 assists. The man truly came to play. It would be easy to think that on this day it was a one-man operation, but there were several guys that played major parts in the victory. |
South Jersey Basketball: Sunday, April 9, 2000 By Art Redd Dawud Abdur Rahkman and Perm Pitman formed the Mid Atlantic Sports Academy Inc. with a simple goal in mind. "We want to assist our student athletes in using sports to help them further their education, to assist them in becoming better people." They held a tournament at Rutgers-Camden University which included teams made up of high school players from Pennsauken, Trenton, Deptford, Haddonfield, Highland, Vineland, Holy Spirit, Camden Catholic, Camden, Allentown (PA), William Allen (PA), Delaware, Maryland, Pleasantville and Saucon Valley (PA). |
South Jersey Basketball: Sunday, March 26, 2000 By Bob Stewart On Sunday at Overbrook High School in Pine Hill, a Basketball Tournament was held for girls and boys between the ages of 11-13. It was called the Tri-Town Basketball Tournament because it was made up of teams representing Berlin Township, Clementon Borough, and Pine Hill Borough. |
High School Boys Basketball: Tuesday, March 7, 2000 By Art Redd This was it, the No. 7 seeded Camden Panthers going up against the No. 1 seeded Lakewood Piners in the boy's basketball South Jersey Group 3 championship. After disposing of Moorestown in the semi-finals, Lakewood had their sights set on the high scoring Panthers. Camden's road to the championship was reached with ease. DaJuan Wagner was unstoppable as he lead Camden to an 89-64 victory to claim the title. |
High School Boys Basketball: Friday, March 3, 2000 By Charlie Barker Balanced scoring and a quick start allowed the Sterling Silver Knights to defeat the top seeded Haddon Heights Garnets, setting up another rematch with the rival Haddonfield Bulldogs for the Group 3 championship to be played on Monday. The old axiom that it's hard to beat a team three times in a season came true, with Sterling running out to a 17-4 lead at the beginning of the game. Ernest Turner scored 12 of his game high 28 points during the Knights' 1st quarter 25-15 run. |
High School Boys Basketball: Wednesday, March 1, 2000 By Art Redd What an amazing season the Cherokee Chiefs are having this year. Being recognized as one of the top teams in the area, they were ready to take on the Rancocas Valley Red Devils in the second round of the South Jersey Group 4 boy's basketball playoffs. Chiefs' starting center Pat Deveney scored thirteen points in the fourth quarter, including his two to send the game into overtime, defeated the Red Devils 71-66. The Chiefs outscored Rancocas Valley 10-5 in overtime to advance to the next round. |
High School Girls Basketball: Wednesday, March 1, 2000 By Gregory "Graig" White The buzz about St. John Vianney girl's basketball team did not prepare me for what I was about to see. The word was that the Lady Lancers were a smart, deep team that played basketball end to end. While watching this team perform, the one word that kept running through my head was relentless. These young ladies played the game end to end, at a pace that Camden Catholic's girls would have a tough time keeping up with. |
High School Boys Basketball: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 By Art Redd When the basketball game ended on Tuesday at West Deptford High School, the Eagles advanced to the next round of the playoffs. They weren't too happy about the way they won, but it was a win. The Clearview Pioneers had traveled to West Deptford for the first round of the South Jersey Group 3 boy's basketball playoffs. But it was the Eagles who came away with a hard fought 60-53 win to advance to the quarterfinals against Moorestown. |
High School Boys Basketball: Saturday, February 26, 2000 By Art Redd It was a game with two of the best players in South Jersey. The Camden Panthers' junior sensation DaJuan Wagner going up against Cherry Hill East's senior Marcus Bullock. The Panthers are the seventh seed in the Group 3 playoffs while East are the sixth seed in the Group 4 playoffs. The Cougars made a statement Saturday afternoon as they upset Camden 66-63 at home in front of a jubilant home crowd. |
High School Girls Basketball: Friday, February 25, 2000 By Gregory "Graig" White Back on February 10th, Woodrow Wilson and Camden High girl's basketball teams gave new meaning to "shooting the lights out". With 7:02 left in the game, Woodrow Wilson's gym went dark due to an area wide blackout with Wilson leading 53-41. Until that point the game was hard fought. The completion of the basketball game played today between the two teams was anti-climatic. Wilson won the game... |
| South Jersey Basketball: 12 New Members Inducted Into Hall of Fame Wednesday, February 16, 2000 PRESS RELEASE In 1980 Al Carino, the founder and longtime president of the Basketball Club of South Jersey, set the wheels in motion for the establishment of a South Jersey Hall of Fame. Carino's first step towards that goal was to call upon Doug Frambes, former Riverside High School coach and currently a sports writer at the Courier-Post, to form and chair a committee for this purpose. Frambes formed a committee composed of Walt Burrows, Stan Mroz, George Pims, Dick Carpenter, Jack Harte, Al Mattern, Charlie Nash, Bill Thomas and Bob Viggiano. Initially, the committee met to set the ground rules and the format to be used in the selection process. In addition to selecting former outstanding coaches and players, the committee decided one inductee each year would be chosen for distinguished service to basketball in the area. |
High School Boys Basketball: Monday, February 14, 2000 By Art Redd Sure, this was the day that cupid was shooting those arrows all across South Jersey with precision and accuracy. Marcus Bullock must have been hit with one of those arrows, because he was lovin' the three ball. Cherry Hill East had little problem dominating this Olympic Conference boy's basketball game by defeating Highland 68-39. This game was all Cougars from the opening tip off. |
High School Boys Basketball: Thursday, February 10, 2000 By Stu Barnes Five weeks ago, the Overbrook Rams men's basketball team easily defeated their rivals, the Edgewood Eagles, 72-48. The second time around, the Rams had to fight a 15-point deficit and hit two free throws with less then 3 seconds left on the clock to win the game. With the 2-point win, the Rams still have a chance to win the conference. |
High School Girls Basketball: Thursday, February 10, 2000 By Boog Williams The Overbrook Lady Rams used scoring from 9 different players as they defeated rival Edgewood 67-33. The Lady Rams also played some good defense, as they didn't let the Eagles score any points in the first quarter. In the first quarter, Overbrook was led by #5 guard Barney and #25 forward McDevitt, as the Rams jumped out to an 18-0 led. In the second quarter, Edgewood started hitting some of their shots and the half ended Overbrook 30 - Edgewood 14. Leading the scoring for Overbrook were #8 Maeser and #3 Wooster for Edgewood it was #55 Williams and #32 Switenko. |
High School Boys Basketball: Monday, February 7, 2000 By Vincent Lewis For those of you who haven't seen the Camden boy's basketball team play this year, make time to do so. With the electrifying cross over dribble, ball handling, three point shooting, assist man DaJuan Wagner healthy, the Panthers are moving up the charts faster than Q-Tips Vibrant Thang. The Cherokee Chiefs were the victims of another team finding out how good the Panthers are this season. With the 58-45 win, Camden has improved their record to 12-4 and look to be unbeatable. |
High School Boys Basketball: Thursday, February 3, 2000 By Gregory "Graig" White The question that was asked most before the basketball game between Camden Catholic and Camden High on Thursday was, "who was going to guard DaJuan Wagner?" Well, in the words of the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, "It doesn't matter!" |
High School Boys Basketball: Thursday, February 3, 2000 By Art Redd Everyone has seen it or experienced it if you played some kind of sports...the dreaded slump. The Chimeras were hosting Rancocas Valley in a Burlington County Liberty Division boy's basketball game. Marquis Gaston for Willingboro and Dan Trump for Rancocas Valley were experiencing that shooting slump for their respective teams. But for this game, the Chimeras erased a halftime deficit to extend their winning streak with a 67-58 win in front of the home crowd. |
High School Girls Basketball: Tuesday, February 1, 2000 By Crystal Parker The stage was set for a classic meeting between the Lady Knights of Sterling High School hosting Audubon in a Colonial Conference girl's basketball game. With the Wave trying to extend a two game winning streak, they had a tough task of trying to end Sterling's two game winning streak. On this night, it was Jessica Copskey extending the Knights' winning streak. Sterling strolled away with an 85-26 victory and remain ahead of Haddon Heights in the standings. |
High School Boys Basketball: Monday, January 31, 2000 By Art Redd The Greyhounds of Northern Burlington went into this basketball game knowing they were huge underdogs. Waiting for them were the Falcons of Burlington Township and their impressive start during the 1999-2000 boy's basketball season. Township had five players scoring double digits as they sent the Greyhounds home with a 94-28 Falcon victory. |
| High School Boys Basketball: Red Devils' Free Throws Sink Shawnee Saturday, January 22, 2000 By Vincent Lewis High school basketball has some rivalries that have gone back as far as one can remember. Hearing some of the fans mentioning the old times only made this meeting show the anticipation of a good basketball game. Well, this meeting was determined by halves, as Rancocas Valley used the free throw line to pull away from Shawnee. The Red Devils scored thirty points in the final quarter to capture the home victory 72-60. |
High School Boys Basketball: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 By Art Redd During their successful start this season, the boy's basketball team at Highland High School has been gaining new respect in the Olympic Conference. They put that success and their undefeated record on the line against the always-formidable Bishop Eustace Crusaders. In a very entertaining second half, the Crusaders' patience turned the game around and held off Highland's charge at the end. Bishop Eustace went away with the 63-59 victory. |
High School Girls Basketball: Thursday, January 6, 2000 By Art Redd The highly anticipated, mostly hyped Y2K bug has come and gone without any major problems. The reason why, everyone was prepared ahead of time before the big event. The Lady Lancers' game plan was prepared well in advance as they coasted to a 51-36 win at Moorestown High School. Holy Cross came into this game tied with the Lady Quakers atop the Burlington County Liberty Division. |
High School Boys Basketball: Thursday, January 6, 2000 By Boog Williams In boys' basketball on Thursday, the Overbrook Rams defeated rival sister school Edgewood 72-48. One part of the Edgewood Eagles' game plan was to get Jamar Smith in foul trouble and they succeeded, but John Galaszewski scored 15, and Bryan Foster scored 17. This helped to pick up the offensive play for the Rams. Edgewood missed a lot of lay-ups. |
High School Girls Basketball: Tuesday, January 4, 2000 By Boog Williams The Lady Mustangs of Triton traveled to Edgewood to play in an Olympic Conference basketball game. The game started off looking like it was going to be a blow out. Edgewood scored the first eight points to take an 8-0 lead, but Triton did not give in, led by #4 H. Coleman. Coleman scored a total of 20 points. Edgewood still led at the end of the first quarter by the score of 10-6. The half ended with Edgewood still leading by the score of 17-15. |
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High School Boys Basketball: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
By Brad Payne
Clearview and Salem, both coming off pretty easy wins over the weekend, met Tuesday night in the Pioneers' gym. The game had an uptempo beat in the first quarter, with the score being tied at 10. Dan Fellona stepped up and scored 8 of the Pioneers first ten points. The Pioneers battled hard in the second quarter as well, knotting it up at 20 at the half.
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High School Boys Basketball: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
By Boog Williams
With 6:59 seconds left in the second quarter, Highland's Mark Groark scored his 1,001 point of his career. Groark took a pass at the left of the key and drove in on the Edgewood defense, hitting a 12-foot jump shot. The two points made Groark the third player in Highland history to score 1,000 points. Groark lead the Tartans with 23 points to a 77 to 40 win over Edgewood in an Olympic Conference Patriot Division game.
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High School Basketball: Friday, December 17, 1999
PRESS RELEASE Some of the most successful basketball programs in South Jersey, including five defending South Jersey champions, are in the field for the 2nd annual Prime Events Tipoff Weekend at Egg Harbor Township High School. The boy-girl event will be held from December 17-19.
Leading the way is St. Augustine Prep, which won the state Parochial B boys title in March and has won three straight South Jersey championships. The Prep will face another three-time South Jersey champion - Rancocas Valley in Group 4 - during Saturday's Tipoff finale.
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High School Boys Basketball: Saturday, December 11, 1999
By Boog Williams
The Edgewood Boy's Basketball team has two new coaches and a new look. The new head coach is Mr. Jeff Hanford with Assistant Brandon Burke.
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High School Boys Basketball: Saturday, December 11, 1999
By Boog Williams
The Pitman Panthers Boys Basketball team is coached by Mr. Craig Harper. This is the start of the 9th season for Coach Harper who has a 123-86 lifetime record. Pete Byers, Gene Reid and Bryan Smart will assist Coach Harper.
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