Boys Basketball

By ANDREW GARDA garda@montclairlocal.news Montclair High School’s boys basketball team has found its season cut short due to a positive coronavirus case. The team’s 59-55 win over Newark Tech on Feb. 25 will now close out its season. Head coach...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news ROSELLE — A roller coaster week for the Immaculate Conception High School boys basketball team ended in a somewhat disappointing fashion Saturday afternoon with a 92-63 loss to top-seeded Roselle Catholic in the semifinals of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Non-Public B tournament. T...

by ANDREW GARDA garda@montclairlocal.news JERSEY CITY — Before the Immaculate Conception High School boys basketball team destroyed Hudson Catholic on the court in the fourth quarter of the Lions' 60-49 win in the NJSIAA North Jersey, Non-Public B quarterfinals Thursday night, senior Jalen Carey and sophomore Zion Bethea played a different type of game to warm up. "...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news PENNINGTON — The Montclair Kimberley Academy boys basketball team outscored the Pennington Red Raiders in the second half of their Prep Tournament game, but it wasn’t enough for them to overcome a second-quarter lull, and they ultimately lost 64-58. That wa...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair High School boys basketball team had just set up to in-bound the ball after the Columbia Cougars had drawn to within a point on a key three-point shot. The Mounties led the Cougars in overtime, 62-61, and were looking to hang on to the win...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news Like the rest of the Montclair boys basketball team, Gabe Schreiber was excited to beat Columbia in overtime, 62-61. It wasn’t just that the Mounties had come from behind or that Schreiber had contributed 9 points with 10 rebounds and a pair of steals. N...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news SUMMIT — Most of the time, high school basketball coaches will tell their players that if you want to win, you have to play four full quarters. The truth is, sometimes you can get away with a little bit less, if that little bit is dominating. T...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news CALDWELL—A good comeback can be the highlight of a sports story. But you need to fall behind before you can come back, and sometimes the deficit is too much to overcome. That was the case on Friday, when the Immaculate Conception boys basketball team fell to Seton Hall Prep, 61-58, after SHP went on an 18-6 run to close the third quarter, including scorin

by ANDREW GARDA garda@montclairlocal.news Competition and hunger. Watch a few minutes of any Lions boys basketball practice at Immaculate Conception and you’ll quickly learn that is what head coach Jimmy Salmon and his coaching staff are looking for out of the players. This...

by Andrew Garda garda@montclairlocal.news The Montclair Mounties boys basketball team enters the 2017-18 season looking to build off the momentum from last season’s campaign, the first for head coach Gary Wallace. The Mounties went 17-11 during the season, 8-4 in the Liberty Division, then beat 8 seeded Fair Lawn in the NJSIAA state tournament’s first round before losing to top seeded Bloomfield 5