WAYNE — Passaic Tech played perhaps its three best consecutive quarters of basketball tonight at DePaul.

The Bulldogs nearly unraveled offensively late in the fourth quarter, but they held on to upset DePaul, ranked fourth in The Record Top 25, 63-59, in a Big North, non-division road game. Junior guard Zaheem Beal’s follow of a miss by Passaic Tech senior guard Isaac Williams with 23 seconds to play enabled the Bulldogs to reclaim the lead after DePaul went on a 15-1 run late in the fourth quarter to tie the game at 59 with 44 seconds left. Continue reading →

Ridgefield Park senior F Kellie Lane cracked the 1,000 career point plateau Tuesday night, scoring 23 as the Lady Scarlets beat Westwood, 62-45.

I took all the results from all four divisions and came up with a true Big North Top 12 in each individual event. I even tallied up the scores, awarding 12 points for a first place finish, 11 points for a second place finish, and so on. No surprise here, Immaculate Heart, the Division 1 champion, would have totaled 224 points had it gone against every school in the conference. Northern Highlands, the Division 3 champion, would have finished in second place, with 145 points. And Wayne Hills, the Division 2 champion, would have finished in third with 70 points. Keep in mind, these are very unofficial. But it’s pretty interesting to see the top 12 in each event. The would-be cumulative team scores are at the very bottom of the page. The boys edition will be up tomorrow. Continue reading →

Ricky Jeune, one of the premier wide receivers in North Jersey, is taking his talent to Georgia Tech.
The St. Joseph senior from Spring Valley, N.Y. spent the weekend in Atlanta, making a verbal commitment to the Yellow Jackets on Sunday. He’s one of three receivers Georgia Tech has added for the class of 2017 in a bid to bolster the passing game.
“I went for my visit, and I really liked it,” Jeune said Sunday night while on his way back from Georgia. “I had a great time. I love the facility, and it’s not only about football.”
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound Jeune was a big reason why the Green Knights, No. 1 in the North Jersey final football Top 25, was able to beat Don Bosco and Bergen Catholic last season en route to a second straight Non-Public Group 3 title. He earned All-Bergen County honors, catching 36 passes for 862 yards and 10 touchdowns.
You can read more about Jeune’s decision in Monday’s Record.

Eastside played well offensively and defensively and picked up a nice 49-38 win over Bloomfield Tech Saturday. Bloomfield Tech was coming off a huge win over East Orange, which has beaten Kennedy and DePaul already this season.
And Bloomfield Tech has one of the top players in the state in junior standout Ashunae Durant, who averages 18.9 points and 11.1 rebounds and just scored her 1,000th point last week.
Durant scored a game-high 25 points, but none of her teammates scored more than four points.
Taylor Brown had 16 points, Kayla Diaz had 13 and Nia Adams had nine points for Eastside, which is riding a four-game winning streak and is the No. 10 team in the Record Top 25.
You can read more about Eastside in Sunday’s Record.

Paramus’ Eric Kim is a big reason behind the Spartan’s solid start to the 2012-2013 season. Coach Tim Donohue thinks Kim, and teammate Harold Choo, could make some noise at next week’s Bergen County Meet of Champions. (DEMITRIUS BALEVSKI/Staff Photographer)

Before I begin, make sure to cast your votes on the post above — or CLICK HERE — regarding who you think will win Sunday’s Big North Championships. I’m interested to see who everyone thinks are the favorites heading into the event.

Anyway, today’s news comes out of Paramus, thanks to an e-mail from coach Tim Donohue. The Spartans’ boys team is having its best season in a long time, currently sporting a 5-3 record and have won three in a row as of Thursday after suffering tough losses to Bergen County powers — Bergen Catholic, Ramapo and Ridgewood. Leading the Paramus emergence has been senior Eric Kim and junior Harold Choo, both who should be in contention for county titles in their respective races later this season. According to Donohue, Kim is an “extremely versatile swimmer” and can swim any event and is willing to do so depending on the meet. He excels in the 200 IM, 100 Free and 100 Back and has been “under 2 minutes in the 200 IM” and “under 50 seconds” in the 100 Free. “Those are very impressive times and he’s a fun swimmer to watch,” Donohue said. Kim has lost only one dual meet individual race during his high school career and he’s looking to end his career on a high note.

As for Choo, “he’s been a standout since his freshman year,” Donohue said. His best events are in the 100 Breast, 200 IM and 200 Free. “Like Eric, he is able to swim any event that we need on a particular day and has lost only one individual event at dual meets [in his career]. He, too, should do very well at the county meet this year in both of his individual events.”

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