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GMC Hoops Highlights–August 13, 2011–St. Joseph’s vs. Ewing–Summer Prime Time Shootout

Here are some video highlights from the game played between St. Joseph’s of Metuchen and Ewing on the second day of action from the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The Falcons jumped out to a 10-2 lead thanks to the fine play of soon to be junior Jimbo Long and soon to be senior Danny Brix. St. Joe’s continued to roll with a solid first half showing despite only one point by top prospect Quenton DeCosey. The Falcons went on to win the game by a final score of 47-31.

GMC Hoops Highlights–August 12, 2011–Summer Prime Time Shootout–East Brunswick vs. Eastern

Here are some video highlights from the contest between East Brunswick and Eastern on day one of the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Trailing by a score of 29-23 at the half, East Brunswick goes on a 18-9 tear to start the second half for a 41-38 lead with about a minute to go. Eastern got the final two baskets of the game including a layin with 40 seconds left, and then a steal for a layup with 22 seconds left for a 42-41 victory.

GMC Hoops Highlights–August 12, 2011–Summer Prime Time Shootout–East Brunswick vs. Trenton Catholic Academy

Here are some video highlights from the game played between East Brunswick and Trenton Catholic on the first day of action at the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County. The Iron Mikes went on a 15-5 run to take a 22-13 first half lead, and went on to defeat the Bears by the score of 49-37.

Video Highlights–St. Peter’s Prep vs. Princeton Day School–Summer Prime Time Shootout–August 12, 2011

Here are video highlights from the first half of action between St. Peter’s Prep and Princeton Day School on the first night of action from the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County. St. Peter’s Prep jumped out to a 9-3 lead early, but Princeton Day hung tough early on by closing the gap to 17-11 midway through the first half. However, the Marauders, which reached the finals of the Linden Summer League playoffs, closed the first half with a 10-2 spurt for a 27-13 lead at the intermission, and then outscored PDS by a 27-9 margin in the second half for the 54-22 win.

Video Highlights–Rutgers Prep vs. Franklin–Summer Prime Time Shootout–August 14, 2011

Here are video highlights from the contest between Rutgers Prep and Franklin on the final night of play in the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout from Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County. The Argonauts broke open the game with a 27-1 tear from late in the first half into the early part of the second half for a 44-13 lead en route to a 56-26 victory. Enjoy.

Video Highlights–Ewing vs. St. Peter’s Prep–Summer Prime Time Shootout–August 14, 2011

Here are the video highlights from the second half of Ewing’s victory over St. Peter’s Prep of Jersey City on the final day of action from the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout. It was a low scoring second half with Ewing outscoring St. Peter’s Prep by a 16-7 margin in the final period of action to pull away from a 20-11 halftime lead to come up with a 36-18 win. The Blue Devils had an 8-0 run that turned a 27-16 lead into a 35-16 advantage. Enjoy.

Video Highlights–William Allen (PA) vs. Princeton Day School–Summer Prime Time Shootout–August 14, 2011

Here are the video highlights from the final 6:03 of the game between William Allen of Pennsylvania and the Princeton Day School from the final day of action at the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout. PDS rallied from a 34-25 deficit with 17 minutes to play to take a one point lead with under six minutes to play. William Allen rallied with six straight points for a 46-41 lead before PDS fought back with eight straight points to take a 49-46 lead and hung on to a 49-48 victory. Enjoy.

GMC Teams Perform Well At Summer Prime Time Shootout

ALLENTOWN, NJ–Over the three days at the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout, the three teams from the Greater Middlesex Conference performed fairly well. Combined the three squads of East Brunswick, Piscataway, and St. Joseph’s were 7-5 overall including a 5-1 mark on the second day of action.

P-Way was one of the three teams that were undefeated in the event at (4-0). The other two unbeaten teams were Plainfield and St. Patrick’s. East Brunswick split its four games by losing the first two on Friday, and winning the last two on Saturday. St. Joseph’s played a very tough schedule that included the likes of Plainfield, St. Patrick’s, and St. Benedict’s, and finished up 1-3. The three GMC teams were 0-2 on Friday, 5-1 on Saturday, and 2-2 on Sunday.

Breaking down the wins and losses by opposing conferences, the GMC was 1-0 against the Colonial Valley Conference, Shore Conference, Suburban One Conference (PA), and the Shoreline Conference (CT). The league went 2-1 against the Olympic Conference, 1-1 versus the Burlington County Scholastic League, 0-1 versus Independents, and 0-2 against the Union County Conference.

2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout–Final Standings

ALLENTOWN, NJ–With all of the results in from the three days of action in the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout, GMC Hoops took the time out to put together the final standings from the three days of basketball at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County.

2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout–Final Standings

• Piscataway (4-0)
• Plainfield (4-0)
• St. Patrick’s (4-0)
• St. Benedict’s (5-1)
• Eastern (3-1)
• New Egypt (3-1)
• Notre Dame (3-1)
• Pennsbury (3-1)
• Rancocas Valley (3-1)
• Ridge (3-1)
• Rutgers Prep (3-1)
• Trenton Catholic (3-1)
• Windsor (CT) (3-1)
• Hun (4-2)
• East Brunswick (2-2)
• Middle Township (2-2)
• Monsignor McClancy (2-2)
• Paul VI (2-2)
• Roselle Catholic (2-2)
• Shabazz (2-2)
• William Allen (PA) (2-2)
• Robbinsville (2-3)
• Burlington Township (1-3)
• Cherry Hill East (1-3)
• Ewing (1-3)
• Hyde (CT) (1-3)
• Lakewood (1-3)
• Plymouth-Whitemarsh (PA) (1-3)
• Princeton Day School (1-3)
• St. Joseph’s (1-3)
• St. Peter’s Prep (1-3)
• West Windsor-Plainsboro South (1-3)
• Capital Prep (0-1)
• Allentown (0-4)
• Point Pleasant Beach (0-4)
• Franklin Township (0-4)

GMC Hoops plans to have team stats as well as video and more game articles from action at the Summer Prime Time Shootout posted soon.

2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout–Game Capsules–Day Three–August 14th

ALLENTOWN, NJ–On Sunday, the 2011 Summer Prime Time Shootout concluded play with a third day of wall to wall games at Allentown High School in the Upper Freehold District of Monmouth County. GMC Hoops managed to see action from each of the final four games of the night. Earlier in the day, the GMC teams went 2-2 as Piscataway won both of its games while St. Joseph’s lost both of its contests against tough foes in St. Patrick’s and St. Benedict’s. Below are capsules from the four games covered:

Eastern vs. Princeton Day School

Eastern got off to a fast start taking a 33-12 lead with 15 plus minutes to go in the half.  PDS clawed back to within 40-22, but couldn’t get much closer despite outscoring the Voorhees, New Jersey school by a margin of 19-17 the rest of the way in an Eastern 57-41 win.

Rutgers Prep vs. Franklin

For the first 12:20 of the contest, it looked like this would be quite a game for bragging rights in Somerset as Franklin hung close with crosstown rival, Rutgers Prep.

However, the Somerset County Tournament runner-up broke away from a 17-12 lead with under eight minutes to go in the first half by scoring the final 11 points of the period for a 28-12 halftime lead, and then opened the second half with 16-1 run over the first eight minutes for a 27-1 onslaught that turned a tenuous five point lead into a commanding 44-13 advantage with twelve minutes to play.

Greg Grippo and Matt Rennie helped spark the run early on with a three point play at the four minute mark of the first half, and then a basket and a foul a minute later. Mike Klinger helped open up the second half scoring with a three pointer from the left wing. Rutgers Prep then went on to win by the score of 56-26 as it outscored Franklin by a margin of 45-17 over the last 31 minutes of the contest.

Ewing vs. St. Peter’s Prep

At first glance at today’s schedule, it appeared that this game would be quite a battle and one with a lot of action and a bit of scoring. It turned out to be a very low scoring affair, especially for St. Peter’s Prep. Ewing, which was searching for its first win in this year’s Summer Prime Time Shootout, used the tough schedule that included games against Plainfield, St. Joseph’s, and St. Benedict’s, to its advantage in the finale against the Marauders from Jersey City.

The Blue Devils took a 20-11 halftime lead, and then limited St. Peter’s Prep to just seven points in the second half on two field goals and 3 of 6 from the foul line to come away with a 36-18 victory. Ewing scored four of the first five points of the second half to take a 24-12 lead, and then after the Marauders scored three points, the Blue Devils put together a pivotal 11-1 spurt over a span of eight minutes including eight straight points in just 2:44 to take a commanding 35-16 lead with just under six and a half minutes to play en route to the win.

William Allen (PA) vs. Princeton Day School

For the second straight night, the last game of the evening turned out to be the most entertaining game of the four that GMC Hoops managed to see. William Allen jumped out to the 32-25 lead with 17:25 remaining before Princeton Day rallied with a 16-6 tear over a span of 11 minutes to take a 41-40 lead. William Allen wrestled the lead back with six unanswered points over a span of about two minutes for a 46-41 lead.

PDS battled back with eight straight points over the next two minutes including one of two from the line at the 2:59 mark, a steal for a layup at the 2:40 mark, another steal for a layup at the 2:25 mark, and then two foul shots with two minutes remaining for a 48-46 lead. Princeton Day had a chance to put the game away with an appearance at the foul line, but only made one of two from the charity stripe for a 49-46 lead with 59.3 seconds left.

Rejuvenated by getting a second chance, William Allen got a score to pull within one, and then got a steal with less than 15 seconds to go, but after inbounding the ball with three seconds left, William Allen had the ball poked away for a steal by PDS to wrap up the 49-48 victory.

GMC Hoops thanks Jeff Hewitson, Frank Giancarlis, and the scorekeepers in both the East and West Gyms for their assistance over the past three days.