Timothy Christian Welcome Addition To GMC Gold Come 2010 Season

Good afternoon. I continue to be very busy updating the news section of the GMC Hoops web site with the latest commitments and announcements concerning GMC players and teams. In addition, I have been out at games down at the 2008 Raritan Bay Summer League in South Amboy, and plan to be working on them soon in addition to completing the write-up on action from May 12th at the 2008 Rebounds Spring League in Neptune. However, I wanted to take this opportunity to comment on something that I read in Saturday’s Home News-Tribune.

In the Locker Room section of today’s Home News-Tribune, it was revealed that Timothy Christian School, a small private school situated on Ethel Road in Piscataway, has become a member of the Greater Middlesex Conference. Starting in the 2010 academic year, the Tigers, which have long played teams from the GMC such as Highland Park, South River, Metuchen, Spotswood, South Amboy, and Piscataway Tech, will begin competing in the conference as a member of the GMC Gold Division. Timothy Christian is filling the void left behind in the wake of the closing of St. Peter’s High School in New Brunswick. TCS has had a long tradition of turning out fine basketball players. Most notably the Waszaj brothers during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

This past season, the GMC Gold only had five members in boys basketball: Dunellen, East Brunswick Tech, Perth Amboy Tech, Piscataway Tech, and division champ, South Amboy. Next year, things will remain status quo. However, in the 2010-11 season though, TCS will become the sixth team. GMC Hoops is very happy to see Timothy Christian join the conference. TCS, a member of the Patriot Conference for several years after being an independent, is a good fit since it already plays a number of the schools in the GMC, and most importantly, it is located within the borders of Middlesex County, and is within a short ride to several of the schools in the conference including future rivals, Dunellen and Piscataway Tech. For the Tigers, joining the GMC has its benefits such as being able to compete in post season tournaments, and also getting more of the spotlight to shine on its athletes.

When the Timothy Christian Tigers play their first home game, GMC Hoops will make every attempt to be there in order to cover this historic event. Starting in the 2001-02 season, the second in the history of the web site, the site founder, Greg Machos, began an initiative to travel to every gym in the GMC, and completed that task in the 2003 season while attending several Perth Amboy Tech games after the opening of its new school in gym several years ago. The last time, GMC Hoops covered a game at Timothy Christian was in the first season of the site, 2000-01 when it lost to South River in overtime. GMC Hoops would like to be amongst the first to extend a warm welcome to the conference’s newest member, Timothy Christian.