It’s the opening weekend of the high school basketball season and it features some interesting matchups tonight and the first round of the WOBM Christmas Classic this weekend. Tonight’s boys schedule is highlighted by a matchup between Neptune and Lakewood at the Piner Palace. The two perennial shore powers return just about everyone from last year and certainly should be among the top five teams with both expected to challenge for division, shore and state titles.
Lakewood has one of the top players around in Jarod Davis and this is a tremendous season opener. Among tonight’s other openers, Point Boro visits Manchester, Monsignor Donovan hosts Central, Jackson Memorial battles Jackson Liberty, and Eric Fierro makes his debut as Southern Regional head coach when the Rams head to Lacey. The Girls schedule is pretty much just a reversal of home courts and the top game find Manchester at Point Boro with the Panthers a team to watch this season after winning 23 games and the South Jersey Group 3 title with a very young nucleus last winter.
Many of the girl’s teams playing tonight will have to recover quickly because they take to the court tomorrow on the opening day of the 27th annual WOBM Christmas Classic. There will be eight first-round games played in both the Poland Spring Arena and the Toms River North gym and most of the day two games will be going on at the same time right across the hall from one another. It starts with Toms River East playing Shore at 1pm:
Manchester vs. Wall (1:30)
Point Boro vs. Barnegat (2:45)
T.R. North vs. Ocean (3:15)
Donovan vs. T.R. South (4:30)
Southern vs. Old Bridge (5pm)
Jackson Mem. vs. Raritan (6:15)
Rumson vs. Lacey (6:45)
On Sunday it will be the boy’s first-round with the action again beginning at 1pm
when Brick Memorial plays Wall and a half an hour later Southern will tip off against St. Rose. Jackson Memorial and Point Boro are the top two seeds and the complete schedule is available on our web site, wobm.com.
The WOBM Christmas Classic resumes on December 26th with eight games every day until the 30th when the finals will be held.
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