St. Joseph of Metuchen finishes Number One in the final WCTC Central Jersey High School Basketball Top Ten

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT

Thanks to a run to the Tournament of Champions final - the first-ever by a boys' basketball team from Middlesex or Somerset Counties - St. Joseph of Metuchen has finished 2013 as the unanimous Number One in WCTC's Top Ten. The Falcons were second in all seven prior weeks, right behind East Brunswick. That's because the Bears won both regular season matchups. But after the final poll of the regular season, St. Joseph beat EB in double overtime in the GMC Tournament final, and went further in the state tournament than the Bears, which won the Central Jersey Group 4 title. St. Joseph won the GMC Tournament for the fourth year in a row - tying a mark set in the 1970s by Perth Amboy - as well as both the Non-Public South B sectional title and the Non-Public Group B title for the second straight season. Following is the final 2013 WCTC Top Ten, with teams followed by first-place votes, then final record and previous rank in parenthesis:

1. St. Joseph-3 (27-5, 2);
2. East Brunswick (26-4, 1);
3. Ridge (27-2, 3);
4. Bound Brook (26-3, 4);
5. Gill St. Bernard's (19-8, 5);
6. North Brunswick (20-7, 7);
7. Woodbridge (22-5, 8);
8. Hillsborough (21-6, 6);
9. Carteret (20-8, 9);
10t. Spotswood (21-8, 10);
10t. Bridgewater-Raritan (19-9, NR).

St. Joseph of Metuchen falls to Roselle Catholic 65-49 in the Tournament of Champions final on WCTC

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:01:00 GMT

St. Joseph of Metuchen has failed in its bid to become the first Middlesex or Somerset County boys' basketball team to win the Tournament of Champions, falling 65-49 to Roselle Catholic at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, in a game heard on WCTC. Trailing 26-16 at the half, St. Joe's came out on fire in the third quarter, closing to within one point on several occasions, but Malachi Richardson's pair of treys for Roselle Catholic kept St. Joe's from getting over the hump and taking the lead. And that was as close as the Falcons would get. Richardson finished with 5 treys and 22 points. Seven-foot junior center Karl Towns was held to just 7 points, all in the third quarter. Junior Marques Townes led the Falcons with 17 points, including 8 in the fourth quarter, including two threes. St. Joseph finishes its season 27-5.