Just Jakes Wins Men's Slow-Break Championship

Caldwell-West Caldwell team seeded sixth going into finals.

The Just Jakes team won the Caldwell-West Caldwell Men's Slow-Break Basketball championship by defeating the Bombers, 51-46.  Just Jakes was seeded No. 6 going into the playoffs and defeated the No. 3 and No. 1 teams before taking on the Bombers, the No. 2 seed, to win the championship. The team members are Matt Hatcher, Malcolm Lash, Chris Coughlin, Rick Dyer, Matt Rohllf, Joe Demiro, Korey Robbinson, Dave Smith, Al Curtiss, GM Carlos DeOliveira, Joe Cutri, Mike Crudele, Steve Goodman, Pete Vasil and Bob Evers.

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Caldwell Coach Earns 100th Career Win

Women’s basketball coach Linda Cimino wins hundredth game with Cougars.

Congratulations are in order for Caldwell College women’s basketball head coach Linda Cimino who earned her 100th career win Saturday when the Cougars defeated Philadelphia University, 66-51, in the Gallagher Center.  Cimino becomes the second Caldwell women’s basketball coach to reach the milestone. Her overall record is 100-87 in her seventh season as coach. (Bob Costello has the program’s most wins, with 112 recorded between 1994 and 2000.) With Saturday's win, the Cougars extended their winning streak to five and improved to 9-11 overall and 7-4 in Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference play. Caldwell continues league play with a home game against Dominican College on Tuesday. The game starts at 6 p.m. in the George R. Newman Center. …

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Mount Saint Dominic Alumnae Reunite for Basketball Game

More than 20 former players returned to school for a friendly game in Caldwell Friday.

Three of the highest scorers in Mount Saint Dominic Academy's history were among the players to participate in the school's first annual Alumnae Basketball Game in Caldwell on Friday. The Mount reached out to former players by phone, email and Facebook, rounding up 25 participants who were divided into two teams, Blue and White.  The former faced off in the school's Athletic Center for two, 20-minute halves, and players competed in a three-point contest at halftime. It was a close game, but the Blue team pulled out a 34-31 victory. The high scorer for the game was Meghan Duffy ’11 on the White Team. Participants ranged from the class of 1993 (Cristina Galindo Frazzano) up to the class of 2012 (Jamie Purcell), and included three 1,000+ …

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Jamie Bliss Basketball Tournament Storms On

Snow no deterrent for 7th annual scholarship tournament.

While snow might have delayed the start of the three-day, 7th Annual Jamie Bliss Basketball Tournament, it could not stop the players, coaches, volunteers, parents and West Caldwell Mayor Joseph Tempesta from trekking out for the championship finals held Saturday at James Caldwell High School. Co-hosted by the Caldwell Athletic Club and the West Caldwell-Caldwell Recreation Department, the goal of the tournament is to raise money for the Jamie Bliss Scholarship Fund, given to selected graduating seniors at Caldwell High School. James "Jamie" Bliss was a junior at Caldwell when he collapsed and died during a routine football practice in October 2006. Lisa Merriweather, Director of Basketball for the Caldwells Athletic Club and the head …

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Hometown Girl

9:40 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Dear James Caldwell Parent, I agree with you .... Mancino has no respect for his players, the parents and the game. Why is it that no one will speak up and demand change?! Our basketball program is an embarrassment to the town. A football program that is run this poorly would never be tolerated.   more ›

Girls Basketball—Holiday Tournament Results

Local teams faced off at Caldwell College.

Anderson Scores 1,000th Point as Cougars Beat Queens, 69-63

Junior forward becomes 15th woman to reach milestone in Caldwell College program's history.

Caldwell College junior forward Jeanette Anderson surpassed the 1,000-point mark Wednesday night when the Cougars defeated the Queens College Knights 69-63 in a non-conference home game. Anderson, who hails from Lynn, Mass., entered the game two points shy of the milestone. Less than two minutes into the game, she grabbed an offensive rebound and scored, becoming the 15th woman in the program's history to reach 1,000 points. The Cougars are 3-10 on the season. Their next home game is Saturday, Dec. 15, at 1 p.m., against Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference opponent Felician College. Like fo follow Cougars action? Caldwell College Athletics launched a new website this week.

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Essex County News

Pepsi Commercial Starring Kyrie Irving Goes Viral

Essex County kid makes moves on basketball courts in Bloomfield as an "old man."

Even as an old man, hometown kid Kyrie Irving looks like he will not lose a step in his game—at least that is the way it seems in a new Pepsi Max commercial.  Reigning Rookie of the Year in the NBA, Irving, who grew up in West Orange and played basketball at Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, has gone viral in a new television advertisement shot as a “documentary” on the basketball courts in nearby Bloomfield. In the commercial, Irving attends a late night basketball game at Clark’s Pond in Bloomfield, dressed as paunchy old man, complete with white hair and beard. With his new persona as Uncle Drew, Irving is a curmudgeon with nothing but contempt for how the youth approach the game of basketball.  Well, Irving gets his chance to …

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Hoops that Help: Kean Hosts Top NJ Teams For a Good Cause

St. Anthony's, St. Patrick's among high-profile hoops squads battling in a weekend tournament to help Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children.

Garden State basketball junkies will get the chance to watch some of the top talent from all over New Jersey and rub elbows with coaches from storied college programs — all while supporting a good cause. Kean University's Harwood Arena will once again host the 2012 Scholarship Fund for Inner City Children Invitational, the ninth annual showcase tournament for the state's parochial high school basketball programs. But this weekend, don't expect the spirit of philanthropy to trickle on the court as rivalries get renewed and the intense competition for regional hoops supremacy continues in a tournament that continues to draw the best teams and players in the state. Bill Fitzpatrick, the SFIC Tournament Director, knew that the event was …

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