This past week, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team finished the regular season with two big wins at home. On March 3rd, the Pirates upset 15th ranked St. John’s 84-70. Leading the pirates was senior Jeremy Hazell with 31 points, 4 rebounds, and 3 assists. He shot 9-14 from the field and was 4-6 from three-point range. Also having a good game was teammate junior Jordan Theodore with 14 points, 3 rebounds, and 4 assists. Senior Jeff Robinson who had 10 points 3 rebounds and 1 assist in the game. Seton Hall got over its bad shooting problem, going 64.3 percent from the field. St. John’s was led by Big East Player of the Year candidate Dwight Hardy with 23 points and 2 rebounds. The Red Storm only shot 40.4 percent as a team.

On Senior Day against the Marquette Golden Eagles, the pirates were once again victorious, sending their most cherished players off in style. SHU beat Marquette 85-72, with a great performance from Jeremy Hazell in his final home game with 21 points on 6-11 shooting with 4 steals and 4 rebounds. Fellow seniors Eniel Polynice and Jeff Robinson had 11 and 10 points respectively. Czech native Patrik Auda added 14 points. Marquette was led by Jimmy Butler with 20 points and 5 rebounds.

On February 12th, the quarterfinal round of the Essex County Tournament took place. In the Columbia vs. Mount St. Dominic girls’ game, Columbia dominated by the score of 53-32. Senior Gabrielle Jackson led Columbia with 13 points and 16 rebounds and her teammate Kyrsten Van Natta had 6 points and 8 boards. Mount St. Dominic got 5 points and 5 rebounds from Randi Jo Farrell. In other action, East Orange Campus defeated Montclair Kimberley by a comfortable 52-43 margin. The EOCHS Jaguars were led by senior Linda Hamilton with 17 points and 12 rebounds, while sophomore Tenana Muldrow added 5 points and key rebounds. Also, Delisha Thompson had 15 points

In the other games University defeated Bloomfield Tech 49-31, and Malcolm X Shabazz beat Weequahic 79-47.

In the boys’ games, Seton Hall Prep beat East Orange 66-58 and Irvington defeated Newark’s East Side High 52-48. In the other games, Columbia got by Montclair Kimberley 59-57 while Central High shocked Shabazz 94-57.

The North Ward Center capped its first season at the The North Ward Center Youth Development Complex at St. Lucy’s Church with an awards banquet for the 240 players in North Ward Center’s basketball program.

More than 370 children and their parents turned out for the Jan. 15 event at the gym. The event began with lunch and ended with the awarding of hundreds of trophies to the children ages 5 to 12 who participated in the program, which runs from September to mid December.

ROSELLE – November 4, 2010 – It has been 10 long years since the Roselle Rams made the playoffs in the Central Jersey, Group 2 division.

But with a win this Saturday against 2-5 Manville, the 5-2 Rams will be playing in the post season. The game begins at 2 p.m. in Roselle at Arminio Field on Chestnut Street, between 8th and 9th avenues.

Many in Roselle attribute this year's success to the new head football coach, Louis Grasso, Jr. of Rahway, who took over the team at the beginning of the season. His mentor is his father, Louis Grasso, Sr. The elder Grasso, who still is involved with the team on a day-to-day basis, coached the Rams for 26 years.

"We have great group of kids this year in Roselle," said Grasso, 35, who has worked as a physical education teacher in Roselle for 12 years, while getting experience as an assistant football coach in New Brunswick and Union Township. "Roselle has a strong Pop Warner program, supportive parents and athletic kids who really want to win."