The Lakewood H.S. Boys Varsity Basketball Team won the Toms River North H.S. in the Shore Conference Tournament (SCT) Semi Finals at Brookdale Community College Wednesday night with a score of 55 – 47, moving them into the finals.
Tyrice Beverette – who recently signed with Stony Brook University, scored 12 points in the first half, and ended up with 22 points for the game. Jared Craddox added 12 and Ben Watson added 8 more points.
With this win , Lakewood moves on to the SCT Finals against Pt. Beach. The game will be held at Monmouth University, West Long Branch at 3:00 pm on Saturday.
Lakewood played Pt. Beach earlier in the season and won with a score of 55-47 on February 2nd.
The last time Lakewood won the SCT was in 1991 vs. Lacey, when now Head Coach Randy Holmes played under the direction of former Head Coach John “Pott” Richardson. TLS.
congratulations to the team and coach’s. Great Job. You have made Lakewood proud.
PMA, those were the days, Pott, mr Klein . Best of Luck lets do it again.
CONGRATS ,so good to see Lakewood basketball team on top again like it used to be ,
They should be proud of their record .GOOD LUCK IN TH FINALS!
I would like to publicly thank TLS for bringing us thisnews tidbit. Although i send my children to a private religious school (for religious reasons), I am still very much a part of the broader Lakewood community, and I appreciate good news about our town’s sports teams.
Keep up the good work, Lakewood is proud of you!
Go Piners!!!! Your community is very proud of you.
Keep up the great team work
J R smith from the Knicks who grew up in freehold went to Lakewood high school and I believed played for them as well
Congratulations to the Lakewood Piners boys basketball shore conference champions. Congratulations to all the players, Coach Randy Holmes and the rest of the staff.