Monday, February 26, 2007

State Basketball Playoffs to Begin

Monday night, February 26 will mark the start of the NJSIAA Playoffs and it will be the last official home game for ERod. The Bruins will be taking on Memorial High School who they met earlier in the year in Coviello action and beat 75-65 at North Bergen. This is always a heated, local rivalry so he can expect a full and raucous crowd.

In his career vs. Memorial, ERod's Bruins are 3-4. Interestingly enough, in his Freshman season they lost to Memorial twice, and the same thing happend in his Sophomore season. Last year the Bruins defeated Memorial both times. There are scoring totals for six of his seven career games vs. Memorial (66 points). In this season's win on January 26, he scored 16 points.

Should the Bruins advance, they will face Hackensack High School at Hackensack on Wednesday, February 28.