Like an offensive rebound, the 37th annual Frank J. Cicarell Girls' Basketball Union County Tournament is up for grabs
By JR Parachini
Union County Sports Editor
Oak Knoll first-year head coach John Bertollo - even though he is new to all of this - thought his Royals were very deserving of the seventh seed.
“We’ve been ranked seventh for the last three weeks,” Bertollo said Tuesday following his team’s 49-38 division home loss to Governor Livingston. “If you look at the teams under us – New Providence and a couple of other teams – we’ve beaten them and done our job.
“We have a good win against Dayton, so I think we deserve the seventh seed.”
That’s exactly where the Royals are seeded as the 37th annual Frank J. Cicarell Girls’ Basketball Union County Tournament was put together Wednesday at Roselle Catholic.
GL, as expected, was named the top seed. The Highlanders lead Union County with an 18-1 record and captured the Union County Conference’s Mountain Division championship for the first time. Cranford - which earned the second seed - went to Berkeley Heights last Friday and came away with a 49-44 division triumph, handing GL its first and only loss so far.
Three-time defending champion Roselle Catholic, which repeated as the UCC’s Watchung Division winner, is the four seed.
Hillside, which captured the UCC’s Valley Division crown for the initial time, is the 15th seed.
GL, RC and Hillside all captured their division titles Tuesday.
Bertollo, 28, is in his first year coaching girls’ basketball after serving as the junior varsity boys’ coach for six years at his high school alma mater, Hawthorne.
“I think the county’s wide open,” Bertollo said. “I’ve been doing a lot of scouting and watching teams in Union County and I think it’s wide open. Governor Livingston is good. Outside of them I think it’s wide open.”
Oak Knoll, which lost at GL 61-38 on Jan. 20, played much better against the Highlanders at home Tuesday. The Royals made it a three-point game early in the fourth quarter before GL pulled away.
“If we play defense like we did tonight we’re going to be in a lot of good games,” Bertollo said Tuesday.
So far Bertollo is grasping the girls’ game and likes what he sees.
“It’s been excellent,” Bertollo said. “It was a big adjustment with the first practices because there’s different ways to motivate boys and different ways to motivate girls.
“The first few weeks were a little tough because I had to figure out the difference, but I think it’s going very well.”
Bertollo, a resident of Little Falls, has Oak Knoll at 10-9 overall. The Royals finished tied for third with Dayton in the Mountain Division at 8-6. Oak Knoll split with Dayton and swept New Providence.
“Nothing against boys’ basketball, but I think the girls play a lot tougher,” Bertollo said.
Oak Knoll is sparked by the play of junior guard Kerri Moran, who had nine points vs. GL Tuesday, and senior forward Gabriela Pallicer, who led the Royals with 11 points, including three three-pointers.
“Girls don’t mind diving on the ground and elbowing each other,” Bertollo said. “They can get brutal at times.”
On Friday at home vs. Roselle Park, Hillside will attempt to be the only team in the county this year to finish undefeated in division play.
The Comets will seek to beat 18th-seeded Rahway Saturday in a preliminary round game at Johnson to get a shot at second-seeded Cranford Monday night in first round play at Roselle Catholic.
Hillside swept Rahway in Valley Division competition in early January, beating the Indians twice in three days.
“By winning the Valley Division title we accomplished our main goal,” said second-year Hillside head coach Sjocquelyn Winstead. “The players showed me as a coach the significance of fundamentals.”
Hillside is 15-2, winners of seven straight, and is 13-0 in the Valley Division. The only losses have come to South Plainfield at Wardlaw-Hartridge in late December and at home to conference-crossover foe Dayton in mid January.
Hillside and Dayton were able to switch divisions for this season, with a senior-laden Dayton team very competitive in the Mountain and a young Hillside squad improving by leaps and bounds in the Valley.
Hillside captured its first division title since winning the Mountain Valley Conference’s Sky Division crown in 2004 when Winstead was a junior at Hillside and a member of the girls’ basketball team.
The Comets went 2-17 last year, winning just one game in the Mountain Division.
“There was support from parents and a commitment by the players,” Winstead said. “The players learned that by setting goals they could lead to great things.”
Two results from Tuesday that had a bearing on Wednesday’s seeding meeting were Union handing Linden its first home loss and sweeping the Tigers in Watchung Division play and New Providence winning at home against Dayton to split with the Bulldogs in Mountain Division competition.
Dayton was minus two key senior players for disciplinary reasons.
Still, Dayton’s 14-6 overall record and third place, 8-6 Mountain Division mark were good enough to earn the Bulldogs the third seed. Home wins over Cranford and Roselle Catholic, two wins over New Providence and a big home win over Oak Knoll were huge.
Dayton reached the semifinals last year after upsetting fourth-seeded Cranford 43-42 in a quarterfinal at Rahway. Before sharing the Valley Division title with Kent Place last season, Dayton defeated three Mountain Division teams to reach the UCT semifinals for the first time.
An experienced Bulldog squad has benefitted from the competition in the Mountain Division. The top three seeds are all from the Mountain Division: 1-GL, 2-Cranford and 3-Dayton.
“There’s no question the Mountain Division has helped us,” Dayton head coach Dave Rennie said. “Had we stayed in the Valley we might have a couple more wins, but we wouldn’t be perceived as highly as we are now, based on our ability to compete.”
This is the highest seed Dayton has received since Rennie has been at the helm of the Bulldogs.
“I’m certainly happy with the three seed,” Rennie said. “I thought beforehand that it would be the best we could do.
“GL is clearly No. 1 and Cranford beat us most recently.”
Dayton was swept by GL in Mountain Division play, while the Bulldogs split with Cranford.
“I anticipated those two ahead of us,” Rennie said. “The fact that the top three are from the Mountain Division says a lot about the strength of the Mountain Division and the results of the crossover games.”
Three big wins by Mountain Division schools over Watchung Division teams include GL winning at Roselle Catholic, Dayton beating Roselle Catholic in overtime at home and New Providence winning at Summit.
“Cranford’s win over GL brings GL back to the pack a little bit and moves Cranford out in front,” Rennie said.
Dayton will continue with a conference-crossover game scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. vs. St. Patrick at School No. 28 in Elizabeth.
Senior guard Anna Lies is 25 points away from reaching 1,000 for her career.
Dayton is also scheduled to play at Roselle Saturday at noon, but that game might be pushed back a bit because Roselle has a UCT preliminary round game vs. Westfield Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Rahway.
“That game might be later in the day (Saturday) or another day at Roselle,” Rennnie said.
Dayton added a game for the final week before the states begin. The Bulldogs will play at Mount St. Mary Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m.
The last time Roselle Catholic lost a UCT game was back on Feb. 14, 2008. At Rahway in a quarterfinal, the Lions were edged by eventual finalist Elizabeth 45-43.
Roselle Catholic has won 11 UCT games in a row since and will attempt to become only the third team and the first since Union Catholic from 1986-1989 to win four straight county crowns.
“We’re certainly proud of our recent UCT history, but we’re just focusing on the present,” said Skrec, who has coached RC to all four of its county championships. “We hope to win and advance, just like everyone else.”
Roselle Catholic is 0-2 vs. the three teams seeded above it, with losses to GL at home and Dayton in overtime on the road. RC has not played Cranford.
“I’ve heard people say how wide open the girls’ tournament has been in recent years,” Skrec said. “That makes for a lot of excitement and a very competitive tournament. Basketball fans get excited about UCT girls’ basketball.”
When both teams were 4-0 back on Dec. 29 in RC’s gym, GL led from start to finish in producing a dominant 42-25 win over the host Lions in the final of the RC Holiday Tournament.
“GL is clearly the significant favorite,” Skrec said. “Cranford showed me something with its win over GL.
“I think a lot of teams think they have a shot to get to the final.”
You can – perhaps – put GL at the top of that list. The Highlanders – as the No. 3 seed – reached the final at Kean last year, falling to RC 33-26.
“RC is still the three-time defending champion,” GL head coach Andy Silvagni said. “We got off to a good start, but we’re still in search of our first title.”
Helping lead GL to its first division crown this year since the 1980s is senior shooting guard Sam Dowling, who led all scorers with 16 points in Tuesday’s Mountain Division-clinching triumph at Oak Knoll.
“We’re going to take it game by game and be sure not to look ahead,” Dowling said.
GL came close to winning the crown last year. The Highlanders even had a brief lead in the third quarter vs. Roselle Catholic.
“Coach reminds us of that all the time, how close we came,” Dowling said. “We’re excited and we want to get back there again.”
“We’ve said it a million times, it’s not how you start, but how you finish,” Silvagni said. “We have to strengthen some things defensively and work on our timing offensively.
“The county tournament is here and that’s what we’ve been waiting for.”
Union head coach Justin Meyer led the Farmers to the 2006 semifinals. On Tuesday he guided Union past host Linden 57-50 in Watchung Division play.
It was the first home loss in seven games for Linden, which was the last team in the county to be undefeated at home.
Linden defeated Union 52-44 in the third and final game for both teams in the Len Sepanek Tournament at Ridge Dec. 30.
Then Union downed Linden 50-34 at home in Watchung Division play on Jan. 3.
Whereas teams such as Cranford and Roselle Catholic failed to win at Linden, Union succeeded, led as usual by senior point guard Jamiyah Bethune.
On Tuesday Bethune led all scorers with 19 points, while teammates Alexis Akridge and Wendy Berry contributed 12 and 10.
Winners of three out of four, Union improved to 10-11 and received the ninth seed. The Farmers will face eighth-seeded New Providence in a first round game Monday night at Johnson.
“We can’t complain about where they put us,” Meyer said.
Linden, which is now 14-5, fell down to the sixth seed. Before Tuesday’s game, the Tigers had won 10 of 11.
“I think our rivalry with Linden had something to do with us being able to beat them again,” Meyer said. “Even in summer league play it’s always a battle with them.”
Linden senior guard Shannon Wheeler scored 12 points, but was hampered by foul trouble.
“She had three in the first half and got her fourth in the third quarter, so she had to play the whole fourth quarter in foul trouble,” Meyer said.
Sophomore Keajah Hall scored 15 points and junior Jada Lewis 14 for the Tigers.
“We got off to a fast start and when we do we’re usually in good shape,” Meyer said. “We actually won this game at the foul line in the fourth quarter.”
Meyer said that Bethune made eight-of-11 free throw attempts for the game, including five-of-six in the final eight minutes.
Union will wrap its Watchung Division slate at Westfield Thursday at 4 p.m.
“The county is very competitive,” Meyer said. “It seems like somebody is beating somebody at some time, like (last week) Cranford beating GL and Linden beating Roselle Catholic.”
37TH ANNUAL FRANK J. CICARELL
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT
SEEDS: 1-Gov. Livingston. 2-Cranford. 3-Dayton. 4-Roselle Catholic.
5-Summit. 6-Linden. 7-Oak Knoll. 8-New Providence.
9-Union. 10-Johnson. 11-Scotch Plains. 12-Plainfield.
13-Westfield. 14-Union Catholic. 15-Hillside. 16-Kent Place.
17-St. Patrick. 18-Rahway. 19-Elizabeth. 20-Roselle.
Roselle Park, Brearley, Benedictine Academy and
St. Mary’s of Elizabeth did not enter.
PRELIMINARY ROUND
Friday, Feb. 10
At Rahway
17-St. Patrick vs. 16-Kent Place, 4 p.m.
20-Roselle vs. 13-Westfield, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11
At Johnson
19-Elizabeth vs. 14-Union Catholic, 10:30
18-Rahway vs. 15-Hillside, noon
FIRST ROUND
Monday, Feb. 13
At one Johnson gym
9-Union vs. 8-New Providence, 6 p.m.
1-Gov. Livingston vs. Kent Place/St. Patrick, 7:30 p.m.
At the other Johnson gym
11-Scotch Plains vs. 6-Linden, 6 p.m.
Union Catholic/Elizabeth vs. 3-Dayton, 7:30 p.m.
At Roselle Catholic
10-Johnson vs. 7-Oak Knoll, 6 p.m.
Hillside/Rahway vs. 2-Cranford, 7:30 p.m.
At Rahway
12-Plainfield vs. 5-Summit, 6 p.m.
Westfield/Roselle vs. 4-Roselle Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
QUARTERFINALS
Thursday, Feb. 16
At Rahway
Top side of the bracket, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
At Roselle Catholic
Bottom side of the bracket, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Monday, Feb. 20
At TBA (depending on what teams are alive)
6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINALS
Sunday, Feb. 26
At Kean University’s Harwood Arena in Union
JV: 3 p.m.
Varsity: 5 p.m.
FRANK J. CICARELL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
UCT CHAMPIONS
2011 - Roselle Catholic
2010 - Roselle Catholic
2009 - Roselle Catholic
2008 - Westfield - first time
2007 - Scotch Plains
2006 - Cranford - first time
2005 - Scotch Plains
2004 - Scotch Plains - first time
2003 - Roselle Catholic - first time
2002 - Roselle - first time
2001 - Union Catholic
2000 - Union - first time
1999 - Summit - first time
1998 - Union Catholic
1997 - Elizabeth
1996 - Elizabeth
1995 - Elizabeth - first time
1994 - Linden
1993 - Linden
1992 - Union Catholic
1991 - Linden - first time
1990 - New Providence - first time
1989 - Union Catholic
1988 - Union Catholic
1987 - Union Catholic
1986 - Union Catholic
1985 - Hillside - first time
1984 - Plainfield
1983 - Plainfield
1982 - Plainfield
1981 - Plainfield
1980 - Plainfield
1979 - Plainfield - first time
1978 - Mother Seton - first time
1977 - Union Catholic - first time
1976 - Benedictine - first time
Championships: Union Catholic 8; Plainfield 6; Roselle Catholic 4;
Linden, Elizabeth, Scotch Plains 3; Benedictine, Mother Seton, Hillside,
New Providence, Summit, Union, Roselle, Cranford, Westfield 1.
Union County Sports Editor
Oak Knoll first-year head coach John Bertollo - even though he is new to all of this - thought his Royals were very deserving of the seventh seed.
“We’ve been ranked seventh for the last three weeks,” Bertollo said Tuesday following his team’s 49-38 division home loss to Governor Livingston. “If you look at the teams under us – New Providence and a couple of other teams – we’ve beaten them and done our job.
“We have a good win against Dayton, so I think we deserve the seventh seed.”
That’s exactly where the Royals are seeded as the 37th annual Frank J. Cicarell Girls’ Basketball Union County Tournament was put together Wednesday at Roselle Catholic.
GL, as expected, was named the top seed. The Highlanders lead Union County with an 18-1 record and captured the Union County Conference’s Mountain Division championship for the first time. Cranford - which earned the second seed - went to Berkeley Heights last Friday and came away with a 49-44 division triumph, handing GL its first and only loss so far.
Three-time defending champion Roselle Catholic, which repeated as the UCC’s Watchung Division winner, is the four seed.
Hillside, which captured the UCC’s Valley Division crown for the initial time, is the 15th seed.
GL, RC and Hillside all captured their division titles Tuesday.
Bertollo, 28, is in his first year coaching girls’ basketball after serving as the junior varsity boys’ coach for six years at his high school alma mater, Hawthorne.
“I think the county’s wide open,” Bertollo said. “I’ve been doing a lot of scouting and watching teams in Union County and I think it’s wide open. Governor Livingston is good. Outside of them I think it’s wide open.”
Oak Knoll, which lost at GL 61-38 on Jan. 20, played much better against the Highlanders at home Tuesday. The Royals made it a three-point game early in the fourth quarter before GL pulled away.
“If we play defense like we did tonight we’re going to be in a lot of good games,” Bertollo said Tuesday.
So far Bertollo is grasping the girls’ game and likes what he sees.
“It’s been excellent,” Bertollo said. “It was a big adjustment with the first practices because there’s different ways to motivate boys and different ways to motivate girls.
“The first few weeks were a little tough because I had to figure out the difference, but I think it’s going very well.”
Bertollo, a resident of Little Falls, has Oak Knoll at 10-9 overall. The Royals finished tied for third with Dayton in the Mountain Division at 8-6. Oak Knoll split with Dayton and swept New Providence.
“Nothing against boys’ basketball, but I think the girls play a lot tougher,” Bertollo said.
Oak Knoll is sparked by the play of junior guard Kerri Moran, who had nine points vs. GL Tuesday, and senior forward Gabriela Pallicer, who led the Royals with 11 points, including three three-pointers.
“Girls don’t mind diving on the ground and elbowing each other,” Bertollo said. “They can get brutal at times.”
On Friday at home vs. Roselle Park, Hillside will attempt to be the only team in the county this year to finish undefeated in division play.
The Comets will seek to beat 18th-seeded Rahway Saturday in a preliminary round game at Johnson to get a shot at second-seeded Cranford Monday night in first round play at Roselle Catholic.
Hillside swept Rahway in Valley Division competition in early January, beating the Indians twice in three days.
“By winning the Valley Division title we accomplished our main goal,” said second-year Hillside head coach Sjocquelyn Winstead. “The players showed me as a coach the significance of fundamentals.”
Hillside is 15-2, winners of seven straight, and is 13-0 in the Valley Division. The only losses have come to South Plainfield at Wardlaw-Hartridge in late December and at home to conference-crossover foe Dayton in mid January.
Hillside and Dayton were able to switch divisions for this season, with a senior-laden Dayton team very competitive in the Mountain and a young Hillside squad improving by leaps and bounds in the Valley.
Hillside captured its first division title since winning the Mountain Valley Conference’s Sky Division crown in 2004 when Winstead was a junior at Hillside and a member of the girls’ basketball team.
The Comets went 2-17 last year, winning just one game in the Mountain Division.
“There was support from parents and a commitment by the players,” Winstead said. “The players learned that by setting goals they could lead to great things.”
Two results from Tuesday that had a bearing on Wednesday’s seeding meeting were Union handing Linden its first home loss and sweeping the Tigers in Watchung Division play and New Providence winning at home against Dayton to split with the Bulldogs in Mountain Division competition.
Dayton was minus two key senior players for disciplinary reasons.
Still, Dayton’s 14-6 overall record and third place, 8-6 Mountain Division mark were good enough to earn the Bulldogs the third seed. Home wins over Cranford and Roselle Catholic, two wins over New Providence and a big home win over Oak Knoll were huge.
Dayton reached the semifinals last year after upsetting fourth-seeded Cranford 43-42 in a quarterfinal at Rahway. Before sharing the Valley Division title with Kent Place last season, Dayton defeated three Mountain Division teams to reach the UCT semifinals for the first time.
An experienced Bulldog squad has benefitted from the competition in the Mountain Division. The top three seeds are all from the Mountain Division: 1-GL, 2-Cranford and 3-Dayton.
“There’s no question the Mountain Division has helped us,” Dayton head coach Dave Rennie said. “Had we stayed in the Valley we might have a couple more wins, but we wouldn’t be perceived as highly as we are now, based on our ability to compete.”
This is the highest seed Dayton has received since Rennie has been at the helm of the Bulldogs.
“I’m certainly happy with the three seed,” Rennie said. “I thought beforehand that it would be the best we could do.
“GL is clearly No. 1 and Cranford beat us most recently.”
Dayton was swept by GL in Mountain Division play, while the Bulldogs split with Cranford.
“I anticipated those two ahead of us,” Rennie said. “The fact that the top three are from the Mountain Division says a lot about the strength of the Mountain Division and the results of the crossover games.”
Three big wins by Mountain Division schools over Watchung Division teams include GL winning at Roselle Catholic, Dayton beating Roselle Catholic in overtime at home and New Providence winning at Summit.
“Cranford’s win over GL brings GL back to the pack a little bit and moves Cranford out in front,” Rennie said.
Dayton will continue with a conference-crossover game scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. vs. St. Patrick at School No. 28 in Elizabeth.
Senior guard Anna Lies is 25 points away from reaching 1,000 for her career.
Dayton is also scheduled to play at Roselle Saturday at noon, but that game might be pushed back a bit because Roselle has a UCT preliminary round game vs. Westfield Friday at 5:30 p.m. at Rahway.
“That game might be later in the day (Saturday) or another day at Roselle,” Rennnie said.
Dayton added a game for the final week before the states begin. The Bulldogs will play at Mount St. Mary Feb. 23 at 5:30 p.m.
The last time Roselle Catholic lost a UCT game was back on Feb. 14, 2008. At Rahway in a quarterfinal, the Lions were edged by eventual finalist Elizabeth 45-43.
Roselle Catholic has won 11 UCT games in a row since and will attempt to become only the third team and the first since Union Catholic from 1986-1989 to win four straight county crowns.
“We’re certainly proud of our recent UCT history, but we’re just focusing on the present,” said Skrec, who has coached RC to all four of its county championships. “We hope to win and advance, just like everyone else.”
Roselle Catholic is 0-2 vs. the three teams seeded above it, with losses to GL at home and Dayton in overtime on the road. RC has not played Cranford.
“I’ve heard people say how wide open the girls’ tournament has been in recent years,” Skrec said. “That makes for a lot of excitement and a very competitive tournament. Basketball fans get excited about UCT girls’ basketball.”
When both teams were 4-0 back on Dec. 29 in RC’s gym, GL led from start to finish in producing a dominant 42-25 win over the host Lions in the final of the RC Holiday Tournament.
“GL is clearly the significant favorite,” Skrec said. “Cranford showed me something with its win over GL.
“I think a lot of teams think they have a shot to get to the final.”
You can – perhaps – put GL at the top of that list. The Highlanders – as the No. 3 seed – reached the final at Kean last year, falling to RC 33-26.
“RC is still the three-time defending champion,” GL head coach Andy Silvagni said. “We got off to a good start, but we’re still in search of our first title.”
Helping lead GL to its first division crown this year since the 1980s is senior shooting guard Sam Dowling, who led all scorers with 16 points in Tuesday’s Mountain Division-clinching triumph at Oak Knoll.
“We’re going to take it game by game and be sure not to look ahead,” Dowling said.
GL came close to winning the crown last year. The Highlanders even had a brief lead in the third quarter vs. Roselle Catholic.
“Coach reminds us of that all the time, how close we came,” Dowling said. “We’re excited and we want to get back there again.”
“We’ve said it a million times, it’s not how you start, but how you finish,” Silvagni said. “We have to strengthen some things defensively and work on our timing offensively.
“The county tournament is here and that’s what we’ve been waiting for.”
Union head coach Justin Meyer led the Farmers to the 2006 semifinals. On Tuesday he guided Union past host Linden 57-50 in Watchung Division play.
It was the first home loss in seven games for Linden, which was the last team in the county to be undefeated at home.
Linden defeated Union 52-44 in the third and final game for both teams in the Len Sepanek Tournament at Ridge Dec. 30.
Then Union downed Linden 50-34 at home in Watchung Division play on Jan. 3.
Whereas teams such as Cranford and Roselle Catholic failed to win at Linden, Union succeeded, led as usual by senior point guard Jamiyah Bethune.
On Tuesday Bethune led all scorers with 19 points, while teammates Alexis Akridge and Wendy Berry contributed 12 and 10.
Winners of three out of four, Union improved to 10-11 and received the ninth seed. The Farmers will face eighth-seeded New Providence in a first round game Monday night at Johnson.
“We can’t complain about where they put us,” Meyer said.
Linden, which is now 14-5, fell down to the sixth seed. Before Tuesday’s game, the Tigers had won 10 of 11.
“I think our rivalry with Linden had something to do with us being able to beat them again,” Meyer said. “Even in summer league play it’s always a battle with them.”
Linden senior guard Shannon Wheeler scored 12 points, but was hampered by foul trouble.
“She had three in the first half and got her fourth in the third quarter, so she had to play the whole fourth quarter in foul trouble,” Meyer said.
Sophomore Keajah Hall scored 15 points and junior Jada Lewis 14 for the Tigers.
“We got off to a fast start and when we do we’re usually in good shape,” Meyer said. “We actually won this game at the foul line in the fourth quarter.”
Meyer said that Bethune made eight-of-11 free throw attempts for the game, including five-of-six in the final eight minutes.
Union will wrap its Watchung Division slate at Westfield Thursday at 4 p.m.
“The county is very competitive,” Meyer said. “It seems like somebody is beating somebody at some time, like (last week) Cranford beating GL and Linden beating Roselle Catholic.”
37TH ANNUAL FRANK J. CICARELL
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
UNION COUNTY TOURNAMENT
SEEDS: 1-Gov. Livingston. 2-Cranford. 3-Dayton. 4-Roselle Catholic.
5-Summit. 6-Linden. 7-Oak Knoll. 8-New Providence.
9-Union. 10-Johnson. 11-Scotch Plains. 12-Plainfield.
13-Westfield. 14-Union Catholic. 15-Hillside. 16-Kent Place.
17-St. Patrick. 18-Rahway. 19-Elizabeth. 20-Roselle.
Roselle Park, Brearley, Benedictine Academy and
St. Mary’s of Elizabeth did not enter.
PRELIMINARY ROUND
Friday, Feb. 10
At Rahway
17-St. Patrick vs. 16-Kent Place, 4 p.m.
20-Roselle vs. 13-Westfield, 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11
At Johnson
19-Elizabeth vs. 14-Union Catholic, 10:30
18-Rahway vs. 15-Hillside, noon
FIRST ROUND
Monday, Feb. 13
At one Johnson gym
9-Union vs. 8-New Providence, 6 p.m.
1-Gov. Livingston vs. Kent Place/St. Patrick, 7:30 p.m.
At the other Johnson gym
11-Scotch Plains vs. 6-Linden, 6 p.m.
Union Catholic/Elizabeth vs. 3-Dayton, 7:30 p.m.
At Roselle Catholic
10-Johnson vs. 7-Oak Knoll, 6 p.m.
Hillside/Rahway vs. 2-Cranford, 7:30 p.m.
At Rahway
12-Plainfield vs. 5-Summit, 6 p.m.
Westfield/Roselle vs. 4-Roselle Catholic, 7:30 p.m.
QUARTERFINALS
Thursday, Feb. 16
At Rahway
Top side of the bracket, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
At Roselle Catholic
Bottom side of the bracket, 6 and 7:30 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
Monday, Feb. 20
At TBA (depending on what teams are alive)
6 and 7:30 p.m.
FINALS
Sunday, Feb. 26
At Kean University’s Harwood Arena in Union
JV: 3 p.m.
Varsity: 5 p.m.
FRANK J. CICARELL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
UCT CHAMPIONS
2011 - Roselle Catholic
2010 - Roselle Catholic
2009 - Roselle Catholic
2008 - Westfield - first time
2007 - Scotch Plains
2006 - Cranford - first time
2005 - Scotch Plains
2004 - Scotch Plains - first time
2003 - Roselle Catholic - first time
2002 - Roselle - first time
2001 - Union Catholic
2000 - Union - first time
1999 - Summit - first time
1998 - Union Catholic
1997 - Elizabeth
1996 - Elizabeth
1995 - Elizabeth - first time
1994 - Linden
1993 - Linden
1992 - Union Catholic
1991 - Linden - first time
1990 - New Providence - first time
1989 - Union Catholic
1988 - Union Catholic
1987 - Union Catholic
1986 - Union Catholic
1985 - Hillside - first time
1984 - Plainfield
1983 - Plainfield
1982 - Plainfield
1981 - Plainfield
1980 - Plainfield
1979 - Plainfield - first time
1978 - Mother Seton - first time
1977 - Union Catholic - first time
1976 - Benedictine - first time
Championships: Union Catholic 8; Plainfield 6; Roselle Catholic 4;
Linden, Elizabeth, Scotch Plains 3; Benedictine, Mother Seton, Hillside,
New Providence, Summit, Union, Roselle, Cranford, Westfield 1.
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