Central Jersey Sports Radio GMC Boys’ Player of the Year: Colonia’s Aiden Derkack led Patriots to back-to-back GMC titles, another sectional crown While the Colonia boys' basketball team was very much a team in every sense of the word, there's no doubt who is the big draw: Aiden Derkack. They've got a lot of excellent ballplayers. Even Derkack - who was named GMC Tournament MVP for the second year in a row, the first to be so honored since Quentin DeCosey of St.

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Repeat, repeat, repeat! Colonia grabs GMC Tournament title for a second straight year, holding off Piscataway in county final, 70-63 By the time the final horn sounded, there were so many parallels between last season's GMC Tournament title game and this year's. First, the obvious: top-seed Colonia won its second straight GMC title - and seventh overall - with a 70-63 victory over second-seed Piscataway in a game heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio, presented by the George Street Playhouse in downtown New Brunswick.

Repeat, repeat, repeat! #Colonia grabs #GMC Tournament title for a second straight year, holding off #Piscataway in county final, 70-63. Stopry and postgame presented by #Sportsplex at Metuchen with #MVP Aiden #Derkack and HC Jose Rodriguez at the link! #NJHoops

Defending champ Colonia roars past Aquinas in semifinals, will take on Piscataway Friday for GMC Tournament title All year long, Colonia has been the team to beat in the Greater Middlesex Conference. And that will be the case one more time Friday night, as the top-seeded Patriots will defend their 2024 title when they take on second-seed Piscataway in another student-mentor battle between head coaches Jose Rodriguez of Colonia and Bob Turco of the Chiefs. The two met in last year's final - when Turco was at St.

BACK IN THE FINALS!! Defending #GMCT champ #Colonia roars past Aquinas in semifinals, will take on Piscataway Friday for the #GMC Tournament title. Postgame presented by #Sportsplex at Metuchen with Aiden #Derkack and Jose #Rodriguez at the link! #NJHoops

No. 1 Colonia rides defense, 31 from Derkack to top No. 7 St. Thomas Aquinas and clinch GMC Red Division title Stellar defense - particularly in their full court press after taking a double-digit lead - and 31 points from Aiden Derkack helped No. 1 Colonia to a 69-53 home win over St. Thomas Aquinas Thursday night, in a GMC Red Division game heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio. Derkack scored 29 of those points in the final three quarters, while Zach Smith - the team's lone senior - added 14 on Senior Night, with junior R.J.

No. 1 #Colonia rides defense, 31 from #Derkack to top No. 7 St. Thomas #Aquinas, and clinch #GMC Red Division title. Recap and postgame reax presented by #Sportsplex at Metuchen at the link! #NJHoops #boysbasketball #Patriots #Trojans

INSTANT REPLAY – Girls’ Basketball: No. 1 Rutgers Prep 61, No. 3 Gill St. Bernard’s 38 Top-ranked Colonia got 32 points from Aiden Derkack - who cracked the 1,000 point mark for his career in the third quarter - as the Patriots beat Piscataway in the Greater Middlesex Conference Red Division opener for both schools, 80-61. Click below to listen to the full game broadcast as heard on December 19, 2024, from Piscataway High School, with Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel on the call.

INSTANT REPLAY - Boys' Basketball: No. 1 #Colonia 80, #Piscataway 61. FULL GAME AUDIO from their #GMC Red Division opener on 12/19/24, as Aiden #Derkack scores his 1,000th career point! #NJHoops

Derkack joins 1,000-point club, scores 32 to power No. 1 Colonia past Piscataway Coming into this season, Colonia was well aware it would have a target on its back. Three-time North 2, Group 3 champions, last year's GMC Tournament champions, and a star in junior Aiden Derkack. So, naturally, Piscataway jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead over the Patriots, and while No. 1 Colonia eventually took the lead - and never gave it away again - it was still a ten-point game at halftime, and well within reach.

RECAP with AUDIO: Aiden #Derkack joins 1,000-point club, scores 32 to power No. 1 #Colonia past #Piscataway in #GMC Red opener. Reax at the link, presented by #Sportsplex at Metuchen! #NJHoops