Northstar boys drop close one to Bordentown in Tucker finals

Fish 4 Scores Sports

By Rich Fisher
Fish4scores.com

Dec. 28: The Nottingham boys took on defending tournament champ, as well as defending Central Jersey Group II champ, Bordentown in the boys Tucker finals, and the host Scotties emerged with a 72-68 victory.

It was the first loss of the season for Nottingham (4-1), which led 60-58 with 5:18 left to play but could not hold on.

“It was still a great effort from my guys,” coach Chris “The Baron” Raba said. “That’s one of the best teams we’re going to see this year. They lost some guys but they have three starters back from last year’s team who are outstanding.

“It would have been nice to win. You always want to win, especially in a championship game. But we showed we can play with a very good team today.”

Christian Ford led Nottingham with 20 points, While Cliff Joseph added 18 and Edwin Lakie had 11.

About The Author


Rich Fisher has been around the Hamilton Township sports scene for so long that he actually got Rich Giallella’s autograph when Giallella was still a player! Proud product of Hamilton YMCA and Lou Gehrig baseball leagues and former teammate of Jim Maher on a very average Barton & Cooney rec basketball team, Fish graduated from Nottingham Junior High and Steinert High school and has covered township sports since 1980. His goal in life is to convince Maria Prato that Jersey tomatoes are at least 100 times better than California tomatoes.