Nottingham cruises past Jackson Liberty

HAMILTON » Richie Jones sparked the Nottingham Northstars offense last night with 22 points as they defeated Jackson Liberty, 77-44 to open the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group III State Tournament.

Jones teammate Cliff Joseph added 19 points and Darell Johnson chipped in 17 for the number two seeded winners, who will host number seven seeded Ocean Twp Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Anderson 3-2-8, Sofield 1-3-5, Celentano 1-0-2, White 3-0-8, Neal 5-2-12, Clay 3-0-6, Cunningham 1-0-3

—17-7-44

Totals

Montina 2-0-4, K.Johnson 1-0-2, Richie Jones 8-3-22, Darell Johnson 6-3-17, Cliff Joseph 8-1-19, Jenkins 1-0-2, Williams 2-0-5, West 3-0-6, Brown 0-0-0, Raba 0-0-0, Willie 0-0-0.

—31-7-77

Totals Jackson (8-19) 4 6 Nottingham (24-2)1021 3-point goals — 18 19 16 — 27 — 44 77

White 2 (JL), Jones 3, D.Johnson 2, Joseph 2, Williams (N).

WW-PN 71, BRICK TWP. 48 PLAINSBORO » The number eight seeded Knights got their 15th win of the season moved on to the quarterfinal round.

BrickTwp. (14-9)12 WW-PN (15-8) 17 13 12 13 25 10 — 17 — 48 71

NO. BURLINGTON 55, BURLINGTON TWP. 52 COLUMBUS » Josh Jackson sank a fade away 3-pointer as the time expired finishing with 28 points and advancing the number 11 seeded Greyhounds a next round meeting with number three seeded Hopewell Valley Wednesday. Ezra Jones netted 11 points and Anthony Thomas had 10 in the win.

Wesley Robinson scored 15 points, JohnPaul Oluwadare had 12 and Jalen Brown tallied 10 in a losing effort. Brown 3-2-10, Rogers 0-2-2, Johnson 3-1-7, Ellis 1-0-3, Moore 0-1-1, Ayetigbo 1-0-2, Oluwadare 4-2-12, Robinson 5-3-15

Totals

Irvin 2-0-4, Jackson 8-7-28, Johnson 1-0-2, Jones 3-3-11, Lewis 0-0-0, Thomas 4-2-10

—18-12-55

Totals

—17-11-52

Burl. Twp. (15-12)8 No. Burl. (19-8) 12 3-point goals — 14 13 15 20 15 — 10 — 52 55

Brown 2, Robinson 2, Oluwadare 2, Ellis (BT), Jackson 5, Jones 2 (NB).