Robbinsville’s Evan Bunnell goes over 1,000 career points
ROBBINSVILLE >> Evan Bunnell celebrated Senior Day with a milestone.
Bunnell scored 24 points to go over 1,000 for his career and the Robbinsville boys basketball team cruised to an 81-42 victory over Roselle in a non-league game on Saturday afternoon.
Bunnell needed just 12 points to reach the milestone marker and achieved it easily. He leads the CVC with a 21.5 points per game average and is also the Ravens’ leading rebounder.
“I am 100 percent going to be nominating him for Player of the Year, and it’s not just because of the scoring,” coach Conor Hayes said following Friday night’s big win over Princeton High.. “I don’t know how many other teams can lose their MVP from last season and have another person just put their team on their back and continue to push forward, to keep everybody focused, to keep everybody moving in one direction together.
“And on top of that just carry us in games offensively, come up with big rebounds for us when we need them, so absolutely I think he’s definitely a contender for Player of the Year.”
Bunnell has a chance to break Luke Olshevski’s program record of 1,096 points set in 2017.
Myles Davis added 13 points for the Ravens (14-7), who will be seeded in the MCT top 8 next week.
Bazir Belvin paced the Rams (118) with 13 points. HOPEWELL VALLEY 69, BERNARDS 57
HOPEWELL TWP. >> John Michael Vlasac exploded for a career-best 31 points, Milan Desai added 18 and the Bulldogs (16-2) all but locked up the top seed for the MCT with a nonleague win over Bernards (12-7). COLONIA 66, EWING 43 EWING >> The Blue Devils (13-6) couldn’t recover from Friday night’s one-point loss to West Windsor North and fell to Colonia (14-7) in non-league action. Cameron James scored 12 points and Joel Cineus finished
with 10 for Ewing. WW-PN 74, FLORENCE 47
FLORENCE >> Srijan Velury scored 22 points, Malachi Jeffers-Viera added 18 and the Knights (11-9) followed up their huge upset over Ewing by pulling away from the Flashes (8-10). North is 7-1 in its last eight games and can likely play its way into the MCT top eight by beating Princeton High on Wednesday in what amounts to a play-in game. PENNINGTON 66,
AVENUES (N.Y.) 42 PENNINGTON >> Dylan Napolean recorded a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds, Kae Kilic scored a team-best 14 points and Dwayne Snead added 10 as the Red Hawks (137) picked up a win ahead of a crucial two-week stretch in the season.
Pennington has the No. 3 seed in the upcoming MAPL Tournament and will learn its MCT seed on Friday. NEW EGYPT 55, KEYPORT 47
NEW EGYPT >> Nolan Arnold went off for 30 points, Connor Fischer added 11 and the Warriors (6-11) were victorious over Keyport (7-10).