SPORTS WRAP
BY WILLIAM HATHAWAY, JR.
PHOTOS BY FELICIA LAGUERRE OWENS
This past weekend, the New Jersey college basketball season opened up with a local Essex County battle and a charity exhibition on Saturday afternoon at NJIT. The game was played at the Wellness / Events Center in Newark.
The Seton Hall University men’s basketball team defeated NJIT by a respectable 68-60. Leading Seton Hall was guard Kadary Richmond with 24 points and 9 rebounds on 9-10 from the field. Dre Davis had 19 points and 7 rebounds for the Pirates while Al-Amir Dawes had 13 points.
Leading NJIT was Jake Goldberg with 12 points and 6 rebounds, along with Adam Hess’ 16 points and 4 rebounds and Tariq Francis’ 11 points.
After the game, both head coaches, Seton Hall’s Shaheen Holloway and NJIT’s Grant Billmeier, praised the game for being for a good cause.
In the NFL, the “for real” Snoopy Bowl was played at MetLife Stadium, but it might as well have been the Sloppy Bowl. Despite an injury to starting QB Tyrod Taylor, the Giants got a rushing TD from NJ native Tommy DeVito, and held a 10-7 lead going into the late stages of the game. Big Blue had a chance to almost ice it, but Graham Gano missed another field goal.
After being dead for the first 58 minutes and change, the Jets finally put together a worthwhile drive, and Zach Wilson was able to clock the ball with 0:01 left. Greg Zuerlein came on and tied the game at 10-10, forcing overtime.
Other than DeVito’s TD run, all he could muster in the air was -2 yards passing for the game. After a Giants punt, the Jets went down and got the game winning FG, winning a Sloppy Bowl 13-10. Gang Green is 4-3, and the Giants, who were the “home” team are now 2-5. They are set to get Daniel Jones back, but who cares at this point?
