Asbury Park Press from Asbury Park, New Jersey

0 0 00 0 1 1 1 MARCH 11, 2002 ASBURY PARK PRESS PAGE D7 THE NJSIAA BOYS AND GIRLS GROUP BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS CROWNS FOR NEPTUNE, RUMSON First love was worth the wait TONY PISCATAWAY I year was Neptune. the about whispers this time began last in Basketball coach and former Scarlet Fliers point guard Ken O'Donnell, in 1 order to advance through the school system's administrative ranks, was going to resign. Also, star junior Ta quan Dean was TONY going to GRAHAM transfer. But as last night's NJ SIAA Group III championship 84-58 victory over Weeguahic was concluding, there was O'Donnell high-fiving Dean on the Neptune bench at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. And there was Neptune, tormented by three near misses in NJSIAA championship games in the late 1960s and '70s, celebrating its third NJSIAA title overall and first since coach Henry Moore's 1980-81 juggernaut rolled to a 30-0 record and the Group IV title.

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