The article summarizes a basketball game between St. Augustine Prep and Bridgeton High School. St. Augustine led by 9 points after 3 quarters but Bridgeton rallied to take a 1 point lead with under 2 minutes left. However, St. Augustine scored two baskets and two free throws to secure the 58-53 victory. Raheem Rex had 14 points and 13 rebounds to help St. Augustine overcome the absence of injured player Bill Fahber. Terrence Hester led Bridgeton with 27 points in the losing effort.

1. C.A. National Basketball archive – S.A. 1992
Early season scouting report reveals strengths/weaknesses of local teams
By Jack Yellin
Boys basketball has been a very hot item in the early winter season. And both Bridgeton and Cumberland Regional
have provided a lot of excitement early on. Here are the early season scouting reports on the teams as they enter the
heart of the schedule.
Bridgeton
Coach Charlie Kates’ Bulldogs were 3-4 overall and 1-3 in the conference going into today’s battle with St. Joseph on
the road.
Bridgeton is at home on Wednesday against a tough wildwood team before they hit the road again on Friday with
league-leading Middle Township.
A peek at a future opponent’s scouting report showed the following:
Terrence Hester and Dwayne Robinson are outstanding players. The Bulldogs have a lot of quickness and love to
apply defensive pressure. They prefer to play a transition game.
Controlling the tempo is an important key to beating Bridgeton. Keeping the score in the 60s or lower is very important.
Taking care of the ball (no turnovers) also is a key.
Bridgeton has not show an effective half court game nor have they displayed a delay game. They will take bad shots
when pressured and beating them to rebounds also is important.
Hester is an outstanding shooter inside the paint. He has a lot of fine moves, but he is a very emotional player. Being
physical with him takes him out of his game.
This scouting report is a fair one but is not completely true.
Kates does have a delay game. IN a loss to Hammonton, Bridgeton lost its focus and apparently didn’t see his signal to
call a timeout when they had the lead and the ball.
A similar situation occurred against St. Augustine Prep.
Both games, however were lost because someone failed to box out on critical rebounds.
Former Bridgeton transfer Bill Fahber scored a crucial basket against the Bulldogs for the Hermits with his rebound
bucket late in the game.
Another fact in the early season is Bridgeton’s inability to win at home. Before Wednesday, the Bulldogs were 0-3 at
home. Kates points out that there are many distractions at home.
Let’s just chalk up the Bulldog experience at Atlantic City as just that. Kates’ team got a lesson in the style and level of
play he wants for his younger Bulldogs.

2. C.A. National Basketball archive – S.A. 1992
Bulldogs come up short at home again
Bob Henessey got hot. Dwayne Robinson did
not.
And Terrence Hester could not carry the load
alone for Bridgeton High Thursday night
against St. Augustine. At home.
That’s right, another home defeat, the third
straight for the Bulldogs. They’ve won three
games – two at the Colt Classic and one at
Lower Cape May.
Thursday night was not one of those 91-90
sneaker-burners like the Pleasantville game.
Nor was it patience personified like the
Hammonton loss. This was a 58-53 win for a
team that did not sing a field goal from 1:00
left in the third quarter until 1:00 left in the
game. St. Augustine found another way to
win. First, they sent in the artillery in the form
of Henessey and two three-pointers midway
through the third period. That opened up an
eight-point lead.
Then they dribbled and they passed and they
drove the lane and they drew fouls and they
made them – 24 for 31 for the game.
And when the Bulldogs pulled even with 2:12
left and even forged a point ahead at 1:53, the
Hermits responded with two big buckets
inside to salt it away.
Wasted in the loss was a 27-point
performance by Hester.
The big center scored over 50 percent of his
team’s points and pulled down almost as
many rebounds. But he wound up an island in
this one.
Robinson, who can get his body seven feet off
the ground in a high jump and dunk the ball
with ease on a basketball court, had another
woeful shooting night at home.
He got into foul trouble early, sat the bench for
much of the second and third quarters and
couldn’t match Hester’s heroic efforts at the
end.
When St. Augustine’s lead climbed to 51-42
with less than four minutes to go, the Bulldogs
looked out of it. They had suffered through an
eight-point third quarter and had nine Hester
points to show for the fourth period. But St.
Augustine let them back in the game.
Two backcourt violations and a charging foul
set the table for a nine-point Bulldog run that
tied the game at 51-51 with 2:12 remaining.
Robinson stuffed in a rebound, Vic Hannah
sank a 10-footer and Hester laid in two points
before Robinson found the range with a three-
pointer to tie it.
St. Augustine came back with a free throw, but
Corrie Williams sank a pair to give Bridgeton
the lead for the first time since Hennessey’s
three-point antics in the third period.
The Hermits had gone a full eight minutes
without a field goal, relying on free throws to
hold the fort. Just when it looked like the
Bulldogs had erased three periods of erratic
play, St. Augustine found the basket again.
Matt Hafty took a feed inside for his lone
basket of the game. Then Brendan Fagan
stole the ball and Bill Fahber was there to ram
home a rebound at 0:46.
That made it 56-53 and the Bulldogs needed
three. Robinson missed from that range and
Matt Clark sank a pair of free throws for the
Hermits. Robinson missed again from the
hinterlands and the Bulldogs are still 0 for the
season at home. It was 13-12 after one period
and 26-25 at the half. The game had all the
makings of a cliff-hanger until Henessey
suddenly started bombing from three-point
range in the middle of the third period. They
were his only buckets of the game, but they
were lethal.
Brian Carroll added his own three-pointer –
also his only basket of the game – seconds
later and St. Augustine gained an eight-point
lead.
Hester spent the next eight minutes trying to
carry the Bulldogs on his back. When
Robinson and Hannah joined in with four
minutes to go, it looked like enough to carry
the night. But it wasn’t to be.
The biggest thorn in Bridgeton’s side in the
fourth quarter was Matt Miles. Miles dribbled
and drove his way into a 9-for-10 performance
from the line to finish with 13 points, high for
the Hermits. Robinson followed Hester with
11 points for the Bulldogs. Give St. Augustine
credit. They did what they had to do. Give the
Bulldogs some time. They may be the best 0-
3 home team in the state right now.

3. C.A. National Basketball archive – S.A. 1992
Hermits fight off Bulldogs
St. Augustine has 6-1 record
By GUY GARGAN
For The Press
BRIDGETON – Patience and poise are basketball virtues that paid off Thursday night for
St. Augustine Prep, the defending Cape-Atlantic League National Conference champion.
St. Augustine led Bridgeton High School by nine points after three periods, but trailed by
one point with under 2 minutes left. Matt Hufty and Bill Fahber scored to rally St.
Augustine to a 58-53 win.
The National Conference interdivision victory puts the Hermits at 6-1 while Bridgeton fell
to 3-4 (1-3 CAL National).
St. Augustine led 42-33 after three periods, but the game turned into a thriller with under 3
minutes left after the Bulldogs slowly chipped away at the advantage.
Terrence Hester made a move around Faber to score from underneath and bring
Bridgeton back to trail 51-48. Then it suddenly became a new game when Dwayne
Robinson hit Bridgeton’s only three-pointer of the night to tie it. With 1:52 left, Corrie
Williams gave Bridgeton a brief 53-52 edge.
But then St. Augustine’s cool made the difference. Hufty scored after a feed from Raheem
Rex and Fahber’s rebound bucket with 48 seconds remaining put the Hermits ahead 56-
53. Matt Clark finished the job with a pair of free throws from the line.
“We let them get the rebounds and second shots in the final two minutes and we didn’t
take charge when we should have,” Bridgeton coach Charlie Kates said.
The Hermits’ four-corners ball-control offense paid off early in the third period when a
close game seemed to turn. Bridgeton led 27-26 early in the third period when the
Hermits’ three-point shooting arsenal went boom-boom-boom. Bob Hennessy struck
twice from behind the semi-circle for his only points of the night and Brian Carroll made it
three St. Augustine treys in a row. The score was suddenly 35-27 St. Augustine, and for a
good while, it was a different game as the Hermits controlled the action.
The Hermits’ attack was led by Matt Miles, who scored 13 points, nine from the line.
Fahber, a 6-foot-7 senior who transferred from Bridgeton two years ago, finished with 10.
Hester, Bridgeton’s 6-6 junior forward, was nearly the equalizer with 27 points and a
powerful game in the frontcourt.
“Our game plan was to control Hester and Robinson and keep the ball at the perimeter.
And for the most part, we did that,” St. Augustine coach Paul Rodio said. “Wewere playing
without our point guard Jeff Budniak, who was out sick, but I don’t want to use that as an
excuse. We want to … spread offenses in the second half to control the tempo.”

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Rex stands tall as Prep overtakes
Bridgeton, 72-64
“I was determined to grab rebounds in Bill
Fahber’s absence. I had to sit out three
minutes of the second quarter because of
foul trouble and coach told me not to worry
about scoring, just to get all the rebounds I
could get.”
St. Augustine Prep’s Raheem Rex
By TOM GANTERT, Staff Writer
RICHLAND – St. Augustine Prep
basketball coach Paul Rodio would have
been happy with just the rebounds.
Raheem Rex gave him more. The 6-foot-6
Rex scored 14 points and had 13
rebounds Monday to lift St. Augustine to a
72-64 victory over Bridgeton in a Cape-
Atlantic League National Division game.
The Prep, 13-5, has to rely on Rex more
for his rebounding since it lost 6-foot-7 Bill
Fahber to an injury. St. Augustine can pick
up the scoring slack with its smaller
guards.
“Raheem was the difference on the
boards,” said Rodio. “Now that we don’t
have the big kid, we need rebounding.
Raheem can do both (rebounding and
scoring). I think he’ll have to in big
games.”
St. Augustine rebounded from a one-point
halftime deficit to outscore Bridgeton 37-
28 in the second half. St. Augustine’s Bob
Hennessy scored 10 points in the third
quarter, including three 3-pointers.
Hennessy finished with 14 points. The
Prep’s Matt Miles, who had a team-high
17 points, scored seven points in the final
quarter.
“I was determined to grab rebounds in Bill
Fahber’s absence..” Rex said. “I had to sit
out three minutes of the second quarter
because of foul trouble and coach told me
not to worry about scoring, just to get all
the rebounds I could get.”
Bridgeton, 9-8, was led by Dwayne
Robinson, who finished with 19 points.
Terrence Hester fought foul trouble all
night and eventually fouled out. He scored
12 points, but only took four shots in the
second half.
The Prep took the lead for good with 2:36
left in the third quarter when Hennessy hit
his third 3-pointer to make it 48-47. Matt
Hufty scored and Brendan Fagan added a
basket to give St. Augustine a 53-49 lead
after three quarters.

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St. Augustine wins Cape-National Showdown
Hermits corner Bulldogs
By DAVE ALLEN, Staff Writer
BRIDGETON – There was no place to run and hide for the Hermits
Thursday night against Bridgeton, just four corners on a basketball
court.
That was enough.
St. Augustine Prep went to a four-corner spread offense mid-way
trough the third quarter, protecting an eight-point lead, and stayed with
it the rest of the way, even after a 10-1 Bulldog run put Bridgeton up by
a point with 1:52 remaining in the game.
The result was two easy baskets, two free throws and a 58-53 win for
the Prep (6-1) in the battle of Cape-Atlantic League National Division
contenders.
“We tried to shoot off it (the spread offense), which is normally not
what we want in those circumstances,” Hermits’ coach Paul Rodio
said. “We wanted to take time off the clock, but we had some layups
and we made the right decisions.”
The first decision was made by St. Augustine center Raheem Rex.
Rex drew a Bridgeton defender to him and found a wide-open Matt
Hufty for an easy layup and Hufty’s only two points of the game with
1:38 remaining.
Bridgeton then wasted two opportunities to retake the lead with
turnovers, once by stepping out of bounds and another time by
throwing the ball away upcourt.
That set the stage for Hermits’ center Bill Fahber, who transferred from
Bridgeton to the Prep after his sophomore year.
The 6-foot-6 senor followed Bobby Hennessy’s miss with 49 seconds
left to give Prep a 56-53 advantage, a lead that held up with two
insurance free throws by Matt Clark with 12 seconds remaining.
“They really put it upon me to stick that one in there,” Fahber said of
his ex-teammates.
Fahber had 10 points for the Hermits and Rex nine. Matt Miles came
off the bench to lead Prep with 13 points, hitting nine-of-10 free throws.
St. Augustine Prep converted 24-of-31 free throws for the game,
including a stretch of nine straight in the fourth quarter.
The Hermits also hit three consecutive 3-pointers to open up the
second half, including two by Hennessy, turning a one-point lead (26-
25) at halftime into a 35-27 advantage and thus allowing the Prep to
spread its offense out in four corners.
Bridgeton’s Terrence Hester led all scorers with 27 points.
“Our achilles heel all year has been turning the ball over at crucial
times of the game … down the stretch, in the final two minutes,”
Bridgeton coach Charlie Kates said. “We throw the ball away. Our
guards are not making good decisions.”

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Hennessy’s 3’s beat Pleasantville
RICHLAND – Bob Hennessy made four 3-point baskets and finished with a team-high 18
points to lead St. Augustine Prep School to a 74-62 victory over Pleasantville in a Cape- Following
an injury-
Atlantic League National Division game. plagued
season at
St.
Augustine
Jesse Tweedle and Bill Fahber added 13 points a piece, Matt Clark 10 and Matt Miles Prep,
missing
close to half
of the
nine. The Prep improved to 9-2. games, 6-
foot-7 senior
Bill Fahber
has
committed
to attend
Fairleigh
Dickinson
University in
North
Jersey
where he
will play
power
forward as
well as
some small
forward.

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St. Augustine Prep 85,
Sacred Heart 70
Prep sizes up win over
Heart
Hermits take advantage of
Walker’s absence
By TOM GANTERT, Staff
Writer
VINELAND – It was not a
good night for Sacred Heart
High School’s Charles
Walker to miss.
Sidelined with a severely
sprained ankle, the 6-foot-5
Walker and his teammates
were outsized by St.
Augustine as the Prep
jumped to an early lead and
held on to win, 85-70,
Saturday in a Cape-Atlantic
League National Division
game.
The game was played
before a standing-room-only
crowd of about 600 fans.
St. Augustine, 8-2, used a
16-0 spurt midway through
the first half to take a 25-9
lead. Sacred Heart, 6-4,
twice closed the deficit to
eight points in the final
quarter, but could get no
closer.
The Hermits’ front line of 6-
foot-6 Raheem Rex (16
points, 9 rebounds) and 6-
foot-7 Bill Fahber (12 points,
14 rebounds) combined to
hold off Sacred Heart.
St. Augustine had a 47-29
rebounding advantage.
“Our game plan was to fun
the ball and get the ball
inside because we thought
we had superior size,” said
St. Augustine coach Paul
Rodio.
Sacred Heart struggled
early and paid for it. The
Lions made only 5-of-26
shots from the field in the
first half. During the Hermits’
16-0 run, the Lions went 0-
11 over a span of six
minutes, 22 seconds.
“I thought it was a great
defensive first half by us,”
Rodio said. “The defensive
pressure might have been
the best all year for us in the
first half.”
Sacred Heart fared little
better from the free-throw
line, where the Lions made
11-of-18 free throws in the
first half.
“We knew without Walker
we would have to shoot the
ball to stay in the game,”
said Sacred Heart coach
Jim Mogan. “Shooting 5-for-
26 and missing seven foul
shots took us out of the
game.”
What put Sacred Heart back
into the game was its
superior ball handling and
the second-half scoring of
David Ripley. The Lions
forced 14 turnovers while
committing three and Ripley
scored 16 of his 22 points in
the second half.
Brad Walinksi made a free
throw with 4:20 left in the
game to bring Sacred Heart
within eight, 66-58, and
Anthony Toner, who drew
Rex’s fifth foul, soon
followed with two more free
throws to make it 68-60 with
3:58 left.
But St. Augustine answered
with consecutive three-point
plays by Matt Hufty and Matt
Miles to put the Prep up by
14, 74-60 with 3:30 left.

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St.
Augustin
e 72,
Pleasant
ville 62:
Bill
Fahber
scored
10 points
in the
second
half to
help St.
Augustin
e to hold
on to
their lead
for the
win.