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Highland Park Metuchen

Owls

Bulldogs

The Metuchen (NJ) varsity basketball team lost Wednesday's home non-conference game against Highland Park (NJ) by a score of 57-54.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Highland Park	-	-	-	-	57
Metuchen	-	-	-	-	54

Final score provided by S. CalPreps.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Highland Park (24-25)

Highland Park has not entered stats for this game.

Metuchen (24-25)

Metuchen

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	51	19	59	32	34
0	Jason Woods (Sr)	12	5	11	45	45
2	Matt Smith (Jr)	2	1	4	25	25
4	C. Hayes-durina (Jr)	10	3	18	17	17
10	Ian Jung (So)	2	1	2	50	50
11	Danny Galligan (Sr)	7	3	14	21	25
21	Dennis Toth (So)	3	1	4	25	38
33	R. Osborn-jones (Jr)	1	0	1	0	0
44	Colin Gawronski (Jr)	14	5	5	100	100

Metuchen

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	51	2	15	13	11	20	55	17	44	39
0	Jason Woods (Sr)	12	0	0	0	2	4	50	5	11	45
2	Matt Smith (Jr)	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	33
4	C. Hayes-durina (Jr)	10	0	5	0	4	6	67	3	13	23
10	Ian Jung (So)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	50
11	Danny Galligan (Sr)	7	1	7	14	0	2	0	2	7	29
21	Dennis Toth (So)	3	1	2	50	0	0	0	0	2	0
33	R. Osborn-jones (Jr)	1	0	0	0	1	2	50	0	1	0
44	Colin Gawronski (Jr)	14	0	0	0	4	6	67	5	5	100

Metuchen

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	TO	PF
	Team Totals	51	9	14	23	16	12	8	16
0	Jason Woods (Sr)	12	1	5	6	2	3	3	4
2	Matt Smith (Jr)	2	1	1	2	3	2	0	3
4	C. Hayes-durina (Jr)	10	0	3	3	4	4	1	3
10	Ian Jung (So)	2	1	0	1	2	0	1	1
11	Danny Galligan (Sr)	7	2	3	5	2	3	1	0
21	Dennis Toth (So)	3	1	1	2	1	0	0	1
33	R. Osborn-jones (Jr)	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	4
44	Colin Gawronski (Jr)	14	3	0	3	1	0	1	0

Metuchen

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF	Defl	TF
	Team Totals	2.00	1.50	0.75	10	0
0	Jason Woods (Sr)	0.67	1.00	0.75	3	0
2	Matt Smith (Jr)	3.00	2.00	0.67	1
4	C. Hayes-durina (Jr)	4.00	4.00	1.33	3	0
10	Ian Jung (So)	2.00	0.00	0.00	1	0
11	Danny Galligan (Sr)	2.00	3.00	3.00	1	0
21	Dennis Toth (So)	1.00	0.00	0.00	0	0
33	R. Osborn-jones (Jr)	1.00	0.00	0.00	1	0
44	Colin Gawronski (Jr)	1.00	0.00	0.00	0	0

Game Story

New Jersey High School Basketball - Highland Park sneaks past Metuchen

February 5, 2025: Metuchen, NJ 08840

The Highland Park Owls (Highland Park, NJ) basketball edged the host Metuchen Bulldogs (Metuchen, NJ), 57-54 in Wednesday's non-league bout.

The Owls now possess a 10-7 record. They play next when they host Perth Amboy for a non-league bout on Thursday, February 13.

With the loss, Metuchen falls to 15-5 on the campaign. The Bulldogs travel to Perth Amboy Vo-Tech (Perth Amboy, NJ) to play the Patriots in a non-league bout on Thursday, February 6. The Patriots go into the bout with a record of 10-7. Perth Amboy Vo-Tech won 56-44 in their recent league bout against Somerset Tech (Bridgewater, NJ)

Highland Park @ Metuchen Basketball Game Info

Wed., Feb. 5, 2025 @ 6p

Senior Night

The Metuchen (NJ) varsity basketball team lost Wednesday's home non-conference game against Highland Park (NJ) by a score of 57-54.

Rankings & Records

Highland Park (24-25)

NJ	Section	Div.
335	335	59

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	PF	PA
12-10	6-4	5-2	5-5	2-3	.545	.600	1,195	1,215

Metuchen (24-25)

NJ	Section	Div.
211	211	40

Overall	League	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	League %	PF	PA
20-8	7-3	7-3	9-3	4-2	.714	.700	1,453	1,292

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	OT1	Final
Highland Park	15.0	11.0	20.0	16.0	-	54.3
Metuchen	12.1	12.9	14.9	14.4	6.0	51.9

Team Stat Comparison

Highland Park		Metuchen
-	Points Per Game	51.0
-	Rebounds Per Game	32.2
-	Assists Per Game	10.9
-	Steals Per Game	6.6
-	Blocks Per Game	0.8

Team Leaders

Highland Park		Metuchen	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#4 Cameron Hayes-durina14.0	4.9
-	Rebounds Per Game	#4 Cameron Hayes-durina7.4	2.6
-	Assists Per Game	#4 Cameron Hayes-durina4.1	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#4 Cameron Hayes-durina2.0	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#2 Matt Smith0.3	0.2

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Highland Park	5-6		Metuchen	7-1

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/20/24	Dunellen	Highland Park	(W) 48-46	1/25/25	Metuchen	Dunellen	(W) 41-25
12/26/24	Highland Park	Dunellen	(L) 61-51
2/26/25	Highland Park	Dunellen	(L) 61-58
12/28/24	Highland Park	North Plainfield	(L) 75-63	2/1/25	Metuchen	North Plainfield	(L) 48-43
12/30/24	Highland Park	South River	(L) 68-57	1/3/25	Metuchen	South River	(W) 54-44
				1/24/25	Metuchen	South River	(W) 58-41
1/6/25	Highland Park	Wardlaw Hartridge	(W) 40-39	1/4/25	Metuchen	Wardlaw Hartridge	(W) 49-29
1/22/25	Wardlaw Hartridge	Highland Park	(W) 59-51
1/8/25	Piscataway Vo-Tech	Highland Park	(L) 53-50	12/21/24	Metuchen	Piscataway Vo-Tech	(W) 52-41
1/24/25	Highland Park	Piscataway Vo-Tech	(L) 54-46	2/11/25	Piscataway Vo-Tech	Metuchen	(W) 55-42
1/13/25	Perth Amboy Vo-Tech	Highland Park	(W) 52-44	2/6/25	Metuchen	Perth Amboy Vo-Tech	(W) 42-26
1/29/25	Perth Amboy Vo-Tech	Highland Park	(W) 44-39

Record Breakdown

Highland Park (24-25)		Metuchen (24-25)
12-10	Overall	20-8
6-4	League	8-4
6-5	Non-League	11-3
1-0	Head to Head	0-1
5-6	Common Opponent	7-1
5-2	Home	7-3
5-5	Away	9-3
2-3	Neutral	4-2
0-1	Playoff	1-1
12-10	In-State	20-8
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0