For the second consecutive day the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team went into the locker room at halftime facing a deficit and for the second consecutive day, the Knights rallied to come out on top.
After trailing by five points at halftime by a 44-39 score, a second half surge with a pair of three pointers from Darlin Santiago (Salem) and the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team outscored Minnesota North-Rainy River by 15 points in the second half to take a 90-80 victory and advance to Saturday’s fifth place game at 12:00pm.
The second seeded Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team struggled on the offensive side of the ball on Thursday evening as they fell to Riverland (MN) in a national quarterfinal by a 71-59 final score in a game in which the Knights never had a lead.
In front of a standing room only crowd at the Sport and Fitness on Sunday afternoon, the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball picked up their 30th win of the season and in the process became the first team in 20 years to win back to back NJCAA Region 21/East District as they defeated second seeded Quincy College by a 80-69 final.
Behind a game high 19 point, 15 rebound effort from Luis Reynoso (Lawrence) the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team is moving onto their third consecutive Region 21/East District Championship game.
Behind a 29-point, 15 rebound effort from Luis Reynoso (Lawrence), the top seeded and #3 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team improved to 28-1 on the season with a 93-61 victory over Roxbury Community College and advanced to the Saturday’s NJCAA East District Semi-Final where they will take on fifth seeded Massasoit Community College at 4:00pm from the Sport and Fitness Center.
The Northern Essex Community College men's basketball team used a 12-1 run in the early minutes of the second half to take a lead they would not relinquish enroute to their 30th consecutive home victory dating back to February 23, 2022 to improve to 24-1 on the season and 19-0 in Region 21 play.
On his first shot attempt of the game Luis Reynoso (Lawrence) hit a knock down three-pointer as part of his game high 22 points as he became the first men’s basketball player to surpass 1,000 career points in a career since Joe Marshall reached the mark in 1999.
The Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team picked up an important win on Saturday evening as they defeated Quincy College on the road by a 76-74 final.
Double-double efforts from Luis Reynoso (Lawrence) and Karl Wolfgang (Douala, CM) helped to push the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team past Roxbury Community College on Tuesday evening at the Sport and Fitness Center by and 88-64 final.
Five players in double figures and pair of double-doubles propelled the #5 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team to dominating 108-31 victory of visiting Springfield Tech.
Luis Reynoso (Lawrence) recorded his second triple double in the last three games and third of the season as the #5 nationally ranked Knights of Northern Essex Community College improved to 16-1 on the season and remained unbeaten in Region 21 play at 11-0 as they defeated the Pointers by a 122-59 final as they opened a four-game stand Wednesday evening.
The #2 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball overcame a slow start on Saturday afternoon to defeat MassBay Community College a 77-62 final score.
Northern Essex Community College head men’s basketball coach Darren Stratton picked up milestone win 300 of his career leading the Knights on Thursday.
Luis Reynoso (Lawrence) had his biggest performance of the season as the #2 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball ran away from Bristol Community College on Tuesday night by a 102-68 to improve to 9-0 on the season and 5-0 in Region 21 play.
The #2 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team improved to 8-0 on Sunday afternoon as they cruised past Suffolk County (NY) Community College on the second day of the NECC Turkey Classic by an 82-50 final.
The Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team improved to 7-0 on the season as they rolled past the Timberwolves of SUNY Adirondack by a 99-61 final to open up the 2nd annual NECC Turkey Classic.
After being held scoreless in the games opening four minutes and falling behind 9-0, the NECC men’s basketball team began to apply pressure and stormed past the Wyverns of Quinsigamond Community College by a 87-69 final on Saturday afternoon to improve to 6-0 on the season and 4-0 in Region 21 play.
The #2 nationally ranked Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team defeated Quincy College in an early season match-up of Region 21 unbeatens as the Knights improved to 5-0 and 3-0 in Region 21 play while the Granite fell to 2-1.
On Saturday afternoon in front of a full crowd, a Darlin Santiago (Salem, MA) jumper with 23 seconds remaining gave Northern Essex a one-point lead and Edwin SamMbaka (Paris, FR) stole the ensuing inbound pass to seal the victory for the Knights.
The #5 nationally ranked men’s basketball team jumped out to 11-0 lead on Thursday night and never looked back as they cruised to a 95-33 victory over the host Rams of Springfield Tech.
The Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team, ranked fifth in the NJCAA preseason poll improved to 2-0 on the season as they defeated Queensborough Community College on the road Sunday afternoon.
When the clock struck midnight, the Northern Essex Community College men’s basketball team officially opened the junior college basketball season with a convincing win over the visiting Bulldogs of Bunker Hill by a 95-55 final score.