East Brunswick High School athletics · Monday, Nov. 2 through Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026
The bracket said East Brunswick was the No. 8 seed. The scoreboard at Howell said otherwise.
Boys soccer won two state tournament games this week, one in overtime and one over No. 1 Freehold Township, and is now one of four teams left in Central Jersey Group 4. Field hockey opened its state tournament with a 6-0 shutout before its 20-2 season ended in the quarterfinals. Girls soccer’s comeback season ended in the first round. Raphael Bostan ran at the NJSIAA Group 4 Championships, and the gymnastics team competed at the sectional championships.
And the Marching Band’s score from the Garden State Cup is in.
Boys Soccer: Two Rounds, Two Wins, One Top Seed Gone
Wednesday’s first-round game against South Brunswick was tied 1-1 after eighty minutes. The teams had also tied 1-1 in September. This time there was a winner: East Brunswick scored in overtime for a 2-1 victory. Keko Michael and senior Liam Kim scored the Bears’ goals, Lucas Henriques had an assist, and sophomore goalkeeper Joshua Matthews made two saves.
That earned a quarterfinal on Saturday against No. 1 seed Freehold Township, played at Howell High School. East Brunswick led 2-1 at halftime and won 3-2.
Michael scored again. Senior Lamine Ndao scored his first goal of the season. Senior Kareem Amer had a goal and an assist, and John Matos and Kim each set one up. Freehold Township put nine shots on goal, and Matthews saved seven of them.
Michael has now scored in both state tournament games, and his 16 goals and 12 assists lead the team. The Bears have won four straight since their GMC Tournament loss to Spotswood, scoring 13 goals and allowing three.
East Brunswick is 14-4-2 and plays at No. 5 Hunterdon Central in the sectional semifinals on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The sectional final is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 14.
Field Hockey: A Shutout, a Quarterfinal and a 20-2 Season
Monday’s state tournament opener against No. 16 Livingston was scoreless after one quarter. Then East Brunswick scored six times in the next three.
Logan Hooper scored twice in the second quarter, the second set up by Jolie Salamon. Rachel Gerould scored twice in the third quarter, the first from a Hooper pass, and Arianna DeMaio and Alexa DeRado each finished with a goal and an assist. Reagan Umbach saved all five Livingston shots on goal in the 6-0 win.
Those two goals made it ten straight games with a goal for Hooper, with nineteen goals in that stretch.
Wednesday’s quarterfinal against No. 8 Bridgewater-Raritan was tied 1-1 at halftime, with Gerould scoring East Brunswick’s goal from a DeRado pass. Bridgewater-Raritan scored twice in the third quarter and won 3-1. East Brunswick outshot the visitors 14-10, and Bridgewater-Raritan’s goalkeeper made 13 saves.
Gerould’s goal that afternoon was East Brunswick’s 100th of the season. The final numbers: 20-2, a GMC Tournament title, 100 goals scored and 12 allowed, and sixteen shutouts in twenty-two games.
Hooper, a junior, finished with 31 goals, 9 assists and 71 points. Gerould, a senior, finished with 26 goals, 12 assists and 64 points. Between them they scored 57 of the team’s 100 goals. Umbach, a junior, made 51 saves in 22 games. For seniors Gerould, DeMaio and Salamon, Wednesday was the last game of their high school careers.
Girls Soccer: The Comeback Season Ends in the First Round
Marlboro scored in the first half of Tuesday’s first-round game, and that was the only goal of the afternoon. Marlboro won 1-0.
It wasn’t for lack of goalkeeping. Sophomore Caylin Docherty faced 16 shots on goal and saved fifteen of them.
That brings Docherty’s season to 121 saves. East Brunswick finishes 8-9-1. After losing its first five games, the team went 8-4-1, and earned a home state tournament game along the way.
Cross Country: Bostan Runs With the State’s Best
One week after finishing fifth at the Central Jersey sectional, senior Raphael Bostan was back on the starting line at Holmdel Park for the NJSIAA Group 4 Championships on Saturday. He finished 28th of 150 runners in 16:57.12, in a field drawn from across the state.
Gymnastics: Wasserman and Cooperman Go All-Around at the Sectionals
East Brunswick competed at the NJSIAA Section C Championships on Saturday and posted a team score of 97.900.
Two Bears competed in all four events. Isabella Wasserman scored 32.600 all-around, including the team’s best floor score, 8.650. Alexandra Cooperman was right behind at 32.475, with the team’s best vault, 8.625.
Caroline Surabian had the top East Brunswick score on bars (8.325) and on beam (8.100), and added an 8.500 on floor. Madison Medina, Peyton Walsh and Quinn Pai also competed.
Marching Band and Color Guard: The Garden State Cup Score
Last week’s roundup went out before the scores did. Here they are.
East Brunswick’s “Phases” scored 84.85 at the NJMBDA Garden State Cup at The College of New Jersey on Sunday, Nov. 1, 13th of the fifteen bands in the state’s championship show, and less than a point behind 12th place.
The band improved at almost every show this fall: 70.2 at John P. Stevens, 77.1 at Monroe Township, 86.1 at the Class Championships and 84.85 at the Garden State Cup. That’s nearly fifteen points between the first score of the season and the last, and its second-highest score of the year came on the biggest stage.
The program’s weekly update called it “an amazing season,” saying the band “finished on a high note at TCNJ.” The fall color guard performs as part of the band, so that score is theirs too.
Also This Week
Football (4-6) did not play this week.
The Week in Full
| Sport | Result | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Boys Soccer | W 2-1 (OT) vs. South Brunswick, NJSIAA CJ Group 4 first round (11/4) · W 3-2 vs. Freehold Township at Howell, quarterfinal (11/7) | 14-4-2 |
| Field Hockey | W 6-0 vs. Livingston, NJSIAA NJ Group 4 first round (11/2) · L 3-1 vs. Bridgewater-Raritan, quarterfinal (11/4) | 20-2 |
| Girls Soccer | L 1-0 vs. Marlboro, NJSIAA CJ Group 4 first round (11/3) | 8-9-1 |
| Cross Country | NJSIAA Group 4 Championships, Holmdel Park (11/7): Bostan 28th of 150 | n/a |
| Gymnastics | NJSIAA Section C Championships (11/7): team score 97.900 | 4-3 |
| Marching Band | NJMBDA Garden State Cup, The College of New Jersey (11/1): 84.85, 13th of 15 | n/a |
Coming Up: Nov. 9 to Nov. 15
Schedules can change, so check with the school before heading out.
| Date | Sport | Game |
|---|---|---|
| Wed., Nov. 11 | Boys Soccer | at Hunterdon Central, NJSIAA Central Jersey Group 4 semifinal |
Sources
- Game results, box scores and season records: NJ.com High School Sports, East Brunswick, including the field hockey season statistics, Logan Hooper’s game log, the girls soccer and boys soccer season statistics, the Section C gymnastics results and the state tournament brackets for field hockey and boys soccer
- Cross country: NJSIAA Group Championships results on NJ MileSplit
- Schedules: East Brunswick Bears Athletics calendar and NJ MileSplit for cross country
- Marching band: NJMBDA 2026 results and the East Brunswick Marching Band page
Go Bears.
