Monday, March 8, 2010

By Rich Barton
NJS.com Staff Writer

NORTH HALEDON -- The Eastern Christian girls basketball has not been to a section final since the early 1980s and has never been to one since parochial schools were split from the publics and moved into their own brackets.

But that changed on Saturday when the Eagles made up a double digit second half deficit and pulled out a 40-38 upset of Paterson Catholic, a team that had beaten EC three times during the regular season.

Eastern Christian head coach Steve King joins us here on the Multimedia Spotlight to talk about his team's accomplishment.

So go ahead and kick this thing up to full screen by clicking the little black box next to the volume control on the media player. Watch it now and keep us in mind when you have news to report. You can reach us at: editor@northjerseysports.com or 201.383.2024.