{"id":88164,"date":"2026-01-03T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88164\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:58:07","slug":"staten-island-hs-girls-hoops-heres-the-schedule-for-sundays-staten-island-vs-new-jersey-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88164\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island HS girls\u2019 hoops: Here\u2019s the schedule for Sunday\u2019s Staten Island vs. New Jersey Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HPTAQR37JZCHJN76GSNHAUWYUQ\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Sunday\u2019s 19th annual Coaches Choice USA Staten Island vs. New Jersey Challenge will showcase five games at Moore Catholic in Graniteville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5NOQDTEBGBGSLLD4GQFAR73CCQ\">But there\u2019s an added twist this season as the second game, which pits Staten Island Academy against Bound Brook, will feature head coaches who are former Jaques Award winners. To boot, both former Island stars played for the now-defunct St. Peter\u2019s Girls High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N3LOPD47QFF6FNYVJTBUE2TEM4\">Sandy Litkenhaus, who won the Jaques following the 1986-87 season, is in her first year coaching SIA. Jen Derenjanik, one of only two three-time Jaques winners (1998-2000), is in her 12th season guiding Bound Brook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CNZ2CNPL25H2JDMAZATAE6NMKM\">Sunday\u2019s event was once again made possible with the help of former Islander and St. John Villa varsity coach James Martinos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RXNOWQZ7YVCYVBSULSXEJXAI7M\">Sunday\u2019s match-ups include: Tottenville vs. Spotswood, 11 a.m.; SIA vs. Bound Brook, 12:30 p.m.; Notre Dame Academy vs. Mount St. Mary, 2:05 p.m.; St. Joseph by-the-Sea vs. East Brunswick, 3:45 p.m.; Moore Catholic vs. Snyder, 5:20 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Sunday\u2019s 19th annual Coaches Choice USA Staten Island vs. New Jersey Challenge will showcase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-88164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}