UPDATED: East Orange Campus HS girls hoops team wins first two games; will play at Prudential Center on Jan. 3

Triniti Haskins’ 26 spark victory over West Essex

Triniti Haskins shoots during a game against Bloomfield two seasons ago.

EAST ORANGE, NJ — Triniti Haskins scored 26 points and added five rebounds, four assists and three steals to lead the East Orange Campus High School girls basketball team to a 63-39 win at West Essex on Dec. 21 in North Caldwell.

The Jaguars improved to a 2-0 record on the season.

Brianna English had 15 points and one rebound; Rakaya Cooper had 7 points, eight rebounds, one assist and two steals; and Amani Perdue had 7 points, six rebounds, two assists and one steal for East Orange. Raniyah Green had 4 points, four rebounds and two steals for the Jaguars.

East Orange will face Morris Catholic on Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. at the Prudential Center in Newark. Morris Catholic is under head coach Billy Lovett, who was the head boys basketball coach for EOCHS for three seasons, stepping down at the end of the 2015-16 season. Lovett, an East Orange native who played for legendary coach Bob Hurley Sr. at St. Anthony of Jersey City, resurrected the EOCHS boys basketball program in which his Jaguar teams went 58-29 overall.

EOCHS also will host Nutley on Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. and University on Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. They face Hackensack on Jan. 8 in Teaneck at 12:30 p.m.

Photo Courtesy of Jerry Simon