- St. Augustine Prep defeated Sacred Heart High School 85-70 in a boys high school basketball game. - Sacred Heart was without their leading scorer and rebounder Charles Walker due to injury, and St. Augustine took advantage of their size advantage inside to jump out to an early lead. - St. Augustine's frontcourt of Raheem Rex and Bill Fahber combined for 28 points and 23 rebounds in the win.

1. C.A. National Basketball archive – S.A. 1992
St. Augustine Prep 85,
Sacred Heart 70
Prep sizes up win over
Heart
Hermits take advantage of
Walker’s absence
By TOM GANTERT, Staff
Writer
VINELAND – It was not a
good night for Sacred Heart
High School’s Charles
Walker to miss.
Sidelined with a severely
sprained ankle, the 6-foot-5
Walker and his teammates
were outsized by St.
Augustine as the Prep
jumped to an early lead and
held on to win, 85-70,
Saturday in a Cape-Atlantic
League National Division
game.
The game was played
before a standing-room-only
crowd of about 600 fans.
St. Augustine, 8-2, used a
16-0 spurt midway through
the first half to take a 25-9
lead. Sacred Heart, 6-4,
twice closed the deficit to
eight points in the final
quarter, but could get no
closer.
The Hermits’ front line of 6-
foot-6 Raheem Rex (16
points, 9 rebounds) and 6-
foot-7 Bill Fahber (12 points,
14 rebounds) combined to
hold off Sacred Heart.
St. Augustine had a 47-29
rebounding advantage.
“Our game plan was to fun
the ball and get the ball
inside because we thought
we had superior size,” said
St. Augustine coach Paul
Rodio.
Sacred Heart struggled
early and paid for it. The
Lions made only 5-of-26
shots from the field in the
first half. During the Hermits’
16-0 run, the Lions went 0-
11 over a span of six
minutes, 22 seconds.
“I thought it was a great
defensive first half by us,”
Rodio said. “The defensive
pressure might have been
the best all year for us in the
first half.”
Sacred Heart fared little
better from the free-throw
line, where the Lions made
11-of-18 free throws in the
first half.
“We knew without Walker
we would have to shoot the
ball to stay in the game,”
said Sacred Heart coach
Jim Mogan. “Shooting 5-for-
26 and missing seven foul
shots took us out of the
game.”
What put Sacred Heart back
into the game was its
superior ball handling and
the second-half scoring of
David Ripley. The Lions
forced 14 turnovers while
committing three and Ripley
scored 16 of his 22 points in
the second half.
Brad Walinksi made a free
throw with 4:20 left in the
game to bring Sacred Heart
within eight, 66-58, and
Anthony Toner, who drew
Rex’s fifth foul, soon
followed with two more free
throws to make it 68-60 with
3:58 left.
But St. Augustine answered
with consecutive three-point
plays by Matt Hufty and Matt
Miles to put the Prep up by
14, 74-60 with 3:30 left.