Penn commitment: Steve Rennard (updated 3/8/10)
8 March, 2010The Vitals:
Height: 6-1
Weight: 170 lbs.
High School: St. Joseph HS, Metuchen, NJ
What the Ratings Agencies Say:
ESPN: N/A
Scout.com: **
Rivals.com: N/A
High School Team and Results
Team profile: The Falcons
3/8: NJSIAA Tournament - Non-Public, South A - Semifinals. Rennard was held to 7 points (1 three) but the No. 4 seed Falcons (23-5) gave No. 1 seed Camden Catholic (19-1) all it could handle before falling 62-59. In a close game throughout, the Falcons trailed 14-12 after 1Q, led 30-25 at the half and trailed 39-37 after 3Q. St. Joseph’s had no answer for 6-6 bruiser Gerry Wixted who scored 38. Rennard missed the final six minutes of the game after diving for a loose ball and hurting his wrist. He sat on the bench with an icepack but his coach wouldn’t put him back in the game.
3/5: NJSIAA Tournament - Non-Public, South A - Quarterfinals. The No. 4 seed Falcons (23-4, No. 10 in the Newark Star Ledger) beat No. 5 seed Christian Brothers (23-4, No. 8 in the Newark Star Ledger) 60-49. Rennard scored 14 (2 threes) and held CBA senior star Roy Mabrey to 11. The Falcons play No. 1 seed Camden Catholic Monday night.
2/28: Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament finals. The experienced Falcons (22-4) jumped out to a 25-7 lead and beat Monroe (22-4) 65-45 to capture the Middlesex Championship. Rennard scored 14 points (4 threes).
2/24: Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament semifinals. Rennard scored a game-high 20 points (5 threes) and No. 1 seed St. Joseph’s (21-4) advanced, Beating 17-5 Spotswood 48-38. They’ll play No. 2 seed Monroe tomorrow night at Rutgers.
2/21: Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament quarterfinals. Rennard picked up 2 fouls in the first quarter and played only 6 minutes in the first half, but 20-4 St. Joseph’s managed to hold off 14-10 Cardinal McCarrick 59-49 after being down 20-11 after one quarter. Rennard finished with 14 points (2 threes) and 5 boards.
2/18: Rennard hit 4 threes en route to 30 points as the 19-4 Falcons beat Old Bridge 79-59.
2/16: Steve Rennard has been chosen for the roster of the South team playing in the New Jersey state all-star game. The game will take place at noon on Sunday, March 21 at the Ritacco Center in Toms River.
2/12: At the Prime Time Shootout held at Kean University, the No. 12 Falcons went up against 16-2 No. 5 Plainfield and lost 62-49. Rennard scored 12 with 1 three. Rare for a high school game, the contest was the fourth of the day in the Shootout and started at 11:22 p.m.
2/8: In another rout, the 18-3 Falcons beat Edison 54-30. Rennard scored 10 in a game that was 20-4 after one quarter and 30-8 at the half.
2/5: Rennard had only 2 points in 1 62-42 win over Piscataway, but he helped the 17-3 with 6 steals, 8 rebounds and 9 assists.
2/3: Another game, another slaughter. The 16-3 Falcons beat J.P. Stevens 51-29. Rennard had 14 points (4 threes) to surpass former Duke star Jason Williams as the school’s all-time leader in 3-pointers with 172.
2/1: With all the talk of Cartwright, James and Jok coming in, early commitment Steve Rennard has gotten a little lost in the shuffle. Maybe folks should start thinking about throwing him seriously into the mix. In a 67-39 win over South Brunswick, Rennard scored 32 points, hitting 8-11 threes and 4-6 twos. He added 6 assists, 5 boards and 4 steals. The Falcons are now 15-3.
1/26: Rennard scored a team-high 17 (3 threes) as the Falcons (14-3) pulled away from Perth Amboy 59-39.
1/28: Rennard scored a game-high 24 (4 threes) as the Falcons beat Old Bridge 65-54.
1/26: Rennard only scored 9 points but the Falcons (12-3, 9-0) crushed East Brunswick 60-37.
1/22: The Falcons (11-3) were led by Rennard’s 19 points in a 72-50 win over Woodbridge.
1/20: The Falcons (10-3) moved up in class with a game against national power St. Anthony’s. They lost 54-41 but made a game of it. After falling behind 22-8 after 1Q, the Falcons outscored St. Anthony’s 17-7 in the second quarter to trail by four at the half. Rennard had 13 (3 threes).
1/18: The Falcons (10-2) pounded Moore Catholic 60-34. Rennard had 10 (2 threes).
1/16: The Falcons (9-2) roughed up Edison 60-30. Rennard had 22 (4 threes).
1/14: The Falcons (8-2) pasted Piscataway 83-39. Rennard had 11 (3 threes).
1/12: The Falcons beat the stuffing out of JP Stevens, 63-20. Rennard had 20 points (3 threes) all by himself.
1/8: Another stat-sheet stuffer line: 17 points (3 threes), 8 assists and 5 steals as the Falcons (6-2) crushed South Brunswick 66-35. It was 39-10 at the half.
1/5: Scored 17 points as the Falcons (5-2) beat Perth Amboy 67-48.
12/21: Here’s a line: Rennard had 22 points, 7 boards, 5 assists and 5 steals as St. Joseph’s (2-0) punished Woodbridge 75-34. After a 15-13 first quarter, the Falcons outscored Woodbridge 22-0 in the 2nd.
12/19: St. Joseph’s opened its season with a 51-45 win over Union. Rennard scored only 4 points after missing a good deal of the game after getting whacked in the head.
12/15: Conference Preview - Rennard called most complete player in county.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:32 am
Awesome game. Could be the 3 pt shooter we’ve been waiting for since Shiff.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I believe that St. Joes (Metuchen) is in the same GMC conference that Zack Rosen played in through his Junior year of high school at Colonia. The program has produced some great players including Andrew Bynum and Jason Williams. Drexel had a pretty good guard in the 90s who also played there named Mike DeRocckis. It will be interesting to see how St. Joe’s and Rennard do against the better teams in the state playoffs.
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Another really good player from St. Joe’s is Sean Baptiste of FDU. Depending on how far St. Joe’s goes in the playoffs, Rennard has a chance to catch Baptiste for 3rd all-time scorer in school history.
We have 4 guys coming in next year who can all hit the 3 and play D. Should be fun.
February 4th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Correction: Baptiste is in 2nd place in St. Joe’s school history, Rennard is currently 3rd and about 180 points behind Baptiste.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Interesting that you bring up Baptiste. He is a very good player, and possibly the streakiest shooter in all of college basketball today. He’ll put up 25+ points and then 2-4 points in consecutive games with pretty good regularity.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Was at the game last night, Camden Catholic had some big front line players that were too much height for St. Joe’s Metuchen, one of them had 36. Steve had some great assists before injuring himself diving for a loose ball at a critical time in the game, kid is a gamer, sitting behind the bench we saw that his wrist swelled up pretty bad and you could tell he wanted to be on the floor.
Of note, both Glen Miller and Jerome Allen were in attendance last night, Jerome couldn’t talk for recruiting reasons but Glen Miller was extremely nice to come over and say hi after the game was over.
March 9th, 2010 at 1:42 pm
The coach didn’t put him back in the game because he broke a bone in his wrist.