Championship Week in Old Bridge as baseball and boys’ volleyball look to finish off historic seasons, bring home state titles

The Old Bridge baseball team isn’t the only squad looking to bring home state championship hardware in the coming days.

Before the Knights’ nine play Ridgewood for the Group 4 title at Bob DeMeo Field in Hamilton’s Veteran’s Park this Saturday (4 pm, CJSR – click here to listen), the boys’ volleyball team will look to bring home some a trophy when the second-seeded Knights travel to top-seed Southern this afternoon for the South Jersey Group 4 title at 5 pm.

Old Bridge volleyball is in the midst of a historic undefeated season, with head coach Andrew Hopman taking the team to another level, following four straight state championships dating back to 2018.

The squad is 123-16 in that period, but 29-0 this year. In fact, the Knights have only lost two sets all year: one to Kingsway in the regular season, and one to Monroe in the semifinals of the GMC Tournament. Overall, Old Bridge volleyball has won 35 straight.

Should they beat Southern, the state Group 4 final would be at 2 pm in South Brunswick this Saturday against the North Jersey Group 4 winner, either fifth-seed Bridgewater-Raritan or third-seed Bloomfield.

As for baseball, they’re already in the Group 4 final. It’ll be their first time there in school history, with Matt Donaghue in his fifth year as head coach. Donaghue is an OBHS alum, and played for the late Fred Cole, who previously had brought Madison Central to the Group 4 final in 1988, a year before winning its only GMC Tournament title in 1989. That ’88 team lost to Memorial (West New York) in the Group 4 title game.

Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with Old Bridge Athletic Director Dan DiMino about the Knights’ success in baseball and volleyball this Spring: