Highland Park’s Jowuan Keyes talks to Mike Pavlichko of Central Jersey Sports Radio at Big Central Media Days on August 16, 2023 at Iron Peak Sports & Events in Hillsborough. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
42.
That’s the number for Highland Park, and one which the Owls hope grows no bigger. That’s the number of games in a row they have lost, a streak that began in 2017.
32.
That’s another number for Highland Park. That’s the number of players Shawn Harrison has available a week before the season. That’s a number the Owls do hope grows, as it will increase the chances of that first number staying right exactly where it is.
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Harrison, and alum and head coach, continues to spend almost as much time finding players as he does coaching them: in the halls, in the town, anywhere he can. The thing is, he hasn’t always found kids with experience. But that’s beginning to change.
Click below to hear Mike Pavlichko at Big Central Media Days with Highland Park head coach Shawn Harrison and senior TE/DE Jowuan Keyes:
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