South River’s Alex Grospe looks to make a move against Bound Brook’s Jeremiah Williams in their January 7th, 2023 matchup in Bound Brook. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)
Mother Nature has been extremely kind, relatively speaking, to high school sports the last couple of years.
The 2023 baseball season hardly saw any rain, and even though football saw its fair share this fall, it was more of an annoyance than anything. They still played the games.
This January? That’s another story.
Of the last four scheduled broadcasts on Central Jersey Sports Radio, three have had to be rescheduled. That includes this Friday’s game in Spotswood, with the Chargers taking on arch-rival South River.
Spotswood (8-5, 71- GMC Blue) lost some key players to graduation and transfer, but has recovered nicely, and is only getting better. South River (6-7, 4-4 GMC Blue) had a Cinderella run last year, starting with an early upset of St. Joseph-Metuchen the day after Christmas, ending in the Central Jersey Group 2 finals in a packed-to-the-gills gym in South River, but they return perimeter sharpshooter Alex Grospe.
Friday night’s game might have been cancelled, but we already did our prep, and talked to both head coaches Thursday in advance of the teams’ second meeting of the season, which now has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 27th at 10 am. That game can be heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio.
Spotswood won the first meeting between the schools on December 18th, 85-55.
In the meantime, here’s what both coaches had to say about their teams this week:
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article made mention of the postponed game being their first meeting of the season. It will be their second.
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