Our final preview of the preseason is the Big Central Conference Freedom Silver Division, another six-team grouping by the league including some of its smallest schools.
South Hunterdon is the defending champion, coming off a solid 9-2 season, with veteran coach Toby Jefferis at the helm. Breathing down their neck will be Middlesex, with North Brunswick alum Robert Swercheck coming over from Scotch Plains-Fanwood, where he finished the season as interim head coach after taking over for Austin Holman in the middle of the year. He takes over after Phlip McGuane stepped down due to health reasons.
The other four teams have struggled in varying different ways. Dunellen was 5-4 last year, but it has been a numbers game for the last several years for the Destroyers, routinely carrying fewer than two dozen players on their roster.
Belvidere and Manville were both 3-7 last year, while Bound Brook was just 2-7, and certainly at least one of them should be improved this year, the question is who it will be.
The County Seaters have a dual-threat quarterback in Kyle Blew, while the Mustangs will rely on a heavy junior class, and could be a year away from bigger things. Bound Brook is new to the division this year, a move down that could help them a bit.
Click below to hear our preview of the Freedom Silver Division from Big Central Conference Media Day:
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