South Brunswick poses at Steve Libro Field in North Brunswick after beating the Raiders for the first time in seven years on September 5, 2024. (Source: @WeAreSBVikings on Twitter)
Things are looking remarkably good for the South Brunswick football team right now.
Off to a 1-0 start under new head coach Ibrahim Halsey, the Vikings came out for one heck of an encore Thursday night: they knocked off arch-rival and No. 8 North Brunswick 30-21 for their first win in the series since 2017.
Now, South Brunswick is off to its first 2-0 start since 2020, when they went 4-3. And if you want to find the last time they did it in a “full” season – since 2020 was that abbreviated COVID year – go back two years prior, to 2018.
The Vikings had lost five straight in the series since their 2017 victory, a 42-20 win. They didn’t play in 2018, but North Brunswick won the next five, with only one really close game, a 14-7 win in 2020. The Raiders had shut them out twice in that five-year span, including a 38-6 win last season.
South Brunswick is now 2-0 with a trip to Monroe on deck next Friday.
Things don’t get any easier for North Brunswick, which should drop out of the Top Ten as a result, and will take an 0-2 record into a Friday night home game at No. 2 St. Thomas Aquinas, which has won 25 straight games against Big Central Conference competition, the best current win streak of its kind in the league.
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