Day Two of a three-day weekend of high school football in New Jersey was complete with some big Big Central Conference wins.
Here’s a look at some of the key games on Friday in Week Six, with full scores and the remaining Sunday schedule.
No. 3 St. Thomas Aquinas 57, Edison 7: The Trojans lit up the scoreboard Friday night in North Edison against their in-town rivals, the Eagles. The win made it 29 straight over Big Central Conference opponents, with their last loss coming during the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 to Bernards. The Trojans are now 5-2, with one out-of-state and one non-conference loss.
Next week, St. Thomas travels down Plainfield Avenue to Metuchen to take on No. 7 St. Joseph, which will drop after suffering its first loss of the season Friday night, dropping to 5-1 with a 49-14 defeat at No. 7 Phillipsburg.
Highland Park 34, Roselle Park 14: The Owls improved to 4-2 with a road victory over the Panthers, their first win against a team .500 or better this season. The last team they beat with a winning record was Point Pleasant Beach, which finished 6-5 in 2015, when Highland Park came away with a 31-0 road win. Ironically, it was against the Garnet Gulls that the Owls snapped their 51-game losing streak in last season’s finale.
Highland Park has a chance to match its 6-4 record from 2016 if it can win its last two games. Both are at home, against Manville (5-2) next Friday night, and against South River (1-5) on cutoff weekend.
Linden 56, Perth Amboy 14: The Tigers put up 56 points against Perth Amboy, their first time scoring int he 50s since 2017, when they scored 55 in a 55-48 win at Ridge on September 22nd of that year.
It’s the fourth-highest point total in school history, which dates back to 1915. They beat Kearny 60-6 in 1994, Rahway 61-6 in 1971, and their biggest offensive output ever came in 1992, when they beat Newark East Side 69-6.
Roselle 28, Newark Collegiate 22: New Rams head coach Tyrone Turner picked up his first win with Roselle with the help of their special teams, as they earned a six-point home win at Arminio Field Friday night, snapping an eight game losing streak that dated back to last year, and an 0-6 start to the season.
Damari Julius scored two first quarter touchdowns, hauling in a 65-yard TD pass from Dione Nelson, and returning a 78-yard kickoff all the way to the house. Brandon Puryear had a 70-yard touchdown run in the second quarter, and Julian Colon recovered a fumble and took it in from two yards out for a score in the third.
Other Friday night scores…
- No. 1 Woodbridge 28, Montgomery 7
- No. 7 Phillipsburg 49, No. 5 St. Joseph-Metuchen 14
- Middlesex 41, Bound Brook 10
- Hillside 7, Carteret 0
- Plainfield 35, Colonia 6
- Middlesex 42, Dunellen 14
- Delaware Valley 42, Johnson 34
- Linden 56, Perth Amboy 14
- Franklin 22, Sayreville 20
- South Plainfield 35, New Brunswick 8
Saturday’s Games:
- Brearley at South River, 1 pm
- Dayton at Spotswood, 1 pm (Follow Marcus Borden on Twitter)
- Rahway at No. 9 Watchung Hills, 7 pm
- Governor Livingston at Voorhees, 7 pm
Thursday Scores
- No. 4 Bernards 29, Summit 22 (CJSR)
- No. 7 Old Bridge 38, Monroe 0
- Hillsborough 34, Bridgewater-Raritan 24
- Metuchen 40, JP Stevens 6
- JFK 39, North Plainfield 26
- Elizabeth 26, Morristown 24
- Cranford 45, Scotch Plains-Fanwood 13
- Union 35, South Brunswick 7
- Belvidere 36, South Hunterdon 0
- Verona 26, New Providence 13
- Westfield 21, North Brunswick 13
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