No change in Marcus Borden’s Week 3 Big Central Top Ten… plus rankings for BCC West, Middlesex and Union Counties

My Friday night game saw Sayreville improve to 4-0 on the season for the first time since 2018 when they beat Williamstown to capture the NJSIAA Central/South Bowl Championship at MetLife Stadium, finishing that season at 11-1.

The Bombers raced out to a 21-0 lead over visiting Hillsborough as senior running back Shaun Jackson scored on runs of seven, 76 and three yards, while the defense held the Raiders in check for the first half in front of the Red, White and Blue clad hometown Bombers fans, celebrating a U.S.A. theme and their Class of 2025 Hall of Fame Inductees.

Hillsborough came out for the second half with a renewed sense of urgency and immediately got back in the game with a huge pass from senior quarterback Devon Khurana to fellow classmate Hameed Kamari which set up a Andrew Schwarz three-yard touchdown at 9:52 in the third quarter, making the score 21-7.

The Raiders defense would force Sayreville to punt with 3:20 left in the third quarter. They would mix the run and the pass moving the ball to midfield. Schwarz would then pick up a fourth-and-one on a run to his left towards the visitors sidelines.

After another Schwarz short gain and the clocking running down to the close out the third quarter, Khurana ran a play action pass, hitting a leaping Jayden Carter on a post pattern, who would then outrun the Bombers to pay dirt closing the gap to 21-14 to start the fourth quarter.

On their ensuing drive Sayreville would look to run the ball and limit the opportunities for Hillsborough. With the clock reading 6:47 remaining in the game, Sayreville would take a timeout facing a fourth down and one on the Raiders 46-yard line.

The visiting Raiders would be up for the challenge stopping the Bombers short of the line to gain.

Hillsborough would methodically run the ball with their workhorse Schwarz and mixing in short passes getting to the Bombers 29-yard line with an injury timeout called with three minutes and 56 ticks remaining in regulation.

Schwarz would carry to ball inside and outside down to the Bomber 20-yard line with Hillsborough facing a fourth down and five while there was an injury timeout with 2:40 left on the clock.

When play resumed, Khurana would hit Sanjay Mills who ran a stop route and was tackled by linebacker Chase Barnes and safety Shaun Jackson close to the line to gain.

My video footage from the game verified that the ball was short of the first down and it was the Bombers’ ball.

Hillsborough would use its remaining timeouts hoping to get another opportunity to possess the ball. Jackson would break a huge run cutting back towards the home team’s sideline while getting knocked out off bounds inside the Raiders ten-yard line.

After a few penalties on the offense, Jackson would cap the scoring with his fourth rushing touchdown of the night making the final score 28-14 and a 4-0 start in the Bombers second home game of the season.

Here are my Week 3 Top Tens for the entire Big Central Conference, plus the BCC West, Middlesex County and Union County: