Warriors move up, win SCT, and Watchung Hills’ Joe Tremarco is CJSR Somerset County Coach of the Year

Everyone knows the challenge of playing in the Skyland Conference Delaware Division.

You don’t have to be the first place team to make a deep run in the county or state tournaments, with Exhibit A being Bridgewater-Raritan.

And you don’t need to have won the division to win a postseason tournament either.

Not only did Watchung Hills finish second in the division – and beat top-seed and Delaware champ Immaculata in the county final – but they did it after moving up following a first-place finish in the Raritan Division (7-1) in 2025.

And yet, they went 7-3 in the Delaware this year, were the only team to beat the Spartans in Skyland Conference play, and won seven more games overall than they did in 2025, improving from 11-12 to 18-9, their best season since 2016, when they went 27-5 and reached the Somerset County final.

For all of that, Watchung Hills head coach Joe Tremarco is the Central Jersey Sports Radio Coach of the Year for 2026.

This year’s Hustlin’ Warriors never lost more than two games in a row all year. The first of those came against Ridge in mid-April, but they avenged those two losses in the semifinals of the SCT, with a 4-2 win that sent them to the title game, where Lucas Sheehan blanked Immaculata for a 1-0 win. In the process, he became the first sophomore to get a win in the county final since 1998, when Casey Cahill won his first of three finals, a feat that has never been matched.

Hills will graduate some key players this month, including Rob Centamore, who hit .353 with 22 RBI and three home runs. But the team may not have had the success they did without his arm; on the mound, the Ramapo-bound senior was 8-0 with a 0.97 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 43 1/3 innigns pitched.

Fellow seniors Brody Griffith, Max Payne, Landon Pudlak, and leading hitter Jacob Jaconski (.460, 26 RBI, 2 HR) also will be missed, but there is plenty coming back that the Warriors will be a factor next season, and beyond.

Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s 2026 Somerset County Coach of the Year Joe Tremarco – and senior Rob Centamore – talk with Mike Pavlichko: