It was a rare busy Thursday night in the Big Central Conference, with eight games on the slate, highlighted by some great games.
Hillsborough beat Hunterdon Central, 24-21, in a game where all the offense came in the first half, and the game was essentially sealed on a pass break-up on fourth down near the goal line, while Belvidere and Delaware Valley both eked out one-point wins. And Dayton got five first-half touchdown passes from senior Adrian Bernknopf an route to a home blowout of Bound Brook.
Scroll through more details, all of Thursday’s scores, links to individual game stories, and the Big Central schedule for the remainder of Labor Day Weekend.
County Seaters get past Roselle Park…
Belvidere scored the first touchdown of the game, and the last, to come up with a 28-27 road win in Union County Thursday night. Elijah White’s 47-yard touchdown catch from QB Jake Enderley got the Seaters on the board first with 1:43 to go in the first quarter, but the Panthers tied it on a 52-yard touchdown run from Maxwell Griffin down the left sideline as time expired in the period..
They went up 13-7 on Nick Salas’ 52-yard touchdown run, but missed an extra point that turned out to be critical, and led 13-7 early in the second, before Belvidere scored twice before the half – on a Kaiden Drake three-yard run and another touchdown catch, this one five yards, by White – to take a 21-13 lead into the break.
Roselle Park got a 53-yard run for a touchdown by Nasir Cheston in the third quarter to open the second-half scoring, and Salas ran in a two-point conversion to knot the game at 21. Then, in the fourth, Cheston scored from 17 yards out, but again, the Panthers missed the PAT, leaving them up by six.
Kaiden Drake’s 53-yard touchdown on a screen pass from Jake Enderly then knotted the game, and White’s PAT gave Belvidere a 28-27 lead with 5:29 to go.
THURSDAY SCORES:
- Hillsborough 21, Hunterdon Central 14 (Recap w/ Audio)
- Dayton 43, Bound Brook 12 (Coverage from Marcus Borden)
- Woodbridge 14, Edison 8
- Belvidere 28, Roselle Park 27
- Delaware Valley 34, Johnson 33
- New Providence 27, Voorhees 7
- Carteret 26, Perth Amboy 20
- Linden 34, Scotch Plains-Fanwood 6
FRIDAY SCHEDULE:
- #5 Somerville at #3 Piscataway, 6 pm (LIVE on CJSR)
- #4 Old Bridge at Montgomery, 6 pm
- #8 Summit at Rahway, 6 pm
- #9 Elizabeth at Plainfield, 6 pm
- Westfield at #10 St. Thomas Aquinas, 6 pm
- Colonia at Franklin, 6 pm
- Union at Watchung Hills, 6 pm
- Governor Livingston at Monroe, 6 pm (Follow Marcus Borden on Twitter for updates)
- New Brunswick at Metuchen, 6 pm
- Spotswood at JFK, 6 pm
- North Hunterdon at East Brunswick, 6 pm
- Manville at Brearley, 6 pm
- South Brunswick at North Brunswick, 6 pm
- #1 Phillipsburg at Emmaus (PA), 7 pm
- Ridge at #7 Sayreville, 7 pm
- South River at South Hunterdon, 7 pm
- Middlesex at Highland Park, 7 pm
- Dunellen at JP Stevens, 7 pm
- Cranford at Bernards, 7 pm
- South Plainfield at North Plainfield, 7 pm
SATURDAY SCHEDULE
- #6 Bridgewater-Raritan at #2 St. Joseph-Metuchen, 1 pm (Follow Marcus Borden on Twitter for updates)
- Roselle at Hillside, 1 pm
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