Category: Breakfast with Harry

by Mike Pavlichko

Breakfast with Harry: Immaculata Style!

On the final “Breakfast with Harry” of the 2021-22 school year, Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko sits down with legendary local scribe Harry Frezza to talk about the Immaculata Spartans playing in the Non-Public Group B state final Wednesday against the Ranney School.

Game time is 7:00; pregame is 6:15 on Central Jersey Sports Radio with Mike Pavlichko and Chris Tsakonas LIVE at Veterans’ Park in Hamilton. Click here to listen.

Mike and Harry sit at the Golden Corner Diner in Harry’s hometown of Bound Brook and discuss everything and anything, including the Imacculata/Ranney game, the Spartans’ amazing comeback against Gill in the sectional final, the gauntlet that is the Skyland Conference Delaware Division, the Somerset Patriots and even a mention of Morgana, the Kissing Bandit.

Click below to listen to the latest edition of “Breakfast with Harry”:

by Mike Pavlichko

Hilliard steps down at St. Joseph-Metuchen

After five seasons leading the St. Joseph high school football team, Rich Hilliard is leaving Metuchen.

Hilliard – the third head coach in the Falcons’ short history – handed in his resignation this week, following a 3-6 season, with one COVID-related forfeit loss.

With a mark of 30-17 in his tenure at St. Joe’s, their best season under his tutelage was a 9-1 campaign in 2017, his first season with the Falcons.

He coached several D1 prospects, including big offensive lineman John Olmstead, who graduated in 2018 and went to Notre Dame; he later transferred to Lafayette. He also coaches Jon Sot’s senior year in 2017; he went on to Harvard and became the school’s best-ever punter.

Hilliard told Central Jersey Sports Radio Tuesday he’s not looking for another head coaching job, but he’d consider it if the right one comes along. He said he had been thinking about retiring for some time, and – for now – plans to get out his golf clubs and hit the links, and spend more time with his family.

Hilliard replaced Casey Ransone in 2017, who was 26-13 in four seasons, following Bob Molarz, who began the program, which played its first varsity season against an independent schedule in 2011, joining the Greater Middlesex Conference the next year.

by Mike Pavlichko

One final “Breakfast with Harry” for the 2021 football season

Football season is over.

It was longer than last year, but it still seemed to fly by – 15 weeks from Week Zero to the final weekend of regional championships.

The numbers are in: Two state champs, one regional champion, and a few bucks spent on breakfast with Harry Frezza at the Golden Corner Diner in Bound Brook.

Click below to hear Mike and Harry talk about Hillsborough’s perfect season – including some “breaking” news on QB Jay Mazuera – the controversial East Orange-Clifton ending, and much, much more:

by Mike Pavlichko

“Breakfast with Harry: Championship Weekend Edition”

Remember the old 1010 WINS slogan, “You give us 22 minutes, we’ll give you the world?”

How about you pour yourself a cup of coffee, and for the next 16 minutes, we’ll give you another “Breakfast with Harry,” with legendary sportswriter Harry Frezza from the Courier News, sitting in a booth at the Golden Corner Diner in Bound Brook with Mike Pavlichko.

Sure, they’ll talk about Hillsborough, North Brunswick as they all vie for state titles this weekend.

But the topics of Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Frank Viola, Orel Hershiser, Bruce Johnson and the 1939 Phillipsburg-Easton controversy also come up.

Yeah, we could explain why, but what would be the fun of that?

Click below to listen:

by Mike Pavlichko

“Breakfast with Harry” returns for a special playoff edition

It’s Friday morning. Time to enjoy a little shtick with Harry Frezza, the longtime Courier News scholastic sportswriter, along with your bacon, eggs, and coffee.

Mike Pavlichko joins him for “Breakfast with Harry,” as they sit at the counter at the Golden Corner Diner in Bound Brook to talk high school football in the days leading up to the first state playoffs in New Jersey in two years.

You never know what names and stories are going to come out when Harry starts talking! So order up a short stack, and give a listen!

by Mike Pavlichko

Harry knows everyone! We run into a former Bridgewater standout – and discuss misconceptions about Jersey’s favorite fast food – on Episode 3 of “Breakfast with Harry”

The Big Ten posted an infographic claiming Jersey Mike’s and Sbarro were South and North Jersey’s favorite fast foods.

Harry Frezza and Mike Pavlichko beg to differ.

And they do, during Episode 3 of “Breakfast with Harry” from the Golden Corner Diner in Harry’s hometown of Bound Brook.

They also discuss high school football’s first week of the “postseason” and run into a former Bridgewater-Raritan football player who remembers distinctly a key playoff game. Click below to listen!

by Mike Pavlichko

“Breakfast with Harry”: Mike and Harry talk football… and baseball?

On our second installment of “Breakfast with Harry” from the Golden Corner Diner in Bound Brook, Mike and Harry tackle mostly football, but also some baseball.

Harry weighs in on the Somerset Patriots’ announcement that they will become the New York Yankees’ AA Minor League Baseball team after more than 20 years in the independent Atlantic League.

They also discuss Somerville’s success of the last five years spanning Jeff Vanderbeek and Dallas Whitaker, Bernards’ big win over Del Val, and get breaking news on the shutdown of Manville’s football season after numerous cases of COVID-19 in the district, but none on the football team.

Listen to Episode 2 of “Breakfast with Harry” from the Golden Corner Diner below:

by Mike Pavlichko

“Breakfast with Harry” from the Golden Corner Diner debuts on Central Jersey Sports Radio

It’s breakfast, and it’s time to eat!

It’s also time to hear from Harry Frezza, the longtime scholastic sports writer from the Courier News, who’s joining Central Jersey Sports Radio for “Breakfast with Harry,” recorded each week during the football season at the Golden Corner Diner on West Union Avenue in Bound Brook.

Harry and Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko will sit down at the counter and talk anything and everything related to high school football, or anything else that’s on their minds.

Listen to the first installment below: