Category: Football

by Mike Pavlichko

Big Central Conference coaching updates: What’s left to fill with less than two months before camp opens?

It was another year of coaching turnover in the Big Central Conference, whether by coaches not being retained, or stepping down on their own.

Of the 59 schools in the league, 12 will have new head coaches for the upcoming 2026 season. That’s 25 coaching changes in the past two seasons – nearly half the league – after 13 new coaches were hired following the 2024 campaign.

The latest hire was Steven Brown at North Plainfield, whose appointment was approved Monday night by the Board of Education. He’s been the defensive coordinator at Verona for the last two seasons, and also at Elizabeth for girls’ flag football, a Big Central playoff finalist each of the last two seasons.

And that leaves just one position open in the BCC, in Perth Amboy, where William Clark will not be retained after seven seasons as the Panthers’ head coach. His teams were 12-52 in that span, never winning more than three in a season; they went 3-7 in 2021.

Once that hiring is complete, the entire Patriot Silver Division – Amboy, New Providence, AL Johnson, Spotswood, Roselle and Metuchen – will have new head coaches, and be responsible for half the new mentors in the BCC this season.

Here’s a look at the rest of the Big Central Conference schools with new coaches in 2026:

  • JFK: One of the early hires, the Mustangs will be led by Anthony Nyers, a Woodbridge grad from across town who was appointed in late February. He most recently was the wide receivers coach and Offensive Coordinator at Westfield under Matt Andzel, and had spent the previous season with Al Chiola at Linden.
  • Johnson: Athletic Director Gus Kalikas ran the show last season, and the Crusaders went 7-2 with his son, Jack, at starting quarterback. But this year, the job was given to Mike Ryan, who was approved in late May by the Board of Education, and promoted after spending two years with the Crusaders as an assistant. Ryan has been a head coach at JP Stevens in the past, and was on the Edison staff of Matt Fulham when they won the Central Jersey Group 5 title in 2022.
  • Metuchen: Alum Jordan Leitner is gone after going 21-20 in four seasons, including a solid 7-4 campaign in 2024. In steps Middlesex County veteran Joe Riggi, who was a defensive coordinator at JFK in the mid 2010s, sandwiched by a pair of stints as the head coach at JP Stevens, from 2007 to 2009, and again from 2015 to 2019.
  • New Providence: The Pioneers kept it in-house after Chert Parlavecchio, Jr., stepped down to take an assistant coaching position at his alma mater, Delbarton. They went with Anthony Conzentino, who played scholastically at Livingston – starring on a 2008 squad then led by current St. Joseph-Metuchen head coach Bill Tracy – and coached running backs, linebackers and special teams the past five years at New Providence.
  • Roselle: Tyrone Turner is out after two seasons – and was quickly snapped up by Steven Brown at North Plainfield – and James Roach is in. He’s been director of the Union County Vipers youth football and mentoring organization since 2011 and is a local outreach coordinator, according to his LinkedIn bio.
  • South Brunswick: Mike Gerst will now lead the Viking program, coming to Middlesex County after two seasons up at Fort Lee, his first-ever head coaching job. He replaces Ibrahim Halsey, who was 7-12 in two seasons (and now is an assistant at Franklin) while Gerst’s teams went 16-3 in that span an the Super Football Conference’s “Ivy Red” Division, one in which teams aren’t eligible for the playoffs by playing a “relief” schedule aimed at rebuilding. That included a 9-0 campaign last year, the first in over 100 years of Fort Lee football.

by Mike Pavlichko

Steven Brown approved by North Plainfield Board of Ed as next Canuck football coach

The coaching vacancies in the Big Central Conference are filling up, with Steven Brown being officially hired as the new football coach at North Plainfield, Athletic Director Sean Dowling has confirmed to Central Jersey Sports Radio.

The Board of Education approved the hiring at its regular meeting Monday night, along with the hiring of five assistant coaches.

Brown has been the defensive coordinator at Verona for the last two seasons; the Hillbillies were 2-7 last year, but 7-4 in 2024. He’s also been the defensive coordinator for girls’ flag football coach at Elizabeth the past two seasons. This year, they went 11-5, following a 14-2-1 program debut in 2024; they reached the Big Central Conference title game each of the last two seasons. (Flag football will be an official NJSIAA sanctioned sport in 2027, including state playoffs, after a two-year pilot program.)

Brown also has experience on the other side of the ball, previously serving as Offensive Coordinator at Columbia (Maplewood-South Orange).

He’s a 2000 Rahway alum who was a three-year varsity player for the Indians, and the starting quarterback on the 1999 team that went to the North 2, Group 3 championship game, falling to then-powerhouse Morristown at Giants Stadium. (The win was the Colonial’s 30th straight at the time.)

Brown replaces Derrick Eatman, who stepped down in the off-season after four years leading the program. The Canucks went 3-6 each of the last two seasons, and were 8-31 over that four-year span. Eatman is now an assistant at Franklin under Blair Wilson.

The five Canuck assistant coaches approved Monday night by the Board of Ed include Defensive Coordinator Jameel Drummond, defensive line coach Emanuel Weaver, linebackers coach Damien Torres, and defensive backs coach Jah-Quinn Wembley, all of whom were announced on Instagram by Brown.

Tyrone Turner, who spent the last two seasons at Roselle, also was hired and will serve as Offensive Coordinator. Turner was 6-16 in two campaigns with the Rams, and 13-23 in the four seasons prior as head coach at Shabazz in Newark.

James Roach was appointed in May as Roselle’s new head coach.

Click below to hear new North Plainfield head coach Steven Brown talk with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko:

by Mike Pavlichko

Former North Plainfield coach Derrick Eatman, St. Thomas assistant Chris Young Sr. to join Blair Wilson’s staff at Franklin

It might not be Crosby, Stills and Nash, but Blair Wilson is assembling a supergroup of coaches in Franklin.

The Warriors’ football coach has made two big additions to his staff this spring, bringing in Derrick Eatman and Chris Young, Sr. to be part of his crew.

Eatman spent the last four seasons as the head football coach at North Plainfield before stepping down in the off-season. He said he wanted to spend more time with his family, and though he’s back in coaching now, it’ll still be easier to do that with fewer responsibilities as an assistant compared to a head coach.

Eatman’s Canucks won one game each his first two seasons, but improved to win three games each of the last two.

Young, meanwhile, had been the offensive coordinator at St. Thomas Aquinas under Tarig Holman while his son, Chase, was a standout there, but then left after Holman was not brought back for 2025 and spent a year at South Brunswick under Ibrahim Halsey. With South Brunswick changing course in the off-season and bringing in Mike Gerst from Fort Lee, Young has now landed at Franklin with Eatman.

Wilson was hired at Franklin in 2022, and after a winless campaign that first year, they improved to 3-8 in 2023, 4-6 in 2024, and went 5-4 last season, but still failed to make the playoffs. Though the Warriors have the highest playoff win percentage of any Somerset County team at .621 – and have six titles to their credit, second only to Somerville’s nine – they haven’t had a state playoff berth since 2012.

But with the talent in Franklin, beefing up the coaching staff could really be a big help. Eatman tells Central Jersey Sports Radio that Young will be the Offensive Coordinator and coach wide receivers, while Eatman himself with help Young call the offense, while also coaching quarterbacks, linebackers, and serving as Special Teams Coordinator.

“It’s exciting getting to coach close to a hundred players this year,” Eatman told Central Jersey Sports Radio last week. “Blair has done a tremedous job recruiting the hallways.”

Franklin returns mobile quarterback Jah’naad Cady, who last year as a junior threw for 1,350 yards and 13 touchdowns, while leading the team in rushing with 964 yards on 79 carries, with 13 TDs. Senior Dajour Taylor and junior Rahmel Barr are expected to be among the top receivers.

With summer practices beginning this week, Franklin is opening up the process with a special midnight practice tonight.  Central Jersey Sports Radio football analyst Marcus Borden will be on hand, and will have video and interviews on the site Monday afternoon.

by Mike Pavlichko

Shaun O’Hara Senior Bowl is off in 2026, victim of low participation, but could come back next year

After two years, the Shaun O’Hara Senior Bowl won’t be played this year, but not for a lack of trying.

Though the game was a fun – and one last opportunity to take the high school field for dozens of student-athletes – Hillsborough head coach Kevin Carty, Jr., who organized the game with now-former Watchung Hills head coach Rich Seubert – told Central Jersey Sports Radio Wednesday that the game will not be held this year because they don’t have enough players to participate.

The Shaun O’Hara Senior Bowl – an all-star senior game featuring mainly players from Somerset County, but also from the rest of the Skyland Conference teams that play in the Big Central for football – came about in 2023. It was the successor to the Basilone Bowl, which began in 2013 in conjunction with the Marine Corps, with the goal of raising money to help wounded soldiers.

But like everything else after the COVID-19 pandemic, things took a toll, and the game failed to make a profit in the 2022 edition, which led then-Montogmery head coach Zoran Milich – who was helping organize the game at that point – to announce it was going on hiatus to reorganize and focus its efforts on 2024.

With the involvement of Sean O’Hara – a standout at Hillsborough High School, with Rutgers, and the NFL’s New York Giants – and hos Shaun O’Hara Foundation, the game got new life in 2024, and was held at his alma mater that year and last June as well.

Carty says only 55 players had opted to participate, which would have meant about 22 per team, not counting the occasional drop-out from players, and that simply wouldn’t have been enough to hold practices or play the game.

Carty did say that there was the possibility the game could be revisited next year, if enough players opt-in.

Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with Hillsborough head football coach Kevin Carty Jr. about the future of the Shaun O’Hara Senior Bowl:

PAST COVERAGE OF THE SHAUN O’HARA SENIOR BOWL:

by Mike Pavlichko

South Brunswick hires Mike Gerst away from Fort Lee to lead Viking football program

The South Brunswick football program has a new head coach, as Mike Gerst has been hired to take over the Vikings for the 2026 season.

The hire was approved by the Board of Education last Thursday evening, according to Athletic Director Edward Knapp.

The 32-year-old Gerst comes to the Monmouth Junction school from Fort Lee, where he spent the last two years in his first head coaching job.

The Bridgemen were 16-3 under Gert’s leadership, going 7-3 in his inaugural season, and 9-0 last year, including 7-0 in the Super Football Conference’s Ivy Red Division. Ivy Divisions are meant for smaller schools that are rebuilding, and are ineligible for the state playoffs. Fort Lee has won eleven straight games, going back to its last two contests of the 2024 season.

The 9-0 record was the first in over a hundred years of football at Fort Lee, Gerst told Central Jersey Sports Radio on Tuesday.

Gerst replaces Ibrahim Halsey, who had come to South Brunswick from Roselle in 2024, the same year Gerst landed the Fort Lee job. Halsey was 7-12 in two seasons, failing to make the playoffs either year. The Vikings last qualified for the postseason in 2023, in the final year under Joe Goerge, who left South Brunswick to take the head job at Woodbridge, replacing Joe LaSala, now the Offensive Coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Montclair State.

Former Fort Lee head coach Mike Gerst coaching up one his players. (Source: @mcgerst21 on Instagram)

A Bergen Catholic grad mentored for two years each by Fred Stengel, then Nunzio Campanile, Gerst played collegiately at Columbia, then Garden City Community College in Kansas, and later Division II football in Texas. Gerst previously was an assistant coach at Passiac Valley in 2017 under Chet Parlevecchio – the father of the former New Providence coach, Chet Parlevecchio, Jr. – and later spent three years as an offensive assistant at Wayne Valley.

Knapp says he’s “very happy” and “excited that Mike’s on board,” telling Central Jersey Sports Radio he believes he’s “going to do great things this season.”

Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko with new South Brunswick football head coach Mike Gerst:

by Mike Pavlichko

Shot clock is coming to New Jersey high school basketball, as NJSIAA measure for HS basketball passes narrowly

A well-coordinated effort to bring the shot clock to high school basketball in New Jersey just barely made it to the finish line Monday, winning approval by a slim margin in a vote of the full NJSIAA membership during a meeting at the Pines Manor in Edison.

The basketball proposal passed 170-166, and the shot clock will begin when the 2027-28 season tips off.

Use of the shot clock will be mandatory for all varsity games, but optional for JV and freshman contests.

A similar shot clock measure in lacrosse was defeated however, by a 166-149 margin, with 21 abstentions, according to Darren Cooper of the Bergen Record, and Varsity Aces on Twitter.

While many high school basketball coaches appeared to support the measure, saying it would be better for the game, and better prepare basketball players for college, there seemed to be less support among athletic directors. Mainly, the concerns have been about the cost on two different levels. The first of those was the initial purchase and installation of equipment, albeit a one-time cost.

What also has concerned them is the need to have an extra person at each game to run the clock, which is entirely separate from the game clock.

That person would also have to get paid, and trained – as it’s not as “simple” as running a game clock, which stops on an official’s whistle. (A shot clock operator and/or official would have to determine, for example, if a missed shot hit the rim, which resets the shot clock, but not always to the full amount.)

And with many schools squeezed from the latest rounds of budget cuts, the measure’s chances appeared to be tenuous, at best.

But, at the end of the day, enough ADs voted in favor of the basketball measure to get it passed by a scant four votes.

Montgomery Athletic Director and boys’ basketball coach Kris Grundy championed the measure along with Christian Brothers’ AD and former Hudson Catholic basketball coach Nick Mariniello. The two presented the measure to the NJSIAA’s Executive Committee, which passed it, leading to Monday’s vote.

Please check back later for an interview with Kris Grundy.

According to Cooper, additional concerns about lacrosse also included moving equipment to different parks if games had to be moved for any reason, such as field conditions, weather and the like.

In other news, the membership voted by a large majority – 318-13 with three abstentions, according to Cooper – to add girls’ flag football as a varsity sport. The “yes” vote means the NJSIAA will sanction the sport and hold state championships, starting next Spring, in 2026-27.

Tri-ops – a combination of three schools, rather than two for a co-op – also were approved for girls’ wrestling.

by Mike Pavlichko

Watchung Hills veteran Joe Ascolese promoted from OC to head coach of Warrior football program after departure of Rich Seubert

Joe Ascolese, the Watchung Hills football team’s Offensive Coordinator who has spent nearly two decades on the program’s staff over two stints, has been named the Warrriors’ new head coach, following the recent departure of Rich Suebert.

The move was approved Tuesday night by the Watchung Hills Regional High School Board of Education, according to Athletic Director Dan Root.

The 45-year-old Ascolese has been the team’s OC since 2019, and also was with the program as an assistant from 2005 through 2015. In between, he coached split ends, tight ends and defensive backs at A.L. Johnson in Clark.

He has also been a physical education and health teacher at Watchung Hills for more than two decades, and was named Watchung Hills Regional High School Educator of the Year in 2024.

This will be his first head coaching job.

Seubert stepped down in late March after a ten-year run leading the Warrior football program. He turned the program’s fortunes around in a few years, getting the team to .500 at 5-5 in 2019, and went 5-2 in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign.

The Warriors’ best two seasons under his tutelage came in 2022 and 2023. The first of those teams went 7-3, while the ’23 squad went 8-3, with an opening round playoff win over Bridgewater-Raritan, just the program’s second playoff win ever. In 2023, Seubert was named Somerset County Coach of the Year by the Bill Denny/Rutgers Football Letterwinners Chapter of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame.

Seubert’s squads finished 41-57 over ten seasons, and Athletic Director Dan Root says Seubert’s impact was felt more than just in terms of wins and losses, and Xs and Os on the football field.

“We were very fortunate to have him as our head coach for as long as we did,” Root told CJSR Saturday morning via text message. “He gave so much to the program, the school and the community, and for that I am incredibly grateful. I know that ultimately whatever he decides to do, he will be successful.”

Suebert was a starter on the Giants’ offensive line in their Cinderella Super Bowl XLII run that culminated with a 17-14 win over New England, the David Tyree “Helmet Catch” game. According to the Giants website, he played in 104 games for Big Blue with 88 starts over nine seasons after joining the team as an undrafted free agent in 2001.

Click below to hear Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko talk with Joe Ascolese about taking over the Watchung Hills football program:

by Mike Pavlichko

Edison native, JP Stevens alum Dylan Brett gets call of a lifetime with Hofstra basketball’s run to the Big Dance

It all started for Dylan Brett when he was nine years old.

Edison Pop Warner couldn’t find anyone to do the public address during a game. Someone asked him.

He wound up calling every play, like it was on the radio, not just announcing who carried the ball or made the tackle.

It wasn’t quite the assignment, but the parents loved it, and it stuck.

Fast forward more than a decade, and the JP Stevens grad is at Hofstra University’s student radio station WRHU, one of the top college radio stations in the nation.

How it started, and how it’s going, as they say.

Brett was at the microphone just a few weeks ago, as the Flying Dutchmen won the CAA Tourney, on the call as they beat Monmouth in the final to earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. It was Hofstra’s first trip to March Madness in 25 years.

Now a senior, he recently called his final college basketball game, a loss to Alabama in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament.

But there could be plenty of college basketball games in his future. His Twitter post of the overtime game winner by Preston Edmead with just tenths of a second left has gone viral, leading to many connections he hopes will bear fruit soon after graduation.

An improbable run for a kid from Edison, remember that name Dylan Brett. Next time you hear him, it might be on ESPN.

Click below to hear Edison native Dylan Brett talk about getting his start behind a microphone, and his wild ride with the Hofstra men’s basketball team on campus radio station WRHU, with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko:

Edison native and JP Stevens grad Dylan Brett of WRHU Radio at Hofstra at the NCAA Tournament, as the team made its first appearance in 25 years. (Source: @DylanBrxtt on Twitter)
by Mike Pavlichko

Watchung Hills football coach Rich Seubert steps down after a decade leading the Warriors

After retiring from football with the New York Giants in his mid-30s with a Super Bowl ring on his finger, Wisconsin native Rich Seubert and his family moved to California for a few years, where he coached a little football at the high school level.

But eventually, he came back to the East Coast, returning to New Jersey, and started coaching the offensive line at Watchung Hills. One year later, in the summer of 2016, he was promoted to head coach.

Now, after ten years, Seubert has stepped down as the program’s mentor. Seubert said in a text message to Central Jersey Sports Radio Saturday morning that it was “just time to move on,” but notes he “loved his time coaching” and said he would continue to be around the area, since his daughter is a freshman at Watchung Hills.

Seubert inherited a 4-6 program from 2015, but the Warriors struggled early on, going 2-8, 4-6, and 0-10 in his first three seasons. Then, things turned around, as Watchung Hills got to .500 at 5-5 in 2019, and went 5-2 in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign.

The Warriors’ best two seasons under his tutelage came in 2022 and 2023. The first of those teams went 7-3, while the ’23 squad went 8-3, with an opening round playoff win over Bridgewater-Raritan, just the program’s second playoff win ever.

In 2023, Seubert was named Somerset County Coach of the Year by the Bill Denny/Rutgers Football Letterwinners Chapter of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame.

Seubert’s squads finished 41-57 over ten seasons, and Athletic Director Dan Root says Seubert’s impact was felt more than just in terms of wins and losses, and Xs and Os on the football field.

“We were very fortunate to have him as our head coach for as long as we did,” Root told CJSR Saturday morning via text message. “He gave so much to the program, the school and the community, and for that I am incredibly grateful. I know that ultimately whatever he decides to do, he will be successful.”

Suebert was a starter on the Giants’ offensive line in their Cinderella Super Bowl XLII run that culminated with a 17-14 win over New England, the David Tyree “Helmet Catch” game. According to the Giants website, he played in 104 games for Big Blue with 88 starts over nine seasons after joining the team as an undrafted free agent in 2001.

by Mike Pavlichko

55th annual Bill Denny awards dinner honors local football standouts, coaches, and more

More than three dozen high school football players from Middlesex and Somerset Counties, along with several coaches, administrators, educators and officials were honored Sunday at the 55th annual awards dinner of the Bill Denny/Rutgers Football Letterwinners Chapter of the National Football/College Hall of Fame at the Pines Manor in Edison.

The local chapter also awarded several scholarships, now having given out more than $380,000 in funds to deserving Middlesex and Somerset County Scholar-Athletes, over a span of nearly six decades.

The ceremony was presided over by Fred Roselli, chapter president, with awards presented by Tom Bara and Frank Noppenberger.

Read on to learn more about all the honorees.

Distinguished American: This award went to South River’s Rich Marchesi, the longtime Rams’ skipper and alum who will be heading into his 39th season this fall. Marchesi’s record is 228-154, with four Central Jersey Group 1 titles, in 1991, 1995, 2000 and 2001. He also played with with future Penn State All-American and NFL standout Kenny Jackson on the vaunted 1979 undefeated team as a senior, which went undefeated and was a state champion, ending the season ranked No. 3 in New Jersey. A five-time Bill Denny Coach of the Year, he is the winningest coach in South River football history, eventually surpassing Denny. Marchesi was inducted in the the New Hersey Coaches Hall of Fame in 2001.

Edward “Red” Losiewicz Distinguished Official: Given to the official who has “demonstrated sportsmanship, integrity and character in interscholastic athletics,” Tim McDonald was this year’s recipient. An East Brunswick resident, he started officiating football in 1997, and also has been an official for lacrosse, softball and basketball.

Chester Zdrodowski Distinguished Educator (Middlesex): Old Bridge Athletic Director Dan DiMino was the recipient of this award, A Monroe resident, he was named AD in 2016 and has overseen an athletics program that was won 31 division titles, 26 conference championships, 14 NJSIAA sectional crowns, and nine New Jersey state titles. DiMino also is on the Greater Middlesex Conference Executive Committee, and manages scheduling for the entire league. Among several charitable endeavors, DiMino helps lead the Old Bridge Holiday Knight Toy Drive around the holidays, partnering with the Marisa Tufaro Foundation.

Chester Zdrodowski Distinguished Educator (Somerset): This one goes to Michael Hoppe, the Athletic Director at Bernards. Hoppe is a Mountaineer through and through, an alum who has been at his old stomping grounds since graduating from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) in 19984. Starting out as a teacher and coaching three sports, he has been the AD for the last 26 years.

Coach of the Year (Middlesex): Matt Donaghue just wrapped up his fourth season as the Old Bridge football coach, promoted to the head job after Anthony Lanzafama stepped down. At 25-17 in that span, this past fall was a breakout year, following a 6-4 campaign in 2024, as the Knights went all the way to the “Central Jersey” Group 5 final, where they fell to Washington Twp. out of South Jersey. Donaghue also is the head coach of the baseball team at Old Bridge, which won the Central Jersey Group 4 title in 2023, and was a finalist a year ago.

Coach of the Year (Somerset): Montgomery’s Sean Carty takes home the award in his first year on the job, after being promoted from Offensive Coordinator under Zoran Milich, who stepped down as the school’s first and only football coach after the 2024 campaign. The Cougars went 8-4 this past fall, with signature wins over Somerville and Sayreville, and went all the way to the North Jersey, Section 2 Group 4 title game – their first ever – where they fell to defending champion Phillipsburg. A Rutgers graduate and four-year letterwinner, he played for his father, Hall of Fame coach Kevin Carty, at Somerville. His brother, Kevin Jr., is the head coach at neighboring Hillsborough, with his other brother, Ryan, is the head coach at the University of Delaware.

Sporstmanship School of the Year: Highland Park, Bridgewater-Raritan

STUDENT-ATHLETE HONOREES:

Rutgers: Jai Patel (South Brunswick)

Middlesex County:

  • Jonathan Hughes, Carteret
  • Dylan Chiera, Colonia
  • Jackson Portik, Dunellen
  • Noah DeJesus, East Brunswick
  • Robert Roma, Jr., Edison
  • Stamatis Hantsoulis, Highland Park
  • Grant Lorentzen, JFK
  • Esteban Reyes, JP Stevens
  • A.J. Crisci, Metuchen
  • Sean Hughes, Middlesex
  • John Lawless, Monroe
  • Jeffren Paulino, New Brunswick
  • Zachary Cipot, North Brunswick
  • Mark Fultz, North Plainfield
  • Brody Nugent, Old Bridge
  • Sebastian Medina Moreno, Perth Amboy
  • Brady Gallogly, Piscataway
  • Joseph Curbelo, Sayreville
  • Jacob Walczyk, South Brunswick
  • Kenneth Young, South Plainfield
  • Filipe Granadiero, South River
  • Gavin Pereira, Spotswood
  • Tom Myers, St. Joseph-Metuchen
  • Anthony Perez, Jr., St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Josh Allen, Woodbridge

Somerset County:

  • Justin Simpson, Bernards
  • Moaaz Abdelmonem, Bound Brook
  • Stephen Pikulin, Bridgewater-Raritan
  • Francis Flores, Jr., Franklin
  • Shane Khurana, Hillsborough
  • Bo Almeida, Immaculata
  • Collin Shimp, Manville
  • Michael Bellamy, Montgomery
  • Ryan Moye, Pingry
  • Anthony Valera, Ridge
  • J. Griffin Kaye, Somerville
  • Jake Herring, Watchung Hills

Pop Warner (Middlesex): Daniel Crowley, Edison Jets

Pop Warner (Somerset): Vincent Sandomenico, Watchung Hills Wolverines