With five weeks of high school football in the books, we’re starting to see the cream rise to the top in the Big Central Conference. Sure, Woodbridge is No. 1, but any number of teams could stake a claim, like St. Thomas Aquinas and Somerville, and maybe more.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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Believe it or not, it’s Week 5 of the regular season with just three more games left before Cutoff Weekend. And as we thing about playoff seeding, Woodbridge and Somerville are atop their respective sections, while Piscataway looks back in form. Can they all keep it up?
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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Hard to believe we’re at the halfway point of the regular season in New Jersey High School Football, but here we are, barreling into Week Four after some big wins in Week Three, with more big-implication games on tap this Friday and Saturday.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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Let’s show some small school love as we head into Week Three and the heart of the high school football season in New Jersey. With three teams having double-digit win streaks snapped in the opening weeks of the season, Metuchen now has the second-best winning streak in the state, while Highland Park has won three in a row after ending its 51-game skid in its 2023 season finale.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – including a wild offensive stat line out of South Brunswick – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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It was an eventful first full week of play in the Big Central, as we saw 100 points scored between Bridgewater-Raritan and Piscataway, and JP Stevens snap its 42-game losing streak. Meanwhile, Highland Park – which snapped its 51-game skid last year – now has won two straight going back to that win over Point Pleasant Beach! Can they make it three?
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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The first week of high school football is in the books here in New Jersey, and 18 Big Central Conference teams have started the year 1-0. And of the ten coaches working their first games with their new teams this season, Joe Goerge of Woodbridge and Ibrahim Halsey of South Brunswick got their
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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We’re a little more than 48 hours from the start of the 2024 High School Football season, with a slew of Big Central teams in action on Week Zero, which begs the question: Why Week Zero? Can’t we just call it Week One already since more teams seem to start during the “optional” early week than those that don’t.
We rundown our coverage plans for the week, plus take a look at the moves some Big Central teams made in the new NJSIAA classifications out this week.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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The playoffs are in full swing, and the public schools already are on to the sectional semifinal round! Ten Big Central teams will play this weekend for the right to go to the finals, with at least one guaranteed, coming out of the Westfield-Phillipsburg game in North2, Group 5. Plus, the non-public seeding nets home games for St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Joseph-Metuchen.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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Cutoff Weekend is upon us, and we at Central Jersey Sports Radio count 24 teams in, with six on the bubble. Not a lot of middle ground this week, and a number of teams teetering right on the edge. In fact, all six Big Central bubble teams range from 15th to 17th place.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
Click below to listen to the Week Eight/Cutoff Weekend edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes”:
We’re down to the final two weeks of the regular season for public schools in New Jersey high school football, and the games only get bigger and bigger. Spotswood needs a win against Johnson to avoid potentially missing the playoffs – despite being 7-0 at the moment – and Piscataway is getting back to its glory days.
CJSR veteran reporter Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look at all that and much more – on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!”
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