If North Hunterdon is to repeat as a state sectional champion in 2023, it won’t be easy.

Certainly not impossible, but certainly not easy.

Luke Martini, Kente Edwards, Alex Uryniak, Danny DeLusant, Derek Vaddis, and even their head coach Kevin Kley are all gone. Kley was head coach for five seasons, and those other players were with him the whole time.

Now, there’s a new coach: C.J. Robinson comes over from Bernards, and he has only four returning seniors.

All of them – Tyler Anderson, Alex Moore, Brennan Zundel, and Michael Schroeck – were at Big Central Media Days this week at Hillsborough’s Iron Peak Sports & Events, and it was easy to see the camaraderie among them, and with their coach.

It’s a small division, the only one with four teams in the BCC Liberty Silver, with Montgomery, Plainfield and Somerville. Winning that title won’t be an easy task either, but one can expect North Hunterdon to be in the mix, for sure.

Click below to hear Mike Pavlickho with the North Hunterdon contingent at Big Central Media Days: