Belvidere’s fifth-year head coach Jordon Schreffler has seen the County Seaters improve a great deal since his debut season, when the team went 0-9.
They went from 3-7 the following year to 8-2 in 2024 before dipping to .500, going 5-5 last season. But with players like senior Elijah White returning and junior Jake Enderley running the offense for a second year after getting the keys to the bus as a sophomore, the start to 2026 has gone mostly well.
After a season-opening loss to rival Hackettsown, Belvidere is now 2-1 overall and unbeaten in Big Central Conference play after winning its Freedom Silver Division opener Friday night, 42-2 over Dunellen at Columbia Park.
They got started right on their first possession, after forcing a Dunellen punt, with Enderley hitting White for a 48-yard touchdown pass with 8:50 to go in the first, making it 7-0. After an interception on their next possession, their third resulted in another score, a 33-yard pitch play from Enderley to Kaiden Drake for a 33-yard touchdown run just 1:53 into the second quarter.
A Kayden Thorpe interception led to another Seater touchdown 5:32 before the half, as Enderley ran one in from 23-yards out to make it 21-0. Dunellen would get its only points in the final minute, with Belvidere pinned back in its own end, as Enderley had a snap sail over his head into the end zone, where he eventually fell on it.
Dunellen would put together a good late third-quarter drive and threaten, but it stalled out with a turnover on downs at the one. After another touchdown made it 28-2, Enderley threw a 90-yard strike to White with 40 seconds left in the period to make it 35-2, and with a running clock in play, Thorpe picked off his second pass of the day, this time bringing it 60 yards to the house to provide the final 40-point margin.
Dunellen dropped to 0-2 with the loss, its 22nd straight dating back to an opening round playoff loss in 2023, when the Destroyers finished 5-4.
Click below for postgame reaction from Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Marcus Borden with Belvidere head coach Jordon Schreffler, senior Elijah White and junior Jake Enderley, presented by Sportsplex at Metcuhen!