Tag: GMC Conference

by Mike Pavlichko

New Brunswick claims Ray Cipperly GMC Invitational with strong mound work from starter Garcia, Henderson closing it out

The New Brunswick baseball program had one title to its credit coming into Friday’s Ray Cipperly GMC Invitational Final against East Brunswick Magnet: the Central Jersey Group 1 pennant in 1986.

But other than that, they’d never been to a county final of any kind, not in the invitational – now in its sixth season – nor the main event,

But by 2:30 or so Friday afternoon, they had some more hardware to put in the trophy case..

The fifth-seeded Zebras used a three-run third inning and a strong start – after a shaky first – from Yeuri Garcia to beat second-seed East Brunswick Magnet 5-2, in a game heard live on Central Jersey Sports Radio, and videostreamed live on our YouTube channel.

The Zebras staked Garcia to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, getting a two-RBI single by Ronaldy Peralta, who blooped a ball into no man’s land that fell to the red turf in short right field. But the Tigers got it right back in the bottom of the inning on a two-RBI double by Stephan Zoppolo.

After each team went out 1-2-3 in the second, New Brunswick would score the decisive run – and two more for insurance – in the third.

Kelvin Heuston led off with an infield hit, and after his older brother Devin struck out, DH Jacob Henderson laced a double to drive in what ultimately would be the winning run. Alex Rodriguez then reached on an E1, scoring another run, and a sac bunt by Peralta drove in Rodriguez to make it 5-2.

And Garcia, who had some control issues – he walked five, but also struck out five – settled in. He got in some jams, including a second and third situation with two out in the fifth, but got out of it.

He was pulled in the sixth with a 2-0 count on seven-hitter and opposing pitcher Anthony Bienvenue, but Henderson came in and needed just three pitches to strike him out, overpowering with a fastball that had more juice that what Garcia had been throwing for 6 2/3 innings.

And despite allowing two on in the seventh, he closed it out for the save.

Jacob Henderson gets the final out of the sixth for New Bruinswick, then got the save in a 5-2 win over East Brunswick Magnet in the Ray Cipperly GMC Invitational Final on May 23, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)

New Brunswick improved to 15-2 with the win, while East Brunswick Magnet fell to 20-5. The two teams shared the Gold Division title this year, both 12-2 in the division.

The win went to Garcia, who’s now 4-1. Henderson got the save. Bienvenue took the loss for the Tigers to drop to 9-2.

Click below for postgame reaction with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:

New Brunswick pitchers Jacob Henderson and Yeuri Garcia
New Brunswick head coach Nico Vargas
by Mike Pavlichko

Business as usual for St. Joseph’s Bobby Christensen, as senior leads on and off the field for GMCT finalist Falcons

It’s got to be daunting to spend three years of your high school baseball career with one coach, then have a new one for your senior season.

That’s exactly what happened at St. Joseph of Metuchen, where Mike Murray stepped down after three GMC Tournament titles and eight highly successful seasons at the helm.

But so far, the Falcons haven’t missed a beat. And while it may have taken them some time to find their sea legs, they’ve got them now. They’ve won eight straight games heading into Saturday’s Jim Muldowney GMC Championship Tournament title game against Edison, and the last five have all been by one run, and in the final at bat, with four walkoffs, including three in the GMCT.

Last Saturday at Ray Cipperly Field in East Brunswick, Bobby Christensen, a Falcon senior in his third year as a starter, got a huge hit against Spotswood, sending a pitch from Charger ace Carter Cumsikey to the wall in center field to drive in two and tie a 3-1 game at three-all. They would win it with the next batter, JP Zayle, on an RBI single.

Such has been life the last couple of weeks for St. Joe’s, and it doesn’t happen without a heady senior like Christensen, who’s managed to help the returning players keep a little bit of their identity, while also welcoming in their new coach, Dennis McCaffery, who won over 500 games before retiring from Cranford last off-season, then taking on the head coach role in Metuchen.

Click below to hear Christensen talk about his game-tying hit against Spotswood, the Falcons’ recent success, their new coach, and Saturday’s GMCT final against Edison:

by Mike Pavlichko

East Brunswick Magnet holds off 7th inning Dunellen rally for 13-12 win; Hutchins collects three milestones in one game for Destroyers

Next time you take a look at league standings in baseball, note that you’ll see wins, losses, win percentages, division records, and runs for and against.

One thing you won’t see: style points.

Good thing for East Brunswick Magnet, which saw a five-run lead nearly evaporate in the bottom of the seventh at Columbia Park in Dunellen Wednesday, but hung on for a 13-12 win to keep them in first place in the Greater Middlesex Conference Gold Division.

There were some good hard hits – even an Anthony Bienvenue solo homer to lead off the third for the Tigers – but it was hardly a slugfest. EB Magnet benefitted from four Dunellen errors, and nine walks issued by Destroyer pitchers.

It was back-and-forth early on. The Tigers got a leadoff double from Tommy O’Neill and a walk from Nomar Carreras, with both getting driven in on a Stephen Zappola double two batters later. But Dunellen got back four in the home half, on two hits and two walks. One came in on a double-steal of second and home.

East Brunswick Magnet got four back in the top of the second to take a 6-4 lead – with only one hit in the frame – but Dunellen answered right back with three in the bottom of the second, to take a 7-6 lead after two.

The Tigers continued to score, while Carreras – the starting pitcher – settled in. After giving up seven runs on five hits in the first two innings, he struck out the side in the third, got out of a jam that could have been worse in the fourth, allowing just one run, and faced four batters in the fifth, his final inning. The final out came with a runner at third, with a wild pitch that brought him home, except the hitter, Ryan Hutchins, was called out for batters’ interference. The home plate umpire said he hadn’t cleared enough room for the play to be made.

The Tigers for two in the third, one in the fourth, and two more in the fifth and sixth to take a 13-8 lead heading into the seventh, where they were held scoreless for the first time all day.

In the bottom of the inning is where it got interesting. Jack Clements came on to close it out and fanned the first two hitters. No. 9 hitter Jackson Portik reached on an E4, then Ryan Hutchins doubled him in to cut the deficit to four. It was his 100th career hit. He also logged his 100th career stolen base in the first, and scored his 100th career run in the seventh.

Dunellen players gather with Ryan Hutchins, who collected his 100th career hit, steal and run in a 13-2 home loss to East Brunswick Magnet on April 30, 2025. (Photo: Mike Pavlichko)

But his hit moved Protik to third, the Kristian Roman got hit by a pitch to load the bases. Mark Stein hit one to short and reached on an error, scoring Portik and moving the other runners up. With Cole Mayer at the plate, Hutchins came in from third on a wild pitch. Then Mayer drove in two when he reached on a chopper to short that took a bad bounce and went high over Chase Meyer’s glove. Michael Dow was hit by a pitch to load the bases, but Joseph Reyes swung and missed at a 2-2 pitch to end the game.

East Brunswick Magnet improves to 14-2, 10-1 in the GMC Gold Division, a half game ahead of second-place New Brunswick (9-1 overall and in the White). The Tigers play at Perth Amboy Magnet Friday, while the Zebras has Timothy Christian Thursday and Monday. But EB Magnet and New Brunswick face each other after that fir the first time this year, Wednesday in East Brunswick, and Friday – after the GMC seeding meeting that morning – at Memorial Stadium.

Dunellen dropped to 9-6, 7-4 in the White with the loss.

Both starters got the decisions; Carreras (5-0) the win for East Brunswick Magnet, Danny Watts (2-2) the loss for Dunellen.

Click below for postgame reaction from East Brunswick Magnet starting pitcher Nomar Carreras and head coach Sean Radu:

by Mike Pavlichko

INSTANT REPLAY:  Middlesex 10, Sayreville 0 (6)

Middlesex scored three runs each in the first two innings, then got four more in the sixth inning for a 10-0, walk-off, mercy rule win over visiting Sayreville in GMC White Division action Tuesday afternoon.  Junior Chris Kozak threw six scoreless innings, striking out seven, and driving in three with a bases-clearing triple in the sixth.

Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel call all the action, as heard live on Central Jersey Sports Radio from Mountainview Park in Middlesex on April 29, 2025.

by Mike Pavlichko

Kozak shines for Middlesex as Blue Jays “walk off” Sayreville 10-0 for fourth straight win

The recipe for the Middlesex baseball team this season has been good hitting and solid pitching.

They got both Tuesday afternoon in a 10-0 Greater Middlesex Conference White Division home win over Sayreville, heard live on Central Jersey Sports Radio.

Chris Kozak threw six scoreless innings, scattering four hits and striking out seven, walking just one – only his second base on balls issued in 33 innings pitched this season. He picked up his second win of the year against three losses.

Meanwhile, Middlesex scored early and often, then walked it off with four in the bottom of the sixth to activate the ten-run rule.

The Blue Jays sent eight to the plate in the bottom of the first en route to a 3-0 lead. Dom Parenti led off with a walk, and Dylan Ianiero hit one back to the pitcher to move Parenti to second. After an Owen Reynolds flyout to left, Dominic Long scored him with a single, moving to second when the throw to the plate was in the dirt and went to the backstop. Then there was a Luke Jones walk, and another from Marcus Lavornia to load the bases, before Sean Hughes made it 3-0 with a ground rule double to center field.

In the second, Middlesex sent seven to the plate. Parenti drew a one-out walk, Ianiero singled and Reynolds drove in one with a double. Long did the same with a single, and Jones drove in the third run of the inning with another single, making it 6-0.

That was all for Sayreville starter Logan Kaufman, who was 3-0 with a 1.20 ERA coming in, and just four earned runs allowed all season in 23 1/3 innings entering the game. He took the loss, going just two innings, allowing seven runs on six hits with three walks and one K.

Bryan Girodano came in and threw the next three innings for the Bombers, keeping them in the game and the Jays off the scoreboard. He scattered four hits, walked one and struck out one.

But Middlesex got to Tyler Yan in the sixth. With one out, he walked Long. And after Jones grounded to Yan – who won a foot race to the bag for the second out, he walked Lavornia and Hughes. That’s when Kozak made his excellent day at the mound an even better day at the plate.

He laced a shot to centerfield that Sayreville’s Jimmy Kehoe dove for and missed, allowing the ball to go almost all the way to the outfield wall. By the time left fielder Andrew Provenza got to it and got the ball in, Kozak might have had an in-the-park home run, but he was held at third and settled for a three-RBI triple to make it 9-0.

The finishing touch came from left fielder James Matula, who singled home Kozak with the tenth run, ending the game.

Middlesex improves to 9-4, 7-4 in the GMC White with the win, while Sayreville drops to 6-7, 4-7 in the division.

The Blue Jays pull to within a half-game of Spotswood (9-5, 7-3) pending the Chargers’ result Tuesday afternoon against Colonia (10-2, 8-2).

Click below for postgame reaction with Middlesex Junior Chris Kozak and head coach Blaze Iannetti, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:

by Mike Pavlichko

Sayreville, Middlesex square off Tuesday as Bombers, Blue Jays look to make inroads in highly competitive GMC White

The GMC Red Division is very good, and its winner will likely get the top seed in the GMC Tournament, which starts in just a couple of weeks. But the GMC White Division is a knock-down, drag-out battle, too, every time their teams take the field.

And you can expect much of the same on Tuesday afternoon when Sayreville (56-6) meets Middlesex (9-4) in a battle of two middle-of-the-pack teams in the White Division.

It’s a game you can hear on Central Jersey Sports Radio, with Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel on the call. Pregame is at 3:45; click here to listen.

The Bombers – who are 4-6 in the White and in 5th place, right behind the fourth-place Blue Jays (6-4) – snapped a three-game skid Sunday evening with a late game against Matawan at Trenton Thunder Ballpark. They won 11-8 in what was their second biggest offensive outburst of the season.

That’s a welcome sight for second-year head coach Tim Ballard, whose team is hitting just .200 through 12 games. And they’ve had many this year – some wins, some losses – that have been too close for comfort. On a mid-April three-game win streak, they beat Perth Amboy 4-3 and 4-2, then edged Jackson Liberty out of the Shore Conference, 5-4.

But they’ve also lost some close ones: 3-2 to North Brunswick, 2-0 to Spotswood, and a 4-2 decision at the hands of first-place St. Thomas Aquinas.

As for Middlesex, they’ve been hitting the ball well. The Jays – under first-year head coach Blaze Ianetti, who had been an assistant under previous coach Justin Nastasi – have a .340 team batting average and have scored almost twice as many runs (91) in 13 games as the Bombers have in a dozen (48).

They’ve also gotten really good pitching, with a team ERA of just 1.61, and only one pitcher who’s thrown at least nine innings this year with an ERA over three.

It’s also a series that’s been very even of late. Middlesex won three straight coming out of the missed COVID season of 2020, then split a pair in 2023 before Sayreville won both meetings last year, 4-3 and 7-2.

Click below for pregame interviews with both head coaches:

Middlesex head coach Blaze Iannetti
Sayreville head coach Tim Ballard
by Mike Pavlichko

South River scores early and often to knock off GMC Blue leader North Plainfield, 7-0

About 15 minutes before game time, when asked how he felt about his team this year so far, veteran South River skipper Mike Lepore Jr. seemed happy overall, but noted his team has struggled sometimes against good pitching.

Well, on Friday afternoon, they faced North Plainfield starter Ian Lamiera – who was 2-0 with a 0.70 ERA coming into the game – and got five runs in the first two innings, all of them unearned, en route to a 7-0 win at first place North Plainfield in GMC Blue Division action.

It all started in the top of the first, when Jeremiah Sanchez reached on a throwing error by Lamiera, then Rutgers-bound senior Julius Rosado knocked him in from first with a double off the wall in left-centerfield. Rosado stole second, and after James Zsorey struck out, Travis Maloney knocked him with a sac fly to left to make it 2-0. That play would have been the third out of the inning, so both runs were unearned.

In the second, the Rams picked up three more runs, and – again – they were all unearned. Starting pitcher Brendan Lell led off with a single, and after a strikeout, Dylan Pasion was hit by a pitch and Sanchez walked to load the bases. Rosado struck out for the second out of the inning, and then Zsorey hit a ball to second that was booted into right field. It should have been the third out, but plated two more runs.

With first and third, Zsorey tried to steal second with Maloney at the plate. The throw didn’t get him, but Sanchez came in to steal home without a throw to make it 5-0.

At that point, Lamiera settled down a bit for the Canucks, not allowing another hit – and only three more base runners – through the end of the fifth.

The Rams got two more insurance runs off him in the sixth. Sebastian Deerson walked to lead off the inning, then after two strikeouts, North Plainfield intentionally walked Rosado. Zsorey came up and promptly hit a hard triple that plate both before Maloney grounded out to second to end the inning.

Meanwhile, Lell was cruising on the mound. He allowed two first-inning hits – the second an infield hit on a knuckler off the end of the bat that ended up like a good bunt down the third base line – but Lell got a strikeout and two flyouts on ten pitches to get out of the inning.

Otherwise, he scattered a few walks, but didn’t allow another hit until the sixth. The Canucks actually loaded the bases after a one-out single and a hit batter, then a pop foul, as DH Jake Six singled to fill the bags, but Luis Ceda grounded back to Lell to end the threat.

Lell took the mound in the seventh looking like he would finish the game. In the seventh, he struck out the nine hitter to lead it off, but then walked Mark Fultz and gave up a single to Victor Ceda. Lepore made a change, and brought in the hard-throwing Zsorey from first to pitch, and he got Davyn Ciriaco to ground into what looked like a double play to short, but the throw to second was too late. He then got Tommy Zotollo to ground back to him, ending the game.

Lamiera fell to 0-2 with the loss, while Lell improved to 3-1 on the season and brought his ERA from just over five to a 3.55. It was his first shutout performance through at least four innings since a five-inning, 12-0 complete game shutout over East Brunswick Magnet on May 5, 2023, his freshman season.

For the time being, the win knocks North Plainfield (8-3 overall) into second in the GMC Blue Division at 8-3, one full game behind Metuchen (8-2, 7-3 Blue), pending its game at Piscataway Friday afternoon. It also gets the Rams to 7-3 in the division (8-3 overall), but they remain in third by a half-game with a game in hand on the Canucks, but with one extra game than Metuchen pending that Piscataway result. (We’ll update this once that score is reported.)

The Rams have two losses already to Metuchen, but the Bulldogs have two losses against North Plainfield. South River will rematch with the Canucks at home on Monday afternoon at 4 pm.

Click below for postgame reaction presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen with junir starting pitcher Brenden Lell and head coach Mike Lepore Jr.:

by Mike Pavlichko

INSTANT REPLAY:  No. 3 South Plainfield 1, No. 4 Woodbridge 0

Tbird-ranked South Plainfield finished off a two-game home-and-home series sweep of No. 4 Woodbridge ridge with a 1-0 road win, benefitting from four straight walks in the fifth inning to plate their only run. 

Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Alec Crouthamel call all the action, as heard live on Central Jersey Sports Radio from Woodbridge on April 12, 2025.

by Mike Pavlichko

Greater Middlesex Conference entirely revamps basketball divisions in major shakeup

In perhaps the biggest revamping of divisions in any sport since the formation of the Greater Middlesex Conference in 1985, the league is moving to six divisions, and altering the rules for seeding of the county tournament.

For both girls’ and boys’ basketball, starting next season there will be six divisions, with an American and National division in the Red, White and Blue Divisions, eliminating the Gold and Silver entirely. The new alignment is for the 2025-26 season only, as divisions will be altered annually instead of every two years.

While there’s no official “top” division in the GMC, the assignments generally follow the league’s hierarchy over the last several years, which has come less to rely on school size, but also strives to achieve competitive balance.

From the unofficial top down, there will be the Red American Division, then the Red National, the White American and White National, then the Blue American and Blue National in both boys’ and girls’ hoops.

Mike DelAversano, Spotswood Athletic Director and GMC Basketball Co-Chair along with Carl Buffalino of South River, says the moves were made to give teams more GMC games and help seeding by creating more crossover opportunities.

The league also is keeping its “one tournament” format, which seems to still be popular with league coaches, even as other sports have added “invitational” tournaments for lower-seeded teams. However, there will be no more “guaranteed” seeds.

Previously, the winners of each division were guaranteed high seeds; one of the top eight seeds when there were four divisions, one of the top 12 when there were five divisions. But the feeling was that artificially placed some teams higher than they should have been.

The belief is that with smaller divisions and more crossovers, there will be more ways to compare teams when they are seeded, as they will be more likely to play teams of different quality throughout the season than just who’s in their division.

Here’s a look at the new alignment, along with each team’s division last year.

GMC BOYS’ BASKETBALL ALIGNMENTS 2025-26:

Red American
Colonia (Red)
Old Bridge (Red)
Piscataway (Red)
St. Joseph-Metuchen (Red)
St. Thomas Aquinas (Red)

Red National
East Brunswick (White)
Monroe (Red)
Sayreville (White)
South Plainfield (White)
Woodbridge (White)

White American
Edison (Blue)
JP Stevens (Blue)
North Brunswick (White)
North Plainfield (Blue)
Perth Amboy (White)
South Brunswick (White)
Timothy Christian (Blue)

White National
Carteret (Blue)
JFK (Gold)
Metuchen (Gold)
Middlesex (Gold)
Spotswood (Gold)

Blue American
Dunellen (Silver)
Highland Park (Silver)
New Brunswick (Blue)
Piscataway Magnet (Silver)
South Amboy (Silver)
South River (Gold)

Blue National
Calvary Christian (Gold)
East Brunswick Magnet (Silver)
Perth Amboy Magnet (Silver)
Somerset Tech (Silver)
Wardlaw-Hartridge (Silver)

GMC GIRLS’ BASKETBALL ALIGNMENTS 2025-26

Red American
East Brunswick (Red)
Monroe (Red)
North Plainfield (Red)
Piscataway (Red)
St. Thomas Aquinas (Red)
South Brunswick (Red)

Red National
Colonia (Red)
Edison (White)
Middlesex (White)
Old Bridge (Red)
Spotswood (White)

White American
JP Stevens (White)
North Brunswick (White)
South Plainfield (White)
Woodbridge (White)

White National
Carteret (Blue)
Highland Park (Blue)
JFK (Blue)
Metuchen (Blue)
Sayreville (Blue)
Perth Amboy (White)
Timothy Christian (Blue)

Blue American
Calvary Christian (Gold)
Dunellen (Blue)
Mother Seton (Gold)
New Brunswick (Gold)
South River (Blue)
Wardlaw-Hartridge (Gold)

Blue National
East Brunswick Magnet (Gold)
Perth Amboy Magnet (Gold)
Piscataway Magnet (Gold)
Somerset Tech (Gold)
South Amboy (Gold)
Woodbridge Magnet (Gold)

by Mike Pavlichko

GMC’s 24th annual Dan Hayston Memorial Sportsmanship Awards honors dozens of student athletes, and adds Kindness Counts Awards through Marisa Tufaro Foundation

As dozens of student-athletes from around the GMC gathered at the Pines Manor in Edison on Wednesday, for the second year in a row, there was a new wrinkle for those in attendance at the 24th annual Dan Hayston Memorial Sportsmanship Awards Luncheon.

Five of them were honored with Kindness Counts Awards, given out by the Marisa Tufaro Foundation and the Peter Fund, going to those who demonstrate compassion, generosity, kindness, sportsmanship, inclusivity and empathy.

They included John Colon of North Brunswick, Grace Gogola of East Brunswick, Roberto Morales-Lopez of Piscataway Magnet, Juliana Marques of South River, and Shasha Smith of Mother Seton.

The Kindness Counts Award was established in loving memory of the late Peter Bonn Elchoness, a student-athlete from Niwot High School in Colorado who died suddenly and without warning in his sleep at the age of 17 in November, 2022, from a rare disease that causes damage to the heart.

Former longtime Home News Tribune sportswriter Greg Tufaro speaks at the 24th annual Dan Hayston Memorial GMC Sportsmanship Awards Luncheon at the Pines Manor in Edison on April 9, 2025. (Photo: Robert Morris/Studio Rob)

Each received a commemorative plaque and a $500 donation in the name to a charity of their choosing that helps children in need in Middlesex County.

As far as the Sportsmanship Awards, one boy and one girl from each GMC school was honored, while school awards went to East Brunswick, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Wardlaw-Hartridge.

The awards are named after Dan Hayston, the longtime East Brunswick boys’ soccer coach who roamed the sidelines for 22 years and taught physical education there. The Hall of Fame coach passed away at the age of 56 in 2006. With the Bears, he had an unfathomable 358-91-24 record, winning a league record ten GMC Tournament championships.

Ten $300 scholarships were awarded to the Sportsmanship Award nominees, chosen at random, with two additional scholarships thanks to Jim Gano of Crown trophy in Flemington – which donated the plaques for the event – awarded by The Peter Fund and the Marisa Tufaro Foundation.

Here’s a complete list of individual winners, who also received a letter from State Senator Patrick Diegnan of South Plainfield, who also attended:

  • Calvary Christian School: Ben Dabrowski and Victoria Barella
  • Carteret High School: Shane Castor and Daniela Portillo
  • Colonia High School: Joseph Figueira and Oyola Mia Cardenas
  • Dunellen High School: Danny Watts and Ella Walker
  • East Brunswick High School: Silas Vega and Samantha Arnold
  • East Brunswick Magnet School: Ramon Garcia and Addison Calabrese
  • Edison Academy Magnet School: Nimay Sathees and Deeya Mulchandani
  • Edison High School: Brody Ferrer and Olivia Smart
  • Highland Park High School: Seth Shapiro and Ruby Miller
  • J.F. Kennedy High School: Jayden France and Darshana Shah
  • J.P. Stevens High School: Sean Weeks and Jada Corbitt
  • Metuchen High School: Daniel Galligan and Ava Barasch
  • Middlesex High School: Owen Reynolds and Madison DeOliveira
  • Monroe High School: Kyle Capodanno and Nishmitha Thambi
  • Mother Seton Regional High School: Olivia Martinez
  • New Brunswick High School: Kevin Mercado and Kennedi Johnson
  • North Brunswick High School: Jahir Dawud and Rahkai Degrasse
  • North Plainfield High School: Anthony Penaranda and Saja Singletary
  • Old Bridge High School: Joshua Santiago and Peyton O’Regan
  • Perth Amboy High School: Yandel Susana and Genesis Soto
  • Perth Amboy Magnet School: Ethan Chendorain and Mextli Lomeli-Roman
  • Piscataway High School: Vaughn Turner and Alisha Dhillon
  • Piscataway Magnet School: Joel Polynice and Leila Martinez
  • Saint Joseph High School: Gavin Rivera
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas High School: Lucas Cassino and Emily Pittari
  • Sayreville High School: Brody Cannan and Angelina Sepulveda
  • Somerset Tech High School: Daniel Wuh and Rohini Routray
  • South Amboy High School: Jeremy Vasquez and Gabrielle Evanski
  • South Brunswick High School: Matthew Gomez Jimenez and Alexis Lease Springer
  • South Plainfield High School: Ryan Rizk and Ava Chapman
  • South River High School: Julius Rosado Juliana Marques
  • Spotswood High School: Matthew Reed Mikayla DaRocha
  • Timothy Christian School: Aaron George Anya Wildgoose
  • Wardlaw-Hartridge School: Ryan Maciorowski Mohisha Jha
  • Woodbridge Academy Magnet: School Sujal Dhoka Kiah Parekh
  • Woodbridge High School: Jahmir Beal Angelina Smolder