Tag: HS Football

by Mike Pavlichko

North Plainfield gets back to .500 with shutout win at New Brunswick

Anthony Costello caught two touchdown passes from quarterback Ian Lameira as North Plainfield evened its record at 2-2 with a 25-0 win at New Brunswick Thursday night, in the Big Central Conference Patriot Gold Division opener for both schools at Memorial Stadium.

After a season-opening 7-0 shutout win over Orange, that record mirrors the 2-2 start the Canucks had last season, with those two victories coming over Orange and New Brunswick.

It’s also the first time North Plainfield has won two games via shutout in the same season since 2011, when they beat Holmdel in a consolation game, 37-0, on November 11th, then blanked rival South Plainfield on Thanksgiving, 28-0, to finish the season with four straight wins and a 4-6 record under Bob Lake.

The Zebras hung in for the first 24 minutes, with Costello grabbing a nine-yard pass in the back left corner of the end zone, just barely staying in bounds, to take a 6-0 lead after the PAT was blocked.

It would stay that way through halftime, but the Canucks would get another score in the third and two more in the fourth. First, it was a one-yard touchdown run by Alex Kruszczynski in the third period that made it 12-0 after a two-point run failed

Then, in the fourth, Isaiah Broy scored on a five-yard run, but the PAT failed, making it 18-0. And Costello’s second TD reception of the night, a 12-yard pass from Lamiera, made it 25-0, after Edwin Nunez connected on the extra point.

New Brunswick falls to 0-4 with the loss.

by Mike Pavlichko

Gameday with Marcus Borden: Week 3

High school football across the state – and in the Big Central – is in mid-season mode now, and it’s time to talk about it all with Central Jersey Sports Radio high school football analyst with Marcus Borden!

We open the show looking back at last week’s games, including Coach Borden’s trips to see Highland Park at JP Stevens Thursday and Belvidere at Dunellen on Friday.

Borden also shared recent observations on inconsistencies with application of the running clock rule, and then we moved on to breakdown the three Top Ten games in the Big Central this week, including No. 8 St. Thomas Aquinas at No. 4 Old Bridge – which he’ll be covering – as well as our Bellamy & Son Paving Game of the Week Friday between No. 7 Elizabeth and No. 2 St. Joseph-Metuchen, plus No. 9 Ridge and their visit to No. 5 Bridgewater-Raritan.

The episode concludes with “breaking news” that emerged during our Wednesday taping, that the NJSIAA would host all state finals at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, throwing some potential chaos into the mix for Thanksgiving Day teams that reach the state championships.

Click below to listen to the Week Three edition of “Gameday with Marcus Borden”:

by Mike Pavlichko

Immaculata football program seeks admission to Big Central Conference, could join league in ’28

The Immaculata football program is in discussions to join the Big Central Conference, Central Jersey Sports Radio has learned.

League president Scott Miller confirmed the Somerville Catholic school’s request to CJSR on Thursday afternoon.

While Miller says the potential admission of Immaculata is in the “extreme infant stage,” he confirmed that it’s definitely a topic that is on the table.

The process for admission is that once a school approaches the league, the Executive Committee must decide whether to present the request to the entire conference, where the league membership would vote on admission. In between, there would likely be multiple meetings to discuss any issues or concerns.

Miller says the Executive Committee did indeed vote to present Immaculata’s request to the full league, and it would be up to the 59 existing Big Central athletic directors to make the ultimate decision. That process could take several months, Miller noted.

The BCC is in the first year of a two-year scheduling cycle, so if Immaculata were added, Miller says the Spartans would not begin play until the 2028 season.

Their addition would give the Big Central an even 60 teams across four counties – at least for now – including all the Greater Middlesex Conference schools, as well as the schools that made up the former Mid-State 38 Conference, which included Union, Somerset, Hunterdon and parts of Warren Counties.

It would also give the league three non-public schools, including St. Joseph of Metuchen and St. Thomas Aquinas, formerly known as Bishop Ahr (though Aquinas was its original name when the school opened).

Immaculata was one of the original BCC members, having been in the Mid-State Conference, but over the summer of 2020, before the inaugural season kicked off, and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, they withdrew due to scheduling disagreements.

Warren Hills also was an original member of the Big Central, playing in the league in its inaugural season of 2020 and in 2021, but moved to the Super Football Conference in 2022.

And in news coming out of Robbinsville Wednesday, where the NJSIAA held its first Executive Committee meeting of the year, Bernardsville is in the process of seeking a split from the Skyland Conference in most sports, and the BCC in boys’ football and girls’ flag football, seeking to join the NJAC and Super Football Conference, with travel seemingly a key issue.

Immaculata parted ways with Mike Columbo after the 2025 season and in early February hired Class of 2011 alum Dallas Whitaker as head coach, with mentor Jeff Vanderbeek also on board as the Football Program Coordinator.

Vanderbeek took over at Somerville in 2015 as co-head coach with Chris Cassamento, then went solo the next year as the Pioneers went 10-1, falling in the Central Jersey Group 3 semifinals to Rumson-Fair Haven. They went 11-1 the next season, in 2017, and beat Rumson for the CJ3. Whitaker was his Offensive Coordinator.

Vanderbeek handed Whitaker the keys in 2018 and the team went 36-6 under his leadership, finishing with a No. 4 ranking in the state (7-0) in the COVID-shortened 2020 season with one of the highest-octane no-huddle offenses you’ll ever see at the high school level.

The Spartans are currently 1-2, with a Week One win over St. Joseph-by-the-Sea of Staten island, 50-28. They dropped a 40-20 decision in their opener to Glassboro, and fell 38-16 this past week at Archbishop Stepinac (NY). Though they are affiliated with the Super Football Conference to help with scheduling, they are considered independent within the league and do not play in an SFC division.

by Dylan Allen

After best start in over a decade, No. 7 Elizabeth hosts No. 2 St. Joseph-Metuchen, looking to remain unbeaten

With one exception, St. Joseph-Metuchen and Elizabeth have played some tight games the last few years.

The Falcons won this game 41-20 a year ago. The previous two times these two clashed, in 2023 and 2024, the combined margin of victory for St. Joseph was three points. And in 2022, Elizabeth won 23-21, but that was four years ago.

This new class of Minutemen and head coach Eugene Kline, since being named the head man at Elizabeth, have yet to know the feeling of defeating the Falcons.

In order for history to be made Friday night, fourth-year staring quarterback A’rique Fleming has to be on his A-game. The senior is 0-3 against St. Joe’s in his career, completing 58.9% of his passes for 565 yards (188.3 ypg), six total touchdowns, and three interceptions.

You can hear that game live on Central Jersey Sports Radio in the Big Central Game of the Week presented by Bellamy & Son Paving. Kickoff is set for 6 pm, with pregame at 5:40 pm from Williams Field. Alec Crouthamel and Dylan Allen are on the call; click here to listen.

More importantly, the Minutemen’s run defense has to be top-notch.

In the past three games against St. Joseph, the Falcons have averaged 197.7 yards on the ground and three rushing touchdowns per contest. In that span, the closest Elizabeth has been to victory was a 21-20 loss in 2024. The Minutemen held Joe’s to just 62 yards on the ground and two touchdowns, while shutting them out in the second half.

It was almost a comeback for the ages as Elizabeth trailed 21-0 at halftime. But across the other two losses, the Falcons ran for a combined 531 yards.

Fortunately for A’rique Fleming – the Week 2 Bellamy & Son Paving Player of the Week, who earned the award for a big pick-six he had late to seal the win, in addition to his QB exploits – he has some star-studded wide receivers to choose from in Qua’Yon Williams, Erick Cespedes, and Nahjae Smith.

Williams and Cespedes have combined for 433 yards and five touchdowns, while Smith has missed time due to an ankle issue, according to Kline, he’s still a player you do not want to take lightly. In 2024, his sophomore season, Smith had his breakout year with 32 receptions, 640 yards, and seven touchdowns – all career highs.

What’s at stake for these two teams besides snagging a win in the American Gold division? Remaining unbeaten. St. Joseph enters the contest at 2-0; Elizabeth at 3-0, for the first time since 2015, when they started 4-0, and finished 7-2.

St. Joseph is coming off a 28-6 win at Westfield, while Elizabeth took the trip to Union, beat the Farmers 19-7, and now are playing their first home game of the season.

Click below to hear Elizabeth football head coach Eugene Kline talk about the Minutemen’s season so far and upcoming matchup against St. Joseph-Metuchen, with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Dylan Allen:

by Mike Pavlichko

A four-year starting QB, A’rique Fleming gets it done on defense, too, and earns Week 2 Bellamy & Son Paving Player of the Week honors

It was August 25, 2023 at Kean University in Union when a fresh-faced ninth-grader named A’rique Fleming took to the field to play quarterback for the Elizabeth football team.

He might be a little raw, then-head coach John Fiore told us, but “You’ve gotta see this kid,” he added.

Sometimes coaches are given to hyperbole, and Fiore is no exception. But he was dead on the money on this one.

Elizabeth didn’t win the game, falling 27-22 to the rival Tigers, but Fleming showed great poise for a freshman in a back-and-forth game where the lead was always changing: 7-of-12 passing, 140 yards, one touchdown, one interception. Fiore was on the Fleming bandwagon, and now we were, too.

Fast forward three years to 2026, and he’s been one of the premier quarterbacks in the Big Central for a while now, and he’s already thrown for 622 yards and seven touchdowns in three games.

His latest performance was 17-of-21 throwing the ball for 220 yards and a touchdown, with a team-high 45 rushing yards (and a touchdown). But more impressive? He also plays defense, and is very good at it.

He was especially good last Friday night in a 19-7 win at Union. Playing linebacker, he had a forced fumble and recovery, a team-high tackles, and two interceptions.

One of them was quite critical in the win, too: a 72-yard pick-six with Union driving deep into Elizabeth territory with under two minutes left in a 13-7 game the Minutemen led.

“He made a great read on the play,” says his head coach, Eugene Kline, breaking “multiple tackles on the play” as Elizabeth hung on and made it a 3-0 start to a season for the first time since 2015.

For his efforts, Xavier Wilson is the Bellamy & Son Paving Big Central Player of the Week for Week Two.

Logo of Bellamy & Son Paving highlighting the Big Central Player of the Week.

Click below to hear Mike Pavlichko with Week Two Bellamy & Son Paving Player of the Week A’rique Fleming of Elizabeth:

We’ll get to see Fleming at least one more time on Central Jersey Sports Radio when No. 7 Elizabeth hosts No. 2 St. Joseph-Metuchen (2-0) in the Friday night Bellamy & Son Paving Big Central Game of the Week. Kickoff is 6 pm at Williams Field, with pregame at 5:40. Alec Crouthamel and Dylan Allen will have the call; click here to listen.

The Bellamy & Son Paving Player of the Week is chosen from nominees by Big Central coaches. At the end of the season, one player will be chosen to receive a $500 scholarship courtesy of Bellamy & Son Paving. As always, we will recognize selected “Honorable Mentions,” and recognize all other all nominees in our weekly story.

Honorable Mentions:

  • Nolan Walsh, Bernards: In a 49-29 win over Governor Livingston – the Mountaineers’ first of the season after starting 0-2 – the senior QB rushed for four touchdowns (of 3, 34, 30 and 11 yards) while throwing for 54- and 19-yard scores. He completed 13-of-18 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns. logging 348 yards of total offense and accounting for all five of Bernards’ first-half scores.
  • Zach Mutton, Montgomery: The senior plays five positions for Sean Carty’s Cougars, who got their first win of the season Thursday, 32-14 up at Watchung Hills. At running back, he took the rock 23 times for 104 yards and two touchdowns. He’s also a kicker, and made two field goals of 32 and 41 yards, the latter a new school record. He had a punt, too, that pinned the Warriors back on their own two-yard line early to help establish momentum. At defensive back, he also added two tackles, both of the solo variety.
  • Ja’Quan Robinson, Rahway: The senior quarterback often does a lot of great things on the field, but it was more than that Friday night in a 42-21 win at Woodbridge. He tossed 2-for-6 for 50 yards and two touchdowns, and carried ten times for 129 yards and two more scores of nine and 55 yards. On defense, at linebacker, he also had three solo tackles and a TFL. And he even had three punts for 109 total yards. But his coaches say the captain did his biggest work in the locker room, bringing the group together and spurring them on to outscore Woodbridge 21-7 in the second half. And then, he put his money where his mouth is, scoring a 55-yard touchdown to finish the game.
  • James Hampton, Somerville: In a 54-6 shellacking of North Hunterdon Thursday night, the junior wide receiver had seven catches for 106 yards and two touchdowns of 32 and 15 yards. At cornerback, he also had a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown.
  • Tyler Hicks, South Hunterdon: The senior quarterback for the Eagles – 2-1 in Kyle Hart’s first season as head coach – went 16-of-29 for 210 passing yards and a touchdown in a 21-15 win over Middlesex Thursday night. Facing a 15-13 deficit with under a minute to go, he scrambled on fourth down to evade two tacklers. His pass went incomplete, but drew a pass interference call. Eventually, on third down on the Blue Jay six, he hit Charlie Dickerson for a touchdown to take a 19-15 lead, then hit him again for a two-point conversion for the final score.

Other Notable Performances:

  • Elijah White, Belvidere: IN a 42-2 win at Dunellen Friday, the senior wide receiver had four catches for 2333 yards, with three of those hauls going for touchdowns, including a 96- and a 55-yarder. He Laos had an 80-yarder called back on a penalty.
  • Marcus Smith, Highland Park: In the third straight win for the Owls – a 43-0 win at JP Stevens that gives them their second 3-0 start in three seasons – Smith threw for 74 yards and a touchdown, while rushing for 48 and a second score. Highland Park has outscored its first three opponents 99-0, and has three consecutive shutouts for the first time since 1964. (They had six in a row that year.)
  • Jonathon Gosk, Manville: The senior quarterback – in his first year starting – was 9-of-13 passing to 148 yards and touchdown passes of 46 and five yards in a 35-7 home win over arch-rival Manville Friday night, heard here on Central Jersey Sports Radio. He also rushed five times for 18 yards and scoring runs of 21 and two yards.
  • Tommasso Demetrio, Monroe: In a 42-7 win at North Brunswick, the senior wide receiver caught five balls for 60 yards and a touchdown, as well as five rushes for 25 yards and another score. Four of his first five touches were either a touchdown or gave his team a first down. At outside linebacker, Demetrio had three tackles, two TFLs, and a sack. Oh, and he also was 6-for-6 on PATs and booted two 50-yard punts.
  • Charlie Maneely, New Providence: The senior runningback carried 12 times for 87 yards and a score, while also catching four passes for 36 yards and another score in a 27-20 win at Johnson on Thursday. At linebacker, he also had three tackles and two fumble recoveries.
  • Ariel Rosario Sime, Perth Amboy: In a 42-6 win over Roselle
  • Gabriel Manson, Sayreville: The senior H-back carried six times for 104 yards and two scores for the Bombers, while adding a 60-yard catch in a 41-6 home win over Edison. More impressively, he allowed zero catches from his position at cornerback.
  • Vinny Young, Spotswood: Very similar to his last outing, the senior runningback carried eight times for 121 yards and two touchdowns, while also grabbing two passes for 22 yards in a 47-14 home win over Metuchen Thursday night. At outside linebacker, he added four solo tackles, two assists and a TFL.
  • Aiden Morse, St. Thomas Aquinas: The junior running back carried ten times for 73 yards and three touchdowns in a 40-0 win at Franklin on Friday night.

by Mike Pavlichko

NJSIAA announces all state football finals to be held at MetLife Stadium on Thanksgiving Weekend, even teams that play on Turkey Day

NJSIAA Executive Director Colleen Maguire Wednesday at the association’s first Executive Committee meeting of the year that all seven state football finals – five public and two non-public – will be held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford this year, on Saturday and Sunday, November 28th and 29th.

It would be the first time ever – since state finals were introduced in 2022 – that all title games were held at MetLife.

The news was first broken by Darren Cooper of Varsity Aces on Twitter, the social media account for the Bergen Record.

The move was made possible because the NFL’s Giants are in Indianapolis on that Sunday, and the Jets are in Miami that same day. And it was necessitated, at least in part, by Rutgers hosting Michigan State in its season finale on Saturday, though a time has not yet been set.

Conceivably, Sunday games could have been played at Rutgers, with the Scarlet Knights’ season most likely over by then, but the NJSIAA decided to put all seven title tilts at the Meadowlands.

Notable is the fact that, in previous years, teams that play on Thanksgiving – and there are still a handful around the state, including Phillipsburg, the only team left in the Big Central Conference to do so – would typically play the next Wednesday. But that won’t be the case this year.

Reporter Darren Cooper, who covered the meeting for Varsity Aces, says Maguire acknowleged the tradition of Thanksgiving games, but said the championships would all be played on the 28th and 29th, Saturday and Sunday, and that it would be up to those teams to figure out.

It’s possible some Thanksgiving games could move to Wednesday to give more time to prepare, and that the NJSIAA could put those games on Sunday.

Per the NJSIAA Football Regulations for 2026, their only restriction on time between games is as follows: “A team may not play more than two football games in a period of nine days. A player may not participate in more than five (5) quarters on consecutive days. This includes freshman, sophomore, junior varsity, and varsity competition.”

READ MORE: NJSIAA moves all state finals to Thanksgiving weekend, but how many teams will it affect?

Any team that makes the state finals and plays on Thanksgiving would have played in the sectional semifinals on November 20 or 21, Thanksgiving on either Wednesday (the 25th) or Thursday (the 26th), and a state final on the 28th or 29th, which would mean the potential to play three games in ten days at best (if a team played on November 20th, Thanksgiving Eve or the day of, and November 29th), and, at worst, three games in eight if they played a state semifinal on Saturday and a state final the following Saturday.

Reached Wednesday afternoon, Maguire confirmed to Central Jersey Sports Radio that teams will be allowed to play on Thanksgiving, even if they are in the state semis the week before and in the finals the following weekend.

For the record, according to NJ.com schedules, this year there is one game on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving – Camden Catholic at Paul VI – and 14 Thanksgiving Day games. That’s 30 teams out of over 330 in the state.

Out of those 30, two made it to the state finals last year: Camden and Shabazz in Group 2, who both are now in Group 3. None of the four non-publics who played in the A or B final last year play on Thanksgiving this year.

This year’s Thanksgiving teams who played in last year’s state semifinals include Camden, Shabazz, Haddonfield, and Phillipsburg, which reached the Group 4 state final in 2024.

Bernards looking to leave Skyland Conference, maybe Big Central?

Cooper also reported that after the meeting there would be a hearing about Bernards leaving the Skyland Conference, which includes teams from Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties.

Whether that would also affect their membership in the Big Central Conference – a football-only league that includes girls’ flag football as well – is unknown, but the idea has been talked about for at least a year now. The general feeling among some at the school is there are many similar size and quality schools Bernards could play in multiple sports in much closer proximity, including Morris County, than traveling long distances in the Skyland or Big Central.

It’s also unlikely to affect their standing in the Somerset County Tournament in sports like baseball and basketball. There is no Skyland Conference Tournament, and schools typically participate in either the Somerset County Tournament or the Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex tournament.

by Mike Pavlichko

“The Big Central in 2 Minutes” – Week 3

Week Two play is in the books, we’re a third of the way through the regular season, the first playoff standings of the year are out, and Mike Pavlichko takes a closer look in the Week Three edition of “The Big Central in 2 Minutes!”

On this week’s episode, Mike talks about one tweak he’d like to see with the playoff standings, then looks at some notable positions, including Piscataway leading North Group 5, as well as Elizabeth, Old Bridge, Ridge, Rahway, Spotswood and Highland Park. Plus, a closer look at the Owls’, who are blowing opponents away the first three weeks of the season. And finally, a look at our two live broadcasts this week and a big one for Marcus Borden on Friday.

All on this week’s edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes!

Click below to listen to the 2026 Week 3 edition of “The Big Central in Two Minutes”:

scientific calculator on wooden surface
by Mike Pavlichko

OFFICIAL NJ Football Strength Index numbers for all teams following Week Two action

Now that NJ.com has released its first UPR playoff standings of the season, we have a clear look at the official Strength Index numbers for everyone in the state.

They can be found by going to a team’s home page, then clicking on power Points.

How did we do the first three weeks? Considering we were told of one incorrect score as reporter to NJ.com this weekend, and that out-of-state OOS determination is dicey at best, we did pretty well.

In the end, we had 285 of 336 on the nose. A portion of those incorrect played an OOS opponent, mainly in Week Zero. But remember, if that’s wrong, and Team A plays an OOS in Week One, then the resulting SI will be wrong, and that sets an incorrect basis for the next game. So now, it affects Team A and B, then in Week two when Team A plays Team C and Team B plays Team B, all four will be wrong. The problem compounds exponentially.

Nonetheless, we’ve confirmed all our numbers, and below you’ll find a full list of Strength Index values for all teams in New Jersey.

Each week, SI values change based on the final score and the rating of the two teams that played. Here’s an example. SI goes up or down depending on how a team did compared to the difference between the two teams. If Team A (80 SI) plays Team B (60 SI) and Team A wins by 20, there’s no change. If Team A wins by 10, they underperformed by 10 points, and Team B overperformed by 10 points. Team B increases by 2 points to become a 62, and Team A drops to a 78. Team A then gets the full value of Team B for its OSI (62) while Team B gets half the value of Team A (39).

Here are Central Jersey Sports Radio’s UNOFFICIAL Strength Index values after Week Two play:

2026 Strength Index (Official) after Week 2Download

Note: The NJ.com standings also revealed the SI values of out-of-state opponents for games already played. You can find them by going to a team’s power point calculation page.

Changes? NJ.com says that updates will push every morning at 6 am, if there are any. If an incorrect score has been confirmed and changed, that could affect the SI and OSI of multiple teams, depending on how many games have been played, if any, since the error.

by Marcus Borden

Phillipsburg still #1 in Marcus Borden’s Week 3 Top Ten… plus rankings for BCC West, Middlesex and Union Counties

Thursday night’s matchup between the JP Stevens Hawks and Highland Park Owls was between two proud programs that have struggled in recent years trying to overcome extended losing streaks which in turn caused rosters to be depleted.

Highland Park ended a 51-game losing streak in their final game on November 2, 2023, defeating Point Pleasant Beach, 46-29, whereas Stevens buried their 42-game losing skid in an overtime thriller on September 6, 2024, taking down Bound Brook, 22-21.

I was in attendance for both of those games and I can tell you that the weight of the world was off their shoulders as they were leaping for joy and hugging everyone in sight as tears streamed down their smiling faces!

Kudos to the Big Central Conference braintrust for scheduling these two rebuilding teams to face each other as they continue to bring their programs back to competiveness and respectability.

The visiting Owls wasted little time making their presence known as Senior quarterback Marcus Smith would score on their 3rd play from scrimmage going 48 yards to paydirt. The defense led by Smith, Jacob Quiros, Duan Fleming, Ziquan Grier and a host of others would stifle the Hawks offense as their own would put up 36 first half points forcing a running clock for the 2nd half. Bryce Morales would make the final score 43-0 on a 13-yard scamper late in the 3rd quarter.

Friday nigh,t I was at Columbia Park in Dunellen, as the Destroyers hosted Belvidere in white uniforms as their new, navy jerseys have yet to arrive.

Belvidere would win the toss and defer the choice until the 2nd half. The Seaters would stop the Destroyers new spread offense on their first series and proceed to score quickly with Junior quarterback Jake Enderley finding his elusive wide receiver Elijah White – a four-year starter for the Seaters – and the early 7-0 lead.

Enderley would execute a perfect option pitch to Kaiden Drake for a 33-yard score in the second quarter, followed by his own 23-yard cutback run for a 21-0 lead late in the second quarter.

Dunellen would muster a drive toward the scoreboard end of the field coming up short on a 4th down play to the Seaters 2-yard line with 1:23 before halftime. They would be rewarded a safety as they tackled the ball carrier as they snap sailed over the quarterback’s head. The halftime score would stand at 21-2

The combination of Enderley to White would account for a 55-yard score on the first play of the third quarter and a 97-yard hitch pass down the visitor’s sideline for a 35-2 lead with 40 seconds remaining in the 3rd quarter which meant there would be a running clock for the remainder of the game.

Senior linebacker Kayden Thorpe would cap the scoring with a 60-yard interception return making the final score 42-2 as the Belvidere improved their record to 2-1. Dunellen would fall to 0-2.

Here are my Week 3 Top Tens for the entire Big Central Conference, plus the BCC West, Middlesex County and Union Count

by Mike Pavlichko

INSTANT REPLAY:  Manville 35, Bound Brook 7

Senior quarterback Jonathan Gosk rushed for two touchdowns and threw for two more as Manville defeated arch-rival Bound Brook, 35-7, in the Big Central Conference Freedom Silver Division opener for both teams.

Logo for Bellamy & Son Paving, promoting the Big Central Game of the Week, featuring bold text in red and yellow colors.

Click below to listen to Mike Pavlichko and Vin Ebenau call all the play-by-play live from Ned Panfile Stadium in Manville, NJ, on September 11, 2026:

1st Half
2nd Half