Tag: Jordon Schreffler

by Mike Pavlichko

A long trip well worth it for Belvidere, as County Seaters pound Dunellen, 42-2

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!

by Mike Pavlichko

Belvidere’s big year deserves an encore; can the County Seaters make it even bigger in 2025?

While Highland Park may have been Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Turnaround Team of the Year in 2024, winning six games last season after going 1-51 from 2017 through 2023, you could have put Belvidere down as “1b” in that category just looking at one year to the next.

Jordon Schreffler’s team went from 0-9 in his debut season at the tiny Warren County school to 3-7 in 2023, and then 8-2 last year, a truly impressive five-win improvement. The Seaters’ only regular season loss came to Boonton in their opener, and they made the playoffs, falling to Verona in the opening round of the North 2, Group 1 bracket.

The numbers were impressive: 1,230 passing yards from quarterback Kyle Blew, who threw for 22 touchdowns. Mason Chamberlain racked up a team-high 36 catches for 400 yards and seven touchdowns, while the ground game put together a 1,116-yard season, led by 316 yards and two TDs from Julian Dorfman in a runningback-by-committee situation.

All of them are seniors, though, and gone for 2025, as are a few key others, but Schreffler likes what he has back. That includes Elijah White, a sophomore wide receiver who only had 19 catches a year ago, but outdid Chamberlain by 21 yards (421 total) on the receiving end. He also had seven runs for 53 yards.

And then there are seniors Brayden Duckworth and Geoffrey Young, who Schreffler had with him at Big Central Media Day back on August 7th.

Both were freshmen in Schreffler’s first season. Duckworth is a two-way lineman, while Young plays offensive line and linebacker. And that could be an indication of where Belvidere’s strength lies: line play.

Three of their five starters up front on D are back, while the entire offensive line returns. Defensively, Young racked up five sacks last season, two fumble recoveries including a scoop-and-score, and an interception, while Duckworth had three sacks, 84 total tackles, and also logged two fumble recoveries, one for a touchdown.

Click below to hear Belvidere head coach Jordon Schreffler and seniors Brayden Duckworth and Geoffrey Young talk with Central Jersey Sports Radio’s Mike Pavlichko at Big Central Media Day: