Covering New Jersey High School Sports Since 2006!
Covering New Jersey High School Sports Since 2006!
Joe HofmannThe curtain was coming down on Mountain Lakes’ season. The air was out of the Herd balloon. The sun was setting. The 2024 season was drifting away. Bye-bye, Herd. Mountain Lakes was kaput – or so it seemed. Things…
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Joe HofmannAll week long, Mount Olive football coach Brian O’Connor spoke to his Marauders until he was blue in the face. Over and over. And over. His message: If you play the way you are capable of, you can beat…
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Joe HofmannIf the NJIC playoffs were a mid-term exam, then the Butler Bulldogs passed with flying colors. And now they are even more ready for the final: The state playoffs. Butler beat Glen Rock to win the NJIC playoffs, 21-12,…
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Joe HofmannThree teams. Three division titles at stake. Three victories – all in totally different ways. Mendham, Sparta, and Boonton each spent this past weekend winning games – and their divisions – using totally diverse methods (running, passing, defense, respectively).…
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Joe HofmannOne by one, Sparta starters have been going down like bowling pins. But the Spartans refuse to go down. And now they are the likely Patriot Red champions. The polls are now closed, and the verdict is in: Landslide.…
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Joe HofmannTemperatures are cooling. Leaves are turning brown. Halloween decorations are all over the place. That can only mean one thing: High school football games are taking on more and more meaning. That is certainly true this coming weekend with…
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Joe HofmannWallkill Valley’s Ryder Accardi took a year off from football last year. The Rangers are glad he came back. The SFC-National Blue isn’t – and that goes double for Whippany Park. Accardi caught two TD passes, including a dramatic…
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Joe HofmannThe text arrived on Metin Ahmedi’s phone in the beginning of summer. It was from Sean Norton. It came out of nowhere. “Metin,” it said, “You are our quarterback.” Those may not have been the Boonton coach’s exact words,…
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Joe HofmannSome people see West Morris’ Tommy Borgia as a wrestler in college. Not Dave McCarthy. The author of the highly acclaimed McCarthy Report sees the junior taking down quarterbacks, not opposing wrestlers. McCarthy rates the 6-2, 240-pound two-way lineman…
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Joe HofmannNewton’s 2024 campaign was on the brink. The curtain was coming down on the season. The Braves were lifeless in a coffin and High Point seemed to be shoveling one last bit of dirt all over them. But somehow,…
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