Ninth Notes Column: Who’s Hot Heading into the Postseason?
All 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...
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Butler Wins NJIC, Earn Top Sectional Seed
If 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...
Mendham, Sparta, Boonton Capture Division Titles in Different Ways
Three 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...
Resilient Sparta Rolls Over West Milford
One 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...
Divisional Races at Stake this Weekend
Temperatures 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...
Wallkill Valley Stuns Whippany Park, Clinches a Share of the...
Wallkill 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...
Boonton, other area schools, in the mix for division titles
The 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...
West Morris’ Borgia Leads Area’s Underclass Recruits
Some 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...
Newton Stuns High Point, Ends Wildcats’ Undefeated Start
Newton’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...
BSS Week 4 Football Staff Picks
Despite some crazy upsets, last week somehow didn’t set all seven of our “experts” back too too far in our picks. Dan Cleary still leads the way, showing that his...
