2013 Shore Conference football

HOLMDEL - Raritan's comeback from a two-touchdown hole to beat St. John Vianney 23-20 on Saturday was a concrete symbol of how the Rockets are getting back to the winning football that has characterized their program over the years. During a rough stretch in the past season-and-a-half, the Rockets (3-5, 2-3) struggled to execute at the most important times, but they came up with one game-changing

Here are the official pairings for the NJSIAA playoffs in brackets involving Shore Conference teams. Central Jersey Group V (8) Brick Memorial (6-3) at (1) Manalapan (8-0); (5) Sayreville (7-2) at (4) Monroe (6-3); (6) South Brunswick (5-3) at (3) Trenton (8-1); (7) Hunterdon Central (5-4) at (2) Old Bridge (6-2)...

By Chris Melvin - Shore Sports Network Contributor MANCHESTER - Seniors Shaquille Benjamin and Devin Tomei helped Manchester make its bid for a state playoff spot and deny Central its first division title since 1994 with an 18-13 upset victory on Friday night...

Follow Bob Badders on Twitter at @Bob_Badders Click here for a photo gallery by Cliff Lavelle. BRICK — When Ken Bradley was coming up through the Jackson Memorial youth football program, he watched the high school team he’d one day star for become one of the Shore’s best...

By Art Gordon - Shore Sports Network contributor MIDDLETOWN - All week, Colts Neck head coach Greg LaCava preached to his players that they would need to put four good quarters together to walk off the field with a win on the road against Middletown South on Friday night...

RUMSON - The No. 1 seed in Central Jersey Group II, an 8-0 record, and a win over nemesis Manasquan were sitting one yard away with 54 seconds left in a tie game on Friday night when Rumson-Fair Haven was faced with two choices. First, the Bulldogs had to decide whether to go for it on fourth-and-goal or kick a field goal...

Senior tailback Khani Glover had a 26-yard touchdown run and Jared Calhoun booted a 26-yard field goal as the Jaguars (6-2, 6-1) built a 9-0 lead and held on to beat the Green Dragons (6-3, 5-2) to clinch the Class A South title, their first division title since 2005 in the Sonny’s Recycling Shore Sports Network High School Football Game of the Week.  Listen to the game audio.

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I can’t seem to shake these four-loss weeks, as this is the part of the year where it becomes harder to decipher which teams that are out of the playoff running are still going hard and which ones have mailed in their seasons. This week has a great slate of games, many with big state playoff seeding implications...

Welcome to the latest edition of the Shore Sports Network’s top plays, highlighting the most dazzling and exciting moments from Shore Conference football action. This week we take a look at the top clips from Week Eight. Obviously, we can’t be filming every game at once, so if you have a great clip on YouTube, Vimeo or some other service where it can be embedded, or if you have the raw video file,

Week Eight Shore Sports Network Players of the Week Offense (tie) Javon Hardy, Sr., RB, Central; Larry Redaelli, Sr., RB, Red Bank Catholic Hardy (pictured below) had one of the top individual games in Central history to help the Golden Eagles solidify their second playoff appearance in three years...

While Red Bank Catholic solidified its top spot in the Shore Sports Network Top 10, there were some other shakeups, headlined by Lakewood’s upset of previously unbeaten Barnegat in Class B South. Class A South now has three ranked teams, as surging Toms River South re-enters the Top 10 after a hiatus...