shore conference football

The Thanksgiving rivalry games brought about some surprising scores and record-setting performances as all but five Shore Conference teams wrapped up their seasons this past week.

Don't tell anyone, but I was one win away from the perfect weekend last week. Yes, I know there were only seven games played, but I have to take my small victories where I can get them.

Three of the games that are usually used as ammunition by traditionalists for keeping Thanksgiving games in favor of scrapping them to make way for a playoff system that would crown overall Group champions also happen to be three huge games this season.

With just two weeks to go, it’s still a wide-open race for the final All Shore Media Top 10, and some huge Thanksgiving games this week should provide some more clarity.

The semi-final round of the N.J. State playoff system was a very successful one for the Shore Conference. Five teams have advanced for a shot at a Championship. Friday night Neptune, Rumson and Manalapan all won, while Asbury Park and Matawan won on Sat...

Five Shore Conference football teams punched their ticket to the NJSIAA state sectional championships this past weekend, and the Shore has a chance to sweep the titles in all four Central Jersey brackets.

At least all of the teams I have picked to win the championship in the Central Jersey, South Jersey, and Non-Public III brackets made it through the opening weekend of playoff games, so I got that going for me.

Point Beach sophomore Sean Struncius has seen the scrapbooks, watched the old films, looked at the painted football in the glass case in the hallway of the high school and heard the old stories.

Heading into this weekend’s state sectional semifinals, one of the most highly-anticipated games is a showdown between old rivals Manasquan and Matawan on Saturday at Vic Kubu Warrior Field in Manasquan.

Only three more weeks of action before the final All Shore Media Top 10 will be chiseled in stone, and the first week of the playoffs brought shakeups across the rankings.

While the Shore Conference faltered as a whole in the first round of the NJSIAA playoffs, there were several teams that enjoyed memorable weekends by ending significant playoff droughts.

It wasn't a pretty weekend for the Shore Conference in the first round of the playoffs. 11 teams were knocked off in round 1 and 9 survived. With 4 teams playing each other we are at least guaranteed to have 2 finalist on the weekend of Dec 4th...