Dave Ellis

Freehold Boro has hired former Howell head coach and longtime Freehold Regional assistant Derek Reichenbecher as the program's new head football coach.

*Shore 16 rankings *SSN Players of the Week Every week, Scott Stump will bring news, notes and observations from around the Shore in the Shore Football Report.  Freehold head coach Dave Ellis had only one question for his large returning senior class after the smoke cleared on a winless season in 2022. “...

Senior QB Ashante Worthy spearheaded a team effort with 244 total yards and 4 TDs and freshman Ahmad Dixon had a kickoff return for a score to send Freehold to its first state final since 2010.

With every team in the Shore Conference having played at least five games, this is the midway point for the majority of the teams other than the select few who will make it to the NJSIAA sectional finals on that first weekend in December. With half the season in the books, here is a look around Shore Conference football at some of the high points, top performances and storylines thus far, as well

By Scott Clayton - Shore Sports Network contributor WALL – Everyone likes a good fairy tale story. Unless, of course, you are the one tasked with informing Cinderella that it is about to strike midnight. Senior tailback Josh Dixon rushed for a career-high 282 yards and five touchdowns as the beat went on for No...

Listen to the Investors Bank High School Football Show with Kevin Williams, Matt Harmon & Ed Sarluca at Baker’s Water Street Grille in Toms River from Thursday, October 9.

*Sports Clips Player of the Week* Two Shore Conference teams that entered the preseason with their offenses generating the majority of the attention showed that their defenses have what it takes to be championship units during dominating wins in Week One...

By Art Gordon - Shore Sports Network contributor FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - With only 30 players and a Class A North schedule filled with Group IV and V teams, Freehold Boro has found a way to make it work in starting 2-0 for the first time since 2008 after a victory over its rival on Friday night...

Welcome to the inaugural 2014 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 Zero. 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, fee

Note: The Fifth Down will appear weekly, looking back at the previous weekend of Shore Conference football action with news and notes from around the Shore. *Updated 9/9/14, 8 a.m. Week Zero in Shore Conference football only featured five games, but there was plenty to learn from some intriguing openers...

*Photo gallery by Bill Normile* MIDDLETOWN - For the past two years, Freehold senior Josh Dixon has often been left out of the discussion about the Shore Conference's best running backs while the Colonials struggled in the win column. In Friday night's season opener on the road against Middletown North, Dixon and his Freehold teammates decided they were no longer going to take a backseat to anyone