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*Preview Homepage* After graduating several standout starters and most of its skill players, including current Penn State freshman tight end Mike Gesicki, it would be easy to dismiss Southern as a competitive team in Class A South. The Rams, however, have an experienced offensive line and a slew of first-year starters at the skill positions who are eager to prove they can step in and get the job d

*Preview Homepage* With a new head coach and nearly all of its core players from last season having graduated, Manchester’s football team is set to begin a new era under Bill Furlong. Furlong comes to Manchester after 11 years as the head coach at Phoenixville High School in Pennsylvania, and succeeds Gerard O’Donnell, who resigned in May after eight seasons with the Hawks...

*Preview Homepage* After three straight playoff appearances and a division title, Donovan Catholic will be going back to the drawing board this year with a host of new players on each side of the ball as it tries to stay near the top of Class B South...

*Preview Homepage* Up 24-0 at halftime only to lose 28-24 to Shawnee in the semifinals of last season’s NJSIAA South Jersey Group IV playoffs, Toms River South has plenty of built-in motivation as it enters 2014. “When it happened it was the worst thing ever,” said senior quarterback Tymere Berry...

*Preview Homepage* Pinelands finally got back into the win column last season when it defeated Point Boro in overtime to snap a 22-game losing streak that dated back to 2010. The Wildcats finished 1-9 in head coach Brian Wilkinson’s first year with the program, but with a good amount of returning starters and a new offense, they feel they’re ready to make a big jump into contention in Class B Sout

*Preview Homepage* Over the first five games of last season, Lacey was a top-three team in the Shore Conference and on its way to what looked like a championship season. But after starting 5-0, the wheels feel completely off the bus as the Lions spiraled to five straight losses while allowing a staggering 40 points per game...

*Preview Homepage* With three Division I recruits and a combined 14 returning starters from last season’s Shore Conference Class B South championship squad that also reached the program’s first sectional final, the expectations are pretty clear for Barnegat in 2014...

*Preview Homepage* After a difficult offseason in which its top returning player transferred across town, Jackson Liberty is ready to move forward and chase a playoff spot with a number of returning starters. The Lions lost four-year varsity player Matt Castronuova, a two-time Class B South all-division defensive back, via transfer to Jackson Memorial over the summer...

*Preview homepage* In the gauntlet that is the Shore Conference’s Class A South division, it was Jackson Memorial, a team few would have picked to win the division, that came out on top in front of four other playoff teams last year. Despite graduating a 1,400-yard rusher and a pair of tackling machines at linebacker, the Jaguars see no reasons why they shouldn’t be right back in championship cont

*Preview homepage* With a new coaching staff and a complete system overhaul on both sides of the ball, Howell is ready for the dawn of a new era under Luke Sinkhorn as it looks to regain its championship form. Sinkhorn comes to Howell after serving as New Egypt’s head coach for the last five seasons...

*Preview homepage* A rash of injuries and a roster devoid of any experienced starters last season left Point Boro, one of the Shore Conference’s most consistent programs over the past 10 years, with a 1-9 record for its first losing campaign since 2003...

*Preview homepage* Controversy was the only thing separating Brick Memorial from at least a seven-win season and a trip to a sectional semifinal last season, and even though the Mustangs lost three All-Shore player to graduation, they expect to back in the race for championships in 2014...