Matt Pine

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...

Videos and story by Ryne Olsen - Shore Sports Network contributor FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP - In the first half against Howell on Friday night, Freehold Township senior running back Matt Pine scored more than a quarter of the total points the Patriots scored all of last season...

*Preview Homepage* With one of the youngest rosters last year in a deep Shore Conference Class A North division, Freehold Township head coach Mike D’Antonio expected to watch his team take its lumps against the top teams in the division while hardening his players with an eye on this season...