Picks

Shore Conference Tournament Home Page Now that the Shore Conference Tournament has moved into the quarterfinals, it is officially anybody’s game. While the first round did not provide all that much drama, the unique aspect of this tournament was that there were between 12 and 16 teams that were all relatively close in ability to one another, and that started to reveal itself in the last round, whe

Recap of SCT Opening Round Shore Conference Tournament Bracket A clean sweep by the home teams in the first round of the Shore Conference Tournament is rare, so for the seeds to stay true to form in a season that has seen so much parity is hard to fathom...

Snow knocked out almost all of the Shore Conference Tournament opening round on Tuesday, pushing the action to Wednesday evening. With the round of 16 holding firm on Thursday, the seven teams with first-round byes – Christian Brothers Academy, Lakewood, Freehold Township, Toms River North, Wall, Red Bank and Manalapan – will have a distinct advantage over their opponents thanks to the extra rest

*Read previews of all 43 teams here* We get a taste of Shore Conference football action in Week Zero with a five-game slate this weekend before the full meal next week, which means it’s time (for better or worse) to get back into the prognostication business...

It’s time for my annual rant against Thanksgiving games as the majority of the Shore Conference gets ready to wrap up the season. In short, they have to go. They have become the primary roadblock to a legitimate playoff system that crowns Group champions rather than having 24 teams say they are state champions...

This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for – playoff time. There are 24 Shore Conference teams believing in the dream of making it to that first weekend in December and a state sectional final. It always reminds me of one of my favorite stories from ancient Greece about when Alexander the Great arrived with his army on the shores of Persia...

I am declaring my Week Three picks "not terrible,'' which is an upgrade from the previous week.