Shore Regional

Junior Stephen Molnar scored the golden goal in the 86th minute and Shore beat David Brearley to win its first ever NJSIAA Group championship.

By merely stepping on the field Saturday at Franklin High School, Shore will end a 53-year drought. By winning, the Blue Devils would end an ever longer one.

Sophomores Cooper Attaway and Santino Scarponi provided the scoring and senior Kevin Barfield posted the clean sheet as Shore reached the Group I final for the first time since 1970.

Point Beach fought back from down 3-1 in the second half to defeat Shore on Baileigh Johnson's golden goal, giving the Garnet Gulls their second straight Central Jersey Group 1 title.

As first-year head coaches take over some of the division's top programs, Red Bank Catholic hopes to defend last year's Class A Central title against a competitive field.

Coming out of intense division races, four teams from the current Class A Central division have won NJSIAA sectional championships since 2019. What is in store in 2023?

Shore Regional returns 16 total starters as it looks to navigate a challenging schedule and return to championship form.

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Led by a group that learned how to win as underclassmen in 2022, Shore Regional is off to a hot start at the plate, including 30 runs in two impressive wins last week.

Shore was within a shot of pushing its championship hopes over the top, but came up short Monday in a 43-39 loss to Eagle Academy in the Central Group I final.

Shore has won 11 of 12 games and now heads to Newark to face Eagle Academy in hopes of capturing its first Central Jersey Group I title since 2015.

Shore turned to its defense Friday against Point Beach to earn a trip to its first NJSIAA Central Group I final since 2015.