Red Bank Catholic caught fire in the second quarter and never looked back, routing Pope John and capturing its first NJSIAA Non-Public A title since 2017.
Freehold Boro is in search of its first ever trip to an NJSIAA Group III championship game and will have to get past a 26-win Mainland squad to get there.
St. Rose buried Bishop Eustace for a second straight year and will now head to Rutgers for the Non-Public B championship game as the favorite to win its first state title since 1977.
St. Rose has been steamrolling toward a 2024 Non-Public B championship since it lost in the 2023 final. Can Bishop Eustace cook up a legitimate challenge to the Purple Roses?
St. Rose got within closing distance of its first NJSIAA sectional title since 2004 and turned to 6-foot-8 star Matt Hodge to finish off Bishop Eustace.
Two years after going 0-21, Freehold Boro won its first NJSIAA sectional championship in 51 years by upending No. 1 seed Red Bank Saturday in the Central Group III final.