what to watch for

After a week that featured two huge nondivisional matchups between ranked teams along with several key divisional battles, Week 5 in the Shore Conference is sort of the calm before (and after) the storm. The action really heats up over the next two weeks with division games that will have major title implications, as well as a monster nondivisional game between the top two teams in the Shore... Re

Week 4 of Shore Conference football is upon us with a pair of nondivisional games between top-10 teams highlighting the weekend. The big one is No. 1 Middletown South hosting No. 5 Rumson-Fair Haven in a matchup of returning state champions and teams ranked in the top 10 in New Jersey by NJ...

Don’t look know, but after this week’s games most teams will be about 40 percent of the way through their seven games that count toward playoff seeding. At the same time, there’s still a long way to go before anything is decided, but through two weeks some questions are being answered...

Week One has come and gone, and as we turn the page to Week Two of the Shore Conference football season the winners will try to keep it going while those teams suffering losses will try to dust themselves off and avoid an 0-2, or in some cases, 0-3, start...

It’s here, finally. NThe 2016 Shore Conference football season begins* this weekend with 22 games, including plenty of intriguing matches. I added the asterisk since this technically the start of the season. There were a pair of Week Zero games last Friday with Central topping Southern and Ocean handling Monmouth, but, to me at least, it doesn’t feel like opening weekend during Week Zero... Read M

I will readily admit it still doesn’t feel like the football season is about to begin even though the Week Zero games are upon us. But try telling that to the players on the four teams set to take the field Friday night and see what they have to say...

The Thanksgiving Day football schedule around the Shore Conference is not the large slate it used to be, but there are still a few pivotal games on Turkey Day that will pique the interest of fans. There will be 18 teams in action this week and eight games on Thanksgiving...

After winning a record six sectional championships in 2014, the Shore Conference has a chance for even more hardware this season with 15 teams remaining in the semifinal round of the NJSIAA Playoffs. Among the games that will decide who will play for a sectional championship the weekend of Dec...

November is here, and in New Jersey high school football that means it’s time for the state playoffs. The NJSIAA state sectional playoffs begin next week, meaning Week Nine’s games are the final opportunities for teams to either improve their postseason positioning or quality all together...

Nondivisional games dominated the schedule in Week Seven and offered plenty of tantalizing matchups, but the Shore Conference returns to action in Week Eight with a bevy of divisional contests. Top-ranked Middletown South passed another big test when it took down No...

The playoffs are three weeks away and division championship have one or two games left to decide the championship. It’s crunch time in the Shore Conference and all over New Jersey, and Week Seven brings several key matchups in a weekend heavily featuring nondivisional games...

After a weekend full of crazy weather, stunning upsets and marquee matchups, the divisional pictures are starting to shape up as we near the midpoint of the regular season. Two teams picked up crucial divisional victories on their respective quests for championships last week as No...