Monday, January 23, 2006

Burlington-Olympic Football League Realignment Creates New Match-Ups

One of the Garden State's most balanced high school football leagues, the Burlington-Olympic Football League, has just finished it's bi-annual realignment based on enrollment. The changes take effect with the upcoming 2006 season.

The BOFL consists of four division with the American being for the biggest schools and the smallest playing in the Freedom Division. The league also has a Liberty and a Patriot Division.

The realignment will create several marquee match-ups including Burlington Township facing Holy Cross and Shawnee playing Cherokee.

To read more from phillyburbs.com, please click on our headline "Burlington-Olympic Football League Realignment Creates New Match-Ups".

Sunday, January 15, 2006

NJSIAA Realigns NNJIL for 2006

The Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League will have a new look next year.

The NJSIAA has approved a realignment that makes one division for the parochial schools and two divisions for the publics. The public divisions will be aligned according to power points accumulated over three years, not on the basis of enrollment.

The realignment, which will be re-evaluated in two years is meant to help the publics out, since the 13 public schools have only won nine of 116 games since 2001.

The stronger public division will be comprised of Ridgewood, Hackensack, Montclair, Teaneck, Paterson Eastside, Clifton and Nutley while the second division will have Bergen Tech, Paramus, Bloomfield, Paterson Kennedy, Passaic, Barringer and Belleville. The non-public division is comprised of Don Bosco Prep of Ramsey, St. Joseph of Montvale, Bergen Catholic of Oradell and Paramus Catholic.

Under the NJSIAA realignment, the public schools in the NNJIL will play the other six schools in their division and one parochial school. Meanwhile, based on their current power-point tally, Don Bosco Prep and St. Joseph will play each other twice and Bergen Catholic and Paramus Catholic once each. Don Bosco and St. Joseph will also play three public schools while Bergen Catholic and Paramus Catholic play four public and three parochial teams.

For more on the story, please click on the title of this story "NJSIAA Realigns NNJIL for 2006.

Hackettstown Head Coach Resigns

Hackettstown's search for a new head football coach is underway.

Art Piancone has resigned after a 7-4 season, the best for the Tigers since 1996. After a 2-3 start, Hackettstown ripped off five straight wins to earn a berth in the NJSIAA North 2 Group 2 Section Playoffs. The Tigers beat West Essex 13-11 in the opening round, which was the school's first in the postseason since 1981

Though Piancone claimed it was merely coincidence, he also stepped down in his first tenure at Hackettstown in 1992 after enjoying his best season after assuming the head coaching duties in 1990. His '92 team went 7-3 and also qualified for the sectional championships before losing 30-22 to Dover in the opening round of the sectional playoffs.

This was Piancone's second stint as Hackettstown's head coach. He took over from Jerry Gundry in 2002 and amassed a record of 20-21. Combined with his first stint when he went 15-12-1, Piancone's career mark with the Tigers is 35-33-1.

To read more on Piancone's resignation, please click on "Hackettstown Head Coach Resigns".

Friday, January 13, 2006

Welcome To The Jersey Blog

Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Fisher.

I'm a former TV anchor from WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I've also worked in Chicago and San Francisco for Fox Sports Net.

Welcome to my blog which is designed to promote the great sport of high school football. This blog is an outgrowth of my original one called The High School Huddle. I'm going to have 50 of these so fans in each state can get the most up-to-date info on what's going on in the sport.

Please feel free to post your thoughts and let us know what you think people around the Garden State need to know about.

Jeff
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