For the first time since the 2018 season ended, high school football coaches in New Jersey will gather to discuss what they want to see changed in 2019. And after a year of uncertainty, one thing is certain: little will be the same. Monday night at Rutgers University's Hale Center in Piscataway, the New Jersey…
The 2018 football season was an exciting one across the state, but one also filled with more questions than answers when it came to the new playoff system. A new seeding formula created by the United Power Committee - a group of coaches and administrators with representatives from around the state - added a rating…
With the 2018 Central Jersey High School Football season now squarely in the rear view mirror, there was a lot of excitement, star power, and controversy over the last several months. So, for the first time, we figured we'd take a look back and go soup to nuts: a retrospective of the entire season from…
WCTC's Max Scheiner caught up with Piscataway head coach Dan Higgins, OL/DL JOrdin Martell and WR/LB Lord Jones after the Chiefs' 31-21 win in the North Jersey Group 5 Bowl Game over Ridgewood Saturday. Higgins guided the Chiefs to their first-ever 13-win season, and his third undefeated campaign in 16 seasons as head coach. Martell,…
Piscataway ended the season in the WCTC Central Jersey High School Football Top Ten right where it began in the preseason. Numero Uno. The Chiefs - who ran the table in 2018 to go 13-0, including a seventh sectional title for head coach Dan Higgins in 16 seasons, and picked up a first-ever bowl trophy…
The Piscataway football program has done a lot over the years. One thing it hadn't done was win 13 games, simply because the maximum it could play was 12 before this year. Add another check mark to the Piscataway bucket list. The Chiefs became the first area team from Middlesex or Somerset Counties to win…
WCTC will have complete coverage before, during and after the final game of the year involving a WCTC-area team: the North Jersey Group 5 bowl game between Piscataway and Ridgewood, starting Friday night. Join WCTC's Dom Savino and Mike Pavlichko on "Friday Night Football USA" presented by St. Peter's University Hospital at a special time…
The Sayreville Bombers shut down Williamstown's offensive juggernaut and won the first-ever South Jersey Group 5 bowl game Friday night, rallying in the final minute to beat the Braves 14-7 despite an inability to capitalize on multiple chances to take the lead by way of the offense. Instead, it was the defense - and special…
A longtime WCTC tradition hits the airwaves for what is expected to be the final time Thursday, when we bring you the Thanksgiving Day Round Robin - presented by the Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management. Tune in to WCTC while you prep Tom Turkey beginning at 9:35 am with Mike Pavlichko hosting the…
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the first year of the NJSIAA's "bowl games" - semifinal matchups without a final that are seen as a prelude to a system where New Jersey plays to overall group champions in football - the two standby powers of the Greater Middlesex Conference -…
