Following an 0-10 season, Brearley made a football coaching change for 2025, bringing in alum Elliot Platt. And after three losses to start the season, making it 15 straight defeats going back to the final game of 2023, all of a sudden the Bears have figured it out and won three straight. The latest came Friday night all the way out in Lambertville against South Hunterdon, a 21-0 victory that evened their record at 3-3, with winnable games down the stretch against South River, Metuchen and Dayton.

There were just two games Thursday night in the Big Central Conference, with Middlesex and Rahway coming up winners. The Saturday schedule is light, too, with the bulk of the teams in the league playing Friday night. Here's a look at Thursday night's action, following by the weekend schedule. Rahway 43, Perth Amboy 8 Senior runningback Andrew Avent scored three times for the Indians as they cruised past visiting Perth Amboy Thursday evening to improve to 2-1 on the season.

Our second divisional preview this season is the Freedom Silver, another six-team grouping of some of the Big Central Conference's smaller schools. It was a big rebound year for Belvidere, which finished 8-2 to win the Freedom Silver, following a 3-7 campaign in 2023. The County Seaters again are loaded, and should be right there again this year, but Middlesex could very well challenge them.