Glen Ridge HS football players earn conference honors

GLEN RIDGE, NJ — The Glen Ridge High School football team, which enjoyed a memorable season, featured several players who earned all–Super Football Conference–National Red Division honors, as voted by the divisional coaches.

Here are the GRHS players who were honored:

FIRST TEAM

OFFENSE

• Skill – David Kelly, senior. He played running back.
• Lineman – Jesse Gibbs, senior.

DEFENSE

• Lineman – Jake Liloia, junior.
• Linebacker –Will Horan, senior
• Defensive back – Brad Foster, junior.

SPECIAL TEAMS

• Punter – Dylan O’Neil, senior.

SECOND TEAM

OFFENSE

• Lineman – Thomas Barton, sophomore.
• At-large – O’Neil, quarterback.

DEFENSE

• Lineman – John Leone, sophomore
• Linebacker – Griffin Looney, junior.
• Defensive back – Morgan Horan, senior.

HONORABLE MENTION

• Max Corradi, senior fullback-middle linebacker.

The Ridgers, under second-year head coach Manj Singh, turned around their season. After starting 1-3, they went on a four-game winning streak that clinched a berth in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state playoffs. The seventh-seeded Ridgers then won their first state sectional playoff game for the first time since winning the 1982 sectional crown, as they upset second-seeded Waldwick/Midland Park, 33-26, in the quarterfinals, before falling to sixth-seeded Shabazz, 58-14, in the semifinals to finish a 6-5 season.

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