CORRECTED: Seton Hall Prep football opens season against Delbarton on Aug. 27

Seton Hall Prep head coach Bill Fitzgerald stands on the sideline during a 2019 game.

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The Seton Hall Prep football team, under head coach Bill Fitzgerald, will open the regular season on Saturday, Aug. 27, against Delbarton at home at 2 p.m.

The Pirates will then face Pope John of Sparta, in the Rumble on the Raritan at Rutgers University’s SHI Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 1 p.m.

Last season, the SHP Pirates finished with a 7-4 record, including beating Pope John, 51-7, in the season opener. In the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Non-Public A state playoffs, the fifth-seeded Pirates defeated No.12 seed St. John Vianney, 49-0, in the first round and lost to fourth-seeded St. Peter’s Prep, of Jersey City, 21-20, in the quarterfinals to end the season.

Editor’s note: The opponent and date of the season opener was incorrect in the original version of this aricle.