WOHS, SHP football teams to kick off their seasons at Rutgers

WEST ORANGE, NJ — The West Orange High School and Seton Hall Prep football teams will kick off their seasons in the inaugural Rumble on the Raritan, which will be contested over two weekends, Aug. 31, Sept. 6 and 7, at SHI Stadium, home of Rutgers University in Piscataway.

The Rumble on the Raritan will showcase some of the best teams in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

Seton Hall Prep, under second-year head coach Bill Fitzgerald, will face Archbishop Carroll of Radnor, Pa., on Aug. 31 at 5 p.m., the second of three games that day.

West Orange, under new head coach Darnell Grant, will face  Montclair on Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. in a matchup of Super Essex Conference teams in the final game of the showcase.

For the second straight year, SHP will open the season against  Archbishop Carroll.

In the opener last season, SHP lost to Archbishop Carroll, 54-38, at Cardinal O’Hara HS in Springfield, Pa.

Aug. 31

2 p.m.: St. Joseph of Hammonton vs. Highland Regional

5 p.m.: Seton Hall Prep vs. Archbishop Carroll of Pennsylvania

8 p.m.: St. Peter’s Prep vs. Millville

Sept. 6

8 p.m.: St. Joseph’s Prep of Pennsylvania vs. St. John’s College High School of Washington, D.C.

Sept. 7

12 p.m.: Abraham Lincoln of New York vs. Archbishop Stepanic of New York

3:30 p.m.: Union vs. Curtis of  New York

7 p.m.: West Orange vs. Montclair

SHP went 5-6 last season, reaching the Non-Public Group 4 semifinals where they lost to Bergen Catholic.

WOHS is coming off a 3-7 playoff season, Last season the Mountaineers stunned state-ranked Montclair in the opener. Montclair avenged that loss in the first round of the North 1, Group 5 playoffs.

The following are the rest of the WOHS and SHP schedules:

West Orange

Sept. 13, Paterson Kennedy, 7 p.m.

Sept. 20, at Don Bosco, 7 p.m.

Sept. 27, at Columbia, 7 p.m.

Oct. 5, at Livingston, 3 p.m.

Oct. 11, East Orange Campus, 7 p.m.

Oct. 18, at Passaic County Tech, 7 p.m.

Oct. 25, Bloomfield, 7 p.m.

Nov. 1, Barringer, 7 p.m.

Seton Hall Prep

Sept. 6, at DePaul, 7 p.m.

Sept. 21, Passaic County Tech, 1 p.m.

Sept. 27, at Paramus Catholic, 6 p.m.

Oct. 5, East Orange Campus, 2 p.m.

Oct. 12, at Montclair, 1 p.m.

Oct. 19, Delbarton, 1 p.m.

Oct. 26, St. Joseph (Montvale), 2 p.m.

Nov. 2, at Pope John (Sparta), 1 p.m.