Phillipsburg has won five straight games at home (dating back to last season), while St. Joseph has won five straight on the road also dating back to last season, but those streaks won't matter much on Friday. The Phillipsburg Stateliners will welcome the St. Joseph Falcons. Phillipsburg is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 32.6 points per game this season.
Last Friday, Phillipsburg earned a 21-14 win over West Orange. That's two games straight that the Stateliners have won by exactly seven points.
The critical scores for Phillipsburg came from Jett Genovese, Matthew Scerbo Jr., and Felix Matos.
Phillipsburg didn't go easy on the quarterback and picked off two passes before the game was over. The picks came courtesy of Scerbo Jr. and Matos.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask St. Joseph). They blew past North Brunswick 40-14 on Friday. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 28-6.
Justin Scaramuzzo was his usual excellent self, throwing for 141 yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing for 55 yards and a touchdown.
They were just one part of a punishing run game: St. Joseph was unstoppable on the ground and finished the game with 226 rushing yards. That's the most rushing yards they've managed all season.
Phillipsburg's victory bumped their record up to 5-1. As for St. Joseph, their win bumped their record up to 5-0.
Friday's match will pit two of the most dominant signal callers against one another: Genovese and Scaramuzzo. Genovese has put up some stellar numbers this year, and currently owns excellent season averages of 138 passing yards and has 8 passing touchdowns on the season. For his part, Scaramuzzo has averaged 220 passing yards and has 10 passing touchdowns on the season.
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