Tag: Rumson-Fair Haven

RUMSON – Owen O’Toole engineered the Rumson-Fair Haven offense for three years, winning three sectional championships and finishing with a perfect 13-0 state title season and over 5,000 passing yards. So how do you replace one of the Shore Conference’s all-time great quarterbacks?

RUMSON – George Sourlis has been on both sides of the Ridge Road Rivalry. Now, the veteran coach is returning to Rumson-Fair Haven, following three years building Red Bank Regional into a Shore Conference power.

RUMSON – Championship teams usually need to face some form of adversity on the road to a title. For the Rumson-Fair Haven girls track team, it came in the sectionals when Willingboro upset the Bulldogs to take the top spot. But RFH turned the tables when it counted the most at the Group 2 state track meet at South Plainfield High School.

RUMSON –- Rumson-Fair Haven is used to seeing long touchdowns from the Bulldogs under the Friday Night Lights in the fall. Now, it’s happening in the spring, thanks to the RFH girls flag football team.

PISCATAWAY – Last year, Rumson-Fair Haven made history winning its first state wrestling championship. The Bulldogs didn’t have to wait long for the second.

MIDDLETOWN – It was like a postcard, with a snowy day on the Navesink River as the backdrop for outdoor hockey.

PISCATAWAY – It wasn’t going to be easy. Rumson-Fair Haven experienced heartbreak at SHI Stadium on the campus of Rutgers University in the Group 2 state championship game before. But in 2024, the Bulldogs flipped the script and captured the school’s first outright state title, one that had eluded them the past two years.

FAIR HAVEN – Kate Fahey cemented her legacy as a tennis legend by winning a New Jersey state singles championship at Rumson-Fair Haven, followed by an All-American career at the University of Michigan, where she is the Maize and Blue’s all-time wins leader on the court and a two-time Big Ten women’s tennis player of the year.

Championships are a constant at Rumson-Fair Haven so it was only fitting that the newest sport on the high school scene follows the tradition of filling up the trophy case in the halls of RFH. The Bulldogs flag football team won the Shore Conference championship for a second straight year with a 37-18 win over Neptune.

RED BANK – Red Bank Catholic and Rumson-Fair Haven both reached the state championship game in 2023 and the intensity carried over to the first game of the 2024 season.