Here's is this year's complete schedule:
Prelims on Saturday at the higher seeds, with the winners advancing to the six pre-quarterfinal round contests on Saturday, Oct. 6 at the higher seeds. The quarterfinals are slated for Monday, Oct. 8 at the higher seeds with the semifinals to be played on Saturday, Oct. 13.
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| Warren Hills celebrates its HWS title in 2017. |
The championship game will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 on the turf at Newton's Palmer Field. Warren Hills scored a 1-0 victory over Hunterdon Central in last year's title game for its sixth tri-county title. Central won the championship in 2016 with a 1-0 win over Warren Hills to snap the Blue Streaks' three-year HWS reign.
The last two HWS champions met on Wednesday, with Hunterdon Central scoring a 1-0 win at Warren Hills in a Skyland Conference cross-divisional matchup. It's the Red Devils first regular-season win over the Blue Streaks since a 1-0 victory at home in 2007.
For the third straight year, all teams were seeded strictly on power points and housed in one 18-team bracket.
The top two seeds received byes into the quarterfinals.
Preliminary matchups for Saturday
16-Phillipsburg (1-7) at 13-North Hunterdon (2-7)
17-Pope John (2-4) at 12-Sparta (1-5)
18-North Warren (1-6) at 11-Vernon (2-4-1)
15-Kittatinny (2-5) at 14-Wallkill Valley (2-7)
First-round matchups for Oct. 6
9-High Point (4-4) at 8-Belvidere (4-3)
Phillipsburg-North Hunterdon winner at 4-Hackettstown (6-1-1)
Pope John-Sparta winner at 5-Newton (5-1-1)
North Warren-Vernon winner at 6-Lenape Valley (5-2-1)
Kittatinny-Wallkill Valley winner at 3-Warren Hills (5-3-1)
10-South Hunterdon (4-1) at 7-Voorhees (5-4)
Quarterfinal matchups for Oct. 8
High Point-Belvidere winner at 1-Hunterdon Central (7-1)
Phillipsburg/North Hunterdon/Hackettstown winner vs. Pope John/Sparta/Newton winner
North Warren/Vernon/Lenape Valley winner vs. Kittatinny/Wallkill Valley/Warren Hills winner
South Hunterdon-Voorhees winner at 2-Delaware Valley (5-2)
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