Bulldawgs Stay in Group 2 for 2012 Football Season

When players step on to the gridiron at the start of September, they’ll do so in a revamped Group 2.

Gone are former playoff threats like Point Pleasant Boro, , Bridgeton and Camden, which all bumped up to Group 3 under the NJSIAA's new five-group system.

Some familiar foes—, , Buena, Cinnaminson and —remain, and a pair of former Group 1 teams—Cedar Creek, which opened only two years ago, and Maple Shade—both join the retooled Group 2.

Sterling and Pemberton, with 727 and 726 students for group classification purposes, were just shy of the cutoff for Group 3, which has three teams—Point Boro, Bridgeton and Barnegat—all within 12 students more in enrollment.

The full list of schools in the new Group 2, with enrollment figures:

• Buena—606
• Cedar Creek—619
• Cinnaminson—565
• Collingswood—576
• Haddonfield—547
• Lower Cape May—718
• Maple Shade—536
• Middle Twp.—636
• Overbrook—539
• Pemberton—726
• Pleasantville—612
• Sterling—727
• West Deptford—627
• Willingboro—685
• Woodstown—549

And the remaining groups in South Jersey:

Group 5

• Absegami—1364
• Atlantic City—1496
• Cherokee—1792
• Cherry Hill East—1504
• Eastern—1550
• Egg Harbor—1913
• Jackson Memorial—1291
• Lenape—1449
• Millville—1424
• Rancocas Valley—1392
• Southern Regional—1496
• Toms River North—1713
• Vineland—1966
• Washington Twp.—1986
• Williamstown—1278

Group 4

• Cherry Hill West—1166
• Clearview—1193
• Hammonton—1030
• Kingsway—1034
• Lacey—1073
• Mainland—1100
• Oakcrest—976
• Seneca—971
• Shawnee—1205
• Timber Creek—1068
• Toms River East—1239
• Toms River South—1105
• Triton—1147
• Winslow Twp.—984

Group 3

• Barnegat—736
• Bridgeton—738
• Burlington Twp.—939
• Camden—816
• Central Regional—932
• Cumberland—905
• Delsea—861
• Deptford—755
• Highland—856
• Manchester Twp.—792
• Northern Burlington—884
• Ocean City—942
• Pinelands—841
• Point Pleasant Boro—733
• Woodrow Wilson—867

Group 1

• Audubon—438
• Clayton—230
• Gateway—390
• Glassboro—466
• Gloucester—465
• Haddon Hts.—487
• Haddon Twp.—453
• Lindenwold—338
• Paulsboro—293
• Penns Grove—376
• Pennsville—375
• Pitman—329
• Salem—283
• Schalick—404
• Wildwood—186
• Woodbury—353