The MCSSIHL will have a much different look in 2024-25.
During the offseason, league members voted to re-arrange the alignment for this season, going from four divisions (three of which had five teams, one with six), to a three-division, seven-team set-up.
Essentially, the new divisional setup saw the top two teams from the Halvorsen Division last season (Kinnelon-Jefferson-Sparta and Bernards-Somerville-Middlesex) get promoted to the Mennen Division. That led to a ripple effect, with the top four from last year’s Haas Division (Gill St. Bernard’s, West Morris, Park Regional, Montville) all moving up to the Halvorsen.
What was the Haas Division last season will be known as the Haas-Charette Division this year.
Each team will now play 12 divisional games, with no mandatory crossovers.
The new alignment will also impact the postseason cup tournaments. Since the Charette Cup began in 2021, the top four in each division would qualify for the cups. Now, with only three divisions and seven teams in six, while there will be one less tournament, the top six teams will qualify from each division, similar to how it was prior to 2021. There will be a first round in which the third-seed will play the sixth-seed, and the fourth-seed will play the fifth-seed, and that will determine who faces the top two seeds, who will get first round byes.
Below is the full alignment for the MCSSIHL in 2024-25.
MENNEN DIVISION
Bernards-Somerville-Middlesex
Chatham
Kinnelon-Jefferson-Sparta
Morris Knolls-Hills
Morristown
Morristown-Beard
Randolph
HALVORSEN DIVISION
Gill St. Bernard’s
Park Regional (Whippany Park-Hanover Park)
Madison
Mendham
Montville
Mount Olive-Hopatcong-Hackettstown
West Morris
HAAS-CHARETTE DIVISION
High Point-Wallkill Valley-Kittatinny
Morris Catholic-St. Elizabeth’s-Newark Academy
Mountain Lakes-Boonton
Newton-Lenape Valley
Parsippany Regional (Parsippany-Parsippany Hills)
Roxbury
Vernon
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