Anthony Rotondo isn’t going to feign surprise that the North Hunterdon High School softball team went from sub-.500 also-ran to Group IV state finalist in one offseason.
The Lions fourth-year head coach is the first to admit his team’s rebound from a 14-16 campaign – the program’s first losing season since 2001 – was something he expected. After all, North had competed in one of the state’s toughest conferences and played a loaded up non-league schedule against some of the state’s top programs last year, winning a few, but losing most, despite playing competitively, sometimes until the final inning.
But even the 2017 Courier News Softball Coach of the Year couldn’t have expected how this season would play out, as North Hunterdon finished 24-5, just a game behind Montgomery in the Skyland Conference Raritan Division race, advanced to the final of the Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Tournament, and won the NJSIAA North 2 Group IV championship, falling by a run in the state Group IV final,
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