{"id":16070,"date":"2018-02-03T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/2018\/02\/03\/north-hunterdons-mazzetta-is-2017-lehighvalleylive-football-coach-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T19:46:38","slug":"north-hunterdons-mazzetta-is-2017-lehighvalleylive-football-coach-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/north-hunterdons-mazzetta-is-2017-lehighvalleylive-football-coach-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"North Hunterdon&#8217;s Mazzetta is 2017 lehighvalleylive Football Coach of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2018\/02\/Mazzetta-LVLCOTY-2017.jpg\" class=\"local-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16077\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2018\/02\/Mazzetta-LVLCOTY-2017-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2018\/02\/Mazzetta-LVLCOTY-2017-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2018\/02\/Mazzetta-LVLCOTY-2017-768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/files\/2018\/02\/Mazzetta-LVLCOTY-2017.jpg 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/a>For guiding the Lions to a school-record 11 victories and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/news\/article\/3190148368407224909\/north-hunterdon-rallies-over-phillipsburg-for-first-football-title-since-1975\/\" class=\"ext-link\" onclick=\"this.target=&#039;_blank&#039;;\">their first sectional title since 1975<\/a>, Mazzetta is the 2017 lehighvalleylive Football Coach of the Year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">He is the second North Hunterdon coach to win the honor, formerly The Express-Times Coach of the Year. Fritz Halfacre was given the award after the Lions\u2019 1974 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Mazzetta, a former player at Hunterdon Central and then Virginia Tech, had reason to be optimistic about North Hunterdon\u2019s prospects entering the fall. The Lions were coming off a four-loss campaign, which contained a handful of second-half stumbles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Mazzetta credits his assistants \u2013 Kevin Kley (D-coordinator), Anthony Petraglia (D-line, special teams), Bob Lockhart (LBs, H-backs), John McSweeney (O-line) and Billy Krebs (WRs) \u2013 for building up that conviction within the players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"> Source: Lion Athletic News2 North Hunterdon&#8217;s Mazzetta is 2017 lehighvalleylive Football Coach of the Year <a href=\"http:\/\/highschoolsports.lehighvalleylive.com\/news\/article\/-4188015442308534480\/north-hunterdons-mazzetta-is-2017-lehighvalleylive-football-coach-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ext-link\" onclick=\"this.target=&#039;_blank&#039;;\">North Hunterdon&#8217;s Mazzetta is 2017 lehighvalleylive Football Coach of the Year<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For guiding the Lions to a school-record 11 victories and\u00a0their first sectional title since 1975, Mazzetta is the 2017 lehighvalleylive Football Coach of the Year. He is the second North Hunterdon coach to win the honor, formerly The Express-Times Coach of the Year. Fritz Halfacre was given the award after the Lions\u2019 1974 season. Mazzetta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lion-pride-archive","7":"entry","8":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 12:50:45","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16070\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}