Salem CC’s inaugural football season to open with three straight home games at three different county high schools
By Al Muskewitz
Riverview Sports News
CARNEYS POINT – Three home games to open the season and four in three of Salem County’s five high school stadiums highlight the “traveling road show” that will be Salem Community College’s inaugural football season.
The Mighty Oaks finally matched dates with venues to complete their eight-game first-year schedule. They’ll open the season August 29 at Pennsville High School against Hudson Valley CC. They’ll play Nassau CC at Schalick on Sept. 12 and Thaddeus Stevens at Penns Grove Sept. 19. Their final home game is Oct. 17 at Pennsville against Sussex, the only other JUCO in the state that offers football.
Athletics director Bob Hughes said “it just kind of happened” that the first three games fell at home. The Mighty Oaks wanted to play an early game at home and head football coach Jay Accorsi said they took “what we could get” in order to play “legitimate teams and both military preps.”
During the weekends the Mighty Oaks use the county high school stadiums, the high school schedule for those teams has Pennsville hosting Woodstown, Schalick visiting Woodstown, Penns Grove hosting Pitman and Pennsville is at Schalick.
“All the credit goes to Jay in terms of putting the schedule together,” Hughes said. “We had talked through a lot of the parameters and are grateful to have partners in the local high schools and be able to partner with them to bring this, as we call it, our traveling road show across the county.
“It’s exciting. It makes it feel more real, especially as we go into having our first workouts this week. It’s happening.”
Their road games are Sept. 25 at Army Prep, Oct 3 at Sussex, Oct. 23 at Navy Prep (at Annapolis) and Oct. 31 at Erie CC.
“We thought it was important to have (a home game) early on,” Hughes said. “I am very happy we have this first stretch at home to hopefully establish a little bit of presence with the community.”
SALEM CC 2026 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
| DATE | TEAM | TIME | VENUE |
| Aug. 29 | Hudson Valley | TBD | Pennsville |
| Sept. 12 | Nassau | Noon | Schalick |
| Sept. 19 | Thaddeus Stevens | Noon | Penns Grove |
| Sept. 25 | at Army Prep | 6:30 p.m. | |
| Oct. 3 | at Sussex | TBD | |
| Oct. 17 | Sussex | TBD | Pennsville |
| Oct. 23 | at Navy Prep | 2:30 p.m. | Annapolis |
| Oct. 31 | Erie CC | TBD |
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