The last time the Southern Regional High School football team won a division championship, Mike Gesicki was a sophomore and nowhere near committed to playing at Penn State. The year was 2011.

Fast forward eight years to Oct. 11. Head coach Chuck Donohue’s Rams not only got by Middletown North, 21-14, by scoring a late touchdown, Marlboro also held on to knock off Freehold Township, thus clinching the Shore Conference Constitution Division title for Southern.