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Salem hitting its stride at exactly the right time
SALEM — Kemp Carr, former Salem High quarterback and current head coach, hasn’t been too bad when it comes to predicting his team’s fate. “I told people we were going to hit our stride in the middle of the year and it’s inevitable that it is what is happening,” Carr said. Carr was right on target. With Saturday’s 36-0 Central Jersey Group 1 semifinal win over No. 3-seeded Woodstown, second-seeded Salem (8-3) has now won seven in a row. More importantly, the Rams will visit top-seeded Paulsboro in Saturday’s sectional championship game. These two schools have quite a bit of recent postseason history. Salem will be seeking its first sectional title since beating Paulsboro in both the 2022 and 2021 Central Jersey Group 1 championship games. Not only that but earlier this season on Sept. 5, Paulsboro earned an 8-6 win at Salem. Back then, few would have put much credence into Carr’s look into the future. That was the second game of the season and by the end of the fourth, the Rams were 1-3. Carr and his players never lost faith and began this current seven-game win streak the next week. It’s been a remarkable resurgence not only