GMC Conference goes back to four baseball divisions heading into 2025 season

Baseball Notebook
March 23, 2025 by Mike Pavlichko

There will be eleven baseball teams with new homes this year as the Greater Middlesex Conference realigns its division for the 2025 season, and goes back to a four-division model.

The league had used five divisions in the most recent scheduling cycle, with the addition of the GMC Silver. But that’s gone away this year, and the league is back to the Red, White, Blue and Gold Divisions.

The GMC Invitational Tournament also remains, a second conference tourney after the top 16 teams go to the main event.

With one less division, most will get a little bigger, including the Red Division, which sees Woodbridge and Edison join from the White. South Plainfield won the GMC Red last year, while Old Bridge won the GMC Tournament out of the Red Division. The Barrons were White Division champions last year at 11-1 in divisional play. Edison was tied for second with Colonia at 8-4 in the division.

North Brunswick – which finished 4-8 in the Red last year, fifth out of eight teams – moves down to the White Division, while Spotswood – GMC Blue Champs a season ago at 11-1 in the division – moves up from the Blue along with St. Thomas Aquinas, which finished last year tied for second in the division with Piscataway.

The Blue Division will add Carteret (7-3, second place) and South Amboy (9-0, division champs) from the Gold to the mix, while losing Spotswood. JP Stevens also moves down from the White, where the Hawks will get some relief after finishing last a year ago, 2-10 in the division.

The Gold Division will feature the largest contingent, with nine teams. While Carteret and South Amboy are out, they’ll get Dunellen, Highland Park, Perth Amboy Magnet, Piscataway Magnet and Wardlaw-Hartridge from the now-defunct Silver Division.

Here are the full divisional alignments for the GMC in 2025:

• Red Division: East Brunswick, Edison, Monroe, Old Bridge, South Brunswick, South Plainfield, St. Joseph-Metuchen, Woodbridge
• White Division: Colonia, Middlesex, North Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Sayreville, Spotswood, St. Thomas Aquinas
• Blue Division: Carteret, JFK, JP Stevens, Metuchen, North Plainfield, Piscataway, South Amboy, South River
• Gold Division: Dunellen, East Brunswick Magnet, Highland Park, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy Magnet, Piscataway Magnet, Somerset Tech, Timothy Christian, Wardlaw-Hartridge

The first GMC teams to open their seasons will be JFK and Dunellen. The Mustangs visit Linden at 4 pm, while the Destroyers visit Bound Brook.

GMC Conference goes back to four baseball divisions heading into 2025 season – Central Jersey Sports Radio