2024 Team Preview: Oxford Area Hornets (1)

Written by: David Mika on Sunday, August 11th, 2024. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: Michael Means

Assistant Coaches:
Joe Pearson
Chris Johnson
Dave Thomas
Kevin Healey
Josh Belford
Damon Beatty
Art Hughson
Leo Pizzini
Mike Duggan
Joe Hunt
JJ Yaletchko

Team Name: Oxford Area Hornets

District: 1

Class: 5A

League: Ches-Mont League, South Division

2023 Record: 2-8

8/25 Avon Grove (AAAAAA) 7:00 pm L 12-17
9/01 Kennett* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm L 13-27
9/09 Unionville* (AAAAA) 6:00 pm L 12-15
9/14 @ Great Valley* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm W 21-16
9/22 @ Interboro (AAAA) 7:00 pm L 14-20
9/29 @ Downingtown East (AAAAAA) 7:00 pm L 0-42
10/06 West Chester Rustin* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm L 19-42
10/13 @ West Chester Henderson* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm L 14-42
10/20 @ West Chester East* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm L 7-35
10/27 Sun Valley/Northley* (AAAAA) 7:00 pm W 42-21

Key Starters Lost:
CJ Boyer – RB/CB
Zack Richardson – DT
Conner Mallon – LB/H
Justin Tyre – WR
Ryan Vanella – OL
Davyn Anderson – WR
Avion Rochester – FS
Will Smith – K

Offensive Starters Returning:
C – David Kostyukov (Sr)
G – Landon Willey (Soph)
G – Jace McKinney (Jr)
T – Gabe Duggan (Jr)
T – Liam Bell (Jr)
QB – Aiden Kane (Sr)
WR – Nate Winters (Sr)

Defensive Starters Returning:
LB – Landon Willey (Soph)
LB – Anthony Cataldi (Senior)
LB – Braden Hunt (Soph)
SS – Joel McClain (Jr)
DL – Aidan Eidson (Jr)
DL – Jace McKinney (Jr)
S – Nate Winters (Sr) moving to CB
OLB – Jordan Schaible (Sr)

Special Team Starters Returning:
P David Kostyukov
P Landon Willey

Key Newcomers:
DL Ryan Thompson (Soph)
CB – Jalen Mcclain (Jr)
DL – Amitri Thomas (Jr)
TE – Jack Smith (Soph)
FS – Jeovanni Rosado (Sr)
FS – Kayden Baumgardner (Sr)
WR – Jake Patterson (Soph)
WR – Brody Turk (Jr)
CB – Sam Howell (Jr)
OL – Austin Weakland (Jr)
LB – Jared Schaible (Sr)
OLB – Roman Alexander-Walker (Soph)

2024 Returning Player Stats:
David Kostyukov – First Team All Ches Mont
Joel McClain – Second Team All Ches Mont
Aiden Kane – Honorable Mention All Ches Mont
Jace McKinney- Honorable Mention All Ches Mont

2024 Outlook:
Offense: We have a lot of experience coming back, especially up front even though we are still young. We need to control games with our OL and run game.

Defense: Although we have a lot of guys who got lots of Varsity time last year, we still need to replace some good key contributors at important spots. With some injuries last year young guys got a taste of Varsity football, now is their turn to step up. We want to set the tone with an attacking nature on defense where we dictate.

Special Team: We have to replace a great kicker in Will Smith and have another soccer kid coming in and working hard in junior Clark Macpeak who we are excited about. We get both our punters back.

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