2024 Team Preview: Northern Lehigh Bulldogs (11)

Written by: David Mika on Friday, August 9th, 2024. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: Joe Tout

Assistant Coaches:
Dylan Hofmann
Derek Long
Matt Newhard
Scott Rothrock
Shawn Frame
Justin Smoyer
Mike Zambo
Wilbert Scott
Derek Remaley

Team Name: Northern Lehigh Bulldogs

District: 11

Class: AA

League: Colonial-Schuylkill League, Red Division

2023 Record: 3-7

8/25 @ Catasauqua (AA) 7:00 pm L 22-48
8/31 @ Northwestern Lehigh (AAA) 7:10 pm L 0-48
9/08 Pen Argyl (AA) 7:00 pm W 16-12
9/16 @ Pine Grove Area* (AAA) 7:00 pm W 45-20
9/22 @ North Schuylkill* (AAA) 7:00 pm L 6-42
9/29 Salisbury* (AA) 7:00 pm W 45-13
10/06 @ Notre Dame GP* (AAA) 7:00 pm L 7-42
10/12 @ Tamaqua Area* (AAA) 7:10 pm L 13-23
10/20 Jim Thorpe Area* (AAA) 7:00 pm L 6-29
10/27 Palmerton Area* (AAA) 7:00 pm L 13-47

Key Starters Lost:
Jackson VanNorman
Sam Frame Jr.
Brody Dye
Jack Tosh
Bailey Smith
Chase Moffitt

Offensive Starters Returning:
Jr. RB Grady Newhard 5-9 185
Sr. OL Cyrus Kinchen 6-3 280
Sr. OL Landon Moll 6-0 210
SO. QB Garret Smoyer 5-9 160
SO. RB Chris Frame 5-10 160
Sr. WR Reese Lipsky 5-10 160
Sr. OL Noah Herring 6-0 220

Defensive Starters Returning:
Sr. DE Landon Moll 6-0 210
SO. DB Chris Frame 5-10 160
SO. DB Colin Koretsky 5-11 170
SO DB Ryan Zambo 5-10 160
Jr. DB Grady Newhard 5-9 185
Sr. LB Isaac Raber 5-10 210

Special Team Starters Returning:
None

Key Newcomers:
SO TE/LB Chase Gall 5-9 180
Jr. TE/DE Nate Kuhns 6-0 235
SO RB/LB Mason Rothrock 5-10 195
Sr TE/LB Zane Roth 5-9 190
Sr WR/DB Brody Sterner 5-9 170
Jr OL/DL Adam Neff 6-0 225
Jr. RB/LB Kaden Quinones 5-10 170

2024 Returning Player Stats:
QB Garret Smoyer 379 yards passing 4 TD passes
Jr Grady Newhard 905 yards rushing 6 TD’s
SO Chris Frame 172 yards rushing and 120 yards receiving 3 TD’s 3 INT- 1 INT for a TD

2024 Offensive Outlook: Northern Lehigh will have a core group of skill players who will compete for playing time. We return our leading rusher Grady Newhard and our top dual-threat athlete Chris Frame. We will have competition at the quarterback position. Garrett Smoyer started ten games as a freshman and SR. Ayden Oswald returns after missing his junior season with an injury. We plan on playing both throughout the season. Our biggest losses are on the line. We must replace three multi-year starters. Our offensive line development will be key to our team’s success. We expect to be a much more explosive offense this year.

2024 Defensive Outlook: Our strength without question is our defensive backfield. We return all four in our secondary. We have moved Grady Newhard from safety to linebacker and Ayden Oswald will compete for the safety position. In the backfield, we return Ryan Zambo, Chris Frame, and Colin Koretsky. We must replace two multi-year starters at linebacker. We feel moving Newhard will solidify the linebacker position and we return Isaac Raber at linebacker. Kaden Quinones, Reese Lipsky, and Mason Rothrock will compete at our linebacker positions as well. Our heaviest losses are on the defensive line. We return Landon Moll at defensive end and must develop depth at all defensive line positions. We have Noah Herring, Bill Slattery, Cyrus Kinchen, Adam Neff, and Nate Kuhns competing at those positions.

2024 Special Teams Outlook: We lost both our kicker, punter, and long snapper from our team. We have Chase Gall who will be punting this year and has had a great offseason. Colin Koretsky will be an athletic long snapper, and we have two kickers competing Logan Berfield and Anthony Hanna. We return Brody Sterner as our punt returner and Chris Frame will also be returning punts and kicks.

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