2024 Team Preview: Northwest Area Rangers (4)

Written by: David Mika on Thursday, August 1st, 2024. Follow David Mika on Twitter.

Head Coach: Stephen Nestorick

Assistant Coaches:
Cody Lamoreaux
Andrew Diltz
Lyle Newell
Jason May
Bobby Besancon

Team Name: Northwest Area Rangers

District: 4

Class: 1A

League: Northern Tier League, Small School Division

2023 Record: 2-8

8/26 @ Cowanesque Valley* (3A) 7:00 pm L 12-32
9/02 Columbia-Montour Vo-Tech (4A) 7:00 pm W 40-8
9/08 @ Towanda (2A) 7:00 pm L 0-21
9/15 North Penn-Mansfield (2A) 7:00 pm L 15-39
9/23 Warrior Run (3A) 7:00 pm L 8-54
9/29 @ Montgomery* (1A) 7:00 pm L 0-6
10/06 Sayre* (1A) 7:00 pm W 44-28
10/13 @ Troy Area (2A) 7:00 pm L 0-51
10/20 Muncy* (1A) 7:00 pm L 8-40
10/27 @ South Williamsport* (1A) 7:00 pm L 22-46
11/03 @ Bucktail (1A) 7:00 pm W 36-30
11/10 @ Muncy (1A) 7:00 pm L 6-29

Key Starters Lost:
Adam Chonko
Andrew Bonczewski
Billy Miller
Cole Hudack
Hickory Bonham
Nick Stevens

Offensive Starters Returning:
Sr. QB Jace McCoy
Sr. WR/RB Trevor Dietz
Sr. OT Tucker Crawford
Sr. TE/WR Brandon Biller

Defensive Starters Returning:
So. CB Loegan Diltz
So. LB Ben Bonham

Special Team Starters Returning:
N/A

Key Newcomers:
Fr. WR Noah Arnett

2024 Returning Player Stats: (From 2023 season)
McCoy: 1,638 passing yards and 17 TDs.
Dietz: 416 receiving yards, 3 TDs

2024 Offensive Outlook: The key to our offense this year will be consistency. We had way too many good drives killed by momentary lapses last year. Under our senior QB, we hope to keep penalties to a minimum and put our younger student-athletes in positions to succeed.

2024 Defensive Outlook: The defense has big shoes to fill in 2024. Three student-athletes graduated this Summer with nearly 100+ tackles or more. If we’re going to be successful on defense, we’ll need someone to emerge as a leader and help fill that void.

2024 Special Teams Outlook: It’s important that we spring some long kickreturns this season. Northwest hasn’t been a major threat to opposing kickoff teams in a few years. If we can get some momentum from the return game though, it’ll greatly impact the other two phases of our game.

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