By Duke Helms
DISTRICT NOTES – WEEK 5:
RUNNING BACKS: Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley rushed for a school record 255 yards against PM West. Borre broke his own record that he set as a freshman when he rushed for 246 yards against Dieruff. Borre now has 56 career td’s and is tied for 34th place all-time with Shawn Brice of Pius X and Jordan Gray of Nazareth. Harry Hall of Northwestern went by Gerald Douglas of Stroudsburg on the all-time career list and into 28th place. Hall now has 4,141 yards and sits just behind Jonathan Linton on the list. Mason Ryan of Mahanoy Area rushed for 296 yards and 2 td’s in their win over North Schuylkill. That’s the highest rushing total by any District 11 player after a teammate had over 300 yards rushing the previous week. Lenny Dulsky had 329 yards last week for Mahanoy. Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 279 yards and another 4 td’s in their win over Northwestern to become the first player to rush for over 1,000 yards this year (1,039). Culver broke Nick Savant’s school record for career td’s. Culver now has 45 td’s bettering Savant’s 43. Culver also went over 3,000 yards for his career (3,042). Antwon Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic scored 5 td’s for the third time this year and rushed for 172 in their win over Dieruff. Keenan leads the District with 18 td’s. Wyatt Clements of Lehighton rushed for 143 and the Indians only score in their 7-6 win over Governor Mifflin. Clements also joins the 3,000 yard club and now has 3,031 yards and 51 td’s. Other District 11 players with 51 career td’s are: Brett Snyder (Northwestern), Komlan Lonergan (CC) and Scott LaValva (Bangor). Matt Fisher of PM East rushed for 252 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Allen.
QUARTERBACKS: Devante Cross of Parkland threw for 277 yards and a td while rushing for 149 yards and 5 touchdowns in their win over Whitehall. His counterpart, Giani Sinatore threw for 278 yards and 2 td’s while rushing for 100 yards and a score. Sinatore also went over 1,000 yards passing for the year (1,100). Tre Jordan of Notre Dame threw for a 316 yards with 2 td passes in their win over Palmerton. Jordan leads the District with 1,359 yards passing. Travis Stefanik of Nazareth threw for 207 yards against Northampton and also went over 2,000 yards passing for his career (2,176). He’s thrown for over 200 yards in all 5 games this year and leads the District with 14 td passes. Jake Jakobson of Stroudsburg broke the school record for td passes in a career. Jakobson now has 29, breaking the old record of 28 set by Pat Rinard from 1984-86. Jake Cirillo of ES South, Tyler Cann of Lehighton and Ian McCole of Shenandoah Valley all went over 3,000 yards passing last week. Cirillo also went over 30 career td passes and now has 31.
Looking at the career passing charts for District 11: Tre Jordan moves up to 11th place (5,868), just 7 yards behind Dan Persa of Liberty. Doug Erney of Liberty slots in at 15th (5,549). Julian Spigner of Bethlehem Catholic moves up 2 spots and into 32nd place (4,548) just ahead of Paul Herb of Williams Valley and Nathan Hood of Pen Argyl. Devante Cross of Parkland moved up 8 spots into 33rd place (4,301). For career td passes, Jordan moves into 7th place all-time. Erney moves into a 13th place tie with Robbie Moyer of ES South with 57 td passes each. Cross is tied with Allen’s Michael Bernhard for 31st place with 46 each. No change for Spigner and Grigas of North Schuylkill.
RECEIVERS: Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh continues to lead the District with his 740 yards receiving and 8 td catches. Julian Liaci of Nazareth leads the District with 34 catches and is second with 7 td catches. Nate Stewart of Bethlehem Catholic now has 142 career catches for 2,441 yards. Both totals place him in 6th place all-time in the District. Mason Donaldson of Salisbury now has 14 career td catches which ties the school record.
Week 5 Trivia: Which one of these Salisbury receivers is tied with current Falcon Mason Donaldson for the most career td catches. Antoine Hubbard, John Gardus, Andrew Haldeman, Joey Remmel, Chris Burda, Doug Durepo, Scott Gardus or Jesse Phillips.
Week 4 Trivia: Tevon Murray, a 6’6″ wide receiver from North Schuylkill didn’t catch one of Bobby Grigas’ 3 td passes last week vs Marian Catholic. That snapped a streak of 11 consecutive games with a td catch. The District 11 record is 14 consecutive games. Who holds the record? Kevin Gulyas of Central Catholic. The streak started in 2010 with the playoffs. Gulyas caught a td in all 6 playoff games including their win over Bishop McDevitt in the State final. He then caught a td pass in the first 8 games of the 2011 season. His streak ended when they played in a snow storm vs Allen. With Central up 33-0 at halftime, the game was called. Gulyas caught the only 2 completions from Brendan Nosovitch for 6 yards.
Week 3 Trivia: Jahan Dotson of Nazareth broke the District 11 record for most catches for a player in their freshman and sophomore seasons. Dotson has 75 catches so far in his career. Who held the old record with 72 catches? Matt Camilletti of Pius X (2008-09).
Week 2 Trivia: Name the only pair of brothers from District 11 to each rush for over 1,000 yards in the same season. Joe and Jim Agosti of Marian Catholic did the trick in 1976. Senior Joe, rushed for 1,050 yards and 8 td’s, while brother Jim, a junior rushed for 1,274 yards and 23 td’s (both school records at the time). Jim would go over 1,200 yards again as a senior in 1977. Jim totaled 142 points in 1976 to break the old Carbon County scoring record that was held since 1956. Eddie Kocha of Nesquehoning (also a junior) scored 141 points in 9 games. The year before in 1975, Marian also had 2 players rush for 1,000 yards each. Pete Albano rushed for 1,268 yards and Fred Segilia rushed for 1,038 yards. The head coach for the 1975 and 1976 seasons was Chuck Rocconi. The following year, Stan Dakosky took over the team and is now in his 38th year.
Week 1 Trivia: Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh also broke the District 11 single game receiving yardage record with his 296 yards. Who held the old District record? Kevin Gulyas (2011 vs Parkland) of Central Catholic and Quintin Lopez (2004 vs Southern Columbia) of Pius X both had 280 yards in a game.
2015 single game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat
Single Game Touchdowns (4)
6 (1), 5 (4), 4 (5) Kyle Boney (Emmaus) *Ties School Record*
5 (2), 5 (3), 5 (5) Antwon Keenan (Beth. Catholic) *Ties School Record*
5 (2) Bud Moyer (Tamaqua) *Ties School Record*
5 (3) Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
5 (5) Devante Cross (Parkland)
4 (2) Devin Irwin (Salisbury)
4 (3), 4 (4) Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
4 (4) Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley)
4 (4), 4 (5) Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
4 (4) Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area)
4 (5) Matt Fisher (PM East)
4 (5) Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)
329 (4) Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area) *Ties School Record*
307 (3), 236 (1) Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg) *School Record*
296 (5) Mason Ryan (Mahanoy Area)
279 (5), 221 (2) 207 (3) Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
276 (4) Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
255 (5) Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley) *School Record*
252 (5) Matt Fisher (PM East)
248 (1) Mike Stasko (Palmerton) *School Record*
246 (4) Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
218 (4), 216 (5) Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
212 (3) Danny Lozada (Schuylkill Haven)
208 (2) Bud Moyer (Tamaqua)
202 (2) Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
Single Game Passing Yardage (200)
406 (1), 297 (4), 227 (3) Blake Levengood (South. Lehigh) *School Record*
363 (3), 316 (5), 285 (2), 218 (4) Tre Jordan (Notre Dame) *School Record*
297 (1), 231 (5) Doug Erney (Liberty)
288 (3), 270 (2), 235 (1), 226 (4), 207 (5) Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
278 (5), 243 (1) 215 (3) Giani Sinatore (Whitehall)
277 (5), 216 (2) Devante Cross (Parkland)
274 (4), 200 (1) Jake Jakobsen (Stroudsburg)
257 (2) Ethan Kuczynski (Marian Catholic)
235 (1) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
234 (2), 221 (3) Jake Cirillo (ES South)
234 (5) Nick Rodichok (Williams Valley)
231 (4) Mikey Brown (Pleasant Valley)
229 (4) Tyler Cann (Lehighton)
216 (3) Garrett Perschy (Palmerton)
215 (3) Cristian Burker (Catasauqua)
205 (3) Trey Durrah (Easton)
Single Game TD Passes (4)
5 (4) Travis Stefanik (Nazareth) *Ties School Record*
4 (1) Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh) *Ties School Record*
4 (1) Mason Freed (Blue Mountain)
4 (2) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
4 (2) Devante Cross (Parkland) *Ties School Record*
4 (3) Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
4 (4) Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
Single Game Receptions (10)
11 (3) Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
10 (2) Kenny Yeboah (Parkland)
Single Game Reception Yardage (140)
296 (1) 164 (3) Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *School Record*
229 (2) Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic) *School Record*
167 (2) Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
159 (1) Nate Stewart (Bethlehem Catholic)
150 (3) Changa Hodge (ES South)
147 (3) Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
147 (3) Desmond Boykin (Whitehall)
145 (4) Marcello Riccardi (Stroudsburg)
143 (5) Carrick Panella (Parkland)
141 (3) Tegan Durishin (Lehighton)
Single Game Reception TD’s (3)
3 (1) Nate Stewart (Bethlehem Catholic)
3 (1) Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *Ties School Record*
3 (2) Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic) *Ties School Record*
2015 District 11 Season Leaders
Rushing (675)
1039 Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
991 Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
918 Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
839 Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
799 Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
757 Mike Stasko (Palmerton)
725 Harry Hall (Northwestern)
718 Antwon Keenan (Bethlehem Catholic)
695 Wyatt Clements (Lehighton)
689 Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area)
Touchdowns (9)
18 Antwon Keenen (Bethlehem Catholic)
16 Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
16 Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
16 Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
14 Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
12 Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
12 Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
12 Bud Moyer (Tamaqua)
11 Mike Stasko (Palmerton)
11 Harry Hall (Northwestern)
10 Wyatt Clements (Lehighton)
10 Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley)
9 Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area)
9 Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
9 Devante Cross (Parkland)
Passing Yards (650)
1359 Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
1226 Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
1213 Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh)
1100 Giani Sinatore (Whitehall)
911 Doug Erney (Liberty)
898 Devante Cross (Parkland)
814 Nick Rodichok (Williams Valley)
798 Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
769 Jake Cirillo (ES South)
737 Tyler Cann (Lehighton)
735 Cristian Burker (Catasauqua)
701 Julian Spigner Bethlehem Catholic)
673 Ethan Persa (Central Catholic)
672 Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
663 Dylan Della Valle (PM West)
651 Joe Young (Freedom)
Touchdown Passes (10)
14 Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
13 Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh)
13 Doug Erney (Liberty)
13 Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
12 Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
10 Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
Receptions (20)
34 Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
32 Nick Basenese (Notre Dame)
26 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
25 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh)
25 Mason Donaldson (Salisbury)
23 Ryan Greene (Catasauqua)
23 Desmond Boykin (Whitehall)
23 Corey Raysely (Catasauqua)
22 Aaron Weller (Notre Dame)
22 Kenny Yeboah (Parkland)
22 Dallas Kassis (Central Catholic)
21 Aaron DeAngelo (Marian Catholic)
21 Austin Kaulius (Notre Dame)
20 Tegan Durishin (Lehighton)
Reception Yardage (370)
740 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh)
486 Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
481 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
480 Nick Basenese (Notre Dame)
434 Marcello Riccardi (Stroudsburg)
419 Aaron DeAngelo (Marian Catholic)
414 Desmond Boykin (Whitehall)
385 Changa Hodge (ES South)
374 Mason Donaldson (Salisbury)
Reception Touchdowns (6)
8 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh)
7 Aaron Weller (Notre Dame)
7 Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
