DISTRICT NOTES – WEEK 8:
RUNNING BACKS: Evan Culver of Saucon Valley rushed for 242 yards and 5 td’s last week. He takes over the District lead for rushing yardage (1,607) and td’s (27). Culver also tied the school record with his 5 td’s. Walt Schmidt (1955) and Nick Savant (2013) each scored 5 td’s in a game. Culver (3,010 yards) needs 3 yards to break Savant’s career rushing yardage record. Logan Sterner of Pen Argyl rushed for 270 yards and 5 td’s in their win over Wilson. Sterner’s 5 td’s ties the school record held by 7 other players. They are; Gil Strunk, Gary Heard, Barry Wooley, Woody Petchel, Ed McGinley, Jake DeBoer and Dylan Evans. Logan, just a sophomore, is the son of former Green Knight Rick Sterner. Rick (1985-87) rushed for over 1,000 yards in both his junior and senior years and ended his career with 3,001 yards rushing and 32 td’s. Nysir Minney-Gratz of Easton rushed for 302 yards in their win over Liberty. Minney-Gratz became the second Rover to ever go over 300 yards rushing in a game. Juan Gaddy rushed for 314 yards against Phillipsburg in 1991. Wyatt Clements of Lehighton scored 4 td’s last week to break Robbie Frey’s school record for career td’s. Clements now has 59 career td’s. Frey racked up 58 td’s from 2004-06. Antwon Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic now has 30 career td’s and Thomas Melchiorre of ES North now has 25 td’s. Harry Hall of Northwestern rushed for 223 yards last week. That performance moves him up to 13th place all-time for career rushing yards in the District (4,720). Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley leads all active players with 61 career td’s. Clements (59) is 2 behind, while Culver (56) is 5 and Hall (54) is 7 behind Borre. Mike Stasko of Palmerton has now scored 19 td’s this season to move into second place all-time at the school for a single season. Stasko moves ahead of Justin Petersen who scored 18 times in 2007. In 1998, Chris Siracuse set the record when he scored 20 td’s. Mitch Daniel of Notre Dame scored 4 td four different ways last week. Daniel’s had a 41 yard run, 100 yard interception, 49 yard td catch and recovered a fumble in the end zone. Daniel now has 14 td’s on the season.
QUARTERBACKS: Ian McCole of Shenandoah Valley and Ethan Persa of Central Catholic both went over 1,000 yards passing for the season last week. Tre Jordan of Notre Dame threw for 210 yards and 2 td passes last week to up his District lead to 2,101 yards. He also broke Ric Schumacher’s school record of 2,057 yards. Schumacher set the record in 1991. Doug Erney of Liberty went over 6,000 yards passing for his career (6,007). Tevon Weber of Salisbury threw for 3 td’s last week and now has 46 career td passes. That breaks the school record of 44 that Kyle McFarland set from 2004-06. Weber is also tied with Tre Jordan of Notre Dame for the District lead with 21 td passes each this year. Nick Rodichok of Williams Valley threw 4 td’s last week and now has 30 for his career. Zach Thatcher of Saucon Valley went over 2,000 yards passing for his career and now has 2,100. Jake Jakobson of Stroudsburg tied his own record last week in their loss to Bethlehem Catholic. Jakobson has now thrown 17 td passes in each of the last 2 seasons. Cameron Clark of Wilson threw for 349 yards and 3 td’s in their loss to Pen Argyl. The 349 yards is the 6th best ever at Wilson. Clark threw a 93 yard td pass to Job Goodman which broke the school record. The old record was a 90 yard halfback pass from Jimmy Chillot to Willie Saloky in 1967 vs Palmerton. Andrew Brett of Catasauqua came into game vs Salisbury for Cristian Burker and threw for 252 yards and 4 td’s.
Looking at the career passing charts for District 11: Tre Jordan moves up to 5th place all-time with his 6,610 yards. He went ahead of Ric Schumacher of Notre Dame (6,490) and AJ Long of Pius X (6,552). Doug Erney of Liberty remains in 11th place (6,007 yards) and is 80 yards behind Dan Kendra lll from Bethlehem Catholic. Julian Spigner of Bethlehem Catholic (5,126) is now in 22nd place. Devante Cross of Parkland (4,939) moves up to 28th place. Jake Cirillo of ES South jumped up 15 spots and into 51st place all-time with his 247 yards last week. McCole of Shenandoah Valley moves up 14 spots and is now in 70th place. Tyler Cann of Lehighton is 4 yards behind McCole. Lower on the list and making the biggest jump is Travis Stefanik of Nazareth. He moves up 27 spots and into 126th place. For career td passes: Jordan (74) is now in 6th place all-time, one ahead of Wilson’s DJ Lenehan. Erney (63) is still in 9th place. Spigner (54) moves into a tie for 16th place with Barry Kennedy of Catasauqua. Cross (51) is now in 22nd place. Bobby Grigas of North Schuylkill is tied for 25th place with 48 career td’s.
RECEIVERS: Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh leads the District in reception yardage with 1,041. That breaks the old school record held previously by Jacob Del Priore. Del Priore had 1,006 yards in 2013. Price also set the single season td reception record (13 now) last week, when he caught 3 more in their win over Northern Lehigh. Nate Stewart of Bethlehem Catholic now has 151 career catches for 2,549 yards and 32 td catches. He breaks the tie with OJ Grow of Williams Valley and now takes sole possession of 3rd place all-time with his 151 catches. Jahan Dotson of Nazareth caught 10 passes for 184 yards and a td last week vs Whitehall. Dotson now has 48 catches for the season and takes over the District lead from his teammate Julian Liaci. Dotson is the quickest player in District 11 history to reach 100 receptions and 1,500 receiving yards. No other player has ever achieved those totals before their junior year. The highest totals before Dotson were Matt Camilletti of Pius X with 72 catches and OJ Grow of Williams Valley had 1,163 yards before their junior year. Dotson moved into second place all-time at Nazareth for career receptions and reception yardage. He moves ahead of Adam Bridgeforth and is closing in on Chris Carr’s school records of 110 catches for 1,677 yards. Carr set those records from 1986-88. Dotson is tied with Anthony Gaetinello with 10 receiving td’s in a season. On the other end of the spectrum, receivers that only played their junior and senior years, Ethan Price now has the third highest yardage total in the District. Price (1,757 yards) went ahead of Billy Krebs (1,701 yards) of Bethlehem Catholic. He trails only Dan Cason (1,820) of ES South and Quintin Lopez of Pius X (1,882). Price’s 1,757 career receiving yards is also tied for 29th place all-time in the District with Whitehall’s Tyler Artim. Mike Kane of Saucon Valley joins teammate Nate Harka in the 1,000 yard career receiving club. Harka currently has 1,160 yards and Kane has 1,031 yards. Kane caught a td pass against Bangor last week to give him 15 career td catches, tying him with Sean Crouthamel (1990-92) for the school record. Harka is still 1 behind with 14 td catches. Joel Santana of Shenandoah Valley caught 10 passes last week and now has 43 catches on the season. Santana works his way onto the chart as does Minney-Gratz of Easton, Keenan of Bethlehem Catholic, Darion Jacoby of Pottsville and Mike Stasko of Palmerton.
Week 8 Trivia: Aaron Weller of Notre Dame has 9 td catches this year. Name the 2 former teammates that currently share the school record with 10 td catches each.
Week 7 Trivia: Name the 2 current head coaches in District 11 that rushed for 1,000 yards in a season for a District 11 team. Josh Snyder of Northwestern did it twice. In 1996, he rushed for 1,102 yards and in 1997, he rushed for 1,395 yards. Current North Schuylkill head coach Wally Hall rushed for 1,175 yards in his junior year for Shenandoah Valley in 1992.
Week 6 Trivia: Ethan Price of Southern Lehigh leads the District with 9 td catches this year. Price is tied with 2 other players at Southern Lehigh. Name those 2 players. Price was tied with Dave Wood and Jeff Smillie. Wood had 9 in 1974 and Smillie had 9 in 2010. Price had a td catch last week and now has 10 this year, tying Jake Meluskey’s school record. Meluskey, a fullback, set the record in 2011 when he caught 32 passes for 508 yards and the 10 td’s. Meluskey also rushed for 1,139 yards and another 9 td’s.
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. John Gardus had 14 td catches. He had 7 in 2006 and 7 more in 2007. Hubbard and Haldeman each had 12 td catches in their careers.
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 (totals set last week)
Single Game Touchdowns (4)
6 (1), 5 (4), 4 (5), 4 (7) Kyle Boney (Emmaus) *6 Ties School Record*
6 (7) Mike Stasko (Palmerton) *6 School Record*
5 (2), 5 (3), 5 (5), 4 (7) Antwon Keenan (Beth. Catholic) *5 Ties School Record*
5 (2) Bud Moyer (Tamaqua) *5 Ties School Record*
5 (3) Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
5 (5) Devante Cross (Parkland)
5 (8) Logan Sterner (Pen Argyl) *5 Ties School Record*
5 (8), 4 (4), 4 (5) Evan Culver (Saucon Valley) *5 Ties School Record*
4 (2) Devin Irwin (Salisbury)
4 (3), 4 (4) Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
4 (4) Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley)
4 (4) Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area)
4 (5) Matt Fisher (PM East)
4 (5) Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
4 (6) Alvin Pacheco (Central Catholic)
4 (7) Richie Zahodnick (North Schuylkill)
4 (8) Wyatt Clements (Lehighton)
4 (8) Mitch Daniel (Notre Dame)
Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)
329 (4) Lenny Dulsky (Mahanoy Area) *329 Ties School Record*
307 (3), 236 (1) Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg) *307 School Record*
306 (7) Chris Monaco (PM West)
302 (8), 202 (2) Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
297 (7), 224 (5), 218 (4), Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
296 (5) Mason Ryan (Mahanoy Area)
279 (5), 242 (8), 221 (2) 207 (3) Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
276 (4) Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
270 (8) Logan Sterner (Pen Argyl)
255 (5) Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley) *255 School Record*
252 (5) Matt Fisher (PM East)
249 (6) Alvin Pacheco (Central Catholic)
248 (1) Mike Stasko (Palmerton) *248 School Record*
246 (4) Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
236 (6), 236 (7) Major Jordan (North Schuylkill)
227 (7), 208 (2) Bud Moyer (Tamaqua)
225 (7) KJ Snerr (Marian Catholic)
223 (8) Harry Hall (Northwestern)
212 (3) Danny Lozada (Schuylkill Haven)
Single Game Passing Yardage (200)
406 (1), 297 (4), 242 (7), 227 (3) Blake Levengood (South. Lehigh) *406 School Record*
363 (3), 316 (5), 289 (7), 285 (2), 243 (6), 218 (4), 210 (8) Tre Jordan (Notre Dame) *363 School Record*
349 (8) Cameron Clark (Wilson)
313 (6), 277 (5), 216 (2) Devante Cross (Parkland)
297 (1), 231 (5), 204 (6) Doug Erney (Liberty)
288 (3), 270 (2), 235 (1), 226 (4), 212 (8), 211 (6), 207 (5) Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
278 (5), 243 (1) 215 (3) Giani Sinatore (Whitehall)
278 (6), 235 (1) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
274 (4), 200 (1) Jake Jakobsen (Stroudsburg)
257 (2) Ethan Kuczynski (Marian Catholic)
257 (6), 247 (8), 234 (2), 221 (3) Jake Cirillo (ES South)
252 (8) Andrew Brett (Catasauqua)
234 (5), 201 (7) Nick Rodichok (Williams Valley)
232 (7) Brandon Keyes (Pleasant 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) *5 Ties School Record*
4 (1) Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh) *4 Ties School Record*
4 (1) Mason Freed (Blue Mountain)
4 (2) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
4 (2) Devante Cross (Parkland) *4 Ties School Record*
4 (3), 4 (7) Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
4 (4), 4 (7) Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
4 (5), 4 (6) Doug Erney (Liberty)
4 (8) Andrew Brett (Catasauqua)
4 (8) Nick Rodichok (Williams Valley)
Single Game Receptions (10)
11 (3) Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
10 (2) Kenny Yeboah (Parkland)
10 (6) Mason Donaldson (Salisbury)
10 (8) Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
10 (8) Joel Santana (Shenandoah Valley)
Single Game Reception Yardage (140)
296 (1) 166 (7), 164 (3) Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *296 School Record*
229 (2) Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic) *229 School Record*
168 (6) Noah Ridgeway (Parkland)
184 (8), 167 (2), 145 (6) Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
164 (7) Cory Hicks (Catasauqua)
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), 3 (8) Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *3 Ties School Record*
3 (2) Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic) *3 Ties School Record*
3 (7) Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
2015 District 11 Season Leaders
Rushing (1,000)
1607 Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
1538 Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
1379 Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
1304 Harry Hall (Northwestern)
1246 Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
1216 Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
1142 Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton
1134 Mike Stasko (Palmerton)
1108 Wyatt Clements (Lehighton)
1081 Antwon Keenan (Bethlehem Catholic)
Touchdowns (13)
27 Evan Culver (Saucon Valley)
26 Antwon Keenen (Bethlehem Catholic)
26 Kyle Boney (Emmaus)
23 Jamaal Brome (Stroudsburg)
20 Nysir Minney-Gratz (Easton)
19 Mike Stasko (Palmerton)
18 Bud Moyer (Tamaqua)
18 Robert Heller (Jim Thorpe)
18 Harry Hall (Northwestern)
18 Wyatt Clements (Lehighton)
15 Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley)
14 Thomas Melchiorre (ES North)
14 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
14 Mitch Daniel (Notre Dame)
13 CJ Young (Northern Lehigh)
13 Devante Cross (Parkland)
13 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh)
Passing Yards (1,000)
2101 Tre Jordan (Notre Dame) *School Record*
1785 Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
1783 Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh)
1536 Devante Cross (Parkland)
1460 Jake Cirillo (ES South)
1408 Giani Sinatore (Whitehall)
1370 Nick Rodichok (Williams Valley)
1369 Doug Erney (Liberty)
1290 Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
1279 Julian Spigner Bethlehem Catholic)
1124 Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
1124 Tyler Cann (Lehighton)
1077 Ian McCole (Shenandoah Valley)
1048 Cristian Burker (Catasauqua)
1045 Ethan Persa (Central Catholic)
Touchdown Passes (16)
21 Tre Jordan (Notre Dame)
21 Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
20 Travis Stefanik (Nazareth)
20 Blake Levengood (Southern Lehigh)
19 Doug Erney (Liberty)
17 Jake Jakobson (Stroudsburg)
Receptions (28)
48 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
46 Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
46 Nick Basenese (Notre Dame)
43 Joel Santana (Shenandoah Valley)
42 Mason Donaldson (Salisbury)
39 Corey Raysely (Catasauqua)
37 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh)
35 Kenny Yeboah (Parkland)
35 Ryan Greene (Catasauqua)
34 Aaron Weller (Notre Dame)
33 Desmond Boykin (Whitehall)
32 Dallas Kassis (Central Catholic)
30 Austin Kaulius (Notre Dame)
28 Tegan Durishin (Lehighton)
28 Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic)
Reception Yardage (500)
1041 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *School Record*
862 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth)
644 Marcello Riccardi (Stroudsburg)
644 Corey Raysely (Catasauqua)
624 Changa Hodge (ES South)
602 Julian Liaci (Nazareth)
598 Nick Basenese (Notre Dame)
579 Mason Donaldson (Salisbury)
548 Desmond Boykin (Whitehall)
529 Allen Hand (Williams Valley)
513 Jake Wolfgang (Williams Valley)
510 Aaron Deangelo (Marian Catholic)
505 Tegan Durishin (Lehighton)
Reception Touchdowns (8)
13 Ethan Price (Southern Lehigh) *School Record*
10 Jahan Dotson (Nazareth) *Ties School Record*
9 Marcello Riccardi (Stroudsburg)
9 Aaron Weller (Notre Dame)
9 Mason Donaldson (Salisbury) *Ties School Record*
