DISTRICT 11 NOTES (week 6):
by Duke Helm
RUNNINGBACKS:
Nasai Moon of Pleasant Valley rushed for a school-record 328 yards in their loss to PM East. Moon now has 666 yards on the season and joins the chart with 1,327 career yards. Mike Mitchell set the old record when he rushed for 301 yards vs ES South in 2016. Kobe Brish of Schuylkill Haven scored a td last week and now has 65 career td’s. He moves up to 20th place all-time in the District and joins Juan Gaddy of Easton (1989-92) and Wyatt Clements of Lehighton (2012-15) with 65 career td’s. Sophomore Dimitri Rojas had his 2nd consecutive 200-yard game when he rushed for 215 yards in their win over Allen. Ian Csicsek of Saucon Valley rushed for 288 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Bangor. Csicsek now has 3 games of over 200 yards this year with his personal best being 289 yards. Csicsek also takes over the District lead with 1,214 rushing yards. Ryan Clark of ESS is 2nd with 1,169 yards and Trey Gretzinger of Palisades is 3rd with 1,085 yards. All 3 players lead the District with 18 td’s each. Nick Breiner of Tamaqua now has 50 career td’s and teammate Nate Boyle has 30 career td’s. Tyrese Brandon of Northampton is now on the chart after his 146 yards rushing and 3 td’s vs ES South. Brandon, a junior, now has career totals of 1,053 yards rushing and 19 td’s scored. He’s also caught 32 passes for another 349 yards.
QUARTERBACKS:
Cole DeFranco of Notre Dame threw for 339 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Palisades. DeFranco leads the District with 1,823 yards passing and 20 td passes. He’s averaging 304 yards passing and 3.3 td passes a game. His career totals stand at 8,286 yards passing and 76 td passes. He moves ahead of former Colonial League leader Tyler Smith of Wilson (8,035) and into 2nd place all-time in the District. His 75 td passes move him ahead of Zack Bradley of Catasauqua (74), AJ Long of Pius X (74) and Cole Hildabrant of Pius X (75) and into 4th place all-time. Deven Bollinger of Northwestern threw for 268 yards and a school record 5 td’s in their win over Palmerton. Bollinger already owns the single-game record when he threw for 291 yards against Palisades as a freshman. Bollinger and Frank Dangello previously held the td pass record when they both had 4 td passes in a game. Bollinger had 4 in a game in 2016 and 2017. His career totals are 3,853 yards passing and 45 td passes. Dangello threw for 4 td’s in 2014 vs Salisbury. Anthony Harris of Nazareth threw for 289 yards and 3 td’s in their loss to Parkland. The junior joins the “4,000-yard” club and the “40 td” club this week. Harris is 2nd behind DeFranco with 1,425 yards this year (13 td’s) and has thrown for 4,046 yards and 41 td passes for his career. Logan Edmond of Southern Lehigh threw for 206 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Northern Lehigh. Edmond now has 50 career td passes. Jared Jenkins of undefeated Freedom is nearing the 1,000 yard total this year (979) to go along with his 15 td passes. He’s also closing in on the school records for career passing yards and td passes. Dylan Rinker of PM East needs 68 yards passing to break Evan Fardella’s single-season school record of 1,342 yards that he set in 2010. Ejau Collazo of Dieruff fired 4 td passes in their win over ES North. Collazo threw for 160 yards and also rushed for 132 yards and a td.
RECEIVERS:
David Sanders of Notre Dame broke his own school record for the 2nd time last week when he caught 5 passes for a record 210 yards. Sanders now has 38 catches for a District leading 828 yards and a school-tying single season record 10 td catches. Greg Macchia in 1990 and Aaron Cerone in 1991 each had 10 td catches. Tommy Manos of Nazareth still leads the District with 39 receptions. Sanders is 2nd with 38 and teammate Isaiah Dejesus is 3rd with 37 catches. Dejesus is now Notre Dame’s career leader in receptions yards with 1,525 yards. Rob Harper held the old record when he netted 1,515 yards from 1981-82. Jessiah Woods of Dieruff caught 4 passes for 101 yards and 3 td’s last week. He also rushed for 102 yards, had an interception and recorded a safety. That’s his 3rd consecutive 100-yard receiving game. Nick Viva of Nazareth became the 3rd Eagle to make the chart after grabbing 4 passes for 115 yards and 2 td’s last week. Viva now has 40 catches for 605 yards and 9 td grabs in his career.
KICKERS:
Devin Bartholomew of Parkland kicked a 35-yard field goal vs Nazareth and now has 8 field goals this year.
DISTRICT 11 HISTORY:
Earlier this season Pottsville Nativity played 3 games in 8 games. With a scheduling conflict, they played a game on Wednesday in-between playing on the weekend before and after. It’s been done before in the District with teams that play on Thanksgiving and are in the playoffs. But have you ever heard of a District 11 team playing 2 games in back to back days? Well, Pine Grove did exactly that in 1975 and both games were on the road. The “Grovers” as they were called back then lost to Juniata on Friday night, October 3rd by the score of 10-8. On Saturday they traveled to Weatherly and lost again by 2 points 14-12. They were down 14-0 and scored td’s in the 2nd and 3rd quarters. Brett Hardenstine scored a td and tossed a td pass to Bob Krammes for the other. The following year Hardenstine a qb, would lead Pine Grove with 800 yards rushing and have rushing td’s of 73, 75, 82 and 92 yards. He also had a 76-yard kick-off return and a 98-yard interception td. Hardenstine would go on to play for Temple from 1978-80. The Krammes name would show up again at Pine Grove from 2006-08. Lee Krammes would set school records at the time with 79 career catches for 1363 yards and 16 reception td’s.
On September 19th, 1969 Northampton plays their 1st-night home game vs an odd opponent at the time. They defeated Notre Dame 35-14.
2018 single game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat (yellow highlighter = last week)
Single Game Touchdowns (4)
6 (2), 4 (3) Ryan Clark (ES South) *Ties School Record*
5 (2) Trey Gretzinger (Palisades) *School Record*
5 (2), 4 (5) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)
5 (4) Kaleb Monaco (PM West)
5 (5) Jarrin Geisinger (Jim Thorpe)
4 (1) David Sanders (Notre Dame)
4 (2), 4 (4) Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)
4 (2) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)
4 (5) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)
4 (5) Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)
4 (5) Andrew Sabo (Palmerton)
4 (6) Jacob Kamp (Salisbury)
4 (6) Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)
Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)
328 (2), 259 (5) Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)
328 (6) Nasai Moon (Pleasant Valley) *School Record*
326 (3), 263 (1) Ryan Clark (ES South)
289 (4), 288 (6), 210 (3) Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)
284 (5), 215 (6) Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)
261 (1) Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)
259 (5), 212 (1) Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)
257 (3), 232 (1) Logan Bachman (Central Catholic)
248 (2) Ethan Brader (Palisades)
239 (4) Kaleb Monaco (PM West)
236 (5), 221 (1) CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)
220 (1) Zach Chowansky (North Schuylkill)
209 (3) Ben Kramer (Blue Mountain)
Single Game Passing Yardage (200)
380 (2), 269 (4) Chris Whiteman (Lehighton) *School Record*
361 (1), 339 (6), 337 (2), 298 (5), 256 (4), 232 (3) Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)
330 (5), 269 (3), 234 (4), 223 (2) Dylan Rinker (PM East) *School Record*
272 (5), Damon Yost (Pottsville)
268 (6) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)
335 (5), 289 (6), 256 (4), 201 (1) Anthony Harris (Nazareth)
256 (5) Zamar Brake (Bethlehem Catholic)
256 (5) Nate Nimeh (Easton)
252 (2) Jared Jenkins (Freedom)
250 (2) Ethan Reis (Panther Valley)
246 (5), 206 (6) Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)
233 (4), 208 (1) Daulton Leedy (Tri-Valley)
225 (4) Anthony Nanoah (Whitehall)
225 (5) Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)
223 (3) Bo Meyers (Bangor)
221 (5) Brayden Knoblauch (Tamaqua)
209 (3) Aiden Stanton (Pottsville)
Single Game TD Passes (4)
5 (1) Jared Jenkins (Freedom) *School Record*
5 (6) Deven Bollinger (Northwestern) *School Record*
5 (1), 4 (6) Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame) *Ties School Record*
5 (5) Damon Yost (Pottsville)
5 (5) Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)
4 (3) Levi Engle (Williams Valley)
4 (3) Aiden Stanton (Pottsville)
4 (3) Zamar Brake (Bethlehem Catholic)
4 (6) Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)
Single Game Receptions (10)
11 (5) Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)
10 (2) David Sanders (Notre Dame) *Ties School Record*
10 (5) Darius Robinson (PM East) *School Record*
Single Game Reception Yardage (140)
210 (6), 192 (2), 191 (1) David Sanders (Notre Dame) *School Record*
179 (2) Blake White (Panther Valley)
177 (4) Joe Herman (Whitehall)
173 (5) Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)
168 (5) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)
155 (4) Nick Lucian (Bethlehem Catholic)
152 (4), 141 (2) Zack Crum (Lehighton)
151 (1) Christian Sapp (ES South)
150 (5), 141 (4) Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)
Single Game Reception TD’s (3)
4 (1) David Sanders (Notre Dame)
4 (5) Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh) *School Record*
3 (3) Matt Stianche (Bethlehem Catholic)
3 (4) Joe Herman (Whitehall)
3 (6) Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)
Field Goal Distance (40)
48 (4) Devin Bartholomew (Parkland) *School Record*
46 (5) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic) *School Record*
45 (5) Matt Bugbee (Nazareth)
43 (4) Devon Troxell (Catasauqua)
42 (1) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic)
41 (3) Rustin Seyle (Central Catholic)
District 11 Season Leaders
Rushing (650)
1214 Ian Csicsak (Saucon Valley)
1169 Ryan Clark (ES South)
1085 Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)
955 Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)
922 Logan Bachman (Central Catholic)
879 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)
861 Dimitri Rojas (Stroudsburg)
830 Kaleb Monaco (PM West)
824 Ethan Brader (Palisades)
823 CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)
806 Ryan Schreffler (Pottsville Nativity)
719 Nick Breiner (Tamaqua)
666 Nasai Moon (Pleasant Valley)
654 Ben Kramer (Blue Mountain)
Touchdowns (10)
18 Ryan Clark (ES South)
18 Trey Gretzinger (Palisades)
18 Ian Csicsek (Saucon Valley)
13 CJ Selby (Jim Thorpe)
12 Dalton Kintzel (Pine Grove)
11 Jaden Leiby (North Schuylkill)
11 Harold Reynolds (Easton)
11 Nate Boyle (Tamaqua)
11 Logan Bachman (Central Catholic)
11 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)
10 Kaleb Monaco (PM West)
10 Kobe Brish (Schuylkill Haven)
10 Nick Breiner (Tamaqua)
10 Tavion Banks (Bethlehem Catholic)
10 David Sanders (Notre Dame)
Passing Yards (800)
1823 Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)
1425 Anthony Harris (Nazareth)
1275 Dylan Rinker (PM East)
1183 Chris Whiteman (Lehighton)
979 Jared Jenkins (Freedom)
969 Logan Edmond (Southern Lehigh)
959 Nathan Nimeh (Easton)
858 Levi Engle (Williams Valley)
851 Daulton Leedy (Tri-Valley)
803 Lawson Bray (PM West)
803 Ejau Collazo (Dieruff)
Touchdown Passes (12)
20 Cole DeFranco (Notre Dame)
15 Jared Jenkins (Freedom)
13 Levi Engle (Williams Valley)
13 Deven Bollinger (Northwestern)
13 Ethan Parvel (Emmaus)
13 Nathan Nimeh (Easton)
13 Anthony Harris (Nazareth)
12 Chris Whiteman (Lehighton)
Receptions (24)
39 Tommy Manos (Nazareth)
38 David Sanders (Notre Dame)
37 Isaiah Dejesus (Notre Dame)
35 Triston Hilliman (PM East)
35 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)
32 Zack Crum (Lehighton)
29 Allen Negrete (Whitehall)
26 Justin Pasquale (Central Catholic)
Reception Yardage (400)
828 David Sanders (Notre Dame)
599 Zack Crum (Lehighton)
555 Isaiah Dejesus (Notre Dame)
510 Tommy Manos (Nazareth)
475 Triston Hilliman (PM East)
471 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)
461 Jessiah Woods (Dieruff)
413 Allen Negrete (Whitehall)
Reception Touchdowns (7)
10 David Sanders (Notre Dame) *Ties School Record*
7 Jesse Engle (Williams Valley)
7 Dalton Musselman (Southern Lehigh)
7 Nate Stefanik (Nazareth)
