RUNNINGBACKS:
We had 6 players go over 1,000 yards rushing for the season last week. Matt Machalik of Palmerton (1,107), Caden Henritzy of Northampton (1,097), Luke Stevenosky of Minersville (1,080), Nigel Linton of Whitehall (1,068), Fela Olaniyan of Pleasant Valley (1,062) and Eric Striba of Bangor (1,027). Machalik went over 3,000 yards for his career (3,097) and Henritzy went over 2,000 yards (2,037). Both are juniors. Henritzy rushed for 166 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Whitehall. Stevenosky went over 1,000 yards after rushing for 221 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Nativity. Kameron Wetzel of Tri-Valley also went over 2,000 yards for his career (2,049). Striba, along with Colm McGroaty of Mahanoy Area and Conner Goehring of Schuylkill Haven have all scored 38 td’s in their careers. Mekhi Ashby of Dieruff rushed for 252 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Allen. Cade Christopher of Northwestern had his 3rd 200-yard rushing game and his 3rd 4 td game this season after rushing for 216 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Southern Lehigh. Christopher moves up to third in the District in rushing yards with 1,338 yards. Alex Achenbach of Williams Valley still leads the District with 1,607 yards and is followed by Aiden Myers of Schuylkill Haven who has 1,346 yards. Achenbach leads the District for td’s with 24. He is followed by both Jalen Fletcher of Freedom and Christopher who have 23 td’s each. Christopher also went over 50 career td’s and now has 52 for his career. McGroaty, Henritzy and Steven Lilly of Palisades all hit the 20-td total last week. McGroaty has 21 and Henritzy and Lilly have each scored 20 times this season. Tyler Miller of Blue Mountain and AJ Jimenez of Northern Lehigh each scored 4 td’s to lead their teams to a win last week.
QUARTERBACKS:
Luke Spang of Parkland threw for 304 yards and 3 td’s in their loss to Emmaus. Danny Darno of Notre Dame threw for 203 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Wilson. Darno has thrown for over 200 yards 7 times this season and has thrown 4 or td’s in 5 of those games. He leads the District with 2,248 yards and is tied with Machalik for the District lead with 28 td passes. Machalik is second in the District with 2,227 yards passing. Other qb’s with 20 or more td passes this season are Sammy Sasso of Nazareth (21), Isaac Whiteash of Williams Valley (20) and Trevor Minalda of North Schuylkill (20). Jake Fotta of Emmaus went over 3,000 yards passing for his career and currently has 3,045 yards to go along with 29 td passes. Fotta has thrown for 1,806 yards this season and is 87 yards behind teammate Josiah Williams’ school single season passing yardage record. Williams threw for 1,893 yards last year when Fotta missed the entire season due to an injury. Ethan Neidig of Freedom went over 1,000 yards passing on the season and enters the playoffs with 1,065 yards. Freshman Dante Carr of Minersville went over 1,000 yards (1,041) and sophomore Luke Kane of Tamaqua also went over 1,000 yards for the season (1,018). Colby Mitchell of ES South ended the season the same way he started it. Mitchell threw for 271 yards and 4 td’s in their win over ES North last week. He threw for 256 yards and 4 td’s in their 1st game of the season vs Allen. The senior threw for 1,595 yards and 14 td’s in his only year playing QB.
RECEIVERS:
Mason Kuehner of Nazareth caught 11 passes for 133 yards and a td and teammate Nolan Lobb caught 7 passes for 108 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Easton. Kuehner has 56 receptions on the season for 917 yards and 8 td’s. He joins the “100 catch” club with 102 career receptions. Kuehner scored a total of 17 td’s this season with 6 more coming via the rush and a single td each via kickoff return, punt return and interception return. The junior has 25 career td’s. Lobb has 12 td grabs this season which ties him with Brady Evans of Williams Valley for the District lead. Evans joins the ”2,000 yard club” with exactly 2,000 yards receiving for his career. Dylan Darville now owns 3 single season school records for receiving. He caught 51 passes for 975 yards and 11 td’s this season. Dave Treat caught 48 passes in 1989, Matt Salvaterra had 890 yards receiving in 1998 and Treat along with Kevin White, Deonte Castro and Keith Cooke all caught 10 td passes in a season. Darville also tied the school career td record with his 16th grab last week. Castro caught 16 td passes in the 2017-18 seasons. Joey Flail of North Schuylkill caught 2 td passes last week giving him 28 for his career breaking the school record. Tevin Murray caught 27 career td passes from 2013-15. Flail, just a junior, owns all 3 career records at the school with his 116 catches for 1,769 yards and 28 td’s. Damian Tyminski of Pen Argyl, also a junior, owns all 3 career receiving records at the school. Tyminski joined the “100 catch” club last week and now has 102 career receptions for 1,681 yards and 13 td catches. Those totals are almost identical to Kuehner’s totals of 102 for 1,616 yards and 14 td’s. Tyminski leads the District with 59 catches this season and is trailed by Kuehner’s 56 and Central Catholic sophomore Jareel Calhoun’s 56 grabs. Calhoun caught 9 passes last week to up his total to 56 which broke the Vikings sophomore school record. Jeff McGeehin caught 54 passes in 1971 as a sophomore. Trey Tremba of Parkland caught 10 passes for 94 yards and a td last week vs Emmaus. Tremba, a junior, is on the chart for both rushing yards (1,067) and receiving yards (751). Nick Ryan of Shenandoah Valley broke the single season reception yardage school record. Ryan caught 50 passes for 879 yards and 10 td’s this season. Josh Ludlow of Notre Dame is the 6th player to have 50 or more receptions this season. Ludlow has 55. Ian Rarick of Lehighton went over 1,000 yards receiving for his career after he caught 8 passes for 83 yards last week vs Jim Thorpe. Rarick has 1,010 career yards.
STAT OF THE WEEK:
More on Nick Ryan’s Shenandoah Valley record. Four other Blue Devils netted over 800 yards receiving in a season. School sources have Mike Zulkowski with 845 yards on 35 catches in 2001 and Koury Kaplafka with 841 yards on 55 catches in 2005. Research shows that local newspaper records coincidentally have both players with 853 yards with Zulkowski catching 1 less pass and Kaplafka catching 1 more pass. The other 2 players are Nick Merva with 818 yards in 2012 and Joey Vevasis with 803 yards that he had last year.
2022 single-game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat
Single Game Touchdowns (4)
5 (1) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)
5 (3), 4 (7) Steven Lilly (Palisades) *Ties School Record*
5 (7), 4 (2) Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)
4 (1), 4 (7), 4 (10) Cade Christopher (Northwestern)
4 (1) Caiden Schaffer (Central Catholic)
4 (3) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
4 (5) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
4 (5) Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)
4 (6) Aidan Hutchison (Easton)
4 (7) Payton Fasnacht (Blue Mountain)
4 (9) Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)
4 (9) Clarence Watkins (Allen)
4 (10) Caden Henritzy (Northampton)
4 (10) Tyler Miller (Blue Mountain)
4 (10) AJ Jimenez (Northern Lehigh)
Single Game Rushing Yardage (200)
315 (2), 281 (7) Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)
305 (1), 241 (2), 219 (8), 215 (6) Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)
267 (7) Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)
252 (10) Mekhi Ashby (Dieruff)
250 (6) Kameron Wetzel (Tri-Valley)
222 (5) Trey Tremba (Parkland)
221 (3) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
221 (10) Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)
217 (1), 216 (10), 206 (7) Cade Christopher (Northwestern)
217 (3) Clarence Watkins (Allen)
216 (1), 212 (8) Lane Lehman (Pine Grove)
211 (5) Steven Lilly (Palisades)
208 (3) Luke DeRiggi (PM West)
206 (6) Nick Frame (Northern Lehigh)
203 (1) Michael Pascoe (Panther Valley)
201 (7), 200 (2) Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)
200 (7) Aidan Hutchison (Easton)
Single Game Passing Yardage (200)
347 (6), 345 (8), 305 (4), 302 (3) Matt Machalik (Palmerton) *School Record*
343 (8), 263 (9), 261 (6), 235 (7), 233 (2), 228 (5), 203 (10) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
338 (1) Will Jacobson (Blue Mountain) *School Record*
333 (9) Dante Carr (Minersville)
327 (8) Brett Balliet (Jim Thorpe)
304 (10), 273 (9) Luke Spang (Parkland)
294 (1), 264 (5), 218 (9), 202 (4) Sonny Sasso (Nazareth)
292 (3), 256 (8) Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)
271 (10), 256 (1), 236 (8) Colby Mitchell (ES South)
263 (9), 257 (8), 247 (3) Jake Fotta (Emmaus)
255 (2), 247 (1) Brady O’Donnell (Lehighton)
253 (5) Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley)
245 (4) Avery Koser (Southern Lehigh)
243 (4) Luke Thomas (Bethlehem Catholic)
236 (3) Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)
235 (5) Jordey Guzman (Dieruff)
225 (3) Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)
215 (1), 206 (6) Ben Kreitzer (Nativity)
213 (6) Tommy Mason (Liberty)
210 (9) Ian McHugh (PM West)
207 (7) Joseph Martinez (Easton)
205 (8) Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)
200 (1) Travis Riefenstahl (Saucon Valley)
Single Game TD Passes (4)
6 (5) Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley) *Ties School Record*
6 (6), 4 (1), 4 (4) Matt Machalik (Palmerton) *School Record*
5 (5), 5 (9), 4 (6), 4 (8), 4 (10) Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
5 (8) Brett Balliet (Jim Thorpe)
4 (1) Travis Riefenstahl (Saucon Valley)
4 (1), 4 (10) Colby Mitchell (ES South)
4 (3), 4 (8) Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)
4 (4) Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)
4 (4) Josiah Williams (Emmaus) *Ties School Record*
4 (8) Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)
4 (9) Dante Carr (Minersville)
Single Game Receptions (10)
13 (1) Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl) *School Record*
12 (8), 11 (1) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
11 (8), 11 (10) Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)
10 (2) Ian Rarick (Lehighton)
10 (2) Justin Yescavage (Jim Thorpe)
10 (10) Trey Tremba (Parkland)
Single Game Reception Yardage (140)
236 (9) Dylan Darville (Emmaus) *School Record*
202 (1), 172 (8), 168 (5) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
189 (4) Dalton Drake (Palmerton) *School Record*
168 (6) Brady Evans (Williams Valley)
167 (6) Noah Dolbin (Nativity)
166 (1) Nekhi Spencer (ES South)
158 (1) Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)
157 (8) Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)
156 (2) Ian Rarick (Lehighton)
154 (4) Eric Wert (Bethlehem Catholic)
152 (8) David Fiorito (Jim Thorpe)
147 (8) Cole Serfass (Palmerton)
141 (8) Dan Lucykanish (Palmerton)
Single Game Reception TD’s (3)
4 (5) Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley) *Ties School Record*
3 (1) Nekhi Spencer (ES South)
3 (3), 3 (6) Brady Evans (Williams Valley)
3 (4) Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)
3 (5) Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)
3 (5) Logan Hutsko (Minersville)
3 (6) AJ Lozano (Notre Dame)
3 (8) Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)
3 (9) Jareel Calhoun (Central Catholic)
Field Goals (40 yards)
43, 42, 41 (10) Griffin Mitstifer (Parkland)
42, 42 (8) Chris Bugbee (Nazareth)
District 11 Season Leaders
Rushing (1000)
1607 Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)
1346 Aiden Myers (Schuylkill Haven)
1338 Cade Christopher (Northwestern)
1230 Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)
1224 Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)
1188 Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)
1164 Steven Lilly (Palisades)
1123 Jared Tinari (North Schuylkill)
1107 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)
1097 Caden Henritzy (Northampton)
1080 Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)
1076 Mike Pascoe (Panther Valley)
1068 Nigel Linton (Whitehall)
1062 Fela Olaniyan (Pleasant Valley)
1027 Eric Striba (Bangor)
Touchdowns (17)
24 Alex Achenbach (Williams Valley)
23 Jalen Fletcher (Freedom)
23 Cade Christopher (Northwestern)
21 Colm McGroaty (Mahanoy Area)
20 Steven Lilly (Palisades)
20 Caden Henritzy (Northampton)
19 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)
18 Cade Sawyer (Southern Lehigh)
17 Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)
17 Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)
17 Trey Tremba (Parkland)
17 Luke Stevenosky (Minersville)
Passing Yards (1000)
2248 Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
2227 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)
1972 Sonny Sasso (Nazareth)
1806 Jake Fotta (Emmaus)
1595 Colby Mitchell (ES South)
1573 Brad Rissmiller (Pen Argyl)
1467 Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)
1397 Luke Spang (Parkland)
1392 Brett Balliet (Jim Thorpe)
1390 Trey Dogmantis (Whitehall)
1345 Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)
1362 Jordy Guzman (Dieruff)
1264 Luke Thomas (Bethlehem Catholic)
1237 Ben Kreitzer (Nativity)
1210 Tommy Mason (Liberty)
1205 Brady O’Donnell (Lehighton)
1169 Avery Koser (Southern Lehigh)
1149 Ben Dempster (Shenandoah Valley)
1141 Kole Miller (Tri-Valley)
1120 Travis Reifenstahl (Saucon Valley)
1065 Ethan Neidig (Freedom)
1041 Dante Carr (Minersville)
1018 Luke Kane (Tamaqua)
Touchdown Passes (18)
28 Matt Machalik (Palmerton)
28 Danny Darno (Notre Dame)
21 Sonny Sasso (Nazareth)
20 Isaac Whiteash (Williams Valley)
20 Trevor Minalda (North Schuylkill)
19 Jake Fotta (Emmaus)
Receptions (40)
59 Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)
56 Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)
56 Jareel Calhoun (Central Catholic)
55 Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)
51 Dylan Darville (Emmaus)
50 Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
45 Ian Rarick (Lehighton)
44 Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)
43 Jack Kocher (Whitehall)
42 Dan Lucykanish (Palmerton)
41 Noah Dolbin (Nativity)
41 Nolan Lobb (Nazareth)
40 David Fiorito (Jim Thorpe)
40 Juju Fears (Easton)
Reception Yardage (700)
975 Dylan Darville (Emmaus)
917 Mason Kuehner (Nazareth)
901 Damian Tyminski (Pen Argyl)
891 Brady Evans (Williams Valley)
879 Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
807 Josh Ludlow (Notre Dame)
777 Noah Dolbin (Nativity)
726 Dan Lucykanish (Palmerton)
Reception Touchdowns (10)
12 Brady Evans (Williams Valley)
12 Nolan Lobb (Nazareth)
11 Dylan Darville (Emmaus)
11 Joey Flail (North Schuylkill)
10 Dan Lucykanish (Palmerton)
10 AJ Lozano (Notre Dame)
10 Nick Ryan (Shenandoah Valley)
