DISTRICT 11 week 12:
RUNNINGBACKS:
Nate Boyle of Tamaqua rushed for 99 yards and a td in their win over North Schuylkill. Boyle has rushed for 1,391 yards this season which puts him in 2nd place at Tamaqua. Jim Hope holds the school-record when he rushed for 1,509 yards in 1990. Boyle moved up 5 places from 7th to 2nd with his 99 yards last week. The third through 7th place players are as follows. George Barron rushed for 1,351 yards during their last championship season in 1962 and is now in 3rd place. Bud Moyer (2017) is 4th with 1,341 yards. Jarred Muffley (2011) is 2 yards behind Moyer with 1,339 yards and in 5th. Grif Griffiths (2009) is 6th with 1,333 yards and Moyer enters the list again in 7th with the 1,304 yards he had last season. Boyle also tied his single-season td record as he’s scored 27 td’s in each of the last 2 years. District leading Asher Smith of Southern Lehigh broke his own single-game rushing record when he rushed for 323 yards and 4 td’s in their win over ES South last week. Smith has rushed for 2,201 yards while scoring 40 td’s so far this season. Smith is the 3rd Spartan to rush for over 2,000 yards in a season. Chris Smith rushed for a school-record 2,289 yards in 1996 and Jeremy Mack rushed for 2,220 yards the following year in 1997. Smith became the 14th District 11 player to score 40 td’s in a season. He’s currently tied with Ian Csicsek of Saucon Valley for 13th place. Csicsek scored 40 td’s last year. Tavion Banks of Bethlehem Catholic scored a td in their loss to Pottsville to end his career with a school-record 68 td’s. Banks also rushed for 3,892 yards in his career. Jalen Stewart of Freedom ends his career with a school-record 42 career td’s. Pottsville’s Kevin DiCello and Central Catholic’s Jayden Williams have each rushed for 1,182 yards in their career. They will square off this weekend.
District 11 career rushing leaders (top 3):
1. 8,432 yards – James Mungro (ES South) 1993-96
QUARTERBACKS:
Anthony Harris of Nazareth threw for 214 yards in their win over Easton, and in the process went over 2,000 yards passing for the season. Harris has thrown for 2,163 yards this year and 7,488 yards in his career. Harris remains in 6th place all-time in the District for both career receptions and reception yardage. Jared Jenkins of Freedom threw for 266 yards and 3 td passes in their loss to Parkland. He ends his season throwing for 2,473 yards along with 26 td passes. Jenkins threw for 7,395 yards in his career which is the 7th highest total all-time in the District. He threw 72 career td passes in his career which moves him into 10th place all-time in the District. Deven Bollinger of Northwestern, also ended his career last week. Bollinger threw for school records of 2,105 yards and 35 td passes. He also rushed for 1,005 yards and joins an elite group of players to throw for 2,000 yards and rush for over 1,000 yards in the same season. Dan Persa of Liberty was the first to do it in 2006. Brendan Nosovitch did it in consecutive years as a sophomore and junior in 2009 and 2010. Travis Stefanik of Nazareth and Devante Cross of Parkland each accomplished this in 2015 and Ethan Parvel did it in his junior year when he was at Whitehall. Bollinger finishes in 8th place all-time in the District for career passing yards with 7,260 yards and finishes in 3rd place with his 97 td passes. Bryce Herb of Williams Valley returned last week after a bye week and threw for 206 yards and 3 td’s. He leads Jenkins by 1 yard for the District lead with his 2,474 yards. He is tied with Bollinger for the District lead as both qb’s have thrown for 35 td’s this year. Damon Yost of Pottsville is in 3rd with 2,389 yards and 32 td passes. Brayden Knoblauch of Tamaqua needs 5 yards passing to break the school’s career record. Uncle, Adam Knoblauch holds the record when he threw for 4,126 yards from 1997-00. Will Fish of ES South ended his junior year throwing for 1,538 yards and 20 td’s and Jared Richardson of Bethlehem Catholic ended his sophomore season throwing for 1,543 yards and 11 td’s. Matt Rauscher of Central Catholic went over 2,000 yards passing for his career last week. The junior has thrown for 2,038 yards so far in his career. Ty Tremba of Parkland went over 1,000 yards passing for the season and the sophomore now has 1,102 yards.
RECEIVERS:
Nathan Stefanik of Nazareth caught 7 more passes last week vs Easton and jumps up into 3rd place all-time in the District with 186 catches. He’s one reception behind former Blue Eagle Jahan Dotson who caught 187 career passes. Stefanik moved ahead of Dez Boykin of Whitehall who caught 181 passes from 2015-17 and Matt Camilletti of Pius X who caught 183 passes from 2008-11. For the season, Stefanik has caught 73 passes for 1,031 yards and has 11 td catches. He leads the District with his 73 catches and is 7 yards behind Gabe Davis of Minersville for the season yardage lead. His 2,555 career receiving yards moves him ahead of Paryss Marshall of Catasauqua who accumulated 2,541 yards from 2011-13. Bo Raho of Williams Valley and Mason Barnes of Pottsville are tied for the District lead with 13 td catches each. Barnes moves into 2nd place at Pottsville for single-season reception yardage. Jim Murphy holds the record when he caught 63 passes for a school-record 821 yards in 1979. Barnes has 804 so far this season. Travis Blankenhorn drops to 3rd place with the 800 yards he had in 2013. Justin Holmes of Northwestern ends his sophomore season catching 31 passes for 810 yards and 12 td’s. Gabe Caton of Freedom caught 7 passes for 136 yards in their loss to Parkland and set a new single-season school record for reception yardage. Caton caught 48 passes for 986 yards and 8 td’s. Alex Huertas held the old record when he caught 60 passes for 943 yards in 2017. His 60 catches is still a school record. Caton ends his career catching 93 passes for another school record 1,717 yards. Huertas also held that old record when his yardage from 2015-17 totaled 1,661 yards. Teammate Vincent Reph fell 1 td reception short of tying the career school record of 22 that Trent Clark set in the 1996 and 1997 seasons. Reph caught 65 passes in his career with 21 of them going for td’s. That an average of a td every 3.1 catches which is one of the best ever in the District. Christian Sapp of ES South had his 2nd big season when he caught 43 passes for 795 yards and 12 td’s. The junior will start his senior year with 90 catches for 1,595 yards and 21 td grabs. Matt Stianche of Bethlehem Catholic finished the season catching 47 passes for 701 yards and 6 td’s. He ends his career catching 85 passes for 1,288 yards and 11 scores.
