by Duke Helm
RUNNINGBACKS:
Nahjee Adams of Easton continues to lead the District in rushing with his 927 yards. The junior went over 1,000 yards for his career (1,197 yards). Brandon Camire of Emmaus is now 2nd with 751 yards. Danny Lawrence of Mahanoy Area rushed for 269 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Nativity. His 738 yards this season is currently 3rd best in the District. Camire has scored 14 td’s in the first 4 games and is tied for the District lead with Asher Smith of Southern Lehigh. Smith has rushed for 683 yards this season. Smith has scored 4 td’s in 3 of the 4 games this year after scoring a total of 2 last year. Adams scored 4 td’s last week and has 12 td’s on the season. Tavion Banks of Bethlehem Catholic and Nate Boyle of Tamaqua have scored 11 td’s each this season. Banks went over 3,000 yards rushing for his career and now has 3,072. He has scored 57 career td’s which puts him in 4th place at BECA. Boyle, who scored 4 times last week, also has 57 career td’s which breaks the school record of 56 that Nick Breiner set last year. Kobe Brish of Schuylkill Haven remains in 6th place all-time in the District for career rushing yards with 6,152 yards. Dylan Rabuck of Williams Valley (2014-17) is in 5th place with 6,421 yards. For career td’s, Brish moves up from 8th place to a tie for 5th with his 86 td’s. Eric Rath of Pius X scored 86 td’s from 1998-01. Colin McDermott of Central Catholic (2010-12) and Shane Simpson of Easton (2011-14) both scored 85 td’s in their careers and they are now tied for 7th place all-time. Tyrese Brandon of Northampton went over 2,000 yards rushing for his career. Brandon now has 2,066 yards rushing while scoring 41 career td’s. He’s within 2 td’s of tying the school record of 43. Tommy Rohn holds that record which he compiled from 1996-99. Rohn rushed for 2,062 yards and caught 80 passes for 1,367 yards in his career. CJ Selby of Jim Thorpe scored 4 td’s last week and now has 37 career td’s. Sophomore, Damian Garcia of Saucon Valley rushed for 249 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Salisbury. Alec Snyder of Wilson went over 1,000 yards rushing for his career last week.
QUARTERBACKS:
Deven Bollinger of Northwestern leads the District with 821 yards passing and 15 td’s passes this season. Bollinger threw for 266 yards and 5td’s in their win over Wilson. He also moves into 1st place for career passing yards among active qb’s with 5,976 yards. His 5 td passes last week gives him 77 career td’s, which moves him up from 8th to 5th place all-time in the District. Cole Hildabrant of Pius X had 75 td passes (2003-06) and AJ Long of Pius X and Zach Bradley of Catasauqua (2011-13) both had 74 career td passes. Anthony Harris of Nazareth now has 5,961 career passing yards and a new school record 61 career td passes. His 2 td passes last week moves him ahead of former record holder Travis Stefanik who threw 60 td passes from 2014-16. And the record-breaking td pass was caught by Travis’s brother Nathan. Harris (235 yards) and Jared Jenkins of Freedom (212 yards) each threw for over 200 yards for the 1st time this year. Brayden Knoblauch of Tamaqua tied Nate Edmonds (2010-13) school record for career td passes as both have thrown 32. Knoblauch has a completion % of 80.1 (38 for 47) and has thrown 8 td’s vs 0 interceptions. Damon Yost of Pottsville continues to have a strong year passing as he has completed 69% (44 for 64) of his passes and has a td/int ratio of 11/1. Bryce Herb of Williams Valley has also thrown for 11 td’s this season. Quintin Stephens of Salisbury threw for 269 yards and 2 td’s in their loss to Saucon Valley.
RECEIVERS:
Sophomore, Justin Holmes of Northwestern caught 8 passes for a school-record 217 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Wilson. Trevor Cunningham held the old record when he had 184 yards receiving vs Palmerton in 2016. In the same game sophomore, Zack Gillen of Wilson caught 6 passes for 176 yards and 2 td’s. Andrew Darno of Notre Dame who was switched to quarterback last week still leads the District with 20 catches. Nathan Stefanik of Nazareth and Derek Berlitz of Notre Dame and Jack McGorry of Central Catholic have each caught 19 passes. Bevuan Rowland of PM West and Allen Negrete of Whitehall, each has 18 catches. District leader Nick Davanzo of Bangor has 352 receiving yards and is closely followed by Stefanik with 344 yards, Matt Kistler of Tamaqua with 337 yards and Chad Parton of Salisbury with 335 yards. Stefanik of Nazareth now has 132 career receptions which moves him up into 15th place all-time in the District. He went ahead of Ryan Greene (130 from 2014-16) and Corey Raysely (129 from 2015-17) of Catasauqua and Adam Thomas of Wilson (129 from 2004-06). Stefanik’s yardage puts him in 26th place all-time in the District. He moved ahead of Jake Dunn of Panther Valley, Clint Dodson of Parkland, Nick Merva of Shenandoah Valley and Don Evans of Jim Thorpe. Junior, Christian Sapp of ES South went over 1,000 yards receiving for his career and now has 1,046 yards.
