District 11 Top Returning Players WEEK 5 2020

By Duke Helm

DISTRICT 11 NOTES (week 5):   

RUNNINGBACKS:    

Mason Smeland of Palisades rushed for 229 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Bangor.  Smeland upped his season totals to 870 yards and 14 td’s.  Matt Frauen of Notre Dame leads the District with 18 td’s.  Chase Herb of Tri-Valley rushed for 215 yards and 3 td’s in their win over Mahanoy Area.  Herb has scored 6 td’s in 2 games.  Brandon Camire of Emmaus rushed for 142 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Dieruff.  Camire has scored 9 td’s in 2 games this season and earns him a spot in the “40 td” club.  Camire has 42 career td’s.  Jaden Bowens of PM West rushed for 233 yards and scored 4 td’s in their win over ES North.  Conner Goehring of Schuylkill Haven joins the chart after his 177 yards and 4 td’s vs Shenandoah Valley.  The sophomore has rushed for 1,024 yards and scored 20 td’s in his career.  Junior Josh Chowansky of North Schuylkill also joins the chart with his 1,060 career rushing yards.

QUARTERBACKS:

Three quarterbacks went over 2,000 yards passing in their career last week.  Josh Leininger of Pine Grove has 2,126 yards, Collin Quintano of Notre Dame has 2,068 yards, and Cody Miller of Nativity has 2,059 yards.  Leininger (1,037) and Quintano (1,091) also went over 1,000 yards for the season.  Leininger is a senior, while Quintano and Miller are both juniors.  Junior Justin Holmes of Northwestern threw for 262 yards and 3 td’s while also rushing for 152 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Palmerton.  Another junior, Cayden Stem of Wilson also threw for over 200 yards and rushed for over 100 yards last week.  Stem threw for 226 yards and 3 td’s and rushed for 101 yards in their loss to Northern Lehigh.  In the process Stem went over the 2,500-yard career mark (2,549) and has thrown 30 career td passes.  Bryce Herb of Williams Valley threw for 308 yards and 5 td’s in their win over Panther Valley.  Herb has thrown for a District leading 1,336 yards and is second in the District with his 15 td passes.  With his 5 td passes last week, he breaks the career record of 53 that Levi Engle set from 2015-18.  Herb now has 57 career td passes.  Jake Hall of North Schuylkill threw for 349 yards and 5 td’s in their win over Marian.  Hall went over 1,000 yards for the season and the junior now has 1,262 yards to go along with a District leading 17 td passes.  Rich Fronheiser of Lehighton also went over 1,000 yards for the season and now has 1,026 yards.  Nazareth’s Matt Bugbee threw for 269 yards and a td in their win over Northampton.  Dante Mahaffey of Saucon Valley threw for 247 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Southern Lehigh.  Quinn Wentling of Whitehall threw for 232 yards and a td in their loss to Parkland which put him over 1,000 yards for his career and onto the chart.  Quintin Stephens of Salisbury passes for 163 yards and 4 td’s while rushing for 173 yards and 2 td’s in their win over Pen Argyl.  Jared Richardson of Bethlehem Catholic threw for 189 yards and 4 td’s in their win over Liberty.

RECEIVERS:

Jaiden Cabrera of Nazareth caught 9 passes for 189 yards and a td vs Northampton.  Jesse Engle of Williams Valley caught 7 passes for 142 yards and 3 td’s vs Panther Valley.   He has caught 29 passes for 556 yards and 12 td’s this season.  Engle broke the school career td reception record with his 33.  Jake Wolfgang caught 31 td passes from 2015-17.  Gabe Davis of Minersville broke the school record tie with Bryce Ellinger for career receptions last week vs Nativity.  Davis now has 85 career receptions for 1,328 yards and 13 td’s.  He needs 22 yards to break Ellinger’s career record mark of 1,359 yards.  Justin Rodda of Northwestern has tied Cam Richardson’s school career td catch record as each of them has caught 23 in their careers.  Shea Morgan of Pine Grove is atop the District leaderboard with his 33 receptions this season.  Morgan’s 538 yards this season has him second in the District behind Engle’s 556 yards.  Ty Csencits of Saucon Valley caught 7 passes for 143 yards and a td vs Southern Lehigh.  Bryce Hensley of Blue Mountain is on the chart and just above his teammate Gavin Bartholomew.  Hensley has caught 39 passes for 666 yards and 7 td’s in his career, while Bartholomew has caught 33 passes for 658 yards and 7 td’s.  Bartholomew played quarterback last week in a win over Tamaqua and threw for 160 yards and tossed a td pass to Hensley.   Izzy Rodriguez of Notre Dame and Hunter Crum of Lehighton also join the chart with their 509 and 503 career reception yards, respectively.

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