2025 Team Preview: Early look at Marian Catholic Colts (11)

Head Coach: Billy O’Gurek

Assistant Coaches:
Charlie “Chink” Connely
JD Hackenberg
Jim McHugh
Scott Marek
Rory Dixon
Julian Cerullo
Josh Skotek
Scott Grochowski
Fran Harmonosky
Joey Walko

Team Name: Marian Catholic Colts

2024 Record: 6-5

8/23 Hanover Area (3A) 7:00 pm W 35-0
8/30 @ Tri-Valley* (1A) 7:00 pm L 0-24
9/05 Panther Valley* (3A) 7:00 pm W 27-0
9/13 @ Shenandoah Valley* (2A) 7:00 pm W 47-23
9/21 Mahanoy Area* (2A) 7:00 pm L 7-26 Homecoming
9/27 @ Minersville Area* (2A) 7:00 pm W 20-14 OT
10/04 Schuylkill Haven* (2A) 7:00 pm L 0-36
10/11 @ Williams Valley* (2A) 7:00 pm L 0-33
10/18 Pine Grove Area* (3A) 7:00 pm W 34-7
10/25 @ Nativity BVM* (1A) 7:00 pm W 21-18
11/01 @ Tri-Valley (1A) 7:00 pm L 0-27 Dist. 11 A Semifinal

District: 11

Class: A

League: Schuylkill League

Highlights of 2024:
– Bouncing back from a tough loss to beat Minersville 20-14 in overtime in Week 6
– Defeating Nativity 21-18 in week 10 to qualify for the District 11/2 sub regionals
– TE Michael Gelatko – our first Big 33 player in 27 years and having two All-State players in Gelatko and OL Aidan Milkovits

Looking ahead to 2025:
We will be a young team with only six seniors on our 2025 squad

Jah Bushati, Senior OL-LB
112 tackles (our leading tackler in 2024), 14 TFL, 4 sacks, 1 INT
6 games started on OL

Damian Rodino, Senior OL-LB
Matt Spino, Senior QB-WR-DB – 31 tackles
Hunter Sartori, Senior WR-RB-DB – 59 tackles
Jake Tom, Senior WR-DB

Rory Dixon, Junior RB-DB
Rushed for over 2,200 yards and 22 touchdowns in his freshman & sophomore seasons.
2024 – 1,229 yards, 14 TD, 45 tackles

Jason Ashfield, Junior RB-LB
120 yards rushing, 16 tackles

Rocco Griguoli, Junior TE-WR-DE
85 yards receiving – 1 TD, 14 tackles

Dominick Rodino, Junior TE-DE
Kaden Krajcirik, Junior QB-DL

Tyler Price, Sophomore WR-RB-DB
118 total yards, 2 TD
83 tackles, 1 INT

Gregory Tirpak, Sophomore QB-OLB