Courtesy of Duke Helm, District 11 Statistician
Week 9 notes:
RUSHING: Jordan Gray of Nazareth scored his 50th td last week. Niko Petrone rushed for 355 yards and scored 5 td’s in a win over Hazleton. The 355 yards breaks James Mungro’s school record of 336 yards that he set in 1995. Ironically, Mungro would rush for exactly 336 yards in his rookie season with the Indianapolis Colts. Petrone’s 5 td’s ties the school record held jointly by Jerry Alspach (1985), Mungro (1995) and himself that he had last year. Petrone is second in the District with 1,656 yards and needs 155 yards to reach 4,000 for his career. Petrone bumped Rashid Sayles from the top five at ESS. Sayles had 1,647 yards in 1987. District leader Ryan Heim of Pine Grove rushed for 154 yards in a win over Tri-Valley enabling him to leapfrog 4 Cardinals to become the single season rushing leader at the school. Heim now has 1,681 yards, breaking the single season school record of 1,669 yards held by Nick Frantz (2002). Frantz also had seasons of 1,582 yards in 2001 and 1,560 in 2003. Heim scored 4 td’s last week giving him 25 for the season which ties him for the school record with Cameron Conrad who had 25 td’s in 2011. Conrad rushed for 1,533 yards that year and now moves down to 5th place all-time at Pine Grove. Heim’s 25 td’s leads Dylan Mahmod of Mahanoy by 2 td’s for the District lead. Heim and Schuylkill Haven’s William Casella both have 39 career td’s. Sophomore, Austyn Borre of Pleasant Valley now has 31 career td’s. Nick Savant of Saucon Valley moved by Lyle Kares and John Killar and into 3rd place all-time at the school with 2,782 yards rushing. Phil Vass of Bangor rushed for 262 yards and all 3 td’s in a loss to Northwestern. Vass now holds down spots 2 and 7 for rushing yards in a single season at Bangor. Harry Hall of Northwestern became the first sophomore Tiger to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Christian Gretzinger of Palisades squeezes by former Pirate Owen Breininger into 5th place for a single season at Palisades. Gretzinger now has 1,165 yards, while Breininger had 1,160 yards in 2001. James Wheeler of West Mifflin still leads the State in rushing yards and td’s even though he had 14 yards and no td’s in a 35-0 loss to Thomas Jefferson. NOTE: Ryan Heim is tied for 7th in the State with his 1,681 yards and is 5th in the State with his 25 td’s.
PASSING: Dieruff’s Chris Marks takes over the District lead with 1,619 yards. Marks threw for 264 yards against Stroudsburg to slide into 3rd place all-time for a single season at Dieruff. Marks moved by former Huskies Joe Ocelus, Scott King, Ross Moore and Rocky Butler. Marks has 19 td passes this year and now sits in second place at Dieruff. Rocky Butler holds the school record when he threw 20 td passes in 1996. Catasauqua’s Zack Bradley is a close second in the District with 1,618 yards (3rd best at Catty). Bradley is now Catty’s all-time leading passer with 3,838 yards and 56 td passes. Barry Kennedy (1973-76) previously held the records with 3,773 yards and 54 td passes. Bradley leads the District with 25 td passes. Pleasant Valley’s Brandon Leap went over 4,000 yards in his career and now has 4,137. Leap’s 44 td passes puts him in a tie with Tom Keer of Lehighton (1981-84) and Kyle McFarland of Salisbury (2004-06) on the District list. Mark Smith of Allen (1971-73) and Nick Todero of Pine Grove (2009-11) each threw for 43 td passes in their careers. Nick Cook of Northampton became the 4th K-Kid to go over 3,000 yards for his career and now has 3,015. Junior, Travis Edmond of Southern Lehigh needs 39 yards to reach 3,000 yards for his career. Junior, Frank Dangello of Northwestern broke his own single season record with his 13th td pass of the season vs Bangor. Dangello now has 25 career td passes and also went over 2,000 yards for his career (2,080).
RECEIVING: Paryss Marshall of Catasauqua owns all 3 career school records now. His career totals are 90 catches for 1,781 yards and 28 td receptions. Tyshyn Harmon of Dieruff caught 10 passes last week vs Stroudsburg to tie the Huskie single season record. Dan Joseph (1968) and Terry Breidinger (1988) also had 10 catches in a game. Harmon now has 41 catches for 648 yards for the season. Harmon’s yardage moves him by speedsters Stacey McCarthy and Tiquan Birch and into 5th place at Dieruff for a single season. RJ Sarajian of PM East has 36 receptions this year and is now tied for 3rd place at the school with Charles Lanier and Andrew Ward. Jacob Del Priore of Southern Lehigh still leads the District active players with 45 receptions this season and 125 career receptions. Marshall is leading the District with 806 receiving yards.
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT: In 1980, Whitehall was the East Penn Conference Champions. Mark Bonshak would rush for 1,017 yards and score 20 td’s as Whitehall finished the season with a 9-2 record. Ten years later, brother Doug would rush for 1,128 yards on only 148 caries and score 25 td’s. Doug would also catch 23 passes for 480 yards. He would finish his Zephyr career with 2,010 yards rushing, 649 yards receiving and 32 td’s. Current Zephyr Ryan Bonshak (Mark’s son) rushed for a td and had 2 interceptions in Whitehall’s 31-14 win over Easton last week. For the season, Bonshak has 438 yards rushing (6 td’s), 14 receptions for 183 yards (2 td’s) and leads the team in tackles (64), interceptions (5 for 123 yards), punt return yardage (43) and kick-off return yardage (335). That’s 1,122 total yards through 9 games.
2013 single game highs: ( ) is the week the player accomplished the stat
Rushing Yards (200):
355 (9), 240 (7) NIko Petrone (ESS) *(355) school record*
350 (7), 227 (9) Tyler Hope (Tamaqua) *(350) school record*
297 (4), 211 (7), 209 (5), 201 (8) Ryan Heim (Pine Grove)
289 (5) Nick Savant (Saucon Valley) *(289) school record*
265 (5), 264 (6) William Casella (Schuylkill Haven)
262 (9), 207 (8), 205 (7) Phil Vass (Bangor)
261 (2), 254 (1), 232 (4) Dylan Mahmod (Mahanoy)
259 (2), 200 (3) Will Bornstein (Blue Mountain)
240 (7) Niko Petrone (ESS)
233 (6) Qmac Quiteh (PMW)
232 (7) Ryan Saunders (Jim Thorpe)
231 (5) Corey Castillon (PME)
219 (1), 209 (4), 202 (5) Gerald Douglas (Stroudsburg)
219 (4) Deonte St. Hill (Jim Thorpe)
219 (7), 211 (2) Saquon Barkley (Whitehall)
218 (7), 212 (5) Kareem Williams (Parkland)
212 (4), 202 (2) Ra’Von Burton (Catasauqua)
211 (3) Hunter Harner (Tri-Valley)
205 (5) Nick Farber (Northern Lehigh)
202 (7) Jordan Gray (Nazareth)
201 (6) Harry Hall (Northwestern)
200 (7) Khair Bowman (ESN)
Td’s (4):
6 (5), 4 (3), 4 (6) William Casella (Schuylkill Haven)
5 (4), 4 (2), 4 (6) Dylan Mahmod (Mahanoy) *(5) ties school record*
5 (5) Shakur Lester (Dieruff)
5 (7), 4 (2), 4 (8), 4 (9) Ryan Heim (Pine Grove) *(5) ties school record*
5 (8) Jryl Davis (Bangor) *(5) ties school record*
5 (9), 4 (7) Niko Petrone (ESS) *(5) ties school record*
4 (1), 4 (3) Shane Simpson (Easton)
4 (2) Will Bornstein (Blue Mountain)
4 (2) Saquon Barkley (Whitehall)
4 (2), 4 (9) Corey Castillon (PME)
4 (3) Dustin Vandermartin (Tamaqua)
4 (4), 4 (5) Michael McDaniel (Bethlehem Catholic)
4 (5) Nick Savant (Saucon Valley)
4 (5) Gerald Douglas (Stroudsburg)
4 (4) Qmac Quiteh (PMW)
4 (6) Eli Redmond (Parkland)
4 (6) Wyl Miller (Emmaus)
4 (7) Christian Gretzinger (Palisades)
4 (7) Cole Barnhardt (Williams Valley)
4 (7), 4 (9) Tyler Hope (Tamaqua)
4 (8) Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley)
4 (8), 4 (9) Dashon Russell (Pius X)
4 (9) Ryan Lawrence (Liberty)
Passing Yards (200):
329 (2), 241 (1) Tre Jordan (Pius X)
312 (2), 289 (5), 266 (3), 261 (9) Zack Bradley (Catasauqua) *(312) school record*
313 (7), 305 (4), 241 (5) Ian McCole (Shenandoah Valley)
296 (6), 236 (2), 201 (1) Travis Edmond (Southern Lehigh) *(296) school record*
287 (9), 202 (1) Tyler Moser (Pottsville)
285 (1), 218 (3), 203 (2) Spencer King (Nazareth)
281 (2), 264 (9), 226 (7) Brandon Leap (Pleasant Valley)
280 (5), 276 (9), 258 (3), 255 (2) Chris Marks (Dieruff)
277 (5) Kordell Theadford (Notre Dame)
270 (3), 211 (9) Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
269 (4), 237 (3) Stephen Sedesse (Williams Valley)
253 (4), 242 (6) Luke Hohenstein (PME) *(253) school record*
251 (6) Ryan Hunt (Pen Argyl)
239 (8), 211 (7), 204 (5) Justin Albert (Nazareth)
235 (7), 233 (6) Shane Graspy (Blue Mountain)
234 (6) Devante Cross (Parkland)
230 (3) Julian Spigner (Bethlehem Catholic)
207 (7) Jeff Charles (Whitehall)
204 (2) Jake Cirillo (ESS)
204 (9) Courtney Watson (Allen)
Td Passes (4):
6 (2) Brandon Leap (Pleasant Valley) *school record*
5 (2), 4 (9) Zack Bradley (Catasauqua) *school record*
5 (2), 4 (1) Tre Jordan (Pius X)
4 (1) Mason Kholi (Central Catholic)
4 (3), 4 (4) Stephen Sedesse (Williams Valley)
4 (6) Ryan Hunt (Pen Argyl) *ties school record*
4 (9) Chris Marks (Dieruff)
Receptions (10):
11 (7) Tyler Marnell (Shenandoah Valley) *checking school record*
10 (3) Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua)
10 (9) Tyshon Harmon (Dieruff) *ties school record*
Reception Yards (150):
251 (6) Nick Oyer (Pen Argyl) *school record*
212 (3) Freddie Simmons (Bethlehem Catholic)
202 (3) Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua) *school record*
202 (6) Brady Morgan (Pottsville Nativity)
197 (5) Shakur Lester (Dieruff)
193 (9), 180 (1) Travis Blankenhorn (Pottsville)
184 (6) Eli Redmond (Parkland)
180 (4) RJ Sarajian (PME) *school record*
175 (4) Cody Miller (Williams Valley)
174 (2), 153 (5) Jacob Stopay (Catasauqua)
156 (4) Angelo Maskornick (Shenandoah Valley)
SEASON LEADERS…all players are seniors unless otherwise noted
Rushing Yards (800 yards minimum)
1,681 Ryan Heim (Pine Grove) James Wheeler of West Mifflin, State Leader with 2,022 yards
1,656 Niko Petrone (East Stroudsburg South)
1,407 William Cosella (Schuylkill Haven) junior
1,326 Dylan Mahmod (Mahanoy Area)
1,318 Ryan Saunders (Jim Thorpe)
1,306 Gerald Douglas (Stroudsburg) junior
1,278 Nick Savant (Saucon Valley)
1,203 Hunter Harner (Tri-Valley) junior
1,192 Corey Castillon (Pocono Mountain East)
1,187 Phil Vass (Bangor)
1,165 Christian Gretzinger (Palisades) junior
1,143 Will Bornstein (Blue Mountain)
1,114 Saquon Barkley (Whitehall) junior
1,112 Ra’Von Burton (Catasauqua)
1,090 Kareem Williams (Parkland)
1,064 Tyler Hope (Tamaqua)
1,061 Kyle Ferryman (Panther Valley)
1,049 Harry Hall (Northwestern) sophomore
1,004 Dashon Russell (Pius X)
993 Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley) sophomore
975 Jordan Gray (Nazareth) junior
965 Shakur Lester (Dieruff) junior
963 Cole Barnhardt (Williams Valley)
907 Richard Nase (Panther Valley)
895 Shane Simpson (Easton) junior
878 Will Quiles (ESN)
874 Nate Farber (Northern Lehigh) junior
815 Wynn Clements (Lehighton) sophomore
Touchdowns (14 minimum)
25 Ryan Heim (Pine Grove) James Wheeler of West Mifflin, State Leader with 29 td’s
23 Dylan Mahmod (Mahanoy Area)
21 Saquon Barkley (Whitehall) junior
21 William Casella (Schuylkill Haven) junior
19 Christian Gretzinger (Palisades) junior
18 Hunter Harner (Tri-Valley) junior
18 Niko Petrone (ESS)
17 Shakur Lester (Dieruff) junior
17 Will Bornstein (Blue Mountain)
17 Tyler Hope (Tamaqua)
16 Michael McDaniel (Bethlehem Catholic) junior
16 Shane Simpson (Easton) junior
16 Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua)
16 Gerald Douglas (Stroudsburg) junior
16 Nick Savant (Saucon Valley)
15 Ra’Von Burton (Catasauqua)
15 Cole Barnhardt (Williams Valley)
15 Jordan Gray (Nazareth) junior
14 Kareem Williams (Parkland)
14 Ryan Saunders (Jim Thorpe)
14 Austyn Borre (Pleasant Valley) sophomore
Passing Yards (800 minimum)
1,619 Chris Marks (Dieruff) junior Michael Pietropola of Wellsboro, State Leader 2,277 yards
1,618 Zack Bradley (Catasauqua)
1,376 Travis Edmond (Southern Lehigh) junior
1,345 Ian McCole (Shenandoah Valley) sophomore **not counting week 9**
1,336 Brandon Leap (Pleasant Valley)
1,266 Jeff Charles (Whitehall)
1,258 Doug Erney (Liberty) sophomore
1,219 Tre Jordan (Pius X) sophomore
1,167 Kordell Theadford (Notre Dame)
1,155 Mason Kholi (Central Catholic)
1,130 Stephen Sedesse (Williams Valley)
1,126 Shane Graspy (Blue Mountain)
1,126 Shane Graspy (Blue Mountain)
1,104 Tyler Moser (Pottsville)
1,059 Julian Spigner (Bethlehem Catholic) sophomore
1,022 Luke Hohenstein (PME) junior
1,028 Justin Albert (Nazareth) junior
990 Frank Dangello (Northwestern) junior
952 Nate Edmonds (Tamaqua)
907 Jake Cirillo (ESS) freshman
901 Ryan Hunt (Pen Argyl)
881 Mike Nikorak (Stroudsburg) junior
844 Tevon Weber (Salisbury)
843 Keith Mosher (Saucon Valley)
839 Nick Cook (Northampton)
829 Bradley Wilkins (Easton)
812 Spencer King (Nazareth)
Passing Td’s (13 minimum)
25 Zack Bradley (Catasauqua) Michael Pietropola of Wellsboro, State Leader with 35 td’s
19 Chris Marks (Dieruff) junior
17 Stephen Sedesse (Williams Valley)
15 Tre Jordan (Pius X) sophomore
15 Brandon Leap (Pleasant Valley)
14 Travis Edmond (Southern Lehigh) junior
13 Frank Dangello (Northwestern) junior
13 Julius Spigner (Bethlehem Catholic) sophomore
Receptions (25 minimum)
45 Jacob Del Priore (Southern Lehigh) Mitchell Cooper of Palmyra, State Leader 71 receptions
42 Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua)
42 Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua)
41 Tyshon Harmon (Dieruff)
37 Matt Tuerk (Nazareth)
36 RJ Sarajian (PME)
34 Ryan Beville (Central Catholic)
32 Max Wasilewski (Nazareth)
31 Conor Sullivan (Whitehall) junior
30 Tyler Marnell (Shenandoah Valley) **not counting week 9**
30 Eric Marbury (Pius X) junior
29 Jared Bauer (Northampton)
28 Izaiah Avent (Liberty)
27 Kyle Pretty (Freedom) junior
27 Travis Blankenhorn (Pottsville) junior
25 Justice Anderson (Allen)
25 KJ Williams (Liberty)
Reception Yardage (450 minimum)
806 Paryss Marshall (Catasauqua) Mitchell Cooper of Palmyra, State Leader 1,089 yards
648 Tyshon Harmon (Dieruff)
649 Cody Miller (Williams Valley) junior
635 Travis Blankenhorn (Pottsville) junior
618 Jacob Del Priore (Southern Lehigh)
592 RJ Sarajian (PME)
589 Nick Oyer (Pen Argyl)
469 Owen Loughlin (Notre Dame)
457 Ryan Beville (Central Catholic)
