October 2019
Tigers Torment Ironmen
October 26, 2019 | Dave Fegley
SCA’s Defense Sets School Record By: Dave Fegley (10-26-19) Members of Southern Columbia’s 1994 State Championship were on hand to recognize this year’s senior class as the Tigers hosted a struggling Danville Ironmen squad. Ironically, this year marks 25 years since the first State Championship at SCA and it is also a year that many […]
Beaver Stadium Classic…Everything you need to know if you’re attending the game @CVSDeagles @SCoachLintal
October 26, 2019 | Billy Splain
The Little Lions will host Cumberland Valley in the first Beaver Stadium Classic on Saturday, October 26. Kickoff will be at Noon. This will also be senior night for the Little Lions. Tickets will be $10 and will become available on October 1 at either school or the Bryce Jordan Center. Fans are asked to […]
Blairsville Secures Playoff Spot with Convincing Win Over Blacklick
October 26, 2019 | Phil Myers
The Blairsville Bobcats played their best game of the year Friday night at Ernie Widmar Field at Memorial Stadium in Blairsville according to their head coach, Rick Artley. The Bobcats excelled in every facet of the game as they downed the Blacklick Valley Vikings 36-7 on Senior Night to secure a District 6 Class A […]
Hornets top North Penn 21-7 to regain Morton Jones Trophy
October 26, 2019 | Ed Weaver
The Wellsboro Varsity Football team brought back the Morton F. Jones Trophy back to Wellsboro after beating rival North Penn-Mansfield 21-7 at Island Park on Friday, October 25. The win is the Hornets’ 38th in the series (38-19 all-time) and the 7th time out of the last 8 games Wellsboro has won the trophy. The […]
Cornell rallies to clinch share of conference title
October 26, 2019 | PFN Staff
AJ Shaffer Just a few short years ago, the Cornell Raiders shuttered their locker room doors and put away the pads, closing up their program and made an agreement with Quaker Valley for players to participate in football there. Then came six classes in the PIAA. Quaker Valley wanted out of the agreement to keep […]
Warriors clinch outright 5A Big East conference title with shutout of Franklin Regional
October 26, 2019 | PFN Staff
Written by: John Robbins Penn-Trafford had to win one last game to clinch the Big East conference title outright. The Warriors did just that rolling to a 21-0 victory over Franklin Regional. The first score of the game would come on a reverse pass by the Warriors. Junior Brad Ford received the handoff, then he flipped […]
Central Catholic Efficient Effort Subdues Bethlehem Catholic.
October 26, 2019 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
Central Catholic takes down Bethlehem Catholic 31-24. pic.twitter.com/fXYjfFp8cB — Brian Ptashinski (@BPtashinski) October 26, 2019 BETHLEHEM- The character of a team can be defined in how they respond after facing adversity. Last week the Allentown Central Catholic Vikings dropped a tough 34-31 decision to the Freedom Patriots, after a last-minute field goal attempt hit the […]
Cloverleaf stuns Norton 21-14 @NortonAth @CloverleafLocal @PaFootballNews
October 26, 2019 | contributor
Yesterday my football started as poorly as it could have. I make the drive to Cleveland to watch the Lincoln West at John F. Kennedy, at Roye Kidd stadium only to find out by a lady putting things away at the stadium, that West had just called to forfeit the game. So I get in […]
Bethel Park holds off Upper St. Clair
October 26, 2019 | Shane Lux
Bethel Park built a 14-0 halftime lead, then had to hold off Upper St. Clair for a dramatic 14-13 victory Friday night. In a defensive battle, the Black Hawks came up with the big stops when they had to in order to preserve the win. “If you go back and look at our loss last […]
CJ Funk leads Bellefonte to win over BEA to claim Curtin Bowl @RollOnRaiders @CoachJNagle (gallery Mike Frazier)
October 26, 2019 | Billy Splain
WINGATE – Bellefonte’s CJ Funk will remember his 18th birthday for quite a while.The Raiders’ senior running back ran for 113 yards and scored three times as Bellefonte rolled over BEA,38-0, in their annual Curtin Bowl battle. After scoring twice in the first half Funk ran the ball on Bellefonte’s first two plays in the […]
Upper Dublin defeats Upper Moreland 16-14
October 25, 2019 | Kathy Leister
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Waynesville 23 Dayton Northridge 8 @nrpolarbears @waynesvilleAth @PaFootballNews
October 25, 2019 | contributor
When the 2019 football schedule came out, I went right to the Thursday night games around the state and had this game circled. My reasoning was one, I had wanted to see a game at Northridge stadium for a long time and have wanted to see Waynesville since kicker Tim Williams went from there to […]
B. Hollywood’s Bold Predictions Prognostications
October 24, 2019 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
B. Hollywood’s Bold Prediction Prognostications Week 10 in the EPC. Last week I was 8-1 bringing the season record to 68-13: 6-3 Bethlehem Catholic over 5-4 Allentown Central Catholic 7-2 East Stroudsburg South over 1-8 East Stroudsburg North 8-1 Nazareth over 6-3 Easton 7-2 Parkland over 5-4 Emmaus 8-1 Northampton over 0-9 Whitehall 4-5 Pocono […]
PROTIME PREDICTIONS by Phil
October 24, 2019 | Phil Myers
Protime wants to know if anyone still plays board games. It seems all anyone wants to do these days is stare at a smart phone. Even now Protime, Mrs. Protime, and Protime Junior play board games on any given night. And back in the day, Protime and brothers Protime spent hours seeing who was better […]
Keystone Club: Week Nine 2019 OFFENSIVE STARS 10-17 thru 10-19
October 23, 2019 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Offensive Performances Yards All-Purpose […]
Keystone Club: Week Nine 2019 DEFENSIVE STARS 10-17 thru 10-19
October 23, 2019 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Defensive Performances # Tackles […]
Keystone Club: Week Nine 2019 SPECIAL TEAM STARS 10-17 thru 10-19
October 23, 2019 | Billy Splain
Each week we will present the Keystone Club. This Club consists of players meeting the requirements sent to coaches. It is a statewide compilation of top performances for the previous weekend. PLEASE EMAIL billy@pafootballnews.com if you wish someone to be on this list! Entries must be from coach or verified. Top Special Teams Performances yards […]
B. Hollywood’s 2/11 Mid-Week Report.
October 23, 2019 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski
It all comes down to this week, as we close out the 2019 high school football regular season in District XI. There are still District playoff spots available as we look ahead to plenty of rivalry games this weekend, while looking back to games played in week nine. In The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference North, the […]
District Nine Tidbits
October 23, 2019 | Phil Myers
The Ridgway Elkers claimed their second consecutive D-9 League Large School Title when they scored a 28-14 victory over Brookville last week. Coudersport won the D-9 League Small School North Division with a convincing 42-0 win against Smethport. The state ranked Falcons are the only District Nine squad that remains unbeaten. The Small School South […]
Great PA Teams – Parkland 2002 @PHSTrojansFB
October 23, 2019 | Hal Wilson
We are pleased to host a series, Great PA Teams, by the great Hal Wilson, a long time contributor to PA High School Football. Hal has written many stories in the past for PAFootballNews dating back to our print days. Great PA Teams – Parkland 2002 In the 2002 season, a great team emerged in […]
Penn Manor at Hempfield
October 22, 2019 | Olivia Nicastro
On October 18th, 2019, the Penn Manor Comets faced the Hempfield Spartans. The first quarter began with a touchdown by Hempfield in the first two minutes of the game. With the extra point good, the beginning score was 7-0. After Penn Manor received the ball, they made two hand offs to junior Isaiah Stoltzfus and […]
PFN Statewide Rankings Oct 22 2019 edition
October 22, 2019 | Billy Splain
10-22-2019 PFN Rankings 10-21 PFN Class 6A Rankings Dist Record PVS rnk 1 St. Josephs Prep 12 5-2 1 2 Manheim twp 3 9-0 2 3 North Allegheny 7 9-0 4 4 PCC 7 8-1 5 5 Pine Richland 7 8-1 7 6 Wilson West Lawn 3 8-1 8 7 McDowell 10 8-1 9 […]
PFN Presents: THE STATE OF PA FOOTBALL! Live from Champs Sports Grill State College Oct 22, 2019
October 22, 2019 | Billy Splain
LIVE from Champs North Atherton Street, State College Victory Sports & Fitness owner Rob Oshinskie will join us to talk off season training and coal region football! State College AD Chris Weakland will be with us to talk about the Beaver Stadium Classic. We’ll also be talking playoff implications statewide and more! Stop by […]
Eisenhower rallies for dramatic win over Cochranton
October 22, 2019 | PFN Staff
Eisenhower quarterback Owen Trumbull fires a pass during Friday night’s game against Cochranton at the Pasture of Pain. The Knights rallied for a wild 21-14 win in their regular season finale Brian Hagberg There’s just something about the second half of Cochranton-Eisenhower football games. A year after combining for 54 second-half points, the Cardinals and […]
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