Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor- EPC Edition September 9-17th

September 2022

Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor- EPC Edition September 9-17th

September 13, 2022 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski

Hollywood’s Cutting Room Floor-Eastern Pennsylvania Conference A Look Back and a Look Ahead. By Brian Ptashinski @BPtashinski on Twitter The week that was in the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference South found one of the most successful teams in the state, the Easton Red Rovers fall to 0-3 for the first time in 41 years by dropping […]

What the heck’s happening in District’s I & XII this week: Week 3,2022

September 13, 2022 | Willie McGonigle

Hello and welcome to Week 3 of What’s happening in District I & XII! Let’s look at what happened last week weekend and look ahead to this weekend. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Fallen State Troopers Honored At halftime of their game vs Perkiomen Valley, Cheltenham Head Coach Troy Gore and Brian Cherry presented PV’s Head Coach Rob Heist, Michael […]

Pennsylvania Football News 2022 Rankings after week 2: movers and shakers

September 13, 2022 | Billy Splain

The PFN Rankings are compiled by our expert panel every Sunday eve throughout the season. Sor for the first time this season we’ll dig into what went into the rankings this week. Though some of the top teams lost this past weekend, we don’t tend to punish teams for losing to strong, out of state […]

2022 Keystone Club: The Special Team Leaders! Week 2: Sept 8-10

September 13, 2022 | 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 Performanced Kickoff […]

2022 Keystone Club: The Defensive Leaders! Week 2: Sept 8-10

September 13, 2022 | Billy Splain

2022 Keystone Club: The Offensive Leaders! Week 2: Sept 8-10

September 13, 2022 | Billy Splain

District Nine Review and Standings – Week 3

September 13, 2022 | Phil Myers

The game of the week last week was the Keystone Panther 20-19 victory over the Brookville Blue Raiders. Brookville led 13-0 in the first quarter and 19-12 in the fourth when Kyle Nellis scored a TD with just over 6 minutes remaining. Trailing 19-18, Keystone’s coach, Todd Smith, appeared to elect to try the game […]

Five Storylines from Week 3 of Delco Football

September 12, 2022 | Brendan Ricciardi

We are through three weeks of Delco Football, and we are starting to see more and more teams from the county begin to play each other as we ease our way into conference play. With a whole load of rivalries being renewed, an upset in the Central League starts us off this week. Haverford […]

PROTIME’S PFN PICK’EM PANEL: WEEK 2 RESULTS…..The ROOKIE HAS THE LEAD

September 12, 2022 | Billy Splain

Well, week 2 is in the books and the rookie, BillNJen, is showing up the veterans but only has a 1 point lead over the master and that “one ah twoah” polka jumper. Tied for third are the illustriuos yet quirky site owner, the hollywood star, Mr. Mayhem, Leo the Lion and the Dawg with […]

PFN & The Funding Zone Presents: The STATE of PA Football! Live from Parma Pizza, Manchester!

September 12, 2022 | Billy Splain

Join us as we talk about the weekend that was, the week that’s coming and we welcome Central York HC Gerry Yonchiuk, Northeastern HC Kirby Brubaker, York Tech HC Matt Glennon and players from all three teams! We’ll be LIVE at Parma Pizza, 220 Maple St, Manchester PA!! Come on out for some great food […]

Coach Weider’s @Go_Rout Coaches Notebook: Weekly awards from a great week of football

September 12, 2022 | Pat Weider

Visit GoRout get the most out of your practices! On Friday night I watched Central York beat Hempfield 30-20 in a back-and-forth game. I came away really impressed with Central York and running back Juelz Goff. Hempfield will not go away in section 1 of Lancaster Lebanon and I expect them to re-group […]

Beyond The Keystone: River v. Magnolia

September 12, 2022 | Sykotyk

Cross River Rivalry between the River Pilots and Magnolia Blue Eagles. Here’s a photo gallery of the game. Game recap available here. For more, and larger, photos from this game, click HERE. For photos from previous weeks and seasons, visit http://www.flickr.com/sykotyk/sets/

Warren Dragons Conquer Girard in a Foreign Land

September 12, 2022 | Sykotyk

With construction ongoing at Warren’s War Memorial Field, their home game had to be relocated. With a co-op in place with Youngsville, the logical option was to move the game to the once former home of the Youngsville Eagles: Mike Shine Field. Cayden Wright with this 10 yard TD catch. Kick is good. Warren leads […]

Mercyhurst Prep Overcomes Seneca in Overtime, 28-27

September 12, 2022 | Sykotyk

Mercyhurst Prep v. Seneca at Saxon Stadium in Erie, PA. #28 @PaFootballNews @mpslakers @BobcatsSHS @D10FootballHub @ydlsportsnet pic.twitter.com/7XSKA1bacU — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) September 10, 2022 Nolan Seabury with a 22 yard TD run. Ryan Miller with the two point run. Seneca leads Mercyhurst Prep, 8-0 with 8:01 left in the first quarter. @PaFootballNews @mpslakers @BobcatsSHS @D10FootballHub pic.twitter.com/k3zTy9IOlS […]

Erie Falls Apart in Ohio

September 12, 2022 | Sykotyk

Erie Royals traveled to Mentor, Ohio for a Saturday afternoon contest against Lake Catholic. The Cougars were coming off a 1-9 2021 season and had a 1-2 record on the young season. Finally getting a win last week against Akron Buchtel. Lake Catholic opened with two touchdowns in the first quarter, and two in the […]

Ground Game Carries Haverford over Springfield

September 11, 2022 | Willie McGonigle

SPRINGFIELD: Entering Friday night’s Central League contest against the winless Haverford Fords the Springfield Cougars were averaging 269 yards rushing per game. The visiting Fords came out and gave the Cougars defense a dose of the medicant that the Cougars offense has been dosing out amassing 249 yards on the ground to help pave the […]

Washington & Jefferson College wins big @ St Vincent College

September 11, 2022 | Leo Murray

Latrobe, Pa. (Sept 10 2022 ) St. Vincent goes 0-2 after losing their second home game. W&J defeated the Bearcats in a non conference game 52-21 at Chuck Noll Field making the Presidents 2-0. Former Gateway QB Brady Walker was under pressure all day by a relentless W&J defense. Sophomore and former Hampton HS lineman […]

Berwick first win comes at Abington Heights

September 11, 2022 | Billy Splain

Carla Wolfinger Gallery here The Dawgs had high hopes coming into the 2022 season, but an 0-2 start wasn’t something they wanted to see. In week one they had Southern Columbia on the ropes but couldn’t close the deal, then they gave up a late score to Valley View for their second loss. […]

Northwest rolls past Towanda

September 11, 2022 | Walter Titus

What’s usually Friday night lights at Northwest turned into Saturday night lights this week as the Northwest Rangers improved to 3-0 for the first time since the 2020 Covid shortened season by beating the Towanda Black Knights 45-12. It was a tale of two halves for Northwest. They looked great on the opening kickoff where […]

Big second quarter leads OLSH past Clairton

September 11, 2022 | Shane Lux

Moon Township: OLSH scored three second-quarter touchdowns to beat Clairton 28-13 to move to 3-0 on the season. “This was a hard-fought win,” said OLSH head coach Dom Militzer. “It’s been three tough weeks in a row with Shenango, who won in the playoff last year, and then Rochester and Clairton speak for themselves. Our […]

Gamble Montessori Gators chop chop rival Clark Montessori 40-14

September 11, 2022 | contributor

My late game took me from Dayton to Cincinnati where it was the battle of Montessori schools Clark and Gamble. Before the game, I was able to have a nice conversation with three of the refs. I l also met with Gamble athletic director Dave Miller, with whom I had a nice conversation after the […]

Manheim Township takes down State Power Harrisburg in a thriller

September 11, 2022 | Carl Frederick

Hayden Johnson found fellow Junior Asher Wolfe from the 4 yard line with 4 seconds left to give Manheim Township the thrilling victory. In a game with two teams that appear to heavy district 3 favorites, the Blue Streaks (2-1) shocked the Cougars in Sevarance Field Saturday afternoon. Johnson had two total touchdowns […]

Allentown Central Catholic hands Easton It’s Third Consecutive Loss 27-7.

September 11, 2022 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski

Central Catholic Subdues Red Rovers Saturday Night By Brian Ptashinski @BPtashinski on Twitter ALLENTOWN- The Easton Red Rovers came into their contest Saturday night at historic J. Birney Crum Stadium trying to avoid starting the season 0-3 and virtually taking them out of the race for an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference South championship, as their opponents […]

Cincinnati Taft 51 uses Ferocious offense and defense to blank Dayton Meadowdale 00

September 11, 2022 | contributor

My Saturday afternoon game took me to Welcome Stadium in Dayton, Ohio a place I had not been to since 2017. With new turf, the place looks so much better than it did back then, and with the upgrade, Dayton should really make a bid to host the state finals. There were only a couple […]