ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Playoff Week 2 Edition

November 2023

ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Playoff Week 2 Edition

November 9, 2023 | Marcus Sic

The Top of the Table Tightens Week two of the playoffs sees the ProTime Pick’em Challenge tighten up at the Top of the Table, with Protime Phil completing the climb back to the top with 96 wins, right on his heels with 95 wins is Hollywood, slipping to third place with back-to-back bad guessing weeks, […]

District XI Playoffs 4-5-6A Featuring Eastern Pennsylvania Conference Foes.

November 9, 2023 | Brian "Hollywood" Ptashinski

BETHLEHEM CATHOLIC GOLDEN HAWKS (6-5) at ALLENTOWN CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS (9-2) SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11th 6pm at the ZEPHYR SPORTS COMPLEX, WHITEHALL DISTRICT XI CHAMPIONSHIP Bethlehem Catholic snapped a five game losing streak with a shutout of a very good Blue Mountain squad by a score of 14-0. The Golden Hawks opened up […]

District 4 Class 1A Semi-Final Preview

November 9, 2023 | Ed Weaver

The semi-final round of the District IV Class 1A tournament begins tomorrow evening with a pair of games, top-seeded Muncy against 4-seed Northwest Area and 2-seed Canton against 3-seed South Williamsport.

District 4 Class 2A Playoff Matchup: “The Game”

November 9, 2023 | Dave Fegley

SCA and MCA ready for semi-final tussle Last year, the Mount Carmel Area Red Tornadoes defeated the Southern Columbia Tigers in their annual regular season meeting. The rivalry known as the ‘The Game’ had a different result in the postseason. It was the Tigers that finished the 2022 season with the bragging rights as they […]

WPIAL District 7 Second Round of Playoff Previews

November 9, 2023 | Joey Chirillo

The regular season has ended, however the postseason is just getting started. After the first round of playoffs, many teams made a statement and are calling for the championship. Here is your 2023 District 7 Semi-Finals Week Playoff Preview. Class 1A: South Side (1) – The Rams were one of two teams to not […]

District 10 A Semifinal Preview

November 9, 2023 | Shane Lux

District 10 Class A Semifinal Preview #1 Lakeview vs. #5 Mercer November 11th – 7 pm – Slippery Rock High School Quarterfinal Recap Lakeview Sailors Bye Mercer Mustangs Mercer won their first playoff game in a decade with a 14-0 victory over Cochranton last week. The Mustangs got their revenge on the Cardinals after dropping […]

District 3 Class 3A Semifinals preview

November 9, 2023 | Billy Splain

West Perry (10-1) @ Lancaster Catholic (9-1) Friday – 7:00 pm The Mustangs are coming into the Semi-Final round off a win over Bermudian Springs. The high flying offense, led by quarterback Marcus Quaker, is averaging a respectable 39 points per game. His 1,500+ yards and 12 tds in the air combined with nearly 1,100 […]

District 3 Class 4A Playoff Preview. Round 2

November 9, 2023 | Billy Splain

**ALL GAMES FRIDAY NIGHT** Milton Hershey (6-5) @ Bishop McDevitt (10-0) – 7:00 pm It’s a tall task to beat a team twice in one season. The Crusaders handled the Spartans quite easily earlier this year with a 55-14 win. With players like Stone Saunders, Rico Scott, Nazir Jones-Davis and Maurice Barnes, that task is […]

State College and Altoona Meet again in a battle for the District 6 title

November 9, 2023 | Todd Ross

Altoona (5-6) and State College (6-3) will meet at Tiger Stadium in Hollidaysburg for the district six 6A Championship. This is a repeat of last year’s matchup where State College came away with a 28-7 win. This will be the second meeting between State College and Altoona this season, and in the previous meeting State […]

District 4 Class 4A Championship Game Preview

November 9, 2023 | Ed Weaver

Over the last few years there hasn’t been a better rivalry in District IV than Jersey Shore and Selinsgrove.

Mayhem’s Game of the Week-Playoffs Round 2

November 9, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

The Who: #8 Garnet Valley Jaguars @ #1 Central Bucks West Bucks The When: Friday, November 10, 2023 Kickoff: 7 pm The Where: War Memorial Field 375 West Court Street Doylestown, Pa 18901 Last 3 meetings: (*Playoffs) 8/25/23- Garnet Valley 13 @ CB West 17 11/25/22- CB West 7 @ Garnet Valley 35* 8/26/22- CB […]

PIAA District 1 Playoff Preview: 4A Round 2

November 9, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

This article was written by: Dylan Johnson Scott Reed’s Pope John Paul II Trojans come into the District 1 4A tournament as an overwhelming favorite, after taking down 6A powerhouse Spring-Ford in the Pioneer Athletic Conference’s title game. During the regular season, PJPII has already handily defeated both Pottstown and Pottsville. Bishop Shanahan, out of […]

District 3 Class 5A Second Round Playoff Preview

November 9, 2023 | Billy Splain

Hershey (8-3) @ New Oxford (9-1) Friday – 7:00 pm Hershey is coming off a big upset win over Exeter last week. The Trojans have been playing good football and look to extend their success against a tough New Oxford team. Cameron Sweeney continues to lead the Trojans on a winning path. The Colonials are […]

PIAA District 1 Playoff Preview: 6A Round 2

November 9, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

We’ve made it to the second round of our 6A bracket and nothing unexpected happened in last week’s matchups. All the higher seeds took care of business in the Round of Sixteen. Central Bucks West, Garnet Valley, Spring-Ford, Central Bucks South, Downingtown West, Souderton, Perkiomen Valley, & Downingtown East all won their matchups. This week […]

PIAA District 1 Playoff Preview: 5A Round 2

November 9, 2023 | Michael Pietrangelo

Staff Writers: Dylan Johnson,Willie McGonigle,Brendan Ricciardi, & Marcus Sic also contributed to this article Last week everything went according to chalk with the top eight seeds advancing. Is this the week that we see some upsets? This week for the second time Chester takes on Phoenixville, and Springfield takes on Central League rival Marple Newtown. Will […]

District 5 Class 1A title game and 2A sub regional preview

November 9, 2023 | Billy Splain

Windber (8-3) @ Northern Bedford (11-0) (Somerset HS) – 7:00 pm Rematch. The first meeting between these two teams didn’t end well for the Ramblers. Garry Black’s Panthers breezed to a 35-6 win that night. It wasn’t a massive outpouring of offense for NBC, but it was a good night for QB Eion Snider. He […]

District 2 Playoff Preview

November 9, 2023 | John Kotsko

District 2 2A Final Riverside at Dunmore Fri 7 PM Riverside defeated Mid Valley in the semifinals to advance to the Championship game. Dunmore defeated Susquehanna to get to the District Final. Dunmore defeated Riverside 20-16 in their Week 4 meeting. Vikings quarterback Chase Taddonio is throwing for 1,638 yards and 24 touchdowns. Taddonio also […]

Protime Predictions – Christmas Lights

November 9, 2023 | Phil Myers

It’s time. Protime has decided to put up the yuletide lights early this year. He’s not getting any younger and he grows weary each year throwing up the little buggers when it’s cold and snowy outside. Over the years he’s gotten much smarter when decorating for Christmas. For example, Protime tests the lights before hanging […]

Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Team Trifectas

November 8, 2023 | Phil Myers

Protime’s weekly column will attempt to get readers up to date on current football facts, stats, and miscellaneous tidbits of information from across the entire state of Pennsylvania. His crack staff of one will peruse some, but not all newspapers and other sources for hopefully what will be up to date scoop on the previous […]

Around District 11 with Pam and Guy: Great Comeback by the PV Bears

November 8, 2023 | Guy Smith

The start of the playoffs is bittersweet. The big games are coming up, where the top teams face off head-to-head on the road to the state finals (almost said the road to Hershey). But it also means the regular season is over. Teams are putting away the pads until next year, there will be fewer […]

District 3 Playoff Preview, Second Round: Welcome to the show 6A

November 8, 2023 | Billy Splain

While we waded through a much too large first round of playoffs, some had the weekend off. There were only 2 games played in the western 6A bracket. In District 3 there were four games waiting to be played while in district 7 we awaited 2 matchups. Welcome to the playoffs Class 6A! Below we […]

PFN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings, Playoffs Round 1 Edition

November 7, 2023 | Billy Splain

I’ll be quick here because: No changes in any top ten. None. That WILL change this week, and we’ll get to see just how good our rankings team is! Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 St. Joseph’s Prep (12) 9-1 1 2 Central Bucks West (1) 11-0 2 3 PCC (7) 9-1 3 4 Manheim […]

Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: 1st Round playoff edition, 2023!

November 7, 2023 | 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 (13 or more) […]