The “Coal Bucket” game. Shamokin wants it. MCA owns it.

October 2024

The “Coal Bucket” game. Shamokin wants it. MCA owns it.

October 24, 2024 | Billy Splain

Mount Carmel – Shamokin: The Coal Bucket Game It’s 10 miles from Shamokin’s Kemp Memorial Stadium to Mount Carmel Area’s famed Silver Bowl. The school districts are divided by mountains that used to be full of coal. Now those mountains are nearly devoid of coal and machines that mined it stand silent, rusting in time. […]

WPIAL Elite Eight: Week Nine Rankings

October 24, 2024 | Andrew Schaffer

6A: 1- Central Catholic (7-2)- (4) Canon Mac 7pm 2- North Allegheny (8-1)- (3) Seneca Valley 7:30pm 3- Seneca Valley (3-5)- @ (2) North Allegheny 7:30pm 4- Canon Mac (3-6)- @ (1) Central Catholic 7pm 5- Mt. Lebanon (2-7)- (7) Norwin 7pm 6- Hempfield (3-6)- @ Gateway 7pm 7- Norwin (2-7)- @ (5) Mt. Lebanon […]

Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – 2024 Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Edition 9

October 24, 2024 | 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 […]

Mayhem’s Game of the Week: Central Bucks East @ Central Bucks West (Wk10)

October 23, 2024 | Michael Pietrangelo

The Game: EAST VS WEST Central Bucks East Patriots @ Central Bucks West Bucks Friday, October 25, 2024 Kickoff: 7 PM Location: Historic War Memorial Field 375 W Court St, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18901 Last 3 Meetings: CB West 24 -VS- CB East 7 10-27-2023 CB West 42 @ CB East 26 11-4-2022 (Playoffs) CB […]

Around District 11 With Pam and Guy: Add the Subregion Teams

October 23, 2024 | Guy Smith

2024 Episode 24. Five football games out of a six-sporting event week. Racing on Sunday was the only other sport besides high school football Thursday, Friday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday evening, and Monday. This year three 1A teams from District 2 were combined with the three 1A teams from District 11 for a Subregion come playoff […]

PFN Presents: The State of PA Football-Official Abuse! Enough is enough! Plus, end of regular season chatter!

October 23, 2024 | Billy Splain

Join the staff and special guest referees as they discuss the State of Officiating and talk end of season matchups.

Keystone Club Top Special Teams Performers: Week 9, 2024!

October 22, 2024 | 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 Kickoff returns for […]

Keystone Club Top Defensive Performers: Week 9, 2024!

October 22, 2024 | Billy Splain

Keystone Club Top Offensive Performers and RECORD SETTERS: Week 9, 2024!

October 22, 2024 | 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. –Clearfield’s Brady Collins, become Clearfield’s all-time career […]

LHAC Championship Game Comparison

October 22, 2024 | Josh Krise

Penn Cambria hosts Bishop Guilfoyle this Friday in Cresson, PA for the LHAC championship game. Penn Cambria finds itself 9-0 for the first time in 35 years, while Bishop Guifoyle is 9-0 for the first time since 2017. Both teams have secured a spot in the playoffs for their class, Penn Cambria in District 6 […]

PFN Pennsylvania High School Football Rankings after week 9 2024

October 22, 2024 | Billy Splain

Wow! Only one more week left in the regular season! Our staff had a HEATED discussion this week following a couple key wins and losses, one of them being Aliquippa dropping from the top 4A spot! Over 30 teams remain unbeaten! Here they are! Ranking 6A Record Pvs rank 1 LaSalle (12) 9-0 1 2 […]

Protime Challenge: You last chance to catch the Pros in the regular season

October 22, 2024 | Billy Splain

That’s right, just one more chance in the regular season! and only a couple more weeks until this game is OVER! This season is flying by! Ok Joes, pickem good! Loading…

2024 District 9 Review – 9th Week Action

October 22, 2024 | Phil Myers

Here are the top performers of the week, along with a couple other tidbits: Quarterbacks: Jase Ferguson, Central Clarion, was 35 of 41 passing for a career best 532 yards and 6 touchdowns. He also had 2 more TDs rushing the ball. Jase became the third quarterback in D9 history to surpass 9,000 career passing […]

Schuylkill-Colonial Week-9 Recap and League Leaders Heading into Regular Season Finale !

October 22, 2024 | Daniel Reed

Photo Credit: Chuck Roth/T102sportsnow.com Its the final week of the regular season this weekend and below you can see who the league leaders are thru week-9 but let’s talk about some of games that had big-time playmakers beginning with the six touchdown performance by Minersville’s Dante Carr(QB), who finished the game with 4 rushing and […]

Jr High Football Spotlight: Pittston Area defeats arch rival Wyoming Area 28-20 (Video Highlights)

October 21, 2024 | Jake Mills

On a Monday night in Yatesville, The Pittston Area Patriots hosted arch rival Wyoming Area in the Jr High edition of their annual rivalry game. After no scoring for almost 2 quarters, Deondre Miller of Pittston Area opened up the scoring with 20 seconds left in the 1st half. Pittston Area jumped out to a […]

Temple Defeats Tulsa (photo gallery)

October 21, 2024 | Billy Splain

Roger Barone Photographer The Temple Owls (2-5, 1-2) defeated the Tulsa Golden Hurricane (2-5, 0-3) on Saturday in Temple’s Homecoming game with 18,721 in attendance. QB Evan Simon threw for 297 yards and a touchdown, while DE Diwun Black added two sacks and a forced fumble. Tulsa WR Anthony Watkins led the Golden Hurricane with 73 yards receiving and a […]

Frankford takes down Roxborough (photo gallery)

October 21, 2024 | PFN Staff

Roger Barone, Photographer Frankford defeated Roxborough 30-16 in Philadelphia Public League Football action at Roxborough’s field. Both teams have secured playoff berths and will begin play next weekend. Game Action and some key pics: – Female Ref with Pink Penalty Flag – Roxborough coaches manifesting sportsmanship after losing to Frankford, but spend time showing support for injured […]

ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge Week Nine Results

October 21, 2024 | Marcus Sic

PROTIME PHIL KEEPS THE LEAD BY ONE OVER MATT You know it is going to be a bad week of picking for the PROS when ProTime Phil (137wins) goes a human 13-7 for the week and still retains the lead in ProTime’s Pick’em Challenge, with just one week to go in the regular season. […]

DXI Week 10 Playoff Scenarios

October 21, 2024 | Cody Brady

Football’s regular season ends in just a week. With that in mind, there is a lot left up in the air across the classifications, from teams needing wins to make the playoffs, to massive potential changes in seeding. Let’s take a look at some scenarios for week 10. What this is: Using DXI’s power ranking formula, […]

Hittin’ The Road With Travelin’ Matt – Week 8 (Tigers, Wildcats & Hawks)

October 21, 2024 | Matt Herring

Each week Travelin’ Matt traverses Pennsylvania attending the hottest high school football games and best matchups in the Commonwealth. Follow his exploits each week as he documents his journey from Week Zero to the Pennsylvania State Football Finals! Friday, October 18 5A #5 Pine-Richaland (7-0) vs. 6A #9 North Allegheny (7-1) Saturday, October […]

Bethlehem Liberty vs Bethlehem Catholic (Photo Gallery)

October 21, 2024 | Ryan Scipio

Bethlehem Liberty – 12 Bethlehem Catholic – 7

District 10 Week 9 Recap

October 20, 2024 | Shane Lux

October 18, 2024 Hickory 56, Slippery Rock 0 Zander Telesz had a flawless passing performance. He completed 20-of-25 passes for 383 yards and seven touchdowns, one of the best passing efforts in program history. Telesz threw touchdowns of 18, 45, and 45 yards to Kelvin Morrison; Jadon Phillips had six receptions for 109 yards and […]

Greenville 50, Maplewood 20 (PHOTO GALLERY)

October 20, 2024 | Sykotyk

For more photos, click HERE. Greenville v. Maplewood at Snyder-Stone Stadium in Greenville, Pennsylvania. #51 @PaFootballNews @coachwargs @BobGreenburg @professorbriggs pic.twitter.com/DuN0SSwoaB — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) October 19, 2024 Nick Solderich with a 16 yard TD run. Kick is good. Greenville leads Maplewood, 7-0 with 9:33 left in the first quarter. @PaFootballNews @BobGreenburg @professorbriggs pic.twitter.com/v7Pjd86g58 — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) […]

Clymer/Sherman/Panama Squeaks By Wilson, 15-7 (PHOTO GALLERY)

October 20, 2024 | Sykotyk

More photos can be found here. Clymer/Sherman/Panama v. Wilson at Clymer Field in Clymer, New York. #50 @PaFootballNews #BeyondTheKeystone @CSPfootball @WilsonLakemen pic.twitter.com/eyWg61DkkG — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) October 19, 2024 Clymer/Sherman/Panama 0, Wilson 0 – End 1st #50 @PaFootballNews #BeyondTheKeystone @CSPfootball @WilsonLakemen pic.twitter.com/ZC9y0Uu2QW — Sykotyk (@Sykotyk) October 19, 2024 Tate Catanese with a 5 yard TD run. […]