October 2024
No 19 Pitt Unleashed the Sharks on Syracuse in a 41-13 Victory
October 25, 2024 | Ryan Thielet
The Pitt Panthers took care of business tonight against the Syracuse Orange, with their defense racking up five interceptions, including three pick-sixes. Pitt scored 31 unanswered points in the first half, while the Orange managed their first score halfway through the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Pitt added two more scores to the Orange […]
Protime Challenge week 10: the regular season finale? Will the Joes prevail?
October 25, 2024 | Billy Splain
It’s the last week of the regular season. And from here on out it gets tougher! The Joes haven’t beaten the Pros yet, will this be the week? Mason and the Polka king missed the boat this week and will receive zeros. Sorry guys, the captain was already behind schedule. The Pros The Joes
Union/A-C Valley Outguns Reynolds 50-35
October 25, 2024 | Shane Lux
Transfer – Union/A-C Valley put up a season-high 50 points and concluded their regular season on a high note with a 50-35 victory over Reynolds Thursday night. With their playoff hopes up in the air entering Thursday night, the Falcon-Knights left no doubt that they’re heading to the postseason with a resounding victory over District […]
Forest Hills Hosts Central in LHAC Crossover Game: Preview
October 25, 2024 | Baron Dionis
For the second year in a row, the expanded Laurel Highlands Athletic Conference has a week 10 crossover game with each team matching up with a team from the opposite side of the conference. The Central Dragons won the conference championship in 2023, but failed to return this year as their record to this point […]
Protime Predictions – The Greatest, How Does He Do It?
October 25, 2024 | Phil Myers
Protime has been in the prognostication business for 55 years and has seen more predicters come and go than grains of sand in an hour glass. Major Hoople, Pigskin Predicts, and those old-time newspaper sports editors, etc. have all saddled up the horse and rode off into the sunset. Protime used to do college and […]
Western Wayne hammers Dunmore, takes LFC Division 2 crown
October 25, 2024 | Jared Samuel
It was a rare Thursday Night Lights matchup as Western Wayne came into Dunmore Veterans Memorial Stadium to play the Bucks. The Wildcats, 8-1 on the season, were looking to get healthy after struggling with injuries the last 2 games, while Dunmore, 4-5 on the season after a loss to Honesdale last week, was looking […]
Pioneer Athletic Conference Championship Game Preview
October 24, 2024 | Willie McGonigle
Pioneer Athletic Conference Championship Game X-Ray Who: Liberty Division Champion Perkiomen Valley Vikings-Frontier Division Champion Pope John Paul II Golden Panthers What: Pioneer Athletic Conference Championship Game When: Friday, October 25, 2024 7 pm kickoff Where: Pope John Paul II High School 181 Rittenhouse Rd. Royersford Pa 19468 Series History Previous Meetings: 9 Record: PV […]
Penn State Embarks on Road Test at Wisconsin Under the Lights
October 24, 2024 | Mason Eddinger
In potentially their toughest road test yet, the #3 Penn State Nittany Lions travel to Madison Wisconsin to take on the Wisconsin Badgers. Penn State was Idle last week after their trip to USC. In that game, Penn State started down 20-6. In the 2nd half, the offense picked up momentum and could not […]
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
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) […]
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 […]
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