May 2021
2020/21 PAFootballnews.Com Coaches Select Spring All-State Team: Sincere Thomas voted Player of the Year
May 11, 2021 | Billy Splain
Congratulations to the following players who were voted the best players this spring by the coaches. (players selected count towards the 2020 All State Teams) PLAYER OF THE YEAR: SINCERE THOMAS, TRUMAN HIGH Coach of the Year (tie): Ladontay Bell, Chester Devon Johnson, Imhotep Introducing the 2021 PAFootballnews.Com Coaches Select Spring All-State players : […]
another @Go_Rout coaches corner coaching job: Palisades
May 4, 2021 | Billy Splain
Varsity Assistant Coaching position for QB’s and/or WR’s/DB’s. Anyone with interest can contact head coach Ramie Moussa- email rmoussa@palisadessd.org.
Truman WR Sincere Thomas monster first half not enough, Clippers mount second half comeback to win first and only United X title @Clippers19013 @BTSDAthletics
April 24, 2021 | Billy Splain
The 2021 United X Champion Chester Clippers The Chester Clippers have something nobody else will ever have nor will anyone else be able to take it away from them. Today they took down the Truman Tigers 28-18 to claim the one and only United X Title. This was a battle that’s been brewing for two […]
West Philly comeback falls short, Frankford escapes with 29-28 win. @FkdFootball @SpeedboysFB
April 24, 2021 | Billy Splain
Frankford rb Nadir Mitchell had a 55 yard run Trailing 22-6, the West Philly football team dug deep. The Speedboys scored three times but came up one point short against Frankford in their last game of the spring season. “This was by far the best game of the season, we just came up a little […]
Imhotep wins the battle of the city with stingy defense, shuts out Northeast on five Keyon Wylie sacks. Gallery included @TepFootball @NEVikingsFB
April 24, 2021 | Billy Splain
Cameron Jackson scores from the 6 to make it a 14-0 Tep lead in the fourth (Kathy Leister photo) Northeast and Imhotep entered the last city spring battle with 7 wins and no losses between them. The highly anticipated April matchup lived up to it’s billing for most of the game, with the score just […]
Chester/Truman United X Championship is BACK! Saturday at Chester, 1PM @Clippers19013 @DCoachBell @HarrySTrumanHi1 @Tigercoachj3
April 24, 2021 | Billy Splain
Last week when we had to announce the United X game was cancelled due to a covid situation at Truman, nobody was happy. Not the players, Not the coaches. Not the fans. Nobody. When we made the decision to give the trophy ball to Chester, coach Ladontay Bell was NOT happy to accept it. […]
Kensington honors former team mate with shutout win over Washington @KENSINGTON_HS
April 23, 2021 | Billy Splain
The Kensington Tigers entered todays game with George Washington on a sad note. They learned last night that former teammate Tyreem Richmond had passed away suddenly. Before the game they carried his jersey out to the coin toss. The spent the rest of the game honoring him by handing the Eagles a 20-0 loss. […]
Big 33 holds first practice (gallery included)
April 19, 2021 | Billy Splain
The 2021 Pennsylvania Big 33 team held their first practice at Bishop McDevitt’s Rocco Ortenzio Stadium on Sunday, and nobody has worked harder thant PSFCA Executive director Garry Cathell to make this game happen. “It’s been a long, difficult road. “Obviously there’s still a lot of covid issues out there and as we were putting […]
Boys Latin 14 Frankford 12 @Amt_Jr @FkdFootball @CoachPat71
April 19, 2021 | Billy Splain
If you would like to purchase a gallery of this game please contact Kathy Leister @knlpix https://www.knlpix.com/
Imhotep gets two fourth quarter td’s from Tre’ McLeod to pull away from Olney @TepFootball @OCHStrojans
April 18, 2021 | Billy Splain
Tre McLeod darts through a crowd It took all four quarters for Imhotep to get the win last night against a tough Olney Charter team. Tre McLeod ran the ball 12 times for 93 yards and two scores that came late in the fourth quarter as the Panthers pulled away to remain unbeaten with a […]
Chester/Truman United X Championship declared “No Contest”
April 17, 2021 | Billy Splain
It pains me to say this. The United X Championship for spring football was declared a “No Contest” per PIAA rules concerning Covid-19 protocols. Last evening the Truman Tigers learned of a positive covid test to one of their players. They notified the Chester School District of the situation and this morning a decision was […]
Kensington uses early jump, cruises to win over South. @KENSINGTON_HS @SouthPhilaHS
April 17, 2021 | Billy Splain
Safir McCollough signals td after scoring The Kensington Tigers, behind a strong performance by quarterback, Jason Clark, mauled a game South Philadelphia Ram squad by a score of 40-8 Friday night at the South Philly Super Site. Kensington jumped out to a 20-0 first quarter lead and 26-0 early in the second quarter […]
Railsplitter dominant 4th quarter by defense, 4 td performance by Knight leads to three scores in shutout win over Ben Franklin @LincolnHS801
April 16, 2021 | Billy Splain
Khani Knight had a hand in all four Lincoln scores With the sun starting the set on the spring football season, two things stood out today at Lincoln high school. Mother nature isn’t ready for us to actually believe it’s spring, and defense still wins games. Carrying a 7-0 lead into the fourth quarter, the […]
Julian Fleming getting healthy, growing into ‘rock-star’ receiver @SoCoTigerSports @gavingarcia_
April 15, 2021 | Billy Splain
Special Contribution By Austin Ward https://lettermenrow.com/ @LettermenRow on twitter COLUMBUS — The development of Julian Fleming was always going to take some time at Ohio State. The challenges of his freshman season in the midst of a pandemic with the nagging shoulder injury he brought with him from high school didn’t do the former five-star […]
Mike White of Post Gazette finds some parents/coaches feel Kasperowicz was victim of witch hunt
April 15, 2021 | Billy Splain
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION MIKE WHITE Pittsburgh Post-Gazette mwhite@post-gazette.com A group of Pine-Richland High School football coaches say they felt district administrators wanted to see head coach Eric Kasperowicz removed from his job — and that the school athletic director said as much during a September meeting with the staff. Kasperowicz, who won multiple state and WPIAL […]
UPDATE: statement from Kasperowicz. Denies any wrong doing. Eric Kasperowicz, entire Pine-Richland coaching staff released.
April 14, 2021 | Billy Splain
In a story first reported by Mike White of the Post Gazette, Pine-Richland head coach Eric Kasperowicz and his entire staff were informed via email that they won’t be asked back to coach the Rams. Kasperowicz led the team to another State Title and was named the PFN Coaches Select 5A coach of the […]
Mastery Charter dominates second half for win over West Philly
April 10, 2021 | Billy Splain
The Game Winner It’s coaching that wins games, when the coaches make the right decisions. Mastery Pumas head coach John Davidson made such a move and it paid off with a win. “We felt like he was going to do a better job for us” he said of moving sophomore Jahmik Eaddy to quarterback in […]
Northeast holds off furious Neumann Goretti comeback @NEVikingsFB @HEADSAINT
April 10, 2021 | Billy Splain
Solomanie Bambala hauls in one of two late tds Football is a game of momentum. When you have it, everything goes right. When you lose it, everything goes wrong. The Northeast Vikings experienced that first hand Friday night against the Saints in full fashion. The Vikings controlled the first three quarters but had to hold […]
Edison/Fels gets last second TD for the win over Vaux @VauxCougarsFB @walid_daoury
April 9, 2021 | Billy Splain
Matthew Salas had the game winning td and an interception “It’s been fun so far, we left two scores off the board there in the game. We’d like to have seen more continuity on the line but not bad for our first game.” That was Samuel Fels head coach Bill Harrigan talking about his teams […]
George Curry, A Pennsylvania Coaching Legend. Sponsored by @Go_Rout
April 3, 2021 | Billy Splain
Five years ago, on April 1, we lost a legend. This is my story of the man everyone called Coach Curry. When George Curry came to the small town of Berwick in 1971, nobody could have envisioned what would transpire. Over the next 44 seasons (not including a break from the Bulldogs that sent him to […]
Imhotep defense stymies MLK, Panthers get win in first game played. LaSmith big game leads offense. @TepFootball
April 2, 2021 | Billy Splain
Imhotep defense waiting to make the next play A Panther defense loaded with division 1 recruits should look sharp every game. Head coach Devon Johnson liked what he saw during Imhotep’s first game in over a year. “We been just waiting patiently to see how this team would perform. These kids have been together for […]
Kensington v Vaux photo gallery @KENSINGTON_HS @az_toldbyginger
April 2, 2021 | Billy Splain
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Kensington runs away from Vaux on legs and arm of QB Clark. @KENSINGTON_HS @az_toldbyginger @Vaux_BPHS
April 1, 2021 | Billy Splain
Kensington QB Jason Clark brings his team to the line With a wind gusting on what was the coldest football gameday of the 2020-21 season, it wasn’t looking like we’d see much of a passing game. Kensington quarterback Jason Clark proved me wrong. The outgoing senior threw two touchdown passes and added two more on […]
Speedboys get OT win with Zaire Brown interception @SpeedboysFB @Overbrook_FB Gallery @knlpix
March 31, 2021 | Billy Splain
Zaire Brown had the winning interception (Kathy Leister Photography) Carlos Rivera scored the winning touchdown from 2 yards out, but it was an interception by Zaire Brown that secured the win for West Philadelphia on a rare Wednesday afternoon game. “I played my role and helped my teammates today; I did what my teammates told […]
Big plays from Eric Willis lead Academy Park to hard fought win over Interboro. @AParkFootball @ihsbucsfootball
March 28, 2021 | Billy Splain
Eric Willis was all over Awo (Pic courtesy John Saddic) “I never really played defense that much before” said Eric Willis of the game he played against Interboro Saturday afternoon. “I just went out there an did my thing.” His thing was to keep the ball away from a receiver that was a good 10 […]
